In the backdrop of controversial suspension of Durga Sakthi Nagpal, the Centre is considering amending rules to ensure an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer is not suspended or transferred due to vested interest.

Government’s premier medical institution, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) had spent a whopping over Rs 42 lakh on the renovation work for the bungalow of its director R.C. Deka in 2009-10, the year he took over as its chief.

Army Chief Gen Bikram Singh has pulled up the commanders of formations deployed in Poonch sector of Line of Control (LoC) in the wake of two major raids by the Pakistan Army special troops in Indian territory in the last eight months.

Housing finance companies and infrastructure finance companies will get higher funding from the insurance companies as the sector regulator Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) has relaxed investment norms for these firms.

Drug major Cipla Friday posted 10.28 per cent rise in consolidated net profit at Rs 485.35 crore for the first quarter ended June 30, 2013, on account of robust sales growth in domestic as well as export markets.

Czech carmaker Skoda will resume selling of its sedan Octavia in India with the company Friday starting to roll out the latest generation of the model from its plant at Aurangabad.

Amid gloomy sentiment across various markets, gold is turning out to be a worse investment avenue than stocks so far this year, yielding double the losses compared to equities.

Clearing the air over the party’s chief ministerial candidate ahead of the Delhi Assembly elections, BJP president Rajnath Singh said on Thursday that the party has not taken any decision so far.

A Class 3 student got electrocuted after coming in contact with a signboard of a gift house in Seemapuri area of northeast Delhi on Wednesday night.

Despite the fact that the BJP was prepared to support the measure, the government appeared Thursday to have developed cold feet on clearing the law ministry proposal to set up an independent “Judicial