Gold discounts in India, the world's second-biggest consumer, widened this week as dealers struggled to offload stocks amid sluggish demand.
The police claimed the bus driver had violated rules for the pilgrimage.
After the launch in April 2010, Euro-VI fuel supply was expanded to seven cities of Puducherry, Mathura, Vapi, Jamnagar, Ankleshwar, Hissar and Bharatpur in 2011-12.
Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari, who is not contesting Lok Sabha polls as he is ailing, has been made acting in-charge of the AICC Communication department along with party spokesman Randeep Surjewala.
Heavy rains lashed south and east central Gujarat causing flood like situation in localities alongside rivers flowing through Valsad, Navsari and Surat districts and killing at least five persons at two places, officials said on Tuesday.
Chief Minister Vijay Rupani said people living in the coastal belt would be shifted to safer places.
Hundreds of kilometres of national and state highways in states like Maharashtra, Himachal, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan and others have turned into local, municipal or district roads, just a few days after a Supreme Court order banning liquor sale along highways.
GST compensation law allows for imposition of cess on certain luxury goods like tobacco, high-end cars and aereated drinks to create a corpus for compensating states for any loss of revenue in the first five years
Odisha has issued a fresh flood alert in wake of heavy rains under influence of cyclone Komen
Decoding the JEE Main Paper 2.
Rajesh Karkera/Rediff.com captures the anxiety and excitement at the model auditions in Mumbai.
This assumes significance as a five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra is currently hearing a clutch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Aadhaar scheme and the enabling 2016 law.
'When the courts intervene, we are attacked for judicial activism'
'There is a certain irony embedded in this asymmetric geographical distribution of FDI because most state leaders have shed their inhibitions about promoting 'business' and have understood its virtues as a more cost-effective way of replacing the mai-baap welfarism that passed for economic policy till the early nineties', says Kanika Datta.
As name-calling like 'cannibal' and 'devil' permeates the high stake Bihar assembly poll campaign, the Election Commission on Thursday expressed "deep anguish" at the "plummeting level" of speeches.
The SP candidates in these seats include Mulayam Singh Yadav's daughter-in-law Aparna Yadav and three ministers, one of whom was recently sacked.
Giving the clearest indication yet that Pawan Kumar Bansal would be its contestant of choice for the Chandigarh Lok Sabha seat, the Congress on Thursday said that the purported "taint" on the former rail minister was all a matter of "speculation which has nothing to do with the truth".
If the company manages to get a go-ahead from the regulator for this plant, it might result in resumption of supplies of several of their products, barred from the US last year.
Rediff readers reveal why they support the breastfeeding campaign.
Complaints of electronic voting machine malfunctioning poured in from several booths on Tuesday during the third and largest phase of Lok Sabha polls which saw voters turning out in large numbers to cast their vote in 116 seats, including all constituencies of Gujarat and Kerala.
A pall of gloom descended on the airport as the plane landed.
Rumblings within the Bharatiya Janata Party came to the fore on Wednesday night as the party decided to field L K Advani from Gandhinagar for Lok Sabha polls, angering the patriarch who wanted to shift to Bhopal in a reflection of his tensions with Narendra Modi.
A number of royals have thrown their hat in the ring in the high-voltage Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.
Avenue Supermarts, which runs D-Mart, posted a 47 per cent jump in net profit in the March quarter and its revenue and operating profit went up 41 per cent. The company's chief executive and managing director, Neville Noronha, talks to Raghavendra Kamath about strategy.
Government gives 3 months, starting June, for the 20 districts to be covered under its direct benefits transfer scheme.
Geetanjali Krishna discovers beautiful landscapes, caves and secret beaches in an exhilarating voyage off the Algarve coast.
The newer gas finds will help turn the tide for ONGC, which has seen oil and gas output stagnating in recent times.
'Every opportunity, every disappointment, every rejection, every accolade...' 'Everything has contributed in shaping my character and my choices and who I have become.'
The road ahead is not expected to be easy for one of India's best-loved brands.
The best way to curb gold demand is by reducing black money in circulation.
Not only the BJP but key bureaucrats are also known to have hinted to the top leadership of the need to expand the Cabinet.
A downturn in Indian demand could hit global gold prices.
"You have suffered their arrogance, deceit and exploitation for the last 25 years. Do you want such a rule to continue for another five years," the Prime Minister asked at a mass rally in Patna.
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Nach Baliye 6 could have been a great show if the producers focused more on the dancing, says Paloma Sharma.
Chairman of the Bangalore school where a six-year old girl was allegedly raped, evoking public outrage and triggering protests, has been arrested.
According to government's estimates, there are around 110 million APL families in the country, who get 11-25 kg of foodgrain a month.
Based on the estimate, a courier bringing in 1 kg of gold currently worth around $40,000 at world prices could earn $470 if not caught.
Delhi's Election Commission has detected instances of "paid news" relating to five candidates in the run-up to assembly election and added expenditure in this regard in their poll expenses.
'My father would have liked Piku and PINK.' 'I don't think he would have liked item songs though.'
