The government is moving ahead with further opening of print media, construction and retail sectors to foreign investments, and detailed deliberations in this regard were held in the finance ministry on Wednesday.
The International Court of Justice will pronounce its verdict on Kulbhushan Jadhav on Thursday.
The minimum pension with effect from January 2016 will be Rs 9,000/-per month (excluding the element of additional pension to old pensioners) while the upper ceiling on pension/family pension will be 50% and 30% respectively of the highest pay in the government (the highest pay in the government is Rs 2,50,000 with effect from January 2016).
Amid concerns over job losses in USD 155 billion IT sector, industry lobby Assocham on Wednesday said this is the time for outsourcing companies "to look inward" and focus on the domestic opportunity to curtail layoffs.
The country is least prepared to tackle the ransomware virus 'WannaCry' because of the low level of awareness about malicious software, a senior official looking after West Bengal's IT security said on Wednesday.
Militant group Islamic State on Wednesday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on a television station in Afghanistan`s eastern province of Nangarhar that killed a security guard as well as all three attackers and wounded at least 17 people.
Nearly 23 per cent posts of teachers, from primary to secondary level, are lying vacant in 1,100 central schools situated in various parts of the country.
Drinking water supply to lakhs of people in Tripura was stopped after ONGC drilling waste spilled over into a key river.
Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani is among the 25 'Global Game Changers' listed by Forbes who are transforming their industries and changing the lives of billions of people around the globe.
Christian sect members stormed a prison in Congo's capital on Wednesday, freeing the leader of their movement and 50 others.
Police seized 40 cartons of liquor which were being smuggled into Uttar Pradesh from Haryana
Three bomb disposal experts were killed in a car bomb blast west of Somalia's capital on Wednesday.
Red Cross workers have found 115 bodies in Central African Republic`s diamond-mining town of Bangassou after several days of militia attacks
The BJP yesterday welcomed the IT raids and targeted Janata Dal-United leader Nitish Kumar, saying the Centre initiated the action after he had demanded it.
Rahane not just produced a fine display of his fielding but also showed true sportsmanship by signaling to the umpire that it was indeed a six as he had failed to take a clean catch.
Union Minister of Urban Development M Venkaiah Naidu and Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh here on Wednesday discussed the implementation of central schemes in the state.
The cabinet on Wednesday approved changes in a law to fast track removal of ministers, members of Parliament and bureaucrats over-staying in government-allotted accommodations.
The video is believed to have been captured by golfers at the Sandhill Crane Golf Club in Palm Beach Gardens when the massive creature took hold of the fish in between his jaws.
For the study, 40 volunteers listened to different growls recorded from 18 dogs that were guarding their food, facing a threatening stranger, or playing a tug-of-war game.
The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday approved the setting up of an agriculture research institute in Assam, to help spur growth in north eastern states.
The joint search operation launched by the Indian Army and SOG in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district has concluded with the security forces lifting the cordon off from the two villages - Heff and Shirmal - on Wednesday.
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday gave ex-post facto approval to pan-India implementation of maternity benefit program which now has been extended to all districts of the country with effect from January this year.
President Donald Trump risked the life of an Israeli spy embedded in the ISIS by sharing classified information with Russia, former US and Israeli officials believe.
Islamic state said its fighters were attacking an Afghan state television building in the eastern city of Jalalabad on Wednesday.
A Bangladesh court on Wednesday sentenced to death 23 persons, including a Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader, for the murder of four activists of the Awami League and its student organisation in 2002, a media report said.
