Samrat Choudhary sworn in as Bihar’s 24th Chief Minister, scripts BJP’s first at the helmSamrat Choudhary has been sworn in as Bihar's 24th Chief Minister, marking the first time the BJP leads the state government. This elevatio...
15 Apr, 2026, 03.42 PM IST
KT Rama Rao slams Telangana govt over alleged decline of IT jobs in HyderabadIn a post on X, KTR claimed that the government accepted the decline during the motion of thanks to the Governor's address and in the Deput...
21 Mar, 2026, 11.08 AM IST
UK finance minister, Bank of England governor in touch over SVB collapseOfficials from the finance ministry and the Bank of England are working closely together, the statement said, adding that the junior financ...
11 Mar, 2023, 08.50 PM IST
Crisis-hit Sri Lanka appoints 37 junior ministers, including nephew of ousted President Gotabaya RajapaksaThe majority of the junior ministers or lawmakers appointed in the ministers of state rank were from the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna...
08 Sep, 2022, 03.54 PM IST
UK's Boris Johnson battles to hold on to PM post as top ministers quitJohnson, however, maintains that he will retain his position and when asked about possibility of election, he said," you are asking about s...
06 Jul, 2022, 09.38 PM IST
MoS Finance Anurag Thakur heckled at ACMA eventThakur was seeking inputs from industry players on the reasons behind the slowdown.
06 Sep, 2019, 02.41 PM IST
'Dream Budget' to INX nightmare: P Chidambaram faces toughest test of careerChidambaram started off as a hard-core leftist arguing in favour of the command economy in the late 1960s.
22 Aug, 2019, 09.13 PM IST
No plan to junk Rs 2000 banknotes: Junior FMSpeculation about a possible discontinuation of the highest value bills became rife after there was a massive currency shortages in many st...
14 May, 2018, 08.45 PM IST
Jayant Sinha will continue to head IFC task forceMr Sinha was the minister of state for finance but was moved to the aviation ministry as its junior minister in July.
14 Oct, 2016, 01.33 AM IST
Big changes in cabinet reshuffle; Prakash Javadekar lands HRD, Ravi Shankar Prasad loses telecomSmriti Irani has been made textile minister and while Prasad will retain electronics and IT, Manoj Sinha has been made minister of state (i...
06 Jul, 2016, 02.55 AM IST
5 FPIs file writ petitions against I-T department at Bombay HCForeign portfolio investors (FPIs) have locked horns with the government over taxing profit from sales of shares in India.
30 Apr, 2015, 01.39 PM IST
Government tries to soothe nerves of jittery FIIs on MAT levyThe government on Wednesday sought to calm jittery FIIs and clarified that minimum alternate tax (MAT) on the capital gains made by oversea...
23 Apr, 2015, 08.45 AM IST
Land Bill: PM Modi instructs junior ministers to tour villages for quashing misconceptionSenior ministers along with their juniors are being deployed to try and combat what government is terming "most serious propaganda challeng...
02 Apr, 2015, 06.45 AM IST
Jayant Sinha, the man who mooted universal identification number for all IndiansFirst in suggesting the Saral form for filing income-tax returns, which made it easier for salaried classes to pay taxes.
10 Nov, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
Narendra Modi’s diktat that seniors shouldn’t hog all administrative responsibilities accepted in letter & spiritFirst-time MP from Arunachal Pradesh has been entrusted with 71 administrative subjects from lotteries and ‘top secret seals’ to the Census...
23 Jun, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
- Congress stands by Chidambaram, says it has full faith in his integrity
The mistrust in the relations between the two leaders was out in the open recently when Mukherjee complained about his office being bugged.
23 Sep, 2011, 02.21 AM IST
- Junior ministers seek work for pay
Most of the ministers who complained of being either under-employed or totally unemployed, have their own party colleagues manning the seni...
20 Jan, 2010, 01.41 AM IST