Nearly two months after the November 8 demonetisation, a senior Union minister on Saturday hailed scrapping of the old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes as "historic" and said the step "could only be taken by a visionary leadership"....
In April 2016, Piyush Goyal, the Power and Renewable Energy Minister, reiterated that India's solar power target -- 100 GW by 2022 -- was achievable, but an IndiaSpend analysis shows that this expansion is challenged by weak infrastructure and a lack of cheap financing. ...
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday termed the November 8 demonetisation as a "historic" and "bold" move towards welfare of the poor, while serving as crippling blow to terror, fake currency note racket, and insurgency....
India's foreign exchange reserves went up marginally to $360.29 billion as on Dec 30, 2016, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said. ...
This was stated by Pinaki Misra, a member of parliament from the Biju Lok Dal of Orissa, and a veteran lawyer on the Karan Thapar show on Friday. He said in his legal career he had interacted with the Income Tax Department and he had found that it was the "most corrupt department" in the whole government....
NRIs coming for the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) here from Saturday and resident Indians returning from abroad need to declare at the airport on arrival the number of demonetised Rs 500 and 1,000 notes they are carrying, said a Customs official on Friday....
Japan on Friday recalled two top diplomats from South Korea over a controversial statue erected outside its consulate in Busan city, a media report said. Tokyo would also halt ta...
Apple has announced that its app developers earned over $20 billion, up over 40 per cent from 2015, in 2016 alone and also stated that New Year's Day was the highest single day ever for the App Store with nearly $240 million in purchases. ...
The Supreme Court on Friday refused an urgent hearing on a plea seeking that the Union Budget for 2017-18 be deferred till April. ...
A Delhi-bound SpiceJet flight on Friday faced a technical hiccup but landed safely after following the emergency procedure, the airline said....
