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Ravi Shankar Prasad said the campaign has become a peoples movement. (Photo: ANI)

Telcos to install over 57,500 mobile towers in rural areas in FY'20:...

'BharatNet' project is being implemented to offer broadband connectivity to all 2.5 lakh Gram Panchayats (GPs) in India.

10 July 2019 5:21 PM IST

Finance Minister referred to the government setting fiscal deficit target of 3.3 per cent from an earlier 3.4 per cent and said there should be no anxiety. (Photo: ANI)

Govt committed to fiscal consolidation, boost investment in social...

She said that the amount of money spent on central government schemes was higher two years after the implementation of...

10 July 2019 4:45 PM IST

Equipment used by the sand mafia for illegal mining in the Narmada.

21 states have framed rules to curb illegal mining: Minister

State governments, he said, are empowered to make rules for prevention of illegal mining, transportation and storage of...

10 July 2019 2:56 PM IST

Union minister Piyush Goyal borrowed the phrase to hit back at the Congress chief for a tweet targeting him over corruption allegations. (Photo: File)

No proposal to privatise Railways: Goyal

Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said 'no specific passenger train has been identified to be run by private payers so far.'

10 July 2019 2:03 PM IST

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi leaves Sewree court in Mumbai. (Photo: Rajesh Jadhav)

Desist from propaganda: Cong denies demanding front row seat for Rahul...

The number of front row seats a party gets in the Lok Sabha depends on its strength in the House.

10 July 2019 1:15 PM IST

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday accused the Congress in the Lok Sabha of failing to put its own house in order in Karnataka and was disturbing the proceedings of Parliament. (Photo: File)

Congress unable to put its house in order: Rajnath Singh

Rajnath maintained that the problems faced by the party following the resignation of its MLAS in the state were its...

9 July 2019 2:13 PM IST

The NIA was set up in 2009 in the wake of the Mumbai terror attack that had claimed 166 lives. (Photo: File)

Bill in Lok Sabha to allow NIA probe terror beyond borders

The Bill was introduced on Monday by Union minister of state for home G. Krishna Reddy.

9 July 2019 1:56 AM IST

21 Regional Rural Banks amalgamated, says govt

The roadmap proposes to bring down the number of RRBs to 38 from 56, said MoS Finance Anurag Thakur.

8 July 2019 5:01 PM IST

Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in the Lok Sabha session on Monday. (Photo: LSTV)

'Our party has nothing to do with it': Rajnath Singh on K'taka crisis

'Our party has never indulged in horse trading,' Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said in the Parliament on Monday.

8 July 2019 1:29 PM IST

Further, the Aadhaar law introduced in Parliament as a money bill is a fraud on the Constitution.

Bill okays voluntary Aadhaar ID usage

The amended bill also provides for a stiff Rs 1 crore penalty and a jail term for private entities for storing Aadhaar...

5 July 2019 3:04 AM IST

TMC MP Mahua Moitra said that the bill violates Supreme Court judgment and lacks transparency. (Photo: File)

Can't have cart before horse': Mahua Moitra attacks Aadhaar over...

This bill strikes at the very heart of the primacy of an individual, and privacy of an individual's data,' Moitra said.

4 July 2019 8:35 PM IST

TMC MP Mahua Moitra said that the bill violates Supreme Court judgment and lacks transparency. (Photo: File)

Aadhar bill lacks transparency: TMC MP Mahua Moitra in LS

She said that Addhar was meant to provide services to the poor and was never meant to provide data.

4 July 2019 4:39 PM IST