Goa CM in Delhi, meeting top BJP leadership

New Delhi (IANS) As exit polls forecast an edge for the BJP in Goa Assembly, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant reached the national capital to meet central leadership and discuss strategy in case of a fractured mandate.

Sources said that Sawant…

Rural women becoming the face of change, More than 24 thousand got benefit from Phulo-Jhano Aashirwaad Abhiyaan

Ranchi: Under the leadership of Chief Minister Hemant Soren, the government is creating a new story of development through Sakhi Mandals to make the state prosperous by empowering the rural women of the state. The campaign to empower women in rural…

Budget Session: MLAs raise issue of heavy police deployment in capital

Ranchi: The MLAs of the BJP and AJSU on Monday questioned the intentions of the government over heavy police deployment in the capital.

As soon as the house assembled for the day AJSU supremo Sudesh Kumar Mahto asked as to why such heavy deployment…

Modi urges Putin to hold direct talks with Zelensky

New Delhi (IANS) In a phone call that lasted for about 50 minutes, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to hold direct talks with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky amid the ongoing Moscow-Kiev war,…

Govt focus on expeditious framework for Black Money Act

New Delhi (IANS) Considering the objective of the Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015 (BM Act), the assessment is to be completed at the earliest possible without keeping the same pending till the time…

NSE fraud: CBI gets 7 days custody of Chitra Ramkrishna

New Delhi (IANS) A Special CBI Court on Monday sent Chitra Ramkrishna, the ex MD and CEO of the National Stock Exchange (NSE), arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), to seven days custody.

Ramkrishna was placed under arrest…

Modi also likely to speak with Putin on Monday

New Delhi (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday shortly after his phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as Moscow's war on Kiev entered the 12th day, government sources…

Indian economy to incur additional $70bn burden in FY23 on rising crude prices

New Delhi (IANS) Indian economy is expected to incur an additional $70 billion burden (or 1.9 per cent of the country's GDP) in FY23 as compared to the current fiscal at an average crude price of $120 per barrel, said brokerage house Kotak Securities.

Modi thanks Zelensky for extending help to evacuate Indians from Ukraine

New Delhi (IANS) In a phone call on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modithanked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for extending support in the evacuation of Indian nationals from the war-torn nation, government sources here said.

"During…

Over 1 mn refugees leave Ukraine for Poland

Kiev/Warsaw (IANS) Since Russia's war began 12 days ago, the number of Ukrainian refugees fleeing the country to neighbouring Poland has exceeded one million, the Polish Border Guard said.

"Today at 8 p.m. the number of people who fled…