Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav today presented a Rs 23,913 crore deficit budget for the state for 2013-14 at Rs 2,21,201.19 crore.

Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf today directed authorities to launch a “targeted operation” against militants in Quetta following the killing of nearly 90 people in a terror attack in the Shia-dominated southwestern Pakistani city.

The ongoing nursery admission process in the national capital would remain unaffected as the Delhi high court today upheld the validity of two government notifications that gave powers to private unaided schools to formulate their own criteria.

Defence ministry will recommend what it thinks “appropriate” on the issue of the Rs 3,600 crore contract to procure VVIP choppers from an Italian firm, external affairs minister Salman Khurshid said today while making it clear that he has not expressed “reservations” on scrapping the deal.

The ongoing nursery admission process in the national capital would remain unaffected as the Delhi high court today upheld the validity of two government notifications that gave powers to private unaided schools to formulate their own criteria.

The Maharashtra government on Monday informed the Bombay high court that it proposed to introduce guidelines for protection of whistleblowers and for taking care of witnesses, vulnerable to threats fr

Pulling up the Maharashtra government for allegedly indulging in wasteful expenditure, while ignoring the deaths of women and children due to malnutrition, the Bombay high court on Monday asked the st

British actor Richard Briers, famed for his role in television comedy The Good Life and a stalwart in the films of Kenneth Branagh, has died at the age of 79, his agent said on Monday.

Britain will introduce same-day visas for Indian businessmen wishing to invest there, Prime Minister David Cameron announced Monday as he sought a “special relationship” between the two nations, sayin

Russian scientists today announced that they have discovered over 50 fragments of the 10 tonne meteor that streaked over Ural mountains, injuring 1,200 people and damaging thousands of homes.