A breakdown in relations with the Reserve Bank of India over the issue of the Central bank’s surplus reserves and many other issues was another blip during his tenure.

"I joined civil service with the hope that I can be the voice of those who have been silenced. But here, I lost my own voice," Kannan Gopinath said after his resignation.

Finance Minister: Banks to pass on rate cuts to consumers, CSR violation will no longer be a criminal offence.

In the CBI matter, he said, Chidambaram had already been arrested and, therefore, his plea had become infructuous. Sibal objected: “My right under Article 21 cannot be frustrated. I had not been arrested when I came to the (Supreme) Court.”

Indian badminton has won a medal at the World Championships or Olympics in every year of this decade starting 2011, and has assured itself of two more at the Basel World Championships with PV Sindhu and B Sai Praneeth entering the semi-finals.

Modi also met French Prime Minister Edouard Charles Philippe, and inaugurated a memorial in Nid D’Aigle for Indian victims of two Air India crashes in 1950 and 1966.

Sitharaman clubbed the 33 measures into five buckets: taxation, banks/ NBFCs/ SMEs, financial markets, infrastructure, and the automotive sector, which has visibly been one of the worst hit leading to many direct and indirect job losses.

With the near total shutdown of communications, officials said they have been finding it hard to get public feedback to the measures, and only when phones and Internet are restored will a picture emerge.

The sources said while panchayat elections held last year were seen as a “success”, it will be a while for the panch and sarpanch to build any sizeable political base. “That’s a few years away. Right now, we need leaders to spread the right message,” another source said.

This comes in the backdrop of several Congress leaders, including former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Jyotiraditya Scindia, openly supporting the government’s decision to revoke Jammu and Kashmir’s special status under Article 370.

Responding to the allegations, Ramani told the court, “He (Akbar) has deliberately targeted me to divert attention away from serious complaints against him. Through his testimony, he feigned ignorance about my story and my truth.”

Many of the pieces of furniture were found in a motorcycle showroom owned by Rao’s son, Sivaram, in Guntur city, according to officials of the Andhra Pradesh Assembly.

The emerging consensus within India Inc. on the need for a government-led stimulus notwithstanding, the Centre has limited fiscal space given the lower tax collections. The Budget was a missed opportunity in terms of signalling reforms

The Indian Express visited the homes of at least five of leaders in Jammu to find that they were confined inside with tight curbs in place: all visitors were questioned by police posted outside, and only friends, relatives and supporters were allowed in.

Granting his custody to the CBI, special CBI judge Ajay Kumar Kuhar directed that Chidambaram be allowed to meet his family members and lawyers for half-an-hour everyday, and that he be medically examined every 48 hours.

While blaming a large part of the problem on the high credit growth between 2004 and 2011, when it grew 27 per cent and resulted in a build-up of NPAs, he said it takes a lot for the government which has inherited all the 'systems and inertia'.

Agitated over the way Chidambaram was arrested from his residence in full media glare, the party said the objective was to humiliate him while playing to the gallery.

Flanked by the top leadership of the Congress, Chidambaram said no chargesheet had been filed in the case and the FIR by the CBI did not impute “any wrongdoing” by him. He said he will respect the law even if it is applied with an “unequal hand” by the investigating agencies.

The meeting between Modi and Macron takes place days after French diplomats played a key role in favour of India at the UNSC meeting, where China had raised the issue of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K)during informal and closed-door consultations.

The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) has come up with a code of conduct that bars its officials and their immediate family from accepting such degrees.

Donald Trump's latest remarks have set the stage for a possible meeting between him and Modi at the G-7 summit meeting in Biarritz, France, between August 25 and 26.

The awards were handed across 16 categories ranging from Agriculture to Education and Technology to Women Development. The winners were chosen from 249 entries received from 84 districts in 24 states.

The winning entries include projects like a cluster of solar panels installed on a hillock as an alternate energy source; a neo-natal unit in the heart of Maoist territory and an anti-corruption drive along the international border.

While the government said that landline services were being restored slowly across the Valley, in Srinagar’s Lalchowk, where the main exchange is located, subscribers said that services were restored for two hours Monday and then disconnected again.