New Delhi, Oct 5 (IANS) Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Monday that India-US trade negotiations are continuing but may have hit a plateau and added that the bilateral trade balance currently favours India.
Lucknow, Oct 5 (IANS) Amid nationwide protests against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday extended his support to the exercise, saying that identifying and removing ineligible names from voter lists in accordance with rules is essential for India's security, unity and integrity.
New Delhi, Oct 5 (IANS) Swiss Confederation President Guy Parmelin on Monday said that his visit to India is a "stepping stone" towards strengthening of the "close and long-standing partnership" between the two nations.
New Delhi, Oct 5 (IANS) Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said that the next phase of Goods and Services Tax (GST) reforms will focus on making compliance simpler to advance Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of a 'Viksit Bharat'.
New Delhi, Oct 5 (IANS) Swiss Confederation President Guy Parmelin was accorded a ceremonial welcome at the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan on Monday
New Delhi, Oct 5 (IANS) An Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) of the Punjab Police, who is currently posted with the Government Railway Police (GRP), was shot at by three unidentified motorcycle-borne men while he was returning home from duty in Amritsar, with the incident prompting BJP MP Ravneet Singh Bittu to condemn the attack and question the Bhagwant Mann government over the law and order situation in the state.
New Delhi, Oct 5 (IANS) The Supreme Court will hear petitions on Monday challenging whether Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar can single-handedly exercise powers constitutionally designated for the entire multi-member poll panel.
Gandhinagar, Oct 5 (IANS) India has demonstrated its first free-space Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) link over a distance of 5.56 km, with a field trial successfully establishing a secure quantum communication channel between the Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Applications and Geo-informatics (BISAG-N) and IIT Gandhinagar.
Hyderabad, Oct 4 (IANS) Supreme Court judge Justice Ujjal Bhuyan on Sunday strongly criticised any process that leads to the wholesale exclusion of citizens from electoral rolls, terming it intrinsically arbitrary and a direct assault on the Constitution.
New Delhi, Oct 4 (IANS) The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has seized cumulative quantity of 15.59 kg dangerous contraband drugs, amphetamine, cocaine and heroin, in three separate intelligence-led operations, the Finance Ministry said on Sunday.
