The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a one-time payment of Rs 5.5 lakh as a resettlement package for the 5,300 displaced families which had come from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and initially settled outside Jammu and Kashmir but later relocated to the state.
A "historical wrong" has been corrected by …
read moreChinese President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday he was watching the situation in Kashmir and would support Pakistan in issues related to its core interests, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
Xi told Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan during a meeting in Beijing that the right and wrong of the …
read moreIndia should provide an attractive business environment and not "terrorise us" with its tax and customs rules, the CEO of the French engine manufacturer behind the Rafale fighter jet told Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday while announcing that the company plans to invest nearly USD 150 million in the …
read moreUnion minister Rajnath Singh's "Shastra puja" in front of the first Rafale fighter jet handed over by France on Tuesday, has generated a debate. While the Congress has slammed it as "tamasha"(drama) and "superstition", Mr Singh's cabinet colleague and BJP chief Amit Shah has lashed out, questioning the Congress's …
read moreThe Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday wrested the Rajya Sabha seat in Bihar which had fallen vacant upon the death of former Union Minister Ram Jethmalani, who was elected three years ago on an RJD ticket.
BJP leader Satish Chandra Dubey was declared elected unopposed since no other candidate had …
read moreAfter onions, retail price of tomatoes shot up to Rs 80 per kilogram in the national capital on Wednesday due to supply disruption caused by heavy rains in key growing states, including Karnataka.
However, the price of onions has come down marginally compared to last week and is now hovering …
read moreThe Dearness Allowance of central government employees will be raised by five per cent, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said today, calling it a "Diwali gift". Some 50 lakh government employees will benefit from the move.
The decision was approved at a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi this …
read moreUnderstanding of the lunar surface has potentially reached its zenith in 2019 with many nations keenly focusing on the Moon. Last week, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) released very high spatial resolution images of the Moon taken from the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter. The US space agency, NASA has also released …
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