Nirmala Sitharaman named the new defence minister, only the second woman to hold the post since former prime minister Indira Gandhi. “Somebody who has come from a small town, grown into the party with all the support of the leadership, and if given such responsibility, it just makes you feel sometimes that cosmic grace is there. Otherwise it is impossible,” […]
» Read morePower minister Piyush Goyal, newly elevated to cabinet rank, was on Sunday given charge of the railway ministry.
» Read moreHeavy rain lashed across Bengaluru for the second consecutive day on Saturday with south and east Bengaluru getting more then 65 mm of rain. After the overnight rains, parts of Bengaluru including Anugraha Layout, HSR Layout and Koramangala 4th Block were flooded early morning on Saturday. Residents of HSR Layout said there was a chance that Somasundarpalya lake would breach […]
» Read moreMost popular economist Rajiv Kumar on Friday took over as the vice-chairman of government think tank Niti Aayog. Mr. Kumar replaced Arvind Panagariya, an Indian-American economist who left the think tank on Thursday to return to academia. Mr. Kumar was a senior fellow at the Centre for Policy Research (CPR). He holds a DPhil in economics from Oxford and a […]
» Read moreIndian space programme as it suffered a serious setback after its workhorse rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) failed to deliver India’s eighth navigation satellite in its intended orbit. The 1,425 kg Indian Regional Navigation Satellite-1H (IRNSS-1H), which was launched at 7 p.m. on board the PSLV, was declared unsuccessful after its heat shield failed to separate. Indian Space Research […]
» Read moreIn a major bureaucratic reshuffle, Government on Thursday appointed IAS officer Sunil Arora as Election Commissioner and former Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi as Comptroller and Auditor General of India. Mehrishi, a 1978-batch Rajasthan cadre IAS officer, will replace SK Sharma, who is retiring on September 24. Mehrishi retired yesterday from the post of Home Secretary after serving a period of […]
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