Parliamentarians and legislators across the country voted on Monday to elect India's 15th president, choosing between opposition pick Yashwant Sinha and National Democratic Alliance nominee Droupadi Murmu who is favoured to win the battle to the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
India is struggling with a second wave of the pandemic with more than 3,00,000 daily new coronavirus cases being reported in the past few days, and hospitals are reeling under a shortage of medical oxygen and beds.
Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu led right-wing bloc has secured an emphatic victory in Israel's general elections by claiming 64 out of the 120 seats in parliament, bringing the country's longest-serving premier back at the helm after a brief gap and also ending prolonged political instability.
Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav, whose Rashtriya Janata Dal on Sunday retained Mokama assembly seat but failed to wrest from the Bharatiya Janata Party Gopalganj constituency, losing it by a whisker, asserted that the outcome marked a success of their 'experiment'.
The court on Thursday directed the CBI to withdraw a Look-Out Circular issued against Patel in a case of an alleged violation of the Foreign Contributions Regulation Act and apologise to him.
Pakistan was put in the inglorious list in 2018 for its failure to check risk of money laundering, leading to corruption and terror financing.
Indian centre-back Sandesh Jhingan feels he will be "tested to the limit" while enhancing his game outside his comfort zone at Croatian league Prva HNL.
The United States, he said, 'desires a new age of ambition' in its relationship with India. Asserting that the US has never been more supportive of India's security, he said New Delhi too, is an important partner and a key pillar of President Trump's foreign policy.
The daughter of Indian immigrants from Punjab, Haley was the first woman tapped by Trump for a top-level administration post during his transition to the White House.
"Earlier, India was a land of snake charmers. Now, Americans perceive Indians to be very smart. The infotech revolution changed it all," says FICCI Secretary-General Amit Mitra.
The government on Tuesday told the Rajya Sabha that Unit Trust of India, the country's largest mutual fund, is on a revival path and its units have started fetching a premium.
The Unit Trust of India will issue government-guaranteed bonds to US-64 unit holders in May carrying a tax-free coupon rate of 6.75 per cent, the government said.
Printing of Permanent Account Numbers for Income Tax payers have been outsourced to various agencies, Rajya Sabha was told on Tuesday.
The Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission has issued notice to Unit Trust of India on a complaint challenging UTI's decision to terminate its Children's Gift Growth Fund Unit Scheme, 1986, with effect from April 1, 2004.
Currently, if the IT department finds out that some income has been missed out by the assessee, it goes through a lengthy process of adjudication, and the new proposal would repose trust in the taxpayer.
An official close to the development said the tender invited by the SUUTI closed in the second week of this month and 12 parties submitted their expressions of interest.
His comments came in the midst of India's bitter border row with China along the LAC in eastern Ladakh.
M Damodaran, chairman and managing director of Industrial Bank of India was on Thursday appointed the chairman of Securities and Exchange Board of India.
UTI Venture Funds and TDA Capital Partners have invested $2.3 million for a minority stake in RevIT Systems Private Limited and its subsidiary, Sherpa Business Solutions, a healthcare and publishing BPO company, based in Chennai.
The Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC), which contested the Goa Assembly elections for the first time this year, failed to make a mark in the coastal state.
Earlier in the day, former India spinner Pragyan Ojha said the country knows how important farmers are and an outsider's opinion is not needed on an internal matter.
Heading G20 will give India a foreign affairs year like it has never had in history. You can trust Narendra Modi to exploit this to India's benefit. And, of course, to his own in his election year, explains Shekhar Gupta.
Foreign investors are believed to have accounted for majority of the bids totalling over 10.5 crore (105 million) shares for MUL's maiden public offer.\n
He said despite efforts by the UN, the threat of terrorism is only growing and expanding, particularly in Asia and Africa.
Legendary Serbian defender Nemanja Vidic was articulate and candid while speaking at a conference in Mumbai on Friday. Norma Godinho/Rediff.com listens in as Vidic talks of Sir Alex Ferguson's motivational mind games, the Ronaldo bet and Man Utd under Mourinho...
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Thursday
The economic reforms process has got a boost following the presidential assent to the Unit Trust of India (Transfer of Undertaking and Repeal) Bill, 2002 and Securities and Exchange Board of India (Amendment) Bill, 2002.\n\n\n\n
'Who is telling the truth? Former finance secretary Ajit Kumar or disgraced former UTI chairman P S Subramanyam?' asks Paranjoy Guha Thakurta.
BJP candidate and former chief minister Bhajan Lal's grandson Bhavya Bishnoi on Sunday defeated his nearest rival and Congress nominee Jai Prakash in the Adampur assembly seat by-election, retaining the family bastion.
Fidelity's head of investment strategy defends his lengthy portfolio and explains his approach.
International Finance Corporation, the private equity venture of the World Bank Group, DEG, one of the largest European development finance institutions, are eyeing a stake in State Industrial Corporation of Maharashtra.
Images from the World Athletics Championships in Budapest on Saturday.
However, the AICC general secretary Jairam Ramesh said the SC committee has limited terms of reference and 'cannot bring out the deep nexus between' the prime minister and the billionaire businessman.
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