The Election Commission Wednesday told the Supreme Court that it welcomed the suggestion of setting up an expert panel to brainstorm the issue of freebies announced during elections, but it being a......
After finally expanding the Maharashtra cabinet, the Eknath Shinde-Devendra Fadnavis government will have to do the tightrope in allocating portfolios, and as per speculation, the senior Bharatiya......
Most of the 40 MLAs in the Shinde camp don't have enough legislative experience to conduct business in the House and so the first ministry expansion needed induction of veterans. IMAGE:......
Airlines will have to mandatorily share PNR (passenger name record) details of passengers with customs authorities 24 hours prior to departure of international flights, a move which will help......
The much-delayed expansion of the 41-day-old Maharashtra ministry saw as many as 17 former ministers taking oath on Tuesday. Of the 18 ministers sworn in at the Raj Bhavan ceremony, only one has......
The staff at post offices misappropriated Rs 95.62 crore of public money between November 2002 and September 2021, the Comptroller and Auditor General has said. The money may seem small but it is......
Banks have raised concerns over the new international trade settlement in rupee, fearing that facilitation of such a mechanism could result in them facing the ire of economic sanctions by the West,......
The finance ministry has said that the Goods and Services Tax will not apply on room rents of 'sarais' (inns) or properties managed by religious and charitable institutions. The clarification was......
The Centre’s capital expenditure (capex) outlay for the April-June quarter (first quarter, or Q1) of 2022-23 (FY23) could be close to Rs 1.5 trillion, Business Standard has learnt.......
Merely bringing down the government stake below 51% may not find any taker for the PSBs.The government must bring down its holding to at least 26%, recommends Tamal Bandyopadhyay. Illustration:......
IMAGE:Neeraj Chopra is currently training in Turkey. Photograph: Kind Courtesy Twitter/Neeraj Chopra Olympic gold medallist javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra is set to switch his training base from......