India

Welcoming the state BJP's demand that 50 per cent power subsidy benefit should be extended to all, AAP said the welfare initiative will be extended to all immediately if the Centre agrees to bear the extra cost.

Bollywood veteran Amitabh Bachchan had also attended the pre-wedding ceremony on February 21.

The draft Road Transport and Safety Bill, 2015 proposes enforcement of traffic regulation, reduce road crashes, make national highways safer for road users, the minister said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government will present its first full-year budget on February 28 for the fiscal year 2015/16.

Two terrorists have been killed in a gunfight which is still going on between the security forces and holed up guerrillas in the Shopian district.

RK Pachauri stepped down as chairman of the IPCC following charges of sexual harassment even after denying the accusation.

Turkish Finance Minister said by becoming part of the 'Make in India' campaign, both the countries can increase their trade volume apart from creating jobs.

Maria Golovnina, a Russian national, had been working with Reuters as the its bureau chief for Pakistan and Afghanistan for the past year and a half.

Trai has reduced network interconnection usage charges (IUC) on calls made from mobile phones by about 30 per cent to 14 paise per call from 20 paise earlier.

"We have given in-principle approval (for setting up nuclear liability pool). There was a demand for covering the reactors. The corpus for it would be Rs 1,500 crore," says IRD Chairman TS Vijayan.

The 'Shamitabh' actor entered the 'Tilak' ceremony venue with folded hands and was greeted by the host Mulayam.

Emboldened after the ruling BJP's Delhi debacle, several opposition parties have virtually declared a war on "Ordinance Raj" and especially against the changes brought in land law through the emergency provision.

Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan said on Saturday it was a mistake on the part of former IPS officer Kiran Bedi to join the BJP after being a part of the anti-corruption movement.

The Chief Minister said his government was also working on implementing the poll promise of free wi-fi and added that it will take at least one year.

The battle of one-upmanship between Bihar CM Manjhi and his mentor-turned-rival Nitish Kumar has reached the decisive state.

BJP leader Subramanian Swamy said the NDA government was committed to bring back to the country the illegally stashed money abroad.