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India's Economic Survey for 2016-17 has pegged the country's growth at between 6.75 per cent and 7.5 percent, while going by the 7.1 percent expansion for the current fiscal provisionally projected by the Central Statistics Office.....
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said the government was a "complete failure" in creating jobs for the youths.....
Senior Kerala MP, E. Ahamed, on Tuesday suffered a heart attack and collapsed in Parliament's Central Hall. His condition is critical, doctors at RML hospital said.....
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is likely to offer additional tax breaks to the salaried class, increase government spending to boost flagging demand and prepare the ground for the launch of basic universal income for some proportion of Indians who live below the poverty line -- 172 million at last count -- while presenting his fourth budget on February 1.....
After initially dropping Varun Gandhi from the list of "star campaigners" in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP on Thursday included his name for the third and fourth phases of polling in the state, a party official said.....
Trinamool Congress MP on Friday protested against the Narendra Modi government in the Parliament House complex on Friday, alleging that it was indulging in "vendetta politics" in a probe into a chit fund scam.....
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday introduced a bill on demonetisation in the Lok Sabha to formally make the banning of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes a law.....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday strongly defended his government's decision to ban high value currency notes, saying it was the right step taken at the right time to rid the Indian economy of tax evasion and black money.....
Former Union Minister E. Ponnusamy on Friday joined the camp of Tamil Nadu acting Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam.....
Several thousand Jats from various states held a rally at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, on Thursday to press their demands, and announced they would intensify their stir in Delhi, even laying siege to Parliament on March 20.....