The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has named Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani as the chairman of a special committee to assess the digitisation of payments in the country. Nilekani will head the high-level five-member committee on deepening of digital payments. Apart from Nilekani, the committe

New Delhi: Exiled CBI chief Alok Verma was reinstated by the Supreme Court today, three months after the government divested him of his powers and sent him on forced leave in a midnight swoop. Alok Verma can go back to his office but cannot take any major policy decisions for now, the top court said

A man was shot dead by two unidentified men in Jhilmil Industrial area of East Delhi on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Hariom Sharma. New delhi,jan 06,2019: A 35-year-old man was shot dead by two unidentified men in Jhilmil Industrial area of East Delhi on Sunday. The deceased was identifie

A 30-year-old man was arrested on Saturday for allegedly setting his59-year-old mother on fire over a property issue. Further investigation in the case underway. Odisha: In an appalling case reported from Malkangiri district of Odisha, a 30-year-old man was arrested on Saturday for allegedly settin

A 10-year-old boy who died in celebratory firing during New Year celebrations in north-east Delhi’s Usmanpur was shot “accidentally” by his own father, police said on Saturday. The man told police he was “checking out” a country-made pistol. The father, Yaseen Malik, was arrested on Friday night

New Delhi: The petitioner, who sought a stay on the trailer of The Accidental Prime Minister on Sunday said that the Anupam Kher starrer film has been made to systematically wash the minds of voters ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. On Saturday, a petition was filed in the Delhi High court, seeking

NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday carried out fresh raids at more than 12 locations in Uttar Pradesh and Delhi in connection with illegal sand mining case. According to news agency ANI, the raids were conducted at multiple locations in Delhi, Lucknow, Kanpur, Hamirp

Seven people, including six schoolchildren, were killed and 12 injured on Saturday when a private school bus rolled down a deep gorge in Himachal Pradesh’s Sirmaur district, police said. The accident occurred in Sangrah town around 8 AM. A private bus carrying students of DAV School, Renuka, fell

Mumbai,Jan 05,2019:- Fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi, a prime accused in the PNB fraud case, told a court in Mumbai on Saturday that he cannot return to India due to safety concerns and also because his case has been "politicised". Nirav Modi's lawyer filed his reply to the Enforcement Direc

A preview of the soon-to-be-launched Train 18 and how it can change the experience of travelling by trains New Delhi: Indian Railways is set to launch Train 18, with the claim that it will be the fastest train in the country. It is touted as the new definition of comfort and speed for rail travel

People who do not feel safe but threatened in India should be bombed, according to BJP MLA Vikram Saini. In a 74-second video released by news agency ANI, the lawmaker from Muzaffarnagar is heard saying, “My personal view is that those who say they feel unsafe and threatened in India should be bombe

Bhubaneswar: Cyclone activities were witnessed in the South China Sea after which seven districts of Odisha are put on alert by the state government and the Revenue and Disaster management department on Thursday. The cyclone is named 'Pabuk' and was earlier centred around 1,500 km east-southeast

New Delhi: In a major setback to Nestle, the company admitted to the presence of lead in its popular FMCG product of popular noodles. The Supreme Court on Thursday was given this admittance by the lawyers of the company as the case was being heard. The court hearing was a clear indication that th

The Supreme Court on Thursday expressed its dissatisfaction with the rescue efforts to trace the 15 Meghalaya miners who have been trapped for 22 days. “We pray to God that all are alive,” the top court said on a petition that wanted the government to be ordered to scale up the rescue efforts in a f

Fourteen people have been confirmed dead in a blast in a building in central Russia, AFP reported, quoting local officials as saying on Wednesday. The local governor’s office said that 14 bodies had been found and 27 people were reported missing after the explosion in Magnitogorsk, about 1,700 km ea

More than 395,000 babies were expected to have been born around the world on New Year's Day, with India estimated to have recorded the highest number of these births at almost 70,000, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said. As the calendar flips to 2019, about 395,072 babies will be bor

Lucknow: To ensure the welfare of cows, the Uttar Pradesh cabinet on Tuesday gave a nod to the proposal to levy a 2% 'cow welfare cess'. The move is aimed to construct shelters for the cows in all districts, gram panchayats, municipalities, municipal corporations and other local bodies. A budget

Actor Prakash Raj will be contesting in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections as an independent, the actor made the announcement on Twitter on Tuesday night. However, he is yet to decide on a constituency from where he would fight. The actor signed off saying “Ab ki baar Janatha ki SARKAR in Parliament t