Reported By Rahul Shrivastava

A day after the Chennai home of P Chidambaram was raided in an inquiry to determine if foreign investment proposals were illicitly cleared by him while he was Finance Minister, the cabinet met today to decide whether to dissolve the Foreign Investment Proposal Board or FIPB.

Pakistan's claim that its army personnel were not involved in the barbaric killing and mutilating two Indian soldiers carries no credibility, Defence Minister Arun Jaitley said on Wednesday, hours after Pakistan's High Commissioner Abdul Basit told New Delhi that its armed forces had nothing to do with the May 1 killing.

The approach of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee is what's urgently needed as salve for Kashmir, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was told today by Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti during a meeting in Delhi.

Veteran BJP leaders LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi met this evening, hours after the Supreme Court ruled that they will be tried on conspiracy charges for their alleged role in the demolition of the Babri Masjid mosque in 1992 in Ayodhya. Along with them, Union Minster Uma Bharti and other party seniors like Vinay Katiyar now also face more seri...

Union Minister Uma Bharti has cancelled the visit to Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh that she had announced a few hours ago. Ms Bharti had said she would leave tonight after the Supreme Court said this morning that the minister, along with other top leaders of the BJP like LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi, will be tried for criminal conspiracy in the 199...

Passengers of an IndiGo flight were surprised this afternoon when the aircraft zoomed back up after touching down at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International airport. They would learn later that it was a life-saving move by the pilot, who had spotted an Air India flight far too close. Pilots of both planes saved the day by following Standard Operating P...

The Rajya Sabha today passed four GST or Goods and Services Tax bills without amendments setting the stage for the government to launch on July 1, the country's biggest tax reform since Independence.

In October last year, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal told a court that he had made allegations of corruption against Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in his private capacity. He was then seeking to have one of two defamation cases filed against him by Mr Jaitley dismissed.

Anti-Romeo squads in Uttar Pradesh, accused of publicly shaming couples and young men in the name of protecting women from harassment, today received an endorsement as Yogi Adityanath held his first cabinet meeting after taking charge 15 days ago.

The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh today decided at a cabinet meeting to write off farm loans worth almost Rs 40,000 crore. Minister Siddharth Nath Singh said after the meeting that the decision met an election promise of the BJP and would help 2.15 crores or 92.5 per cent of UP's farmers. It was the first cabinet meeting held by Chief...

Parliament will today debate and vote on four supporting bills crucial to the implementation of the Goods and Services Tax, which will subsume a slew of indirect taxes currently levied by the centre and states. On the table in the Lok Sabha is the Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST) Bill, 2017, along with three other related bills, providing for ...

Four Bills related to the Goods and Services Tax or GST will be debated in the Lok Sabha or lower house of Parliament today, as the government pushes to meet a July 1 launch date for the unified tax regime that subsumes a slew of indirect taxes at the centre and in states. Seven hours have been allotted for today's debate, which is likely to begin ...

An Aadhaar volunteer's "fan moment" has ended up revealing cricket icon MS Dhoni's personal details in a troubling episode for the government at a time it is confronting many questions about the biometric identification system.

Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad, banned by major airlines after he assaulted an Air India duty manager with his slipper on Thursday, may be allowed to fly again soon, with the government considering changes in the same rules that it has defended in parliament, say sources.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called a meeting of his council of ministers today to brief them ahead of a seven-hour debate on Wednesday in the Lok Sabha on the government's mega reform, the Goods and Services Tax. Four bills crucial to the implementation of GST will be passed at the end the debate; they were introduced in the lower house yester...

A day after the Chennai home of P Chidambaram was raided in an inquiry to determine if foreign investment proposals were illicitly cleared by him while he was Finance Minister, the cabinet met today to decide whether to dissolve the Foreign Investment Proposal Board or FIPB.

Pakistan's claim that its army personnel were not involved in the barbaric killing and mutilating two Indian soldiers carries no credibility, Defence Minister Arun Jaitley said on Wednesday, hours after Pakistan's High Commissioner Abdul Basit told New Delhi that its armed forces had nothing to do with the May 1 killing.

The approach of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee is what's urgently needed as salve for Kashmir, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was told today by Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti during a meeting in Delhi.

Veteran BJP leaders LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi met this evening, hours after the Supreme Court ruled that they will be tried on conspiracy charges for their alleged role in the demolition of the Babri Masjid mosque in 1992 in Ayodhya. Along with them, Union Minster Uma Bharti and other party seniors like Vinay Katiyar now also face more seri...

Union Minister Uma Bharti has cancelled the visit to Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh that she had announced a few hours ago. Ms Bharti had said she would leave tonight after the Supreme Court said this morning that the minister, along with other top leaders of the BJP like LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi, will be tried for criminal conspiracy in the 199...

Passengers of an IndiGo flight were surprised this afternoon when the aircraft zoomed back up after touching down at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International airport. They would learn later that it was a life-saving move by the pilot, who had spotted an Air India flight far too close. Pilots of both planes saved the day by following Standard Operating P...

The Rajya Sabha today passed four GST or Goods and Services Tax bills without amendments setting the stage for the government to launch on July 1, the country's biggest tax reform since Independence.

In October last year, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal told a court that he had made allegations of corruption against Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in his private capacity. He was then seeking to have one of two defamation cases filed against him by Mr Jaitley dismissed.

Anti-Romeo squads in Uttar Pradesh, accused of publicly shaming couples and young men in the name of protecting women from harassment, today received an endorsement as Yogi Adityanath held his first cabinet meeting after taking charge 15 days ago.

The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh today decided at a cabinet meeting to write off farm loans worth almost Rs 40,000 crore. Minister Siddharth Nath Singh said after the meeting that the decision met an election promise of the BJP and would help 2.15 crores or 92.5 per cent of UP's farmers. It was the first cabinet meeting held by Chief...

Parliament will today debate and vote on four supporting bills crucial to the implementation of the Goods and Services Tax, which will subsume a slew of indirect taxes currently levied by the centre and states. On the table in the Lok Sabha is the Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST) Bill, 2017, along with three other related bills, providing for ...

Four Bills related to the Goods and Services Tax or GST will be debated in the Lok Sabha or lower house of Parliament today, as the government pushes to meet a July 1 launch date for the unified tax regime that subsumes a slew of indirect taxes at the centre and in states. Seven hours have been allotted for today's debate, which is likely to begin ...

An Aadhaar volunteer's "fan moment" has ended up revealing cricket icon MS Dhoni's personal details in a troubling episode for the government at a time it is confronting many questions about the biometric identification system.

Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad, banned by major airlines after he assaulted an Air India duty manager with his slipper on Thursday, may be allowed to fly again soon, with the government considering changes in the same rules that it has defended in parliament, say sources.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called a meeting of his council of ministers today to brief them ahead of a seven-hour debate on Wednesday in the Lok Sabha on the government's mega reform, the Goods and Services Tax. Four bills crucial to the implementation of GST will be passed at the end the debate; they were introduced in the lower house yester...