India's ace shuttler PV Sindhu was conferred with the Padma Shri award by President Pranab Mukherjee.
'Every Indian knows why the BJP is targeting Hamid Ansari.'
The Centre is likely to give a 100 per cent income tax relief on the prize money, the players and the support staff earned from their World Cup victory.
India is witnessing rising turmoil all around its borders and, therefore, a stable, moderate Bangladesh is in its long-term interests. Constructive Indo-Bangladesh ties can be a major stabilising factor for the south Asian region as a whole. It can't afford to ignore Dhaka.
This will be the last visit of Zoellick as President of World Bank as he is retiring on June 30.
Ram Nath Kovind is the first Bharatiya Janata Party leader and second Dalit in Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Accusing the United Progressive Alliance government of speaking in contradictory voices on Pakistan's response to the dossier given by India on the Mumbai terror attacks, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday said it "enabled Pakistan to mount international pressure" on New Delhi.
Nobel Laureate and chief architect of Grameen Bank Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh had 45-minute meeting with Congress MP Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi on Wednesday during which the two discussed micro-financing activity in Bangladesh and India.
When Fiji's President Ratu Epeli Nailatikau, the first foreign head of state to call on President Pranab Mukherjee, visited Rashtrapati Bhawan, it provided an opportunity to review India-Fiji relations.
President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated the Indian cricket team for their four-wicket win over the West Indies in their World Cup match on Friday.
Here's a recap of events that occurred in India in the past 24 hours.
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Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday asserted that India's economy is 'robust' and its growth story is intact, amid fears of another global economic turmoil that sent the world stocks into a tailspin.
Pranab Mukherjee says India's economic fundamentals are strong.
The Communist Party of India, which has decided to abstain from voting in the Presidential poll, on Monday said there was "no question" of supporting either the Congress or the Bharatiya Janata party's nominee, as both pursued neo-liberal economic policies that hurt the people.
The President in his address to the joint sitting of Parliament unveiled the policies and priorities of the BJP - led NDA government which assumed power last month after elections to the 16th Lok Sabha.
India on Thursday termed Pakistan's much-awaited response to the Mumbai evidence dossier as 'positive' and promised to share whatever more information it can with Islamabad after examining its queries. Soon after Pakistan handed over the response to India's High Commissioner Satyabrata Pal, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee discussed it with senior ministerial colleagues P Chidambaram and A K Antony.
India's infrastructure financing requirements and the new manufacturing policy being finalised will open up $1 trillion opportunities for global investors over the next five years.
The condition of former West Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu, who was hospitalised with acute pneumonia last Friday, has not improved, doctors attending on him said on Thursday. The 95-year-old, who is currently on life support at AMRI Hospital in Kolkata, remained in a critical condition. "His blood pressure is fluctuating," said one of the doctors. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee are scheduled to visit the ailing Marxist leader.
The meeting comes as India continues its attempts to isolate Pakistan in the South Asian region after the attack on its army camp in Uri.
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After participating in the BRICS-BIMSTEC Outreach Summit in Goa, Myanmarese leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi arrived in Delhi for an official three-day trip to India.
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai arrived in the country on Monday on a three-day visit during which he will seek increased military aid from India and discuss recent cross-border clashes with Pakistan.
Global experience in allowing corporate groups to set up banks reveals that stringent regulation is the best defence against malpractice.
India will set up a high-level committee to identify areas for expanding economic ties with the United States, from where it expects an estimated investment of $250-300 billion in infrastructure space.
Nepal on Friday recalled its ambassador to India over charges of non-cooperation and indulging in anti-government activities.
Last year, the World Bank Group launched South-South Experience Exchange Facility to promote the idea that the development sucesses in one country can pull people out of poverty in another.
In 2007-08, ICICI Bank was accused for violating RBI guidelines relating to opening of deposit accounts.
During a short halt at Tabriz airport in Iran on his way back home, Mukherjee gave Vrishti Beniwali a brief account of the summit, euro zone crisis and what it meant for India.
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Visiting Namibian Foreign Minister Marco Hausiku conveyed his country's "strong support" to India's candidature for permanent membership of the Security Council during talks with External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee.
"The pursuit of clandestine activities in respect of nuclear technologies is unacceptable and dangerous. All States must transparently live up to the international commitment that they have undertaken," he said at the conference 'Towards a World Free of Nuclear Weapons'.
Justice Altamas Kabir, the most senior judge of the Supreme Court, was on Saturday sworn in as the 39th Chief Justice of India by President Pranab Mukherjee.
Despite the reforms of the 1990s, the country's corporate structure hasn't transformed in any major manner.
Khaleda Zia, former prime minister of Bangladesh and the chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, the main opposition party leading the 18-party alliance in Bangladesh, has drastically changed her party's anti-India stance.
Universities must be the bastions of free speech and expression. It must be the arena where diverse and conflicting schools of thought contend. There should be no room for intolerance, prejudice and hatred within the spaces of this institution. Further, it must act as flag-bearer for the coexistence of multiple views, thoughts and philosophies, says Pranab Mukherjee.
The government on Friday said that India is the fifth most indebted country among the 20 developing nations but its debt is within manageable limits.
The finance minister could well be on her way to setting a record of achieving the biggest single-year reduction in the government's fiscal deficit, explains A K Bhattacharya.
In an apparent reference to Pakistan, India today said the problem of terrorism becomes complex when "recalcitrant" states do not recognise their international commitments and asked the world community to discipline such nations.
'The government is using the agencies of the government to suppress the Opposition.'
