With banks struggling to cope with rush to get alternative currency, the government has extended use of old defunct Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes for paying household utility bills, fuel, taxes and fees and purchases from co-operative stores till November 24.
There are some victories in the house that make you smile along. And Manveer's victory is one of them, says Divya Nair.
The protests brought home the fact that the Sri Lankan public is in no mood for halfway measures, as voices against Rajapaksa 'family rule' and 'securitisation' of the civilian administration began sidestepping the more critical economic crisis, affecting the nation and afflicting the individual, observes Sri Lanka watcher N Sathiya Moorthy.
Can the Election Commission step up to the plate and exert its Constitutional powers with non-partisan conviction, asks Mitali Saran.
GST Council extends anti-profiteering authority's tenure, sends rate cut on EVs to fitment panel and also extended the date for filing annual returns under the GST by two months to August 30.
Investigations into Thursday's blasts at Chennai Central railways station suggest the involvement to two persons. One of them used a fake name, Raman, to book the tickets.
'He was intelligent beyond belief and some of you can barely read.' 'And you know what? He didn't care about all of you or your dumb opinions then.' 'He won't care any less now.' 'But I do.' 'Protecting his legacy is important to me.'
The people of India have 50 days, from November 10 to December 30, to deposit notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 in any Bank or Post Office.
Armed with some documents pointing to large-scale irregularities, the Central Bureau of Investigation will soon register cases to probe the alleged involvement of some Rajya Sabha MPs and central government employees in forging leave travel concession claims for travel on state-run Air India.
When cops were taking him to an undisclosed location in a jeep, he was heard shouting, Main Vikas Dubey hun, Kanpur wala.
Do India's laws governing the Internet need revolutionary change, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
It is the most potent symbol of India's soft power -- more perhaps than the IT industry and our managerial skill, notes Vanita Kohli-Khandekar
Mental health and life coach Anu Krishna tells you how to take control of your life.
'He was carrying his Indian passport. This seems like a very different sort of spy than the ones we see in movies, who carry fake passports and are highly trained,' says Aakar Patel.
From cardboard cut-outs of real fans to an app allowing supporters to influence the volume of noise piped into stadiums, people are developing ideas for how to put some matchday atmosphere back into the stadiums -- though whether their ideas are accepted is a different matter.
A video showing a Karnataka Bharatiya Janata Party leader allegedly trying to bribe a kin of a former Chief Justice of India to get a favourable verdict for mining baron G Janardhana Reddy in an illegal mining case aired on the last day of campaigning before polling on May 12.
'Salmanbhai would be really worried if his fans and the people who pay money to watch his film were not happy.'
It's hot and sweltering and all we can do to survive this blistering heat is think of ice cream. And speaking of ice cream, the Museum of Ice Cream, a pop-up institution that fulfills all your childhood dreams, has opened up in Los Angeles and will run till May 29. And if we have to say, you won't learn a ton about ice cream except that it's delicious and a whole lot of fun!
Upset over the denial of a ticket, former Union minister and Bharatiya Janata Party veteran Jaswant Singh on Sunday said he has decided to contest the Lok Sabha elections as an independent from Barmer constituency in Rajasthan and will file his nomination papers on Sunday.
'Every family in UP has been deeply affected in this second wave.' 'It has only been denial, denial, and denial by the incumbent CM.'
'If the chief minister says there are areas in her home state where she cannot enter, where has she driven the state to!'
Tribal rights activist Soni Sori, who was attacked with an acid-like chemical in Chhattisgarh last month, has said that the condition of her face is reflective of the fight in Naxal-hit Bastar area.
'They are ABVP-phobic people. Tomorrow, they will say the US attack on Iran is because of the ABVP.'
WikiLeaks has dismissed a claim that its founder Julian Assange called Narendra Modi "incorruptible" and accused a Bharatiya Janata Party leader from Maharashtra of pushing this "fake" endorsement in support of the party's prime ministerial candidate.
Friday's explosion on the London tube is the latest in a string of terror attacks in the United Kingdom in recent years. Here is a timeline of the terror that has unfolded in the UK.
'If Trump is out, Modi is going to find himself in a hotspot, having to reset his relations with the new US President with whom he will have to co-exist for well-nigh his full term,' notes B S Raghavan, the distinguished civil servant.
'The power of love is the greatest power in the world.' 'Add a smile and you can conquer the world,' Bengali actor June Maliah, the Trinamool Congress's candidate for the Medinipur constituency, tells Swarupa Dutt/Rediff.com.
Terming the incident as serious, UP CM Yogi Adityanath has ordered a probe.
Here's the full text of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address to the nation where he announced the demonetisation of Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes with effect from midnight on November 8-9.
'When you meet Rahul Gandhi, you will know he is definitely the right guy to lead this country.'
Till June-end alone, insurance regulator is expected to bring about more than half a dozen reforms that will have a significant impact on the customer.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered cases against six sitting and former members of Rajya Sabha in connection with the LTC scam in which travel reimbursement was allegedly claimed by them through purportedly forged bills.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged people to vote in large numbers. "Today, there are bypolls taking place in various places across India. I urge those voting in these seats to vote in large numbers and strengthen the festival of democracy," he said in a tweet.
'Sachin Pilot once calculated that with a million Indians flooding the labour market every month, only an additional 12 million jobs annually could keep unemployment at the same level.' 'That's chickenfeed for the functionaries who cram my e-mail inbox every day with such a constant flow of job offers that trying to empty it is like trying to drink dry the horn connected to the ocean in Norse mythology,' says Sunanda K Datta-Ray.
Civil aviation ministry to monitor flash sales and discount schemes: Source
Total scam in collusion with middlemen is estimated at over Rs 700 crore. Probe is on in 10 more cases.
It alleged that Gujarat police abducted its MLA to influence the upcoming RS elections.
Sukanya Verma's Super Filmi Week.
If only Aamir Khan had resisted spoon-feeding his audience...
