Here's a recap of the events from the past 24 hours.
As India's top designers including Tarun Tahiliani, Vikram Phadnis, David Abraham, Rohit Bal, Rajesh Pratap Singh and Wendell Rodricks gather in Varanasi today to try and give a boost to the Benarasi handloom sari, in an initiative by designer turned BJP politician Shaina NC, Rashme Sehgal outlines the crisis facing the weavers.
Earlier, maverick right-winger Subramanian Swamy had demanded the sacking of Jaitley's top aide
Ajit Balakrishnan offers a thinking man's guide to the angst of the professions.
With EU, it is part of the FTA that we will need to negotiate.
Without Myanmar, India can't engage with any of the Asian nations to its east.
Chinese government was expected to start sales from its cotton reserves on March 6.
Central bank likely to keep tabs on large wilful defaulters; policy likely by month-end.
Modi said the government is committed to enhancing the income level of the handloom weavers apart from putting in place a robust social cover for the weavers' families.
The Centre has, however, retained its proposal to curb flash strikes as workers in all factories will be required to give employers a strike notice of at least two weeks after the Bill becomes a law.
India is the second largest buyer of Iranian crude, after China.
Apart from being the CM twice earlier, he has won a series of Lok Sabha and assembly elections from the state and headed the Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee four times.
Modi said both sides expressed commitment for an open, efficient and rules-based regional architecture and to expand bilateral maritime cooperation further.
In less than two months since the announcement in March, the state has mobilised an armada of small and medium enterprises keen on making components for large equipment manufacturers.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is expected to present the Budget for 2014-15 in July.
Dhirubhai Ambani lived in a one-room chawl in Mumbai with his wife and children and went on to establish the Reliance Group.
'Once our voices are crushed, they can bring in an agenda of privatisation.'
Prez says that India has not assured the United States that it will provide 'equitable and reasonable access to its markets'.
Former India cricket captain Bishen Singh Bedi said the appointment "defies all logic".
'You peel one layer, then another layer, then another, but in the end, you will see that there is no onion inside.' 'This package has been packaged well, but there is nothing much inside the package!'
Banks have collected about 1,500 kg of gold from temples and trusts under the Gold Monetisation Scheme (GMS) since its launch last November.
As people crisscross the country, eager to return to their homes, the cases have raced past 80,000 with at least 2,649 deaths, according to the Union health ministry on Friday. While there is no exact count, this includes a large number of those who have returned to their states.
The largest challenge for the gigantic exercise between the Centre and the 29 states was to keep the latter interested over the years.
The party's performance in the assembly polls in the state -- which is the most populous and hence sends maximum number of MPs to the Lok Sabha -- will have a bearing on its future prospects on the national level.
Exports to Europe shrank by near 2 per cent in the 11 months.
Full list of the rejigged Union Council of Ministers
In all, 25 Chairman-cum-Managing Director (CMD) posts, 8 MD posts and 2 Chairman posts are lying vacant, according to a written reply by Minister of State for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises P Radhakrishnan in the Lok Sabha.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday laid the foundation stone of a grand memorial to Babasaheb Ambedkar at the Indu Mills compound in the heart of Mumbai, a function boycotted by Shiv Sena after its chief Uddhav Thackeray was not invited.
Though the Cabinet reshuffle on July 5 has a clear stamp of the Prime Minister's Office, the changes have also increased the coherence between the Bharatiya Janata Party, the government and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
Initiated move to privatise Air India, but reports on poverty and cast census remained unfinished
BMS, BKS and SJM are trying to forge common cause with outfits on the other side of the ideological divide over the government's policies they are not in agreement with.
The most expensive gift received by Modi was a painting worth Rs 30,000, which is at the toshakhana. He also received a silver plate and five small silver bowls worth Rs 25,000, marked 'option of the recipient pending'. Ditto with another painting worth Rs 25,000.
Some of the key proposals of the agenda relate to transforming the banking sector, addressing agrarian distress, countering hate crimes and discrimination, and spurring employment generation.
True Blue, a menswear label that Arvind has created with cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, is being extended into an exclusive traditional apparel brand for men called True Blue Handcrafted.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday allocated portfolios to the twenty-member council of ministers, including 10 of the Shiv Sena, who were inducted into his expanded cabinet.
In a strongly worded legal notice to FabIndia Chief Executive Officer Viney Singh, KVIC's director (legal affairs), noted that the organisation was continuing to sell its garments in the name and style of Khadi despite earlier warnings by KVIC and assurances by FabIndia that it will not continue do so.
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'They have started an institute, the Academy of Training and Sensitisation, for prison officials near Vellore.' 'This institute has been started by the Union home ministry and it is meant for all the four southern states.'
Relax fiscal consolidation, boost public capex and reduce cost of finance, industry tells Centre
Surat had bagged the fourth rank under the Smart Cities Mission based on its proposal.
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