New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed as “historic” the jump in India’s ranking in ‘ease of doing business’ and said it was a result of “all-round & multi-sectoral reform push”.

He said the government is determined to further improve the rankings and scale gre

A suicide attacker riding a motorcycle blew himself up inside Kabul’s heavily fortified diplomatic zone late on Tuesday evening killing at least three people and wounding 15, officials said

It was the first attack targeting the Afghan capital’s so-called “Green Zone” since a massive truck bomb ripped through the

New York: A pickup driver killed eight people in New York on Tuesday, mowing down cyclists and pedestrians, before striking a school bus in what officials branded a “cowardly act of terror.”

Eleven others were seriously injured in the broad daylight assault and first deadly terror-related attack in Ame

New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi used a Mirza Ghalib couplet and BJP leader Arun Jaitley some deft word play, each hitting out at the other party over conflicting views on the World Bank’s report on ‘ease of doing business’.

A day after the World Bank released its report that India had

Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping has begun his second five-year term by firmly displaying his “core leader” status, which equates him with founder of modern China Chairman Mao Zedong, putting himself ahead of other six top leaders for the first time in public.

Xi, 64, along with other six members of th

New Delhi: The Supreme Court today directed the Centre to place before it details regarding 1,581 cases involving MPs and MLAs, as declared by politicians at the time of filing their nominations during the 2014 general elections.

The apex court asked the government to apprise it as to how many of these 1,581 cases have

New Delhi: A total of 158 crorepati candidates are in the fray for the Himachal Pradesh assembly elections — to be held on November 9 — while 61 have declared criminal cases against them, says a report.

Himachal Pradesh Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) have analysed the self-sworn

Lucknow: At least 15 labourers are dead and over 100, including four assistant general managers, are injured after the steam pipe of a boiler burst at the thermal power plant of National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) in Unchahar, Rae Bareli district, about 120 km from state capital Lucknow, on Wednesday afternoon.

According to sourc

Mumbai: Actor Vidya Balan believes women avoid talking about the sexual harassment they face in workplaces out of fear of being judged.

While Hollywood has been rocked by a massive scandal after allegations against powerful producer Harvey Weinstein became public, in India, prominent actors suc