The Aam Aadmi Party announced a new set of in-charges for the party’s 14 Delhi districts units on Saturday in a bid to strengthen the outfit at the grassroots level in the run up to the Assembly election, due early next year. The restructuring of the party organisation is aimed at kick-starting the preparations for the Assembly election. In the ...

In yet another landmark achievement, India’s nomination of the Jaipur City, Rajasthan got inscribed today on the World Heritage List of UNESCO during the 43rd Session of the World Heritage Committee held at Baku, Azerbaijan.  The nomination of Jaipur City has successfully been done by complying with the various UNESCO guidelines of 2017. With Successful inscription of Jaipur City,  India ...

Petrol price will be hiked by over Rs 2.5 per litre and diesel by more than Rs 2.3 after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Friday raised taxes on the fuels to part-fund her Budget for 2019-20. Sitharaman raised excise duty and road and infrastructure cess on the auto fuels by Rs 2 per litre each to raise over Rs 28,000 crore. ...

Public Sector Banks are to be further provided Rs 70,000 crore capital to boost credit for a strong impetus to the economy. To further improve ease of living, they will leverage technology, offering online personal loans and doorstep banking, and enabling customers of one Public Sector Bank to access services across all Public Sector Banks. While presenting Union Budget 2019-20 ...

The government has proposed to increase import duty on gold and other precious metals to 12.5 percent. This will lead to expensive gold and ornaments in the domestic market. In her budget speech, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman proposed to increase customs duty on gold and other precious metals from 10 to 12.5 percent. The government has proposed this at a ...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the country’s “Book Account” on Friday. It has got great relief in the corporate sector. Under the new proposal, now the companies doing annual business up to Rs 400 crore will be in the corporate tax slab of 25 per cent. Prior to this, 25 per cent of corporate tax was included in companies which ...

Government has, from time to time, appointed some prominent persons for specific assignments in government, keeping in view their specialized knowledge and expertise in the domain area. NITI Aayog, in its three year Action Agenda, and the Sectoral Group of Secretaries (SGoS) on Governance, in its report submitted in February, 2017, have recommended for induction of personnel in the middle ...

Banks have reported a massive 73 percent increase in incidents of fraud worth Rs 71,543 crore in FY19, a senior Reserve Bank official said Thursday. Till March 2019, the top five, 10 and 100 cases of frauds cumulatively reported constituted 24 percent, 34 percent and 70 percent of all frauds, respectively, a chief general manager with the RBI Jayant Dash ...

A monetary grant of Rs 75,000 per month would be given by a leading national daily to applicants doing research in Hindi, the media house announced on Thursday. The second edition of ‘Gyanvritti’, which comes under Dainik Jagran’s ‘Hindi Hai Hum’ initiative, is launched to promote the usage of Hindi language in fundamental research and original writing, read a statement ...

Result may come in the case of Kulbhushan Jadhav, who is in the International Court of Hague by July 17. Court can declare its decision at 6.30 in the evening. In a way, the eyes of everyone are on the issue of India versus Pakistan. This year, from 18 to 21 February, the International Court of Justice in The Hague ...