New Delhi: Addressing a rally of electric rikshaw pullers in New Delhi, minister for Road transport, Highways and Shipping Nitin Gadkari announced some important policy decisions including removing the rickshaws which run with power below 650 watts from the preview of the Motor Vehicles Act.

New Delhi: Union Minister for Communications & IT, Law & Justice, Ravi Shankar Prasad has said that the moral of the Department was not in happy situation because of this being in news for wrong reasons in the past.

New Delhi: The international crude oil price went down to US$110.31 per barrel on June 17. This was lower than the price of US$110.42 per bbl on previous publishing day of June 16.

New Delhi: The international crude oil price went down to US$110.42 per barrel on June 16. This was lower than the price of US$110.54 per bbl on previous publishing day of June 13.

New Delhi: The annual rate of inflation, based on monthly WPI, stood at 6.01% for the month of May, 2014 (over May,2013) as compared to 5.20% for the previous month and 4.58% during the corresponding month of the previous year. Build up inflation rate in the financial year so far was 0.78% compared to a build up rate of 0.76% in the corresponding period of the previous year.

Washington: Nearly half of all Americans between the ages of 60 and 90 will encounter at least one year of poverty or near poverty, says a recent study by Mark R Rank, the Herbert S Hadley Professor of Social Work at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.