India plans to clamp more curbs on cash

The Central government is considering more steps to curb cash transactions even as a few banks have already started imposing charges after limited transactions. The government is now considering imposing a cap on cash holding limit as suggested by the SIT.
4 March 2017

World's cheapest smartphone boss held

The former managing director of a little-known Indian company that claimed to be selling the world's cheapest smartphone has been
24 February 2017

ATM dispenses dummy 'children bank' currency

An ATM in Delhi spewed dummy 2,000-rupee notes issued by the 'Children Bank of India', prompting an investigation into the
23 February 2017

Football: Smog may force U-17 football World Cup out of Delhi

FIFA could pull Under-17 World Cup matches out of New Delhi because of concerns over air quality in the world's most polluted capital city, the tournament director said.
22 February 2017

New miniature frog species found in India

Scientists have discovered four new species of miniature night frogs small enough to sit on a fingernail in a remote part of India,
21 February 2017

7 Maoist rebels killed in India gunfight

At least seven suspected Maoist rebels were killed yesterday in a gunfight with police in the remote forests of central India, an officer
21 February 2017

Tamil Nadu gets new chief minister

An ally of disgraced Indian politician VK Sasikala was yesterday appointed the next leader of Tamil Nadu state, ending a weeks-long
16 February 2017

Indian court jails one, frees two

An Indian court sentenced one person to 10 years' imprisonment but acquitted two others yesterday over bomb blasts that ripped
16 February 2017

Big fat Indian weddings in crosshairs of thrifty MP

Extravagant Indian weddings in palaces featuring elephants, foreign dance troupes and seven-course meals could become a thing of the past if one politician fed up with the excess gets her way.
16 February 2017

India in record space mission

India hopes to make history by launching a record 104 satellites from a single rocket today as its famously frugal space agency looks to
14 February 2017

Indian SC jails would be TN CM

India's Supreme Court jailed the anointed next leader of Tamil Nadu for four years for corruption yesterday, heightening the turmoil in a
14 February 2017

Four killed in Indian Kashmir gunbattle

Three soldiers and a suspected militant were killed in a gunbattle in Indian-administered Kashmir yesterday after an army patrol came
14 February 2017

India court allows BNP leader Salahuddin to take treatment outside Shilong

A court in Shillong of India's Meghalaya allows BNP standing committee member Salahuddin Ahmed, who is suffering from kidney disease, to take better treatment outside the state.
13 February 2017

Indian commandos go missing en masse

Dozens of trainee commandos from India's elite jungle warfare unit have gone missing on the eve of their first deployment to a restive
6 February 2017

Cricket: BCCI's Media Manager Nishant Arora resigns

The Indian cricket team's media manager Nishant Arora has resigned after the Committee of Administrators (COA) decided to shut down the Delhi office of BCCI.
6 February 2017

Indians go to the polls in test for Modi's cash ban

Millions of Indians began voting yesterday in regional elections seen as the first major test of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party
4 February 2017

Indian cops kill two 'militants' in Kashmir

Two suspected rebels were killed yesterday in Indian-administered Kashmir in a firefight that broke out when government forces
4 February 2017

Apple set to make iPhones in India

Apple is to start making iPhones in India this year, a local government official said yesterday, as the company seeks to tap into a
3 February 2017

100 Indian children died from eating litchis on empty stomach: Study

More than 100 children died of mystery illness for eating litchis on an empty stomach in a year in northern India, according to a research.
2 February 2017

Bangladesh mission in Kolkata launches machine readable visas

Bangladesh mission in Kolkata launches machine readable visas (MRV) to relax the visa procedures for people of the neighbouring India.
27 January 2017