Mumbai: Senior citizens of more than 70 years of age and the differently-abled can look forward to availing of basic banking services, right from the comfort of their home.

The RBI has asked banks to provide doorstep banking facilities to senior citizens of more than 70 years of age and differently-abled persons by Dec

Bengaluru: Amid calls for Kodagu Bandh and protests, the Siddaramaiah government is set to celebrate Tipu Jayanti under high-security cover today.

According to latest information, Section 144 is imposed in Kodagu and security is beefed up.

Stones were reportedly thrown at a Karnataka State Road Transport Corp

New Delhi: Former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on Friday said he is hopeful of a “shower of changes in GST rates” in lieu of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council meeting in today.

The senior Congress Party leader took to Twitter and said “Expect a shower of changes in GST rates from GST Council

French President Emmanuel Macron held talks late Thursday with Saudi Arabia’s powerful crown prince as tensions between Tehran and Riyadh soar over crises in Yemen and Lebanon.

Macron, on his debut visit to the Middle East, flew in from a tour of the United Arab Emirates for his first face-to-face talks with Crown Prince Mohammed

Guwahati: An Assam jailor was suspended after he allowed opposition leader Debabrata Saikia and Congress legislator Rupjyoti Kurmi to meet and click photographs with detained RTI activist Akhil Gogoi, an official statement said here on Friday.

In the statement issued by the Inspector General of Prisons – Ass

Chennai: For the second consecutive day on Friday Income Tax (IT) officials continued their massive raids at the premises of close relatives of jailed AIADMK leader V.K. Sasikala, their business associates and organisations connected to them, a senior IT official said.

He also said that “sizeable volume of cash a

Varanasi: Chief of Army Staff General Bipin Rawat on Friday claimed that there is no shortage of arms in the Indian Army.

“The Army has no shortage of arms. We have to keep modernizing weapons, arms as the technology is upgrading, and we are trying to bring in new and modernised technique ones in our Army,”

Guwahati: Delhi joined the growing chorus of opposition against the highest 28 per cent GST rate, saying a high rate would encourage black marketing.

The Congress-ruled states have been demanding rationalisation of GST rates to bring down the peak tax rate from current 28 per cent.

Delhi deputy chief minister

New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) today said it would examine at 2 PM today the Delhi government’s decision to roll out odd-even car rationing scheme for five days starting from November 13.

The AAP government had yesterday announced introduction of the odd-even scheme as part of a Graded Response Plan

Vijayawada: Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly kicked off its winter session on Friday without the Opposition YSRC, which has decided to boycott the session as a move to protest against the speaker for not taking action against those MLAs who defected from their party.

The session is slated to sit till November 2