NEW DELHI: Make space — Mahatma, Vivekananda and Ambedkar may join you. If a proposal made to Prime Minister Narendra Modi by an academic and policy maven, who was amember of the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council at one time, gets enough high-powered backing, Indian currency notes may fe

It will be an apt New Year’s gift for Pakistani singer Adnan Sami. Mr Sami can become an Indian citizen as soon as he completes the necessary paperwork. The Union Home Ministry cleared the proposal on Wednesday. Mr Sami, who has been staying in India since 2011, will have to fill a citizenship form

NOIDA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday launched a Rs 7500 Crore project to widen the Delhi-Meerut highway and replace it with an expressway to decongest Delhi. He described it as the "road to freedom from pollution." The road connecting Meerut to Delhi is the busiest highway in the regio

Continuing its offensive against him, AAP today alleged that Arun Jaitley, in his capacity as President of DDCA in 2011, had "pressurised" the then Police Commissioner to "close" an investigation involving a cricket club of a private bank. The party released two letters, purportedly written by Ja

After the ban on Maggi by most of the Indian states, more cats are slowly coming out of the bag. Data tabled in the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) website, more food products from India have been rejected in the US in 2015 than that from any other country. The data on the website shows that m

About 3,000 Indians with a degree or above are begging on the streets, according to the latest Census figures. Of this, 410 have degrees in technical field. Though this number is miniscule compared to the 3.27 lakh beggars counted during the Census, it showed that highly qualified people were for

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will share his thoughts with the nation in the 'Mann Ki Baat' programme which will be aired on the All India Radio (AIR) on Sunday. The 15th edition of the programme will be broadcast at 11 am in the morning. Regional language versions of this broadcast

Air India on Saturday clarified that the airline will be serving proper hot vegetarian meals on their 60 to 90 minutes domestic flights. In a statement issued on Saturday, the airline said, “Air India presently provides cold vegetarian snacks on flights of 60 to 90 minutes flights duration. Air I

In yet another unannounced stopover, Prime Minister Narendra Modi landed in Lahore on his way back from Kabul this afternoon. The announcement of his visit was made by a tweet the PM put out towards the end of his stay in Kabul. “Looking forward to meeting PM Nawaz Sharif in Lahore today afternoo

In a veiled attack against Pakistan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said that Afghanistan will succeed only when terrorism no longer flows across the border and when nurseries and sanctuaries of terrorism are shut. Declaring that India is in Afghanistan to contribute not to compete, to lay th

A day after he was suspended from the BJP, MP Kirti Azad sought “justice” from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and denied that he had colluded with the Opposition while taking on Finance Minister Arun Jaitley over alleged corruption in Delhi cricket. Azad was speaking to reporters in Ahmedabad during

The Maharashtra government on Wednesday told the Bombay High Court that it has decided to move a plea against the acquittal of actor Salman Khan in connection with the 2002 hit-and-run case. Government pleader Abhinandan Vagyani informed Justices A S Oka and G S Patel that the government will mov

Kerala Governor Justice P Sathasivam on Tuesday night missed an Air India flight from Kochi to Thiruvananthapuram after the pilot allegedly refused to wait for him to board the flight. While the Governor reached the airport around 11.28 pm after attending functions in Kozhikode and Thrissur, the

A car which Dawood Ibrahim purportedly used, was on Wednesday set ablaze by a right wing outfit, here with a poster of the fugitive gangster pasted on its windscreen, a fortnight after the ramshackle vehicle was auctioned in Mumbai for Rs 32,000. The green Hyundai Accent sedan was burnt by Swami

Juveniles aged 16 years and above will now be tried under laws for adults for heinous crimes as Parliament on Tuesday passed a much-expected bill in this regard against the backdrop of a juvenile convict being released in the gangrape-cum-murder case of December 2012. The Juvenile Justice (Care a

Kolkata, Dec 22 (PTI) An Alliance Air aircraft today suffered "extensive" damage after the driver of a Jet Airways tarmac bus ferrying its crew dozed off and rammed it into the vacant stationary plane at the airport here.   No injuries have been reported in the incident which occurred at

KOLKATA: A Jet Airways shuttle bus driver has confessed that he dozed off and crashed into an Air India aircraft at the Kolkata airport early this morning, causing damage worth crores though no one was seriously hurt. The plane, said to be worth Rs 400 crore, was extensively damaged, says Air Ind

NEW DELHI: Unmoved by the defamation suit filed by Arun Jaitley, Delhi chief minister and AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal said the finance minister should not try to scare him or his party members by filing cases. "Jaitley should not try to scare us by filing cases in court. He should cooperate with t