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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman sprung a pleasant surprise in parliament today when she came to the part on goods and services tax, or GST, in her Union Budget 2022 speech.

Gibberish posts made by the official Twitter handle of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting appeared on its timeline this morning, indicating the account may have been compromised.

The BJP can hold virtual election rallies if the need arises due to stricter restrictions amid concerns over the spread of Omicron, a party's election in-charge has said.

A car for Prime Minister Narendra Modi has led to wide speculations about its hefty price tag, said to be Rs 12 crore. PM Modi's newest car is a Mercedes-Maybach S 650 Guard. Earlier, he used a Range Rover Vogue and Toyota Land Cruiser.

Former cricketer Dinesh Mongia joined the BJP today at a ceremony in the party's Delhi office. Mr Mongia, 44, took a primary membership of the ruling party at the centre to start his political innings, likely from Punjab.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's allegations that the Instagram accounts of her children have been hacked will be investigated by the government's advanced anti-cybercrime unit, sources have said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is bringing back priceless artefacts and Indian antiquities from the US, one of which is said to be at least 7,000 years old.

A component to develop farm infrastructure has been added to the cost of petrol and diesel in the Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today.An agriculture infrastructure and development cess of Rs 2.5 per litre on petrol and Rs 4 per litre on diesel have been added in the budget that was made after months of turmoil in the...

The government has sent 14 questions to WhatsApp seeking the Facebook-owned messaging app's answers on key questions about privacy and data security of users in India, sources have said. India is WhatsApp's biggest market. The messaging app has postponed its data-sharing policy change after users concerned about privacy fled the service and flocked...

The government has asked WhatsApp to withdraw any change in the messaging app's privacy policy for users in India, people with direct knowledge of the matter have said. The centre has written to the Facebook-owned app's global CEO Will Cathcart detailing concerns over information security of users, they said. India is WhatsApp's biggest market.

The BJP's ideological mentor RSS has sought a public debate on the Uniform Civil Code, but left it to the government to decide whether it should bring a bill on it. In a virtual meet held by the think-tank India Foundation on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's (RSS) foundation day on Sunday, its joint general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale said the U...

Junior Railways Minister Suresh Angadi has died nearly two weeks after he was tested positive for coronavirus infection. He was admitted to AIIMS in Delhi after his condition worsened. He is the first Union Minister and the fourth MP to die due to COVID-19 infection.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi donated Rs 2.25 lakh as the "initial corpus" to the PM CARES Fund just after it was set up, officials in the Prime Minister's Office have said. Short for Prime Minister's Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund, the money collected under PM CARES is deployed in the fight against the coronavirus pandem...

The coronavirus pandemic has hurt goods and services (GST) collection and the shortfall is Rs 2.35 lakh crore for fiscal 2021, the government said on Thursday. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, after a meeting of the decision-making body for fixing GST policies, said the coronavirus pandemic was "an act of God" and an unforeseen factor that affe...

India has cancelled a tender for making 44 semi-high speed "Vande Bharat" trains, the Railway Ministry said on Friday night. It said a fresh tender will be floated within a week and give preference to the centre's Make In India programme. The move to cancel the tender is a big setback for China as a Chinese joint venture, CRRC Pioneer Electric (Ind...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman sprung a pleasant surprise in parliament today when she came to the part on goods and services tax, or GST, in her Union Budget 2022 speech.

Gibberish posts made by the official Twitter handle of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting appeared on its timeline this morning, indicating the account may have been compromised.

The BJP can hold virtual election rallies if the need arises due to stricter restrictions amid concerns over the spread of Omicron, a party's election in-charge has said.

A car for Prime Minister Narendra Modi has led to wide speculations about its hefty price tag, said to be Rs 12 crore. PM Modi's newest car is a Mercedes-Maybach S 650 Guard. Earlier, he used a Range Rover Vogue and Toyota Land Cruiser.

Former cricketer Dinesh Mongia joined the BJP today at a ceremony in the party's Delhi office. Mr Mongia, 44, took a primary membership of the ruling party at the centre to start his political innings, likely from Punjab.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's allegations that the Instagram accounts of her children have been hacked will be investigated by the government's advanced anti-cybercrime unit, sources have said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is bringing back priceless artefacts and Indian antiquities from the US, one of which is said to be at least 7,000 years old.

A component to develop farm infrastructure has been added to the cost of petrol and diesel in the Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today.An agriculture infrastructure and development cess of Rs 2.5 per litre on petrol and Rs 4 per litre on diesel have been added in the budget that was made after months of turmoil in the...

The government has sent 14 questions to WhatsApp seeking the Facebook-owned messaging app's answers on key questions about privacy and data security of users in India, sources have said. India is WhatsApp's biggest market. The messaging app has postponed its data-sharing policy change after users concerned about privacy fled the service and flocked...

The government has asked WhatsApp to withdraw any change in the messaging app's privacy policy for users in India, people with direct knowledge of the matter have said. The centre has written to the Facebook-owned app's global CEO Will Cathcart detailing concerns over information security of users, they said. India is WhatsApp's biggest market.

The BJP's ideological mentor RSS has sought a public debate on the Uniform Civil Code, but left it to the government to decide whether it should bring a bill on it. In a virtual meet held by the think-tank India Foundation on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's (RSS) foundation day on Sunday, its joint general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale said the U...

Junior Railways Minister Suresh Angadi has died nearly two weeks after he was tested positive for coronavirus infection. He was admitted to AIIMS in Delhi after his condition worsened. He is the first Union Minister and the fourth MP to die due to COVID-19 infection.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi donated Rs 2.25 lakh as the "initial corpus" to the PM CARES Fund just after it was set up, officials in the Prime Minister's Office have said. Short for Prime Minister's Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund, the money collected under PM CARES is deployed in the fight against the coronavirus pandem...

The coronavirus pandemic has hurt goods and services (GST) collection and the shortfall is Rs 2.35 lakh crore for fiscal 2021, the government said on Thursday. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, after a meeting of the decision-making body for fixing GST policies, said the coronavirus pandemic was "an act of God" and an unforeseen factor that affe...

India has cancelled a tender for making 44 semi-high speed "Vande Bharat" trains, the Railway Ministry said on Friday night. It said a fresh tender will be floated within a week and give preference to the centre's Make In India programme. The move to cancel the tender is a big setback for China as a Chinese joint venture, CRRC Pioneer Electric (Ind...