NEW DELHI: Confident of meeting direct tax collection target for the current fiscal, the Indian Finance Minister P Chidambaram Monday said the government will ensure stable tax regime and non-adversarial approach in revenue collection."We will ensure there is a stable tax regime, there is stable tax laws and everybody adopts a non-adversarial approach to tax collection," he said after...

NEW DELHI: India's exports in July contracted 14.8 per cent, steepest fall in three years, to USD 22.4 billion, mainly due to the demand slowdown in the US and Europe.Reflecting slowdown in the economy, imports too declined by 7.61 per cent to USD 37.9 billion in July, leaving a trade deficit of USD 15.4 billion.During the April-July period of...

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today expressed displeasure over the PMO officials' failure to hold a meeting of the committee, headed by the Prime Minister, to resolve the Cauvery water-sharing dispute between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.A bench of justices D K Jain and Madan B Lokur expressed surprise when it was told that the meeting had not been held...

NEW DELHI: The government today said it has conveyed its concerns to China about its activities in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK).In a written reply to the Lok Sabha today, Defense Minister A K Antony also said India has asked the Chinese government to cease such activities in PoK."Government has conveyed its concerns to China about their activities in PoK...

ISLAMABAD: A young Christian girl arrested on a blasphemy charge that has sparked an international outcry will remain in a high-security jail till at least Friday as the court hearing her case was adjourned today.Judge Muhammad Azam Khan adjourned the case until September 7 because of a lawyers' strike today.The adjournment followed a request from the lawyer of Malik...

Ileana D’Cruz, the southern hottie, is very much impressed by the performance of Ranbir Kapoor in the movie “Barfi”. But she is not at all worried by getting overshadowed by Ranbir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra in the Anurag Basu film. She says she was ready to act in the film as she had complete trust in the work and...

Bipasha Basu has been in the film industry for a very long time, and she feels that actor’s live a very sad life.“An actor’s life is very sad. The biggest of superstars in our country fade away after some time and are remembered only when they die. But what to do? It is very vulnerable, very sad, but that...

No puffiness under the eyes or receding hairline as Sanjay Dutt shot for KS Ravikumar's Saamy.Sanjay Dutt recently returned from Germany where he underwent a knee surgery. Reportedly, the actor also got a few cosmetic treatments done to get rid of the under eye bags.Shooting for the remake of Tamil hit Saamy at Ramoji Rao Film City, Hyderabad, he...

Kangna Ranaut recently met with an accident. The actress was trying to show some action moves to her crew members right in the middle of a busy street in Paris, but her foolishness made her fall flat on her face.A source told a leading daily, "Kangna was fooling around the sets, showing off kicks learnt for her superhero film....

We all know how being 'tipsy' can complicate life for us, don't we? After getting drunk, actress Raima Sen went berserk and tweeted saying she will be marrying her best friend Varun Thapar. Only in the morning did she realize the blunder she had made and quickly tweeted that she was only joking!Raima, who had been to a party...