New Delhi,  The Rajya Sabha on Thursday passed the Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2021, even as the Congress members staged a walkout from the House.

The Bill seeks to amend the Insurance Act, 1938 to raise the limit of foreign investment allowed in Indian insurance companies. It proposes to increase the for

Chennai, Senior Congress leader and former Puducherry Chief Minister V. Narayanasamy, who is not contesting the 2021 Assembly elections, will, however, be leading the poll campaign of the DMK-Congress combine in the Union Territory.

Narayanasamy was reportedly denied ticket by the party high command due to hi

Hyderabad, The Telangana government has allocated Rs 610 crore for the construction of the new Secretariat complex.

Finance Minister T. Harish Rao announced this while presenting the Budget for 2021-22 in the Assembly on Thursday.

Hours later, Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Ra

Thiruvananthapuram,  The vexed Sabarimala temple issue, which purportedly cost Kerala's ruling CPI-M heavily in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, has again emerged as an issue ahead of the April 6 Assembly polls, with the Congress and the NSS, the powerful organisation of the Hindu Nair community, attacking Chief Minister P

New Delhi,  After witnessing workers protesting over ticket distribution, the BJP leadership is in a huddle to find a way out to curtail the mounting dissent in West Bengal. The dissent increased after the party announced the candidates list on Sunday for the third and fourth phase of the West Bengal A

Chennai, Fishermen from Tamil Nadu's Nagapattinam on Thursday alleged that they were assaulted and robbed on the high seas by a group of Sri Lankans.

Nagaraju, Murthy and Ravichandran, said they went fishing from Vellappalllam in Nagappatanam on Monday late night.

Murthy, talking to IANS ov

United Nations, The UN is ready to facilitate an agreement between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan on the issue of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Nile river, according to a spokesman of the world body.

Addressing the media here on Wednesday, Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for Secretary-General Anto

Tel Aviv,  The Israeli Finance Ministry has announced an economic support program for the country's airlines due to the prolonged Covid-19 crisis and its extensive damage to the aviation industry.

"The plan will allow an immediate flow to facilitate the airlines operations during this period,&qu

Houston, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has criticised the US government's "reckless" policy on migrant children arriving at the border between the state and Mexico, saying, that it was "enriching the cartels, smugglers, and human traffickers who often prey on and abuse unaccompanied minors".