India

The decision to scrap Rs 500 and Rs 1000 currency notes has come at a time when assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh are due and parties normally keep aside a substantial amount of unaccounted funds for campaigning.

Security was beefed up at different banks Keeping in view the heavy rush as ATMs remained closed. ATMs will dispense the new currency notes on Friday.

Shortly after the Prime Minister announced demonetisation of Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes on Tuesday, Union Health Minister J P Nadda instructed all Central government hospitals and pharmacies to adhere to the 72-hour guideline of accepting the old notes for...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during the SAARC summit in Nepal in November 2014, had announced launching of a SAARC satellite as a gift for the benefit of members of the regional grouping in various fields, including telecommunication and tele-medicine.

The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Monday directed the management of Dr MC Saxena Medical College in Lucknow to deposit the entire amount in respect of all the 150 students with the Director General of Medical Education, Uttar Pradesh within...

A major fire broke out on Monday in the slums of Sadar Bazar in north Delhi.

The I&B ministry has put on hold its order imposing a one-day punitive ban on NDTV India for revealing “strategically-sensitive” details while covering the Pathankot terrorist attack, PTI said quoting sources.

Delhi Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung on Monday ordered de-registration of diesel vehicles that are 15 years old or more to battle unprecedented smog levels that have turned the national capital into a virtual gas chamber.

Rahul Gandhi's elevation as Congress president is now just a formality.

People of Jabrouli village in Mohanlalganj Tehsil, Lucknow on Monday performed puja for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's victory in the US Presidential polls to be held on November 8.

A self published author and observer of the US politics predicts a massive win for Hillary Clinton in the US presidential elections.

The national capital that has been witnessing a series of agitations in the past few days was scene to another round of protests and detention on Sunday as cops forcibly dispersed a march by students of JNU against the disappearance of their colleague Naj...

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said that President Pranab Mukherjee had promised to seek a report from the Home Ministry on a JNU student missing for over three weeks.

The directive to provide these anti-pollution face masks have been issued by Central Industrial Security Force chief OP Singh who reviewed the effects of the alarming air quality situation on the force personnel over the weekend.

The BSE Sensex lost over 2 per cent to end the week at 27,274 -- a nearly four-month low -- and the Nifty crashed below the key 8,500-mark, mirroring global turbulence amid pointers that the US presidential election due on November 8 is headed for a tight...

Around 1,87,974 cases are pending, which comprise collective backlog in the disposal of appeals and complaints, in the 16 state information commissions (SICs) as on December 31, 2015, and penalty has been imposed in only 1.3 per cent of the cases, a study...