Trap shooter Ronjan Sodhi, the first Indian to win two back-to-back World Cup gold medals, was Tuesday recommended for the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, while star cricketer Virat Kohli was among the 14 sportspersons picked for the Arjuna award by the selection committee here.

The government on Wednesday increased import duty on gold, silver and platinum to 10 per cent with a view to arrest the declining value of rupee and contain the fiscal deficit to 3.7 per cent of the GDP.

Amidst no early end to the simmering tensions between India and Pakistan in sight and both sides accusing each other of ceasefire violations, the Pakistan high commission in New Delhi on Monday said t

The CBI is likely to register cases against senior officials of the Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh governments as part of its probe into the Coalgate scam.

Claiming it to be their prerogative, most major political parties except Mayawati’s BSP on Monday opposed any restriction on their announcing freebies in poll manifestos.

On the eve of Tuesday’s all-party meeting on the Food Security Bill, Gujarat CM Narendra Modi, who heads the BJP’s campaign committee for the Lok Sabha polls, has said in a letter to Prime Minister Ma

The government unveiled several proposals Monday to narrow the current account deficit, including liberalising ECB guidelines and allowing public sector financial institutions to raise quasi-sovereign

Rajdhani College has cancelled admission of more than 30 students under the sports quota.

Security has been stepped up at the IGI Airport, on the Delhi Metro network, all markets, temples and important places in the city in view of possible threats ahead of Independence Day.

A 24-year-old nurse working with Sir Ganga Ram Hospital allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling of her hostel room in the hospital premises at Rajender Nagar.