Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma retained the key departments for his National Peoples Party, and gave the lesser politically significant ones to alliance partners Bharatiya Janata Party,......
A day after being arrested in connection with a money laundering case and remanded to the custody of the Enforcement Directorate, the Jharkhand government on Thursday suspended state mining......
In his second term in office Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has retained 34 portfolios. Syed Firdaus Ashraf and Hemant Shivsaran find out how this compares with his predecessors.......
Observing that a total ban on legal sand mining causes huge loss to the public exchequer, the Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the Bihar government to carry on mining activities through the Bihar......
After the Ladakh fiasco where Xi Jinping did not expect the Indian Army to resist his land-grabbing tactics, he has to save face before his colleagues in the Communist party.To bring the threat of......
Niti Aayog's plan to create a New India' in less than four years should invite scepticism, argues T N Ninan.Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com One of the features of the Modi government is its......
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee presented the Budget for 2009-10 on July 6. Following is the BudgetSpeechof Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee: Madam Speaker, I rise to present the Budget for......
How many tones of gold and diamond deposits hasIndia got? 390.29 million tones of gold ore and 4.58 million carats of diamonds, to be precise.According to the national mineral inventory data......