The appointment of new expenditure secretary comes a month-and-a-half ahead of the Budget for 2020-21 to be presented on February 1.
The Special Investigation Team probing the murder of Revolutionary Marxist Party leader T P Chandrasekharan arrested two Communist Party of India-Marxist functionaries on Thursday on the charge of helping the assailants, police said.
Kannada film Breaking News is an average entertainer.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Capt C P Krishnan Nair, 90, has been a trailblazer of sorts in the hotels business.
Reader Priya Krishnan has sent us a photograph.
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'We are going to be overwhelmed by the need for hospital beds. There are simply not enough beds in government hospitals.' 'We will need a large number of medical professionals and without the private sector's involvement, the government won't be able to expand capacity.'
The parents of the 2012 December 16 gangrape victim on Monday expressed their exasperation with the legal system and wondered whether the juvenile convict in the case has undergone any reform.
Captain C P Krishnan Nair may be 90 but his energy and passion for work has not diminished a bit even now.
The contemporary problem with the BJP in Tamil Nadu is that it has been trying hard to package the DMK especially as anti-god and anti-Hinduism, and seeking it to link to Periyar and M Karunanidhi, and by extension to Stalin, the latter's son and successor to the party mantle. Their hope was to consolidate the perceived 'pro-god, pro-religion votes', which they saw returning to the fold post-MGR, post-Jayalalithaa. But no such substantial vote-bank existed even in Periyar's time, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
Earlier, this week, we invited you readers to tell us about your first salary and how you spent it. Here's the fourth set of responses we received.
The lack of a strong diversity policy on the part of companies, a limited pool of women candidates as well as socio-cultural factors contribute to their low numbers.
India's top boxer Vikas Krishnan moved into the quarterfinals of the men's welter weight (69 kg) category of the Olympic Games by prevailing over Errol Spence of USA at the Excel Arena late on Friday night.
The Department of Tourism said that a five-member committee has been formed to investigate if the resort was following the standards set by the government.
'The BJP wants an AIADMK government so that they can implement their policies.' 'All the policies implemented in UP are being implemented in Tamil Nadu.'
'In restaurants, the waiter takes your card and then comes back with the machine. Don't allow that.' 'Let him come to you with the machine and then enter the card and the PIN yourself.'
While smart boys like the Ruias of Essar, Ajay Piramal, Max India promoter Analjit Singh laughed all the way to the bank, the Tatas, Anil Ambani, Malaysian tycoon T Ananda Krishna of Maxis (which invested in Aircel), Sistema, and Norway's Telenor burnt their fingers, notes Surajeet Das Gupta.
Non-playing captain Shiv Prakash Misra on the new Davis Cup team, the ban and future of Indian tennis.
Asian champion Pooja Rani (75kg) and the seasoned Vikas Krishan (69kg) became the first set of Indian boxers to qualify for this year's Tokyo Olympics by advancing to the semi-finals of the continental qualifiers, in Amma, on Sunday. While fourth-seeded Rani notched up a facile 5-0 win over Thailand's Pornnipa Chutee, Krishan endured a tough one against third-seeded Japanese Sewonrets Okazawa before also prevailing in a unanimous verdict against the Asian silver-medallist.
Check out India's schedule on Day 7 of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, on Friday.
An initiative to fund the education of bright Indian youngsters undertaken by two Indian-Americans has now acquired a momentum of its own, discovers Anjuli Bhargava.
For non-resident Indians (NRIs), the recent relaxation in the inward remittances guidelines by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) comes as a relief.
"The issue is not whether India is first or third or fourth, the issue is that this perception should be taken seriously to set our house in order".
Today, in addition to Aam Jan Lokpal, the country seeks liberation from non-governmental institutions which takes birth due to legislations passed by British Parliament in 1860 and 1882. Gopal Krishna explains.
ICAI intends to investigate the chartered accountants of PNB but the bank allegedly refuses to give the information sought.
Report consists of recommendations for dividing the Western Ghats region into various ecologically sensitive zones.
After registering the case, the agency carried out searches at the premises of Maran brothers in Delhi and Chennai.
The Supreme Court on Friday paved the way for the reopening of State-owned liquor vends in Tamil Nadu by staying a Madras high court order which had ordered their closure for the time being on the ground that there was violation of guidelines, such as social distancing, meant to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. A bench comprising Justices L Nageswara Rao, S K Kaul and B R Gavai, in the proceedings held through video conferencing, stayed the May 8 order of the high court after taking note of the appeal of state government's firm, Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation (TASMAC), which sells alcoholic beverages in the state.
Jaysurya in the lead as a teacher who is reformed by the school doesn't make the grade for a good film.
Stalin has given due respect to seniority in the pecking order, but has also taken into consideration the demands of individual ministries and the suitability of individuals, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
You need electricity, metallurgy, mechanics, propulsion etc. We don't see any evidence of these, Aniket Sule, Reader at the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education said.
Most feel as the movement of people normalises, the in-patient volumes in hospitals will grow and by the end of May, occupancy should be around 50 per cent, and 75 per cent over a period of time.
Indian men cruised to a 3.5-0.5 victory over Mongolia to almost ensure the silver medal in the Asian Nations chess cup in Zaozhuang, China.
Syed Firdaus Ashraf gives his reasons for disliking the trailer of the most anticipated mega movie of the year, Baahubali: The Conclusion.
Mumbai's Jayanti Soni shares a step by step method to make the traditional dish.
India is developing an unmanned aerial vehicle similar to the American Predator drones with an investment of Rs 1,500 crore and planning unmanned combat vehicles, a key official involved in the project said on Monday.
Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran was denied a podium finish by Nigel Short of England in the 10th and final round of Tradewise Gibraltar chess tournament, which concluded in Gibraltar.
Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran got the better of Richard Rapport of Hungary to jump to joint second spot after the end of the ninth and penultimate round of Tradewise Gibraltar chess festival in Gibraltar.
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