Editorial

Mumbai : With the commodity derivatives coming under Sebi’s jurisdiction, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said the regulator must ensure that manipulative activities are curbed in this market and expressed confidence that NSEL-like problems would be dealt with effectively. Jaitley, who formalised today the merger of Forward Markets Commission (FMC) with …

New Delhi: Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore has called upon the media to play a constructive role as the fourth pillar of democracy. He said that the media should disseminate news about welfare schemes and programmes of the government on a large scale so …

New Delhi: A women lawyers’ body has moved the Supreme Court seeking blocking of all porn websites as it claimed that pornography “corrupts” the mind of the young generation and leads them to commit crime against women and children. Image source: Adult star Sunny Leone The intervention application filed by …

California: As thousands of Indian-Americans are scheduled to arrive at the SAP Center in San Jose on Sunday to attend Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address, they will have to go through a security screening which organisers claimed is tighter than that of an airport. “It (security screening) is tighter than …

New Delhi, Manan Kumar: Upping the ante, Nepal said it is looking at establishing contacts with China through land route and with other countries through air if the blockade on India border does not end soon. Nepalese deputy PM and home minister, Bamdev Gautam told dna in an interview that …

Kolkata,Indrajit Hazra : On November 1985 Sekhar Chakrabarti of Jadavpur, Kolkata received a very polite letter from the United Nations. In the letter, UN Postal Administration chief Gisela Grünewald was responding to Chakrabarti’s bitter complaint about how the spokes of the Ashoka Chakra in India’s national flag had been reduced …

New Delhi: Finance Ministry on Friday lauded efforts of Income Tax Department in unearthing over Rs 45 crore black money in Kolkata and adjoining areas. “Congratulations IT Dept. One more successful unearthing of black money in Kolkata. Keep going,” said Economic Affairs Secretary Shaktikanta Das said in a tweet. Yesterday, …

Guwahati, Shazida Khatun: Eid-ul-Adha (‘festival of Sacrifice’), also known as the Greater Eid, is the second most important festival in the Muslim calendar. The festival remembers the prophet Ibrahim’s willingness to sacrifice his son when God ordered him to.Eid al-Adha (Arabic: عيد الأضحى‎ ʿīd al-aḍḥā, [ʕiːd ælˈʔɑdˤħæ]), also called the Feast …

New Delhi: A government notification implementing ‘One Rank One Pension’ scheme may take another month, top defence sources said on Wednesday. The ex-servicemen have objected to the government’s taking of the calendar year 2013 instead of financial year 2013-14 for fixing the base.  “It can take 2-4 weeks more easily …

New Delhi,Iftikhar Gilani: Though, the government on Tuesday withdrew a draft encryption policy that would have made it mandatory for storage of all electronic messages as well as registration of devices, the timing of its unveiling has been embarrassing. Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad greets MoS Rajayavardhan Rathore as they …