India

Country's first private greenfield airport at Durgapur, promoted by Bengal Aerotropolis Projects Ltd (BAPL), is likely to be operational by April 14.

While incessant rains lashed most parts of the Valley on Sunday, moderate to heavy snowfall was reported since wee hours this morning.

A Pakistani Taliban splinter group claimed responsibility.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday ordered a CID probe into the incident and promised "swift" and "strongest action" against the culprits.

MP BJP unit president Nandkumar Singh Chauhan at a press conference last evening presented documents, running into 160 pages, claiming to be from the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal and having evidence of payment of huge sum of money to Singh by a Bhopal-ba...

The Akhil Bhartiya Pratinidhi Sabha (ABPS), RSS' top decision and policy making body, on Sunday adopted a resolution to that effect.

Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Sunday said the government would consider banning entry of BJP leader Subramanian Swamy into the state after his reported remark that "mosques are mere buildings and can be demolished."

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to this effect was signed on Friday between Chief Engineer (Dwarka) of the DDA and the Chief Engineer of DJB (South Zone).

"Swachh Bharat cess will be 2 per cent or less. Government will identify services and it will be applicable from the date of notification," Das said.

Defence counsel in the Uber rape case has accused the judge conducting the trial of being "biased" towards him.

The party at the meeting of the national executive is likely to pass resolutions, after top leaders discuss the party's membership drive and recent initiatives taken by its government on the political and economic fronts.

Sub-Inspector Shailendra Singh, who allegedly shot 30-year-old advocate Nabi Ahmed in the Allahabad district court premises on Wednesday, still remained untraceable.

"...NITI Aayog shall be the successor in the Planning Commission and as such continue to discharge the responsibility of SCSP and TSP until further orders," Planning Minister Rao Inderjit Singh said.

The documentary reveals that the situation is much worse in western nations and 250 women in the UK are raped daily.

The first group of pilgrims who went to Ganga Talao were from the village of Triolet and it was led by Pandit Giri Gossayne from Terre Rouge in 1898.

IMF has at least at this stage pegged a kind of medium-term growth for India at around "7 3/4 per cent if, a lot of the structural reforms can be introduced."