For an economy that has been starved of good news for a while, the improvement in India’s ranking and score in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing business indicator should bring some cheer. India placed 63rd out of 190 countries — an improvement of 14 places from its 77th position last year. The country

already been on for two months. The Supreme Court on Thursday demanded a “clear-cut picture” from authorities on how long they planned to continue with restrictions in Jammu and Kashmir. “You have to give us a clear-cut picture of how long you are going to continue with these restrictions.

A local court on Tuesday ordered Jammu superintendent of police (SSP) Tejinder Singh to register an FIR against six members of the special investigation team (SIT) of the state crime branch that probed the 2018 rape and murder of an eight-year-old nomadic girl in Rasana area of Kathua district for a

Lucknow: Hindu Samaj Party leader Kamlesh Tiwari was stabbed 15 times and shot once in his head, according to the postmortem report. Two deep cut marks were found on his neck and the stabbing was centred between jaws and chest. The wounds were inflicted within 10 centimetres of one another, the r

New Delhi: A 45-year-old taxi driver was arrested for allegedly duping a US national of USD1,294 (more than ₹90,000), police said on Monday. George Vanmeter, who reached the IGI airport on October 18, was allegedly convinced by the driver-- Ram Preet, a resident of Geeta Colony, and his accomplic

The Supreme Court has decided to examine whether social media intermediaries such as Facebook and WhatsApp should facilitate the State to access encrypted and private social media conversations of citizens, purportedly to fight crime and terror. A Bench of Justices Deepak Gupta and Aniruddha Bose

Residents in several Kochi neighbourhoods woke up to inundated streets, as incessant rain lashed the city since the wee hours of Monday. With many arterial roads such as MG Road, Ernakulam North and Menaka waterlogged, it was a motorist’s nightmare with bumper-to-bumper traffic. Many shops in the ar

The Supreme Court on October 21 said it is not stopping the construction of Metro shed project in Mumbai’s prominent green lung Aarey Colony. A Bench of Justices Arun Mishra and Deepak Gupta sought a status report with pictures on plantation, transplantation and felling of trees in Aarey colony a

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh police on Saturday claimed to have cracked the murder case of 52-year-old Hindu leader Kamlesh Tiwari with arrest of three people from Gujarat. Addressing a press conference, UP DGP OP Singh said the sweet box found at the site of the incident proved to be a vital clue

New Delhi: Ahead of upcoming Assembly polls in Maharashtra, Bollywood actor Salman Khan's aide Gurmeet Singh, popularly known as Shera, joined Shiv Sena on Friday. He joined the party in the presence of party chief Uddhav Thackeray and Yuva Sena President, Aditya Thackeray at their residence Matoshr

Kamlesh Tiwari, leader of the Hindu Samaj Party and a former leader of the Hindu Mahasabha, was shot dead in Lucknow on Friday. The Mahasabha leader, who was rushed to the trauma center after inflicting severe injuries, died during treatment, the police said. According to reports, the assault

Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi on October 18 sent a letter to the Centre recommending Justice S.A. Bobde, who is next in seniority, as his successor. Official sources told PTI that Chief Justice Gogoi wrote a letter to the Ministry of Law and Justice recommending Justice Bobde to be the next

New Delhi: Responding to finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman's statement blaming him for the ongoing bank crisis in the country, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said the "government is obsessed with trying to fix blame on its opponent". Accusing the Centre of not willing to adopt

In probably a first for Maharashtra, police have booked six people for theft of groundwater over a period of 11 years from two illegal wells at Kalbadevi in south Mumbai, officials said on Wednesday. Mumbai’s Azad Maidan police registered an FIR against 6 persons for theft of groundwater valued a

New York: India’s public sector banks had the "worst phase" under the combination of former prime minister Manmohan Singh and then RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said. Delivering a lecture at the prestigious Columbia University’s School of International and P

Thiruvananthapuram: Pranjal Patil, India's first visually impaired woman IAS officer, has taken over as the Sub-Collector of Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram. Ms Patil, 30, made history last year when she received her first appointment as Assistant Collector in Kerala's Ernakulam. "We should never be

Mumbai: An account holder at the Punjab Maharashtra Co-operative (PMC) Bank, who had deposits of over Rs 90 lakh with the troubled bank, died in Mumbai on Monday. He died of a heart attack hours after attending a protest by distressed customers of the bank outside a Mumbai court. Sanjay Gulati, 5

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a fresh public interest litigation seeking linking the 12-digit Aadhaar number to social media accounts, asking the petitioner to approach Madras High Court. “Everything doesn’t need to come to the SC. This issue is before the Madras HC, you go there,” the top