NEW DELHI: Amid record high power demand this year, the Union power ministry has initiated discussions with state governments to augment their power generation capacities, both conventional and renewable energy. Union Minister for Power, New and Renewable...

NEW DELHI: Mobile subscribers will soon be allotted a unique customer ID by the government, which will act as their one-stop identification point for everything related to their primary as well as add-on phone connections. The move, being finalised by the...

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi organised a ‘bhandara’ in Kedarnath and served food to devotees on Monday, the second day of his three-day “personal” visit to the Himalayan temple. He visited the grand statue of Adi Shankaracharya near the Kedarnath temple a...

NEW DELHI: Amid a record incorporation of companies, the ministry of corporate affairs (MCA) has called for regular general meetings, stating that they offer shareholders a platform to question the management’s decisions and the shareholders’ participatio...

NEW DELHI: The Indian economy has the potential to clock 6.2 per cent annual average growth rate in the medium term during the 2019-27 period, credit rating agency Fitch ratings said in its latest Global Economic Outlook report on Monday. The agency raise...

NEW DELHI: India is pulling out all the stops to get Elon Musk’s Tesla to the country with government departments working to provide all the required approvals by January 2024. The Prime Minister’s Office Monday held a meeting with top officials to take s...

The Congress on Monday slammed the Narendra Modi government over its decision to deploy senior bureaucrats as “rath prabharis” for its Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra, alleging that it was a “blatant use” of officers for “what is essentially a programme to im...

Expressing dismay over the ‘thief’ slur levelled at her Trinamool Congress party by the opposition, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said she had not accepted a single paisa nor taken even a cup of tea from anyone. The erstwhile Left F...

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday derided the ED, CBI and the Income Tax Department as “jawans” of Narendra Modi, and said before the prime minister hits the campaign trail he sends the central agencies to target the opposition. Addressing a...

Aam Aadmi Party national convener and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal held a meeting with all AAP MLAs in the assembly even as the buzz surrounding his imminent arrest refused to die down. And yet another AAP MLA, this time from Punjab, was arrested...

NEW DELHI: Reliance Industries Ltd and its partner bp plc of UK have reverted to oil indexation for pricing the gas they produce from India’s largest private-sector operated field in KG basin as they look to tap into the upside from the buoyant oil market...

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has emerged as one of the most popular figures in Indian politics on the X (formerly known as Twitter), said a state government spokesperson. He said that the recognition comes from the hashtag tracking tool, T...

An accused in the Mahadev betting case, who has been named by the Enforcement Directorate as one of the top management of the online app, on Sunday named Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel and a 2008-batch IPS officer for allegedly accepting bribe...

Action will be taken on those spreading chaos in the name of ”love jihad” and cow smuggling in Chhattisgarh after the Bharatiya Janata Party comes to power, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Saturday. Addressing a poll rally in Kawardha...

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday convened a meeting with the ministers to discuss the Parliamentary elections to be held next year and has set a target of winning at least 20 out of 28 LS seats. Transport Minister Ramalinga Reddy said in...