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India looking at doubling aluminium import duty - minister
India is examining a request to double the import duty on aluminium to 10 percent, the country's trade minister said on Friday, after companies such a...
India to impose import duty of 10 pct on wheat - finance minister
India will impose an import duty of 10 percent on wheat effective until March 31 next year, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley told parliament on Friday, reinstating tariffs after a gap of eight years following big purchases in recent months. Reuters reported last week that a decision
India versus Sri Lanka Board President's XI
Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane have consolidated well for India in the warm-up game against Sri Lanka Board President's XI at Colombo. The duo h...
Captured by cotton: Girls duped into "bonded labour" in India's textile mills
From her two-room concrete home nestled among the lush coconut plantations of southern India, housewife Kavita has seen the region's textile industry...
July oilmeal exports plunge 86 pct y/y - trade body
MUMBAI, Aug 6 (Reuters) - India's oilmeal exports in July plunged 86 percent from a year earlier to 18,410 tonnes as south Asian countries trimmed pur...
Khobragade episode 'painful period' for bilateral ties: US
Washington: Describing the Devyani Khobragade episode as a "painful period" in Indo-US ties, the US has said the incident has led to "important learnings" and there is a determination to avoid such instances. US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nis
29 killed, 25 hurt in MP twin train derailment
Twenty-nine people were killed as two express trains derailed within minutes of each other on flooded tracks while crossing a railway bridge in Harda district of Madhya Pradesh in the dead of night and plunged into the swollen Machak river. There were conflicting versions on the
Militant captured in Kashmir a Pakistani
Jammu: A militant captured on Wednesday in Jammu and Kashmir after an ambush on a BSF convoy is a Pakistani, police sources said. The young militant,...
Follow the example of Kalam and not Owaisi, VHP urges Muslim youths
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) today urged the Muslim youth to follow the example of former President APJ Abdul Kalam and said those who attended the funeral of Yakub Memon were "sympathisers" and "followers" of a terrorist. "The Muslim youth should follow the example of Preside
India likely to bring in rules to make mills export sugar stocks
India is likely to bring in rules to make it compulsory for sugar mills to export millions of tonnes of surplus supplies to support local prices, sources said, in a move that could quell growing anger among farmers but add to a glut on global markets. A final decision rests with
Coal imports drop for first time in 15 months
India's coal imports fell 11 percent to 19.3 million tonnes in July from a year earlier - the sharpest and the first drop in more than a year - as loc...
Congress must allow house to function: Jaitley
New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday said there were "various important issues to be discussed in parliament", and the Congress mu...
Did not help Lalit Modi to get travel documents: Sushma Swaraj
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday said she never helped former IPL chief Lalit Modi in getting travel documents from the Br...
Sonia rejects Govt offer, insists on resignations
New Delhi: A combative Sonia Gandhi today rejected government's offer of Prime Minister's intervention on Lalitgate and Vyapam issues in Parliament to...
India hangs man convicted of funding 1993 Mumbai bombing
Yakub Abdul Razak Memon, the only death row convict in India's deadliest terror attack, the 1993 Mumbai bombings that killed 257 people, was hanged early Thursday after the country's president rejected a last-minute mercy plea, several newspapers and TV stations reported. There w
People's President Kalam laid to rest
Rameswaram: Former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was laid to rest on Thursday here with full military honours in the presence of Prime Minister Narendr...
Shaken investors to stay away from gold as confidence shatters
London: Investors seeking alternative assets are moving on from gold, whose failure to perform when its price was expected to rise and recent volatili...
When Tharoor speaks on Modi, headline-writers struggle
The media has always found it difficult to report on Shashi Tharoor. His high educational qualifications, long years of experience in the international diplomatic scene and flair for speaking means he has made criticising the opposition into a fine art. He can sometimes be what t
Sumitra Mahajan to hold all party meeting ahead of Monsoon Session
Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan will be holding an 'all party meeting' of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of the Monsoon Session of the Parli...
Modi's cancelled trip costs taxpayers Rs 17 crores
Varanasi: As rains led to the cancellation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to his parliamentary constituency on Thursday, for the second time in the past one month, a staggering Rs.17 crore of the tax payer's money also has gone down the drain. If local district and proto