Objections by existing airlines won't block new entrants: mini...

NEW DELHI: The highways ministry will seek permission of the Election Commission to award works for over 60 road projects involving over Rs 22,000 crore investment. While finances for the first set of about 55 works have been sanctioned by the ...

Union Minister for Civil Aviation Mr. Ajit Singh has said that the country will become worlds third largest aviation market by 2020, with enhanced Airport system that could handle 336 million domestic and 41 million international passengers. India currently ...

For the first time ever, the BJP's headquarters for a Lok Sabha election is outside New Delhi. Rediff.com's Sheela Bhatt's fascinating new column where she reveals the ground realities in the Battle for India. Many New Delhi-based journalists get calls, smses and e-mails from friends, relatives and acquaintances living outside New Delhi these days, asking, "So what's the big picture?" As Election 2014 nears, the suspense is building up. A celebrity film director, who has directed Amitabh ...

The Cabinet in its meeting scheduled for tomorrow may approve the Road Ministry's proposal, of setting up a new company National Highways Construction Company Ltd for building roads in border areas and in the north eastern region of the country, a source ...

NEW DELHI: The finance ministry will soon write to British telecom major Vodafone to press the company to seek an early decision from the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) in the Rs 8,500-crore transfer pricing case. The Union Cabinet had, on ...

Even as the Swasthya Adhikar Manch, fighting a case on clinical trials in the Supreme Court, claimed that as many as 3458 people died during the trials in the last nine years including 590 in the year of 2013 alone, the government contented that ...

Patna, March 11: Chief minister Nitish Kumar today inducted legislator Lesi Singh in his cabinet that had become bereft of women in the wake of the resignations of Parveen Amanullah last month and Renu Kumari Kushwaha yesterday. "It was not looking ...

Regional Passport Officer Narendra Singh told TOI that the decision to issue new passports was taken after the Ministry of External Affairs stepped in to offer help to the grief-struck family.

Indian government unveils plans for additional solar capacity in Jammu and Kashmir India's Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has announced a plan to introduce some 7,500 megawatts of new solar energy capacity to Jammu and Kashmir. This ...