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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday threatened to demonstrate outside Prime Minister Narendra Modi's residence against demonetisation, vowing to dislodge him from the seat of power if the scrapping of high value currency notes is not with...

Seeking to break the deadlock, Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday told Lok Sabha that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will speak on demonetisation if the Opposition wanted, but the rival parties demanding a debate with a provision for voting remained unim...

Anticipating a more protectionist U.S. technology visa programme under a Donald Trump administration, India's $150 billion IT services sector will speed up acquisitions in the United States and recruit more heavily from college campuses there.

A fierce gunbattle is underway between security forces and terrorists at Langate village in Jammu and Kashmir's Handwara town on Monday.

Concerned over the jailbreak in Punjab, the Centre on Sunday sought a report from the state government asking it provide details of the incident.

Authorities in the national capital plan to have around 20 monitoring stations, that will exclusively measure the levels of ultrafine particulates PM 2.5 and PM 10, the dominant pollutants in Delhi's toxic air.

Prime Minister Narendra will share his thoughts on a number of themes and issues in 'Mann Ki Baat' at 11am on Sunday.

The revised drafts of three GST laws have been released after incorporating suggestions from stakeholders, the government said on Saturday. These will now be placed before the Goods and Services Tax Council in its next meeting on December 2-3.

A 'baul' singer has been arrested for his alleged involvement in the theft of Rabindranath Tagore's Nobel Prize medal in 2004, a CID officer said here today.

The congregational prayers were last offered at the mosque on July 8, the day Wani was killed, as authorities apprehended law and order problems after the weekly prayers.

NLEM was first formulated in 1996. It was later revised in 2003 and 2011. The last revision was notified on December 23, 2015, he added.

Stressing the need for India to create its own luxury brands, NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant on Friday said the circle of growth should expand and move from tier 1 cities to tier 2 and tier 3 cities.

Police on Thursday apprehended two men from outside Hazrat Nizammuddin railway station who were allegedly carrying Rs 27 lakh in new currency notes which they received after exchanging old demonetised notes from some agents in Mumbai.

There are also reports of unscrupulous elements using Jan Dhan accounts of poor and innocent persons to convert their black money into white.

This would prod more and more unbanked to open bank accounts and this be a part of the formal economy, one of the many original aims of demonetization.

Justice Peters noted "whether or not (the man's) faith has intensified" did not increase his risk of attack, because he was already a well-known evangeliser.