India

Jammu, Sep 26: The three terrorists who sneaked into Jammu and Kashmir and killed 10 people today, have been gunned down, the Indian Army has said. Combing operations are currently on at the Army cantonment in the Samba district where the gunmen were killed after a four-hour-long gunbattle. The bodies of the three terrorists - aged between 16 and 19 - and believed to be from the banned Pakistan

New Delhi, Sep 26: The Congress trumpeted the constitution of seventh pay commission as another of its welfare measures in line with land and food bills, in what appeared a thinly-veiled attempt to milk the olive branch to government employees at the upcoming state and Lok Sabha polls. The surprise decision on the pay commission targetting middle-classes comes on the back of legislations to win

Bhopal, Sep 25: The Congress has lost the capacity to fight the BJP, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi said Wednesday, adding that the coming assembly and Lok Sabha polls will be fought by the "CBI and not the Congress". Addressing a massive "Karyakarta Mahakumbh" (party workers' mega conclave) here, Modi, who is the Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate, took repeated digs at

New Delhi, Sep 25: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday said he will be meeting his Pakistan counterpart Nawaz Sharif in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), setting at rest all speculations about the meeting. Before that he meets President Barack Obama on Sep 27 in Washington. In his departure statement before embarking on a five-day visit to the US, Prime Minister

New Delhi, Sep 25: Ahead of elections, the government on Wednesday announced constitution of the Seventh Pay Commission, which will go into the salaries, allowances and pensions of about 80 lakh of its employees and pensioners. "Prime Minister Manmohan Singh approved the constitution of the 7th Pay Commission. Its recommendations are likely to be implemented with effect from January 1, 2016"

New Delhi, Sep 25: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday opposed an ordinance that negates a Supreme Court order disqualifying MPs and MLAs if convicted in a criminal case. Government opted for the ordinance route Tuesday, after a bill for the same could not be passed in the monsoon session of parliament. Leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj tweeted: "Union Cabinet has approved

New Delhi, Sep 25: BSNL and MTNL customers soon can look forward to get free roaming service across the country. “Both firms are jointly working to offer free roaming service to their mobile customers across the country where the consumer need not pay any fees,” BSNL Chairman and Managing Director R K Upadhyay said here on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters after signing an MoU with MTNL to share

New Delhi, Sep 25: The Union Cabinet on Tuesday decided to promulgate an ordinance to negate a Supreme Court order which sought to disqualify an MP or an MLA/MLC convicted for crimes with jail term of two years or more. An immediate beneficiary of this ordinance could be Congress MP Rasheed Masood who was convicted by a CBI court in a corruption case. The court is set to pronounce the quantum of

New Delhi, Sep 24: Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde today asked former Army chief V K Singh to name Jammu and Kashmir politicians who were allegedly paid money by the Army for "stability", saying if details are given the government was ready to probe. "V K Singh should name politicians. He should reveal the names (of those to whom money was allegedly paid). If details are given, we can investigate

Lucknow, Sep 24: Former Uttarakhand chief minister Narain Dutt Tiwari, who was recently in the limelight over a paternity row, seems to have retained his colourful ways. Tiwari was also chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. In 1986–1987, he served in prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's cabinet as minister for external Affairs. He was serving as governor of Andhra Pradesh from 2007 until 2009, when he was