Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Monday said the Centre has decided to increase its contribution to the NPS for the central government employees to 14 per cent and also made the entire withdrawal amount tax free at the time of retirement.
A lawyer who had filed a PIL in the Bombay High Court against the new legislation providing reservation to Maratha community in Maharashtra was attacked outside the court premises on Monday, a police official said.
UP man gets life term for electrocuting mentally challenged wife to death in Bareilly
Two former Chinese defence ministers sentenced to death for corruption
Former Rajasthan minister Mahesh Joshi arrested in Rs 960 crore JJM scam
Marxism will remain relevant despite Left electoral's losses, says general secretary M A Baby
Two forest officials in ACB net for taking Rs 3.5 lakh bribe in Telangana
Four booked for tying 18-year-old to tree, beating him up in UP's Pratapgarh
BCCI decision to shift IPL finals to Ahmedabad may be due to commercial viability: Minister
Retired Major Subhash Gawand, veteran of 1962, 1971 wars, passes away in Thane
Nora Fatehi apologises before NCW over 'Sarke Chunar' row, vows support for orphan girls
Passenger, railway staff in Maddur stabbed by two men who fought for train seat
2005 'fake' encounter of gangster Sohrabuddin Shaikh: HC upholds acquittal of 22 persons
We received request; will decide soon whether to support TVK: Thirumavalavan
A US-Bangla Airlines flight from Dhaka to Kolkata reported a bird hit while landing at the N S C Bose International Airport here Monday, airport sources said.
RLSP president Upendra Kushwaha Monday resigned from the Union council of ministers, a day ahead of the start of Parliament's Winter Session.
A 24-year-old man arrested in a gang-rape case in Goa escaped from police custody here Monday when he was brought to a hospital for medical treatment, police said.
Noted historian and former Jamia Millia Islamia vice chancellor Mushirul Hasan passed away early Monday after prolonged illness at a private hospital here, the university said.
An octogenarian woman, who was locked inside her home in Shahjahanpur allegedly by her son, was found dead, police said Monday.
The benchmark BSE Sensex cracked over 550 points Monday as investors turned jittery over exit poll results ahead of outcome of state elections, weakening rupee and crude oil price rise amid escalation in US-China trade tensions.
India's growth has been "very solid" over the past four years, IMF's Chief Economist Maurice Obstfeld on Sunday said, praising the fundamental economic reforms like the GST and the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code carried out by the government.
The body of a 22-year-old man was found Sunday at the same place in a village in Maharashtra's Solapur district where his wife was killed by her parents two months ago in a suspected "honour killing" case, police said.
