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President Pranab Mukherjee has appointed Syed Nasim Ahmad Zaidi as the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) who will assume his charge on April 19, an official statement said on Thursday. Nasim Zaidi succeeds Chief Election Commissioner…

Global ratings agency Moody's on Thursday enhanced India's sovereign rating to positive from stable, expecting positive steps from policy-makers to spur growth and put the country ahead of peers -- a development that finance ministry said…

The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed the plea by 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blast mastermind Yakub Abdul Razak Memon for a review of his death sentence. Memon had sought the recall of March 21, 2013, apex court order upholding his death…

B.V.R. Mohan Reddy has become the new chairman of the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom), the apex body of India's software industry said on Wednesday. The executive council elected Reddy, founder and…

The transmission and distribution sector can expect private sector investments of nearly Rs.300,000 crore over the next four years, Power Minister Piyush Goyal said on Wednesday. "If we get transmission and sub-transmission right, I see…

After Lalu Prasad's Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), the ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) of Bihar has affirmed its approval for the merger of six parties of the erstwhile Janata Parivar. "The party has declared its support for merger and…

Angry protests swept the US as a horrifying video showing a white police officer shooting eight times a black person running away from him led to the officer being charged with murder and fired. Protests began within hours of the murder…

Praising small businesses, notably for contributing towards growth and providing jobs to some 12 crore people, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promised to empower them and said a new self-employment scheme will address the aspirations of…

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed on Thursday denied that there was any proposal to set up separate clusters for migrant Pandits in the Kashmir Valley. Responding to the hue and cry raised in the state legislative…

A special CBI court on Thursday found B. Ramalinga Raju, his brother Rama Raju and eight others guilty in the multi-crore Satyam scam. Ramalinga Raju, the Satyam Computer Services Limited's founder and former chairman, and his brother…