Government
Pramod Sawant is Goa’s new chief minister
19 Mar 2019
Since the coalition partners of the Parrikar-led government had allied with BJP on condition that the government is headed by Manohar Parrikar, the then defence minister of India, the BJP, therefore, has no allies as of now
Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar dies battling cancer
18 Mar 2019
Former defence minister and four time chief minister Parikkar, 63, who transformed Goa from a laggard to a dynamic economy, had in January vowed to serve Goa till his last breath
Lok Sabha polls between 11 April and 19 May, results on 23 May
11 Mar 2019
As many as 900 million voters are eligible to participate in the general elections that will elect 543 members to the Lower House of Parliament, the Lok Sabha, in a 7-phase polling
RBI pays Rs28,000 cr to govt as interim dividend
19 Feb 2019
Mamata’s police arrest CBI team probing Sharda scam
04 Feb 2019
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has stretched her anti-Modi showdown a step further with the arrest of CBI officers probing Kolkata police chief as leaders of the Ghatbandhan offered support
Fifteenth Finance Commission to visit Punjab
28 Jan 2019
Piyush Goyal made interim finance minister in Jaitley’s absence
24 Jan 2019
Arun Jaitley, now designated as a union minister, is reported to have undergone surgery at a hospital in New York on 22 January and has been advised at least two weeks rest by the doctors, say reports
'Compulsive contrarians' subverting democracy, says Jaitley
18 Jan 2019
`They could masquerade corruption as crusade and adopt double standards whenever it suited them,’ he said in a Facebook post titled 'The Compulsive Contrarian and his Manufactured Logic'
Alok Verma shunted out of CBI, appointed DG Fire Services
11 Jan 2019
Verma has been posted as DG of Fire Services, Civil Defence and Home Guards and CBI Additional Director M Nageshwar Rao, who was in charge during Verma’s exile, will continue to look after the duties of the director, CBI until further orders
Centre's 10% quota for economically weak gets Parliament approval
10 Jan 2019
The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday passed the Constitution (124th Amendment) Bill, 2019, with 165 'ayes' and seven `nays’ after the Lok Sabha approved it on Tuesday with 323 lawmakers supporting it and three voting against it
Rajnath Singh introduces Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019 in Lok Sabha
08 Jan 2019
The Act, which seeks to grant citizenship to migrant Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Christians and Parsis from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh, allows the persecuted migrants to reside in any Indian state or union territory
SC reinstates exiled CBI Chief Alok Verma, quashes govt order
08 Jan 2019
The apex court set aside the centre's decision to divest the CBI director of his powers and said the committee which appointed the CBI director will have to consider matter afresh
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
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HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
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Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
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Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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