New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) Putting an end to the bitter row, the central government Friday decided to restore the earlier sugarcane pricing policy, a move welcomed by opposition parties. After a ...

New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) Expecting a stormy start to the winter session of parliament beginning Thursday with issues like price rise and telecom scam high on opposition's agenda, the government Wednesday ...

New Delhi, Nov.16 (ANI): "India Corporate Week" will be observed for the first time in the third week of December. Revealing this at a press conference here, Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said ...

Lahore, Nov.14 (ANI): The Lahore High Court, for the third time, has issued notices against former President General Pervz Musharraf and former Punjab Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi in connection with former ...

Islamabad, Nov.12 (ANI): The United States has restored Pakistan's budgetary support, nearly three years after it was suspended. Islamabad is set to receive about 174 million dollars as a result. Informing the media ...

Islamabad, Nov.11 (ANI): The Pakistan Government would execute any court warrant against former President General Pervez Musharraf, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Babar Awan has said. "If a Pakistani court issues any proclamation, warrant ...

Bangalore, Nov 9 (IANS) A senior television journalist and a cameraman of a leading English news channel were beaten up Monday in the Karnataka High Court by a group of lawyers protesting ...

Mumbai, Nov 9 (IANS) Four legislators of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) were Monday suspended for four years by the Maharashtra assembly for assaulting Samajwadi Party lawmaker Abu Asim Azmi for taking ...

New Delhi, Nov 6 (IANS) The Congress party Friday said 'Vande Mataram', around which a controversy has arisen after a Muslim clerics organisation endorsed a fatwa (decree) against it, should be ...

Hyderabad, Nov 5 (IANS) Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid Thursday said a proposal to allow shareholders decide the salaries of company executives was before parliament. In an interaction with reporters on the sidelines ...

Hyderabad, Nov 5 (IANS) Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid Thursday denied that the government has asked the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) to stop probing the Rs.78,000-crore Satyam accounting scam. "SFIO is continuing ...

Islamabad, Nov.3 (ANI): The Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) has denied issuing any statement which asked for President Asif Ali Zardari's resignation. According to reports, a delegation of MQM leaders led by the ...

New Delhi, Oct 27 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Tuesday refused to give any relief to Congress leader and Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, who had challenged his expulsion from the ...

Siliguri (West Bengal), Oct 25 (IANS) Two children were killed and 200-odd shanties destroyed when a fire broke out in West Bengal's Siliguri town in the wee hours of Sunday, a senior ...

Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 24 (IANS) Congress leaders in Kerala protested Saturday after the name of the late Congress leader Mercy Ravi, who was the wife of Overseas Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi, appeared in ...

New Delhi, Oct 21 (ANI): Parliamentary Affairs Minister P K Bansal on Wednesday said that Parliament's winter session will start from November 19 and will end on December 22, having 24 ...

Lahore, Oct.11 (ANI): An intelligence report of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has revealed that the Punjab Police had warned concerned authorities on July 15 that terrorists might launch an attack on ...

New Delhi, Oct 5(ANI): Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khursheed on Monday clarified his stand on companies paying exorbitant salaries to top company executives and managers, and said that the Government welcomes the ...

New Delhi, Oct 5 (IANS) Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid Monday said a bill to streamline the functioning of Wakf boards across the country is in its final stage and will be ...

Guwahati, Oct 5 (ANI): Army and paramilitary forces have launched a full-scale operation to capture ultras of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), which was involved in Sunday's massacre. On Sunday, eleven ...

New Delhi, Oct 5 (IANS) India's economy will grow at 6.3 percent this fiscal as per prediction, while inflation would remain under 5 percent, according to Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh ...

Kolkata, Oct 1 (IANS) Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader and West Bengal minister Ashok Bhattacharya Thursday said supporting the Congress in the Siliguri Municipal Corporation was not a political decision. "We supported ...

New Delhi, Sep 30 (IANS) India's telecom major Bharti Airtel and South Africa's MTN Wednesday terminated their talks for a proposed $24-billion cash-cum-equity deal that could have created the world's third ...

New Delhi, Sep 30 (IANS) India's telecom major Bharti Airtel and South Africa's MTN Wednesday terminated their talks for a proposed $24-billion equity swap-cum-strategic alliance that could have potentially created the world's ...

New Delhi, Sep 30 (IANS) Regulatory roadblocks remained unresolved for the proposed $24-billion equity swap-cum-strategic tie-up between Indian telecom major Bharti Airtel and South Africa's MTN even as their deadline for ...

Melbourne, Sep 25 (IANS) While Australian authorities have been pledging to bring a tougher law to combat attacks on Indians living in the country, an Indian taxi driver became the latest victim ...

New Delhi, Sep. 25 (ANI): The Australian Government went into damage control mode, with Victorian Premier John Brumby on Friday saying that attacks on Indian students were unfortunate. Brumby, who is on a ...

Bhubaneswar, Sep 24 (IANS) Orissa has requested the central government for early release of central funds to carry out various tribal welfare activities in the state, according to an official statement here ...

Islamabad, Sep 19 (ANI): Although the number of suicide attacks in Pakistan have gone down in the recent past, but security agencies have warned of old terror attacks, including ambush, target killings ...

Kolkata, Sep 15 (IANS) The centre will finalise a comprehensive roadmap for Indian corporates by November to adopt the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) set to be operational from 2011, Corporate Affairs ...