Bhajan Lal Sharma takes over as Rajasthan CM on his birthday

First-time MLA Bhajan Lal Sharma was sworn in as the chief minister of Rajasthan at a ceremony attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party's top leadership on Friday, 12......

In Rajasthan's Pokaran, it's Hindu math head vs religious leader of Sindhi Muslims

Last election, just 872 votes separated the winner from the loser in Pokaran assembly constituency, where a Hindu seer is now pitted against the son of a Muslim religious leader. IMAGE: Rajasthan......

Mumbai's iconic double-decker buses to go off roads on Sept 15

Mumbai's iconic red double-decker buses, which have been an integral part of the city's public transport system for more than eight decades, will go off the streets this week, an official from the......

Port Blair Airport Gets New Terminal

Prime Minister Narendra D Modi virtually inaugurated the new terminal building of the Veer Savarkar international airport in Port Blair, the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands on Tuesday,......

Gadkari scores on highways test, fails on road safety

The National Highways Authority of India will this year witness the highest ever growth out of the last decade.But Gadkari himself admits his biggest failure as India's roads minister has been his......

Smart city challenge: Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, are you ready?

At a time when the world is talking about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of developing ‘100 smart cities’ to accommodate the burgeoning population of India, we take a......

E-toll is yet to take off on Indian highways

A few weeks ago, when Road Transport & Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari launched an electronic toll-collection system on the Delhi-Mumbai highway, television channels reported live from toll plazas......

PM sets up monitoring group to track big projects

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh chaired a meeting earlier this month to discuss an institutional mechanism to track stalled investment projects in the public and private sectors and to remove the......

BCCI seeks more time for 'irregularities' report

The Board of Control for Cricket in India is likely to plead before the Supreme Court for more time to file a comprehensive investigative report on irregularities during the sixth edition of the......