India

New Delhi, Mar 2: India is home to the fifth largest group of billionaires in the world and Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries, is the country's richest man with a personal fortune of $18 billion, says a report. According China-based research firm Hurun's 2014 global rich list, Mukesh Ambani was ranked 41st in the list that was topped by Bill Gates, whose personal networth stood at a

Patna, Mar 1: Putting pressure on Congress, RJD chief Lalu Prasad today offered 11 seats to Congress and asked the party to give its acceptance by tomorrow when his party's Parliamentary Board will meet here. RJD has also offered one out of the 40 seats in the state to another Congress ally NCP. The development comes after an old ally LJP walked over to the BJP camp. Prasad, who returned here from

New Delhi, Mar 1: The Centre today moved the Supreme Court seeking review of its verdict holding that undue delay by the government in deciding mercy plea can be a ground to commute death sentence of a condemned prisoner. The Centre submitted that the January 21 judgement, by which 15 condemned prisoners were granted life and paved the way for similar relief for Rajiv Gandhi killers, is "patently

Ghaziabad, Mar 1: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal kicked off his road show Saturday from the party's office here and is slated to reach Kanpur Sunday. He was accompanied by fellow party members Manish Shishodia and Sanjay Singh. The road show -- "Jhadu chalao beimaan bhagao yatra" -- which began from Kaushambi, near the national capital, would end in Kanpur. It will pass through

New Delhi, Mar 1: Petrol price was today hiked by 60 paise a litre, the second increase this year, and diesel by 50 paise per litre, the 14th hike since January 2013. The hikes, effective from midnight tonight, are excluding local sales tax or VAT and actual increase will be higher and will vary from city to city. Petrol price, which was last hiked by 91 paise on January 4, will cost Rs 73.16 a

Ahmedabad, Feb 28: A day after BJP's first list of candidates for the Lok Sabha polls was declared, veteran BJP leader L K Advani today expressed interest to contest elections from his current constituency, Gandhinagar. "The first list of the candidates has been declared yesterday in which my name is not there. I have come here today to Gandhinagar to participate in a vigilance committee meeting

Hyderabad, Feb 28: Andhra Pradesh is coming under President's rule after a long gap of 41 years. The current spell of President's rule, which the Union Cabinet approved today on the recommendation of state Governor E S L Narasimhan, is not due to any constitutional crisis but a political crisis caused by the resignation of Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on February 19 protesting the

Raipur, Feb 28: A Station House Officer (SHO) and five police personnel were today killed in a Naxal ambush in Maoist-hit Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh. The incident took place when a police patrol party headed by SHO, Kuwakonda, Vivek Shukla was on way to Shyamgiri Hills for security of an under-construction road near Kuwakonda-Bacheli, a senior police official said. The patrol team

New Delhi, Feb 28: Trustees of retirement fund body EPFO Thursday approved a proposal to provide a monthly pension of minimum Rs 1,000, a decision that will immediately benefit about its 28 lakh pensioners. The Central Board of Trustees (CBT), the apex decision making body of EPFO also decided to raise the monthly wage ceiling to Rs 15,000 from Rs 6,500 by amending the EPF scheme, 1952, so that

New Delhi, Feb 28: Sahara chief Subrata Roy on Friday surrendered before the Lucknow police on Friday. Roy's legal counsel Ram Jethmalani has confirmed that his client has surrendered before the police. Roy will remain in police custody till March 04. Jethmalani's had earlier made submission that Roy be granted exemption from personal appearance and he will make payment as per the directions