From referencing "josh" of Bollywood flick 'Uri', to chants of "Modi, Modi" from the Bharatiya Janata Party, there were varied reactions in Lok Sabha as Finance Minister Piyush Goyal gave his interim budget speech on Friday.
The US tech major is planning to begin local production of its upcoming iPhone 12 by next April - within six months of its launch.
A number of senior faces from the outgoing cabinet including Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Nirmala Sitharaman, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Piyush Goyal, Narendra Singh Tomar and Prakash Javadekar are expected to figure in the new cabinet.
'The government is unwilling or unable to provide the kind of relief that Vodafone India is asking for.'
All existing emergency numbers will be phased out within a year of rolling out 112, depending upon the awareness about this new facility.
Will it be home or defence for Amit Shah?
Lalu Prasad and his Muslim-Yadav line has completely gone off track.
'People want to see Mr Sinha win again because he has always been there for Patna whether he has been a leader or not.' 'Even when he was an actor, he was a proud Bihari.' 'He is not doing it because he only wants to win an election, he wants to do it because he really loves Bihar.'
Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad is learnt to have approached Finance Minister Arun Jaitley for additional funds to carry out schemes committed under Universal Services Obligation fund scheme.
Prasad lashed out against 'so called liberals of double standards' who remain silent on on the killings of RSS workers in Karnataka and Kerala.
Justice Dipak Misra retires on October 2.
Ringing Bells has said the manufacturing cost of the phone is about Rs 2,500.
Nilekani says life has come a full circle for him, as he heads back to the company he co-founded over three decades ago.
Union minister Nitin Gadkari will head a committee which will reach out to social and volunteer organisations while his Cabinet colleague Sushma Swaraj will head a group that will produce literature for the polls.
Expressing concern over the rupee reaching an all-time low, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said the currency is likely to plunge further as a share of the US financial stimulus package given to India during the sub-prime crisis in 2008-09 may be withdrawn by the Federal Reserve.
8,121 people were arrested in 2015 for cybercrimes, a 41% increase from 2014.
The BJP president said it should not have happened and must not be repeated.
Proceedings in Rajya Sabha were repeatedly disrupted on Wednesday due to uproar over demand for Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's resignation and missing coal files, on which the Bharatiya Janata Party targeted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
RCom and Tata Teleservices are the top net losers of subscribers under mobile number portability (MNP) services.
Ravi Shankar Prasad in a review meeting of MTNL earlier this month had pulled up officials for poor network quality and slow pace of network roll-out.
The BJP odeployed all its big guns -- from Prime Minister Narendra Modi to party chief Amit Shah
The number of smartphones booked during the initial hours was 30,000.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address six regional meetings during the 192-day-long exercise.
Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday offered to discuss the issue of call drops and poor service by state-owned BSNL and MTNL in the Rajya Sabha.
The government is currently also revising its MSIPS policy to extend its mandate apart from making it more investor friendly.
The Congress on Monday sought a thorough probe in the Rafale defence deal and demanded answers from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, after a French media report claimed that 1.1 million (Rs 9.5 crore) was paid to a "middleman" by the aircraft manufacturer.
India can also emerge as a hub of legal talent if it opens up its legal sector
The Congress accused the BJP and a section of media of deliberately twisting Gandhi's remarks.
Call drop problem to improve in 12-16 weeks in Delhi: Vodafone
Notwithstanding reservations of judiciary, Parliament on Thursday took cleared two bills providing for a new mechanism for appointment of judges to higher judiciary by scrapping the collegium system that had come under attack from political parties and others.
The reshuffle had politics at its heart, so the biggest complement of new ministers, both Cabinet rank and below, came from UP, which will see assembly elections in a few months.
WhatsApp has drawn massive criticism from users globally, including India over concerns that data was being shared with its parent company, Facebook. WhatsApp, on its part, has maintained that messages on the platform are end-to-end encrypted and that neither WhatsApp nor Facebook can see the private messages on WhatsApp's platform.
Unlike the 2012 manifesto, the BJP has chosen not to make any extravagant promises.
The Minister said government is aware that regional language barriers have impeded the e-governance initiatives in rural India.
Congress MP Karti Chidambaram and Communist Party of India-Marxist politburo member Mohammed Salim were among the prominent politicians who tested positive for COVID-19 as a rapid spike in cases took the tally in the country to over 18 lakh on Monday.
Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the Aam Aadmi Party leader should answer whether he believed in the Indian Army or not.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch his dream 'Swachh Bharat' campaign on Thursday.
Cracking down further on hoarding, the Centre on Wednesday put onion and potato under purview of the Essential Commodities Act and imposed stock holding limits in a bid to improve availability and rein in prices.
India's stand is important against the backdrop of US FCC's decision to roll back its net neutrality rules adopted in 2015
The news of Shah joining the Cabinet came from Gujarat BJP chief Jitu Vaghani, who tweeted a congratulatory message. "Had a courtesy meeting with our mentor Amit Shah and gave my best wishes to him on his inclusion as a strong member of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's council of ministers," he tweeted.
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