The mortal remains of Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave were consigned to flames on the banks of the river Narmada at Bandrabhan in Madhya Pradesh's Hoshangabad district today, with full state honours.
Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu’s son Nara Lokesh, four MLAs of the opposition YSRC who switched loyalty to the ruling TDP-BJP coalition, and six others were on Sunday inducted into the Andhra Pradesh Cabinet.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today asked all his ministers to provide details of their income, moveable and immoveable assets within 15 days. He gave this direction to his ministers at the first
Reservation for women in jobs and urban and rural local bodies has been announced by the new Punjab Cabinet in its maiden meeting and also decided to completely shun the VIP culture by removing the
The Centre today increased Dearness Allowance and Dearness Relief to 4 per cent from existing 2 per cent, effective from January 1, 2017.
The government on Wednesday gave a go ahead to the merger plan of State Bank of India (SBI) and its five associate banks but left out Bharatiya Mahila Bank.
An official in US President Donald Trump’s Cabinet and at least one of his advisers gave paid speeches for an Iranian exile group that killed Americans before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, ran donation scams and
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Wednesday has given its green signal to go ahead with the listing of five public sector general insurance companies in the stock exchanges. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said
Amid lender's consolidation with its associate banks, Arundhati Bhattacharya has been granted one year extension by the government as the chairman of State Bank of India. According to top government sources, the incumbent SBI chairman
The parliamentary panel on finance has decided to examine the Cabinet approved merger of Railway Budget with General Budget along with its "ramifications thereof". Putting an end to a 92-year-old practice, the Cabinet had
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India's cabinet on Wednesday cleared the base price for the country's largest spectrum auction to date, expected to fetch around Rs 5.5 lakh crore at the approved reserve price
New Delhi: The government today gave its clearance to India Post to set up payments banks. With a corpus of Rs 800 crore the postal network, the largest in the world, is eyeing 650 operational
Online shopping in the state of Uttar Pradesh just got costlier with the government having approved a 5 per cent entry tax on all e-commerce merchandise. The decision was arrived at a meeting of the state Cabinet under the chairmanship of chief minis
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's new cabinet is likely to have some new faces, TMC sources said today.
New Delhi: Aimed at promoting creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship, the Union Cabinet has given its nod to the first of its kind national intellectual property rights (IPR) policy. The intention behind this step is to
Brasilia:Brazilian acting President Michel Temer on Thursday chose leading figures from nine centrist and conservative parties for his cabinet, which for the first time in decades has no female ministers. Temer, who had been vice
New Delhi: In a boost to firms like ONGC and Reliance Industries, the Cabinet today approved a new price formula for their undeveloped gas discoveries in difficult areas, which will lead to a near-doubling of
New Delhi: With a view to ensure greater participation of states, Union Cabinet today allowed the Railways to form Joint Venture companies with state governments to mobilize resources for speedy implementation of rail projects.Keeping in
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