Govt forms cabinet committees on security, economic affairs; includes allies

The Modi government on Wednesday constituted various cabinet committees, including the country's highest decision making bodies on security, economic and political affairs. IMAGE: Prime Minister......

Dharmendra Pradhan is new Education Minister

Dharmendra Pradhan was on Wednesday inducted as India's new education minister while Annapurna Devi, Subhas Sarkar and Rajkumar Ranjan Singh will be the new ministers of state for education. Son......

Dhankar terms coaching centre culture as gas chamber

The Delhi incident in which three civil services aspirants died resonated in Parliament on Monday with Rajya Sabha chairperson Jagdeep Dhankhar dubbing the culture of coaching centres as a "gas......

PHOTOS: Shah, Mamata share lunch at Patnaik's home

Union home minister Amit Shah and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee, who have been bitter critics of each other, had a lunch together on Friday at Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik's......

Minister Dharmendra Pradhan: 'Benefits of falling oil prices passed on to consumers'

‘If the benefit of falling oil prices was not passed on to the consumers, would inflation have come down to zero?’ ‘I haven't met a single family in the last 10 months that......

UK minister held secret meeting with Cyrus Mistry: Report

Clark's predecessor Sajid Javid had pledged to help Tata Steel UK with a proposed package of measures and new British PM Theresa May is reportedly supportive of the plan Britain's new business and......

PM forms 2 Cabinet panels to spur growth, create jobs

Economy has become a major cause of concern for the new government with GDP dropping to 5.8 per cent in the last quarter of the 2018-19. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Redif.com With the spectre of......

India to gradually move to gas-based economy: Pradhan

Gas accounts for 8 pct of energy mix, with oil at over a quarter India plans to shift to a gas-based economy by boosting domestic production and buying cheap liquefied natural gas (LNG) as the......