News External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj hosted a dinner for Afghan First Lady Rula Ghani during which she assured her of India’s continued commitment towards assisting Afghanistan in becoming a peaceful and prosperous country. Afghanistan has a very special place for India, Swaraj said the country is proud to be ...

News India and Australia explored ways for early conclusion of the Administrative Arrangements on civil nuclear cooperation to facilitate the flow of uranium amid Australian assurances that they may conclude by this year end. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj held extensive talks with her Australian counterpart Julia Bishop during which ...

News The Centre has set up a task force to look into various contentious issues relating to inter-linking of rivers. Role of this panel of experts will be to forge a consensus among states that are not on the same page over the plan to link rivers across the country. ...

News I-T Dept publishes list of 31 big tax defaulters. This is the second such list released by the department within one month. The earlier list had names of 18 entities who owe over Rs 500 crore in tax to the exchequer. The initiative, according to a senior tax official ...

News Indian mangoes, grapes, pomegranates and lychees may soon find their way to the US market after Washington agreed to send its inspectors to approve the country’s pre-shipment inspection process, moving a step closer to lifting entry restrictions on Indian fruit. This was decided at the first bilateral video conferencing ...

News The Centre has relaxed guidelines for wheat procurement from Haryana on a request from the state government, after unseasonal rains and hailstorms in March damaged crop and hurt grain quality. Under the eased guidelines, the limit of shrivelled and broken grains in wheat for procurement has been increased to ...

News China, which is yet to fully endorse India’s permanent membership of the UN Security Council, today said it supports India’s “desire” to play a bigger role in the UN and will strive to work out a “package plan” to reform the powerful organ of the world body. China is ...

News India’s security concerns were today conveyed to Ri Su Yong, Foreign Minister of North Korea which has close military ties with Pakistan. The meeting, which comes nearly a month ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Seoul, also provided an opportunity to the Indian side to re-assess its ...

News India will double its investment in the Mozambique’s Rovuma gas field by spending another $6 billion by 2019, said oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan who has  returned from a visit to the African nation. State-run firms ONGC Videsh, Oil India and Bharat Petroleum have already invested that much in the ...

News PM Narendra Modi is deputing his trusted lieutenants from Gujarat to his constituency Varanasi. To clean up the famed Ghats of Ganga in Varanasi, it is now the turn of Loksabha MP from Navsari CR Patil to co-ordinate the efforts, particularly from Gujarat. Already his close aide Sudhanshu Mehta ...