India

Mumbai, June 10: The Reserve Bank, on Saturday, permitted NRIs to send remittances more frequently, a step to boost foreign currency inflows and check rupee fall. Resident Indians are now allowed to receive as many as 30 remittances from NRI friends and relatives during a year as against 12 earlier, according to a latest RBI circular.Analysts said that the RBI decision would help raise foreign

New Delhi/ Chennai, June 10: Setting the stage for fresh hostilities, the Prime Minister's office on Saturday aggressively dismissed corruption allegations levelled by Team Anna against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over coal block allegations for being devoid of evidence. Minister of state for PMO V Narayanasamy followed up a curt letter to Hazare with a fusillade against the Gandhian leader's

New Delhi/Mumbai, June 10: The HRD ministry's decision to hold an all-inclusive common engineering test appears to have split the Indian Institutes of Technology vertically. Indications are that IIT Delhi and Bombay could back IIT Kanpur in holding their own entrance test while Madras, Roorkee, Kharagpur and Guwahati will stand by the Centre's decision. If the current wave of resentment among

New Delhi, June 9: The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has written a letter to social activist Anna Hazare rejecting all corruption charges levelled against the PM over the alleged irregularities in the allocation of coal blocks. The letter, written by Minister of State in the PMO V Narayanasamy, says that the allegations seem to be based on the leaked report of the Comptroller and Auditor General

New Delhi, June 9: Amid the controversy over Rs 35 lakh expenditure on Planning Commission's toilets, Union Minister Jairam Ramesh today quipped that he himself spends '18 hours of a day on toilets alone'. "I believe the biggest issues in front of us are malnutrition and toilets, these are the two faces of one coin... I have MNREGA, PMGSY, drinking water etc under me but I spend maximum time on

Jammu, June 9: Some 400 civilians, including children, trapped at Khardung La pass on Srinagar-Leh national highway in Jammu and Kashmir have been rescued, an official said. According to a defence spokesman, multiple land and snow slides occurred Friday night along a 10 km stretch at Khardung La pass. The Khardung La pass, one of the highest motorable passes in the world, is at a height of 17,800

Kanpur, June 9: Rejecting Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal's 'one nation, one test' proposal, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, has decided to conduct its own entrance test for undergraduate programmes from next year. IIT Delhi is also likely to follow the Kanpur model and hold its own entrance tests from 2013. In a resolution on Friday, IIT Kanpur's 210-member

New Delhi, June 9: The race to Raisina Hill is nearing the finish line and the Congress is now reaching out to allies outside the UPA for consensus on Finance Minister Pranab Mukerjee's nomination. The Congress is already in touch with the Samajwadi Party and is expected to be speaking to key ally and Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee soon. The West Bengal Chief Minister had earlier

New Delhi, June 8: After forcing Sanjay Joshi out of the BJP national executive, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi on Friday ensured that his bete noire is also out of the party. BJP, whose president Nitin Gadkari and Modi joined hands at the party conclave at Mumbai a fortnight ago after Joshi's resignation from the executive, today announced that Joshi has resigned from the party also. Joshi

Ahmedabad, June 8: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) poster controversy seems to have become bigger in Gujarat. Posters indirectly targetting Chief Minister Narendra Modi, while promoting his bete noire Sanjay Joshi have been put up in Ahmedabad and other parts of the state. This is the second poster of its kind to be put up, after BJP president Nitin Gadkari sacked Joshi from the party's national