Prime Minister Narendra Modi who inducted 19 new ministers into his Cabinet on Tuesday has carried out major changes in the portfolios of his top ministers.
In a strong retaliation, India on Tuesday initiated a slew of steps to strip US diplomats and their families of privileges including withdrawing all airport passes and stopping import clearances for the US embassy, terming as "barbaric" the arrest and strip searching of India's Deputy Consul General in New York Devyani Khobragade.
The Rashtrapati Bhavan has come out with a communiqu announcing distribution of portfolios of the ministers sworn-in on Monday in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's council of ministers:
'The selection process of the CBI chief has not been appropriate.' 'Three successive CBI directors have been found in corrupt moral practices.' 'A thorough investigation needs to be done before appointing anyone to such a post.'
A five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, hearing a petitions challenging Aadhaar, said no system in the world was secure and the issue was not as to how data is collected, but how the information so collected are used or misused.
That's all it takes to protect an institution -- just one person with no past and no greed for the future, says Shekhar Gupta.
I will not question the collective decision made by the parliamentary board of the party on allocation of posts, says BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha in an interview to CNN-IBN
Aadhaar-related schemes and the Aadhaar Act exist on the assumption that Right to Privacy is not a Fundamental Right.
Bangladesh's Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the death penalty for an influential opposition BNP leader Khaleda Zia for committing crimes against humanity.
While payments banks surely lose money, their operating ratios were looking better in 2017-18 compared to the year before. This implies that as customer volumes start picking up, the business models may perk up too, says R Jagannathan.
The unearthing of capital flight of "black" money Indians have allegedly stashed away in Swiss banks could add $30 billion to the country's forex reserves, says a Bank of America Merrill Lynch report.
'In Rajiv Gandhi's time, out of every Re 1 spent by the government only 15 paisa reached the public.' 'At this moment, I cannot say that the entire Re 1 reaches the common man's pocket, but yes, two-thirds of that money definitely reaches the common man.' 'And the rest of the money will also reach soon.'
'The extended Bose family is insisting that the Japanese government must release all the information they have on Bose's ashes. It cannot be forgotten that Bose was in Japanese care when his 'death' occurred. Ultimately, it is the Japanese who hold the secret about what happened to him.'
The Yogi Adityanath government on Wednesday transferred 20 senior IAS officers, shunting out Principal Secretary-Information Navneet Sehgal and others who wielded considerable influence under the Akhilesh Yadav dispensation.
India cricket captain Virat Kohli and weightlifter Mirabai Chanu were on Monday recommended for Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna by the awards selection committee.
A look at the portrayal of air hostesses in Hindi movies.
The judgment was reserved after a marathon hearing which went on for 38 days spanning four months.
The Supreme Court on Monday directed advocate Prashant Bhushan, who has levelled allegations against Central Bureau of Investigation Director Ranjit Sinha of protecting accused in the 2G case, to reveal the name of the whistleblower from whom he got CBI documents and guest list at the top cop's residence.
One of the two men accused of making hoax calls and demanding money by impersonating Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Lalu Prasad was on Friday refused bail by a Delhi court which said there is a likelihood of destroying the evidence if released from jail.
The Patna high court on Wednesday acquitted 16 men who were on the death row and 10 who had been awarded life imprisonment for the 1997 Laxmanpur-Bathe massacre in which 58 Dalits were killed by the upper caste militia Ranvir Sena in Bihar, citing lack of evidence against them, court officials said.
'Minorities should not fear a Modi sarkar... Who has given the right to kill in the name of religion? No one! You are not James Bond 007, that you will just take a shotgun and kill anybody at your whims and fancies. We are not living in a banana republic...' The inimitable Shatrughan Sinha on Narendra Modi as a dabbang action hero, what a Modi Sarkar would be like.
The petition has also sought quashing of the decision of the governor to appoint Parrikar as the chief minister.
Apart from Smriti, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Ananth Kumar took over as law and parliamentary affairs ministers respectively.
The Centre said media reports cannot form the basis for seeking review of the judgement since it is well settled law that courts do not take decision on the basis of media reports.
Manjot Kalra's journey has just begun and in Delhi it can get more intriguing if not interesting.
What do you have to say about their style?
National fencing champion, Hoshiyar Singh, died on Thursday after he was allegedly thrown off a moving train by Government Railway Police (GRP) personnel in Uttar Pradesh.
Addressing a rally in Suratgarh town of Ganganagar district, a day after declaring his party would roll out the scheme if voted to power, Gandhi alleged that Prime Minster Narendra Modi gave money to the rich and top industrialists of the country, but the Congress would serve the poor.
Nizami now faces execution unless his case is reviewed by the court or he is granted clemency by the President.
'There are films that are meaningless, but still do well.'
Citing lack of evidence, the Patna high court on Friday acquitted 14 people for the massacre of 16 people over land dispute in a village in Bihar's Khagaria district in 2009, a police official said.
'Dabangg 3 has fallen in place. Even the fourth one has fallen in place.' 'This happens only for films like Rocky or Rambo.'
In the third reshuffle since coming to power, Prime Minister Modi raised the strength of his Council of Ministers from 73 to 76.
A polio worker from Bihar has been honoured with a prestigious United Nations Foundation award for her work in protecting children from the disease.
The Supreme Court on Saturday refused to postpone civil services preliminary examination scheduled for Sunday, saying the objections raised by students on comprehension part have been addressed and the exam can't be stayed at the last hour when nine lakh students are ready to appear.
India's ties with Saudi Arabia have been on an upswing over the last two decades based on burgeoning energy ties. Both sides are keen on expanding the economic ties in a range of areas besides the oil sector.
'I don't look forward to seeing my films because this only sort of gives me a deep sense of dissatisfaction that I could have done better, and I lose my self-confidence.'
The JD-U has 115 MLAs in the 243-member assembly, most of who are reportedly with Nitish
Senior Nationalist Congress Party leader Chhagan Bhujbal on Tuesday alleged that he was being targeted by the Bharatiya Janata Party government as he belonged to a backward community and because some people were trying to settle scores with him.
The apex court posted the matter for further hearing on July 10.
