No tax for individual incomes up to Rs 5 lakh

New Delhi (IANS) In a bonanza for the country's middle class in an election year, the government on Friday proposed tax exemption for individual annual incomes of Rs 5 lakh.

Presenting the Interim Budget 2019-20, acting Finance Minister…

IAF Mirage fighter crashes in Bengaluru

Bengaluru (IANS) A Mirage-2000 fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed on Friday at the military airport runway in the city suburb during a training sortie, an official told IANS.

Details were awaited.

Average rate of inflation down to 4.6%: Goyal

New Delhi (IANS) Finance Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday said that the average rate of inflation has been brought down to 4.6 percent, which is the lowest for any Indian government since 1991.
 

2 Jaish militants killed in J&K

Srinagar (IANS) Two Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) militants were killed on Friday in a gunfight with security forces in a Jammu and Kashmir village in Pulwama district, police said.

The information was posted on Udhampur headquartered Northern Command's…

Unemployment seen highest since 1972-73 is only draft, not final report: Niti Aayog

New Delhi (IANS) Reacting to media leakage of the National Sample Survey Office's periodic labour force survey (PLFS) showing India's unemployment rate at a 45-year high of 6.1 per cent in 2017-18, the Niti Aayog on Thursday described it as…

Unemployment allowance in Rajasthan from March

Jaipur (IANS) Jobless youths in Rajasthan will get unemployment allowance from March 1, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot announced on Thursday.

Inaugurating the Rajasthan University Students Union office, he said unemployed girls…

Joblessness at 45-year high, says official report kept under wraps

New Delhi (IANS) The unemployment rate in India stood at a 45-year high during 2017-18, according to a report of the National Sample Survey (NSS) office which has not been published, over which two members of the National Statistical Commission…

BJP wins Jind Assembly seat

Chandigarh (IANS) Krishan Lal Middha of Haryana's ruling BJP won the Jind Assembly seat on Thursday by 12,935 votes.

This is the first time the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) bagged the Jind assembly seat, making a new beginning…

President hails 10% quota for economically backward as historic

New Delhi (IANS) President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday termed the Modi government's decision to provide 10 per cent quota to the economically backward sections among upper castes as "historic" and said it will help provide…

Congress wins Rajasthan's Ramgarh Assembly seat

Jaipur (IANS) The Congress on Thursday won the Ramgarh Assembly seat in Rajasthan with a margin of 12,228 votes as its candidate Shafia Zuber won 83,311 votes, a poll official said.