India
Acting on his ‘Buy American, Hire American’ pledge, US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order for tightening the rules of the H-1B visa programme, the most sought-after by Indian IT firms and professionals, to stop “visa abuses”. Trump signed the order that calls for tightening the rules of the programme at the Kenosha, […]
On 30th June, PM Narendra Modi would inaugurate India’s Largest Textiles event in Gujarat. Union Textile Minister Smriti Irani and the leading designers with participation from more than 1000 domestic & international exhibitors, over 20000 buyers, theme pavilions, B2B and B2G meetings. Conferences, Round tables, Country Sessions and State Sessions will reinforce India’s textiles strength […]
Today businessman, politician and loan defaulter Vijay Mallya was arrested by Scotland Yard on an extradition warrant. He will be produced before the Westminster Magistrates’ Court later in the day. In February this year, Indian government had handed over a formal request for the fugitive industrialist’s extradition to the UK High Commission, saying it had […]
Inflation at the wholesale level eased to 5.7 per cent in March on declining fuel prices and appreciating rupee even as food prices hardened. Based on the Wholesale Price Index (WPI), inflation was at 6.55 per cent in February. In March last year, it was at (-)0.45 per cent. According to the official data released […]
Today, Rameshchandra Agarwal CMD Chairman Managing Director DB Corp (Bhaskar Group of Newspapers) passes away, following heart attack. Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani along with Deputy CM Nitin Patel paid homage to him. Agarwal suffered from massive cardiac arrest while travelling at Ahmedabad Airport. He was rushed to Apollo Hospital in Gandhinagar where he breathed last. […]
Today Morning, JDU and NCP in a press conference announced about their alliance for the upcoming 2017 Gujarat Assembly elections, which the JDU described as “not anti-Congress, but anti-BJP.” The possibility of the alliance came from a fortnight after Gujarat Leader of the Opposition Shankersinh Vaghela hinted at an alliance between the Congress and the […]
Today Morning, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Gujarat a harsher law providing for life-term for those found involved in cow-slaughtering. With Narendra Modi as the state chief minister, the Gujarat government had imposed a complete ban on cow-slaughter, transportation and selling of cow-beef by amending the erstwhile Gujarat Animal Preservation Act of 1954, in […]
The government is likely to table the four legislations for implementation of the goods and services tax in the Lok Sabha on Monday. The Union Cabinet already cleared the four supplementary GST legislations — CGST, IGST, UTGST and Compensation Law — for introduction and passage in the ongoing session of Parliament. Besides, the Cabinet has […]
Today Morning PM Narendra Modi held his trademark ‘chai pe charcha’ with MPs from Gujarat in New Delhi, according to sources. The ‘chai pe charcha’ was held in the PM Modi’s residence at 7, Lok Kalyan Marg. Senior BJP leader L K Advani and party president Amit Shah were present in the meeting. The discussion […]
Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad punched and hit a 60-year-old Air India Duty Manager with his slippers nearly 20 times and tore his shirt at IGI airport here today just because he could not travel business class in an all-economy flight. The airline will be filing an FIR against the MP. It has also constituted […]
