Los Angeles, Feb 29 : "The Revenant" had a golden night by taking home the top honours, including a Best Actor gong for Leonardo DiCaprio and Best Director for Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, at the 88th Academy Awards. British filmmaker of Indian origin Asif Kapadia won the golden statuette for "Amy", India's Reliance Entertainment-backed "Bridge Of
New Delhi, Feb 29 : Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday announced a new amnesty scheme for those having unaccounted money to come clean by paying 45 percent of their undisclosed asset. Presenting his budget for the year 2016-17, Jaitley said a new amnesty scheme will be implemented for black money holders to come
Srinagar, Feb 29: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Monday said Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has made the opposition’s job a “bit tougher” with his general budget not focused on the affluent of the nation. “By not focusing the benefits of #UnionBudget2016 on the #suitboot people Arun Jaitley has cleverly made the
New Delhi, Feb 29 : The CPI-M on Monday condemned the registration of a sedition case against its general secretary Sitaram Yechury and others in Hyderabad. "The FIR has been lodged by the police ostensibly because these leaders had extended support to the students of JNU who are protesting against the arrest (in a) sedition
Srinagar, Feb 29 Jammu and Kashmir Police used batons and tear smoke shells to disperse protesting teachers here on Monday. Some 500 teachers along with members of the Employees' Joint Action Committee gathered in the Residency Road area here shouting slogans against the director of school education whom they blamed for anti-teacher policies. Police intervened when
New Delhi, Feb 29 Continuing government efforts to deal with the high levels of non-performing assets (NPAs), or bad debts, of state-run banks, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday allocated Rs.25,000 crore towards their recapitalisation in the next fiscal. He made the announcement while presenting in parliament the union budget proposals for the next fiscal. Jaitley
New Delhi, Feb 29 : Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday gave relief to small tax payers, nudged the affluent to shell out more while focusing on the rural economy with much higher fiscal outlays, as he presented India's national budget for 2016-17 in the Lok Sabha. He also said that people living in rented
Mumbai, Feb 29 : Union Budget announcements, combined with negative Asian cues, and a dip in the rupee value depressed the Indian equity markets during the mid-afternoon trade session on Monday. Consequently, the barometer 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) traded flat. During the Union Budget announcements, the barometer index plunged to
New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Monday said the general budget presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was "historic". "For the first time in the history, more than Rs.1 lakh crore is allocated to development of roads, its historic," he told media persons minutes after the
Ludhiana, Feb 29 : Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had a narrow escape on Monday when some men armed with iron rods attacked his car here, coming "within an inch of grievously injuring" him, the AAP said. Kejriwal, whose five-day tour of Punjab ends later in the day, tweeted that his car was attacked with