Ravi Shankar Prasad, a lawyer, politician and the current Union Minister holding Law and Justice and Ministry of Information Technology portfolio in the Government of India, speaks about Adhaar myth busters in his recent tweets. On September 9 he made some shocking revelation about Adha

14 September 2017:The Goods and Services tax (GST) was introduced in India from July 1, 2017 which subsumed all indirect taxes levied by the central and state governments. However, petroleum products such as petrol, diesel, jet fuel and natural gas were kept out of the purview of GST in order to pre

India’s first bullet train dream will soon be a reality with Prime Minister Narendra Modiand his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe laying the foundation stone for the ambitious project today. Not just that, if Indian Railwayshas its way, you may get to travel on the Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet t

LUCKNOW: SP chief Akhilesh Yadav today defended Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his remark that India was being run by dynasties, saying world history was replete with examples of people taking a plunge into politics due to their family background. Mr Yadav was speaking at a press conference at

The guard coach of the Jammu Rajdhani derailed on arrival on Thursday at the New Delhi Railway Station at 6:20 am. No casualties have been reported so far. The coach was located at the end of the train. “Last coach of Jammu Rajdhani Express which was entering at platform no 15 of New Delhi railway s

NEW DELHI: President Ram Nath Kovind today asked Hindi-speaking people to give more respect and space to regional languages and their speakers in a bid to make Hindi more popular across the country. Addressing a function on the occasion of 'Hindi Divas' in New Delhi, the President said Hindi cont

The Bombay High Court was briefly put on an alert Wednesday morning after the police control room here received an anonymous call of a bomb inside the court premises, which later turned out to be a hoax. The anonymous caller allegedly claimed that the bomb had been placed in room number 51 – the off

CHANDIGARH: Police have arrested the IT head of the controversial Dera Sacha Sauda, whose chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh is undergoing 20 years imprisonment in two rape cases, for allegedly tampering with computers at the sect's headquarters ahead of a search by the authorities. "Police arrested V

British authorities have frozen properties belonging to fugitive Indian underworld gangster Dawood Ibrahim. Reports say Dawood's total assets are worth $6.7 billion. Dawood, who Indian agencies claim runs his crime empire from Cliffton area in Karachi, Pakistan, appears on the latest UK Treasury

AHMEDABAD: Amit Shah, the president of the BJP, has been ordered to appear as a witness for Maya Kodnani, a top leader from his party in Gujarat who has been convicted of murder in the riots that tore the state apart in 2002. A judge said that Mr Shah must on Monday appear either in person or assign

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that those who keep the country clean have the first right to chant Vande Mataram and wondered whether people who littered and dirtied the country had any right to the nationalist slogan. Prime Minister Modi was addressing a students' convention at

New Delhi, September 12: A man in Delhi was allegedly beaten up by five men for speaking English while talking to his friend. The man, identified as Varun Gulati, is a resident of Noida. The police said that the 22-year-old man was on his way to drop his friend Aman to a five-star hotel in Connaught

CHENNAI:  The appointment of Nirmala Sitharaman as the India's Defence Minister has raised expectations of new opportunities for women in the armed forces. On Saturday, the wife of an Army Colonel who lost his life fighting terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir in 2015, was commissioned as a Lieutenant.

BHOPAL: Nineteen days after the Supreme Court set aside the practice of Triple Talaq by a 3-2 verdict, a marathon meeting of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) executive committee here Sunday failed to decide its course of action following the verdict. The board, which debated the A

Two days after the Gurugram police arrested a bus conductor for allegedly killing Praduman Thakur, a Class 2 student, inside a Ryan International School toilet, a bus driver on Sunday spilled the beans about the alleged weapon used in the crime. Speaking to Mail Today, Saurabh Raghav, the driver of

New Delhi :  The government is moving ahead with linking Aadhaar with mobile SIM cards and all unlinked phones will be deactivated after February 2018, said informed sources. Sources told news agency IANS that linking of Aadhaar and mobile is being done as per the orders

HYDERABAD: Mid-sized and luxury cars as also SUVs will cost more after the GST Council on Saturday decided to levy an additional 2 to 7 per cent cess on them but exempted small and hybrid cars from any hike. A 2 per cent additional cess will be levied on mid-sized cars, 5 per cent on large cars a

NEW DELHI: To curb malpractices at petrol and gas stations, the government today said oil marketing companies (OMCs) have agreed to install high-security devices to check refill of fuel and gas. The deadline for installation of new security devices will be decided next week. Presently, securit