Social activist Vineet Narain has questioned the credibility of former Chief Justice of India J S Verma who has been appointed to lead a commission constituted to give recommendations on amending laws to provide speedier justice and enhanced punishment in sexual assault cases.
Minister of State for Home Affairs Ratanjit Pratap Narain Singh, the young face of the UPA government, talks to rediff.com's Sheela Bhatt about the protests that rocked the national capital over the gang-rape of a 23-year-old girl in a bus.
It will increase life of the currency and also reduce counterfeiting.
The BJP has distanced itself from the controversy.
Sebi in 2010 has mandated that execution of POA is not compulsory, but is only an option available to the client.
Indian reserves stood at $343 billion at the end of March 2015.
Here's a list of life insurance companies that have the maximum number of customer complaints against them in various categories such as claim disputes and unfair business practices.
Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party chief Vijay Goel and two other saffron party leaders filed their nomination papers for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls from Rajasthan, on the last date for filing papers.
Jayaram and Priyamani play a married couple going through some tough times in their lives.
Eight persons, including seven members of a family, were on Tuesday killed and eight others injured in an explosion in two houses in Auraiya district where fire-crackers were stored for Diwali festival.
Tamang, whose Sikkim Krantikari Morcha party won the state assembly elections held in April, took over as chief minister on May 27.
Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel won the Indian Grand Prix on Sunday and stretched his Formula One championship lead over Ferrari's Fernando Alonso. Here's a look at some top class action from the race.
Defending champion Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull termed "discipline and focus" as the two main ingredients of success after winning his second successive Indian Grand Prix on Sunday.
Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg still remember the 'enthusiasm' and 'friendliness' shown by India last year and the two Mercedes drivers are gearing up for more interesting experience in the country, which hosts the next Formula One race on October 28.
The film is being shot in Kochi, Kottayam and Munnar.
The actor has been discharged from hospital.
Seven-times champion Michael Schumacher suffered the embarrassment of being reprimanded for impeding the two slowest cars in Formula One in practice for the South Korean Grand Prix on Friday.
With monsoon rainfall 16% below the long-period average, total sowing area is down by 7% at 56.7 million hectares so far this season.
The wholesale price index based inflation in June declined to 7.25 per cent from 7.55 per cent in the previous month.
Thakur Man Singh of Kanota cooked Rajasthani Sula Meat for us. Here's the recipe!
The veteran actor was admitted in hospital two days ago.
As Pranab Mukherjee resigned to contest the Presidential poll, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday took charge of the finance ministry portfolio at a time when the country's economy is going through a bad phase.
The country's CAD stood at 5.4 per cent of GDP during April-December period of financial year 2012-13 amounting to $72 billion.
Was told that account will be closed if it did not stop providing insurance cover to ships ferrying oil from Iran.
Although each vehicle has become cleaner, air quality remains poor because of the drastic increase in the number of vehicles
'I think Ratan felt he had to do everything that he could to retain control of the company started by his forefathers, because that was the first priority and nothing else mattered compared to that.'
Government measures and rising gold price decreased demand for the noble metal.
Women leaders, succession planners and lawyers say doors in family businesses are opening but a stronger push is needed.
Paul di Resta earned two points for Sahara Force India at an the incident-filled Formula One Abu Dhabi Grand Prix that also saw teammate, Nico Hulkenberg endure a crash in the first lap of the race on Sunday.
Manisha Malhotra, CEO, Mittal Champions Trust, is determined that the Indian athletes her organisation sponsors bring gold for India. She shares her plans with Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar.
A Bihar court on Friday acquitted 11 Nepali Maoist leaders after hearing the state government's petition for the withdrawal of criminal cases against them. Two days after the state government filed a petition in the Patna civil court for the withdrawal of cases, Additional District Judge Bashishtha Narain Singh ordered the acquittal of the Nepal Maoist leaders after holding a hearing on the petition.
Karun Chandhok has no regrets of missing out Formula One action rather he is happy being part of FIA World Endurance Championship, which he says is an "eye opener" for him.
The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam is upset with the prime minister's office for not including DMK's M K Alagiri in the Empowered Group of Ministers on drought.
The government on Tuesday said it has agreed in-principle to deregulate diesel prices, but is not considering similar proposal for the cooking gas.
Inability to take everyone along during his nearly four-year term led to Trivendra Singh Rawat's undoing. He tried to take control of all major departments by holding on to more than 40 of them, but still could not deliver.
Sahara Force India drivers Nico Hulkenberg and Paul di Resta finished at the eighth and 10th position during Saturday's qualifying session for the European Grand Prix in Valencia, Spain.
'Priyanka would not have been brought into active politics if there was confidence within the Congress in (party chief) Rahul's leadership'
In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha Minister of State for Finance Namo Narain Meena pointed out that this amounted to 3.48 per cent of the total advances given by the state-owned banks.
KKR will head to the game with the belief that the side can win from any situation, which they have demonstrated time and again.
