Source-indianexpress.com A cut in excise duty on petroleum products will put a strain in central government finances unless it is followed by a commensurate reduction in expenditure. Reducing government spend when growth rates are just about firming up is not on Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s mind, but tax collections so far do present a challenge in meeting the
Source-indiatoday.in hen top leaders of two major powers meet, it is never a bilateral affair. It becomes an event of geostrategic significance. The meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is one such event. India and Russia recognise each other as strategic partner through an agreement first inked in 1970s and
Source-dnaindia.com The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to entertain the fresh plea challenging the decision of the Centre to deport seven Rohingya immigrants, who have been staying in Assam illegally, to their home country Myanmar. The Rohingya immigrants will be handed over to the Myanmar authorities in Moreh border post in Manipur on Thursday. Earlier on Wednesday,
Source- asia.nikkei.com India’s longest road tunnel — running for 9 km under the foothills of the Himalayas and connecting the two biggest cities in the mountainous state of Kashmir — should be a source of national pride. Instead, the debt-laden project has helped bring its backer to the brink of financial collapse and become a symbol
Source-indianexpress.com Farmers, who were stopped on the UP Gate-Delhi border Tuesday, were allowed inside the national capital around midnight following which they marched to the memorials of Chaudhary Charan Singh at Kisan Ghat and Mahatma Gandhi. The farmers ended their protest after reaching Kisan Ghat, concluding the ten-day long Kisan Kranti Yatra that had started from Haridwar on September 23.
Source-indianexpress.com Ahead of Vladimir Putin’s two-day visit to India starting Thursday, his top foreign policy aide Yury Ushakov Tuesday said that the Russian President will oversee the signing of the S-400 air defence systems deal. This is the first official confirmation from the Russian government on the signing of the deal with India. Putin and
Source-business-standard.com Nikkei India Manufacturing PMI strengthened slightly in September to 52.2 up from 51.7 in August India’s manufacturing economy recorded an improvement in growth during September amid firmer gains in new orders, output and employment. Sales rose from both domestic and foreign clients, whilst manufacturers raised their buying activity and bolstered stocks of purchases in anticipation of
Source-indianexpress.com The two policemen who intercepted Apple executive Vivek Tiwari’s vehicle in Lucknow late Friday night, before one of them allegedly shot him dead, wanted them to stop and step out of the car but as one of them tried to force his cane inside the window, “Sir did not find it proper to stop” and wanted
Source-indianexpress.com Thousands of protesters, mainly upper castes, trooped to Bhopal from other parts of Madhya Pradesh for a ‘Kranti Sabha’ rally on Sunday to express their anger over the Centre’s amendment to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. Targeting Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who had asserted two years ago that
Source- firstpost.com New Delhi: A Delhi court has decided to hear on 4 December the CBI’s plea seeking a direction to allow it to go for further probe into the politically sensitive Rs 64-crore Bofors payoff case. The matter came up before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ashu Garg, who deferred the matter after noting the submission of advocate
