New Delhi : The Congress on Saturday called Minister of Railways and Coal Piyush Goyal's alleged sale of shares held in a privately-held company at nearly 1,000 times the face value as a "murky saga" of "gratification, gross impropriety and conflict of interest". The...
By Gaurav Sharma, Wuhan (China) : India and China on Saturday agreed on a joint economic project in Afghanistan, sources said after a two-day summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping here. The long-standing border issue also figured...
Ranchi : Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das on Friday laid foundation stone for 151 companies at the fourth groundbreaking ceremony of "Momentum Jharkhand" in Deoghar. These companies will invest Rs 2,700 crore in the state. Speaking after laying the foundation...
By Gaurav Sharma, Wuhan (China) : Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping agreed that healthy bilateral ties were important for a better world as the two met in the Chinese city Wuhan to re-set the ties between India and China hit by last year's military...
New Delhi : Taking a cue from industrialist Mukesh Ambani's oft-repeated statement that 'data is the new oil', the Minister for Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Ravi Shankar Prasad urged entrepreneures to help India become a big centre for data...
New Delhi : Belying talk of involving the private sector in defence production, the government is all set to award the $8 billion advanced submarine order to the public sector Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd (MDL) on a "nomination basis". Well-placed Defence Ministry...
By Bappaditya Chatterjee, Paradip (Odisha) : State-owned Paradip Port Trust, which has been focusing on promoting competition and bringing down costs to users, is looking at 17 per cent growth in cargo handling -- touching 120 million tonnes (mt) in 2018-19, according...
By Arun Kumar Das, New Delhi : That some 2.37 crore people have applied as the Indian Railways kicked off the process of filling up over 88,000 posts is clearly indicative of the "jobless growth" the country is experiencing. But the exercise has a positive side - by...
By Vishal Narayan, New Delhi : Thanks to the Right to Education Act (RTE) of 2009, India has been able to achieve near universal enrolment of children in schools at the primary and upper primary levels -- but the quality of what is being taught has been severely...
New Delhi : Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday said the corporate sector should take up responsibility to help poor and underprivileged. "The poor and underprivileged is a part of our rich cultural heritage. Helping the poor or uplifting poor is not only the...