NEW DELHI: As part of its efforts to clamp down on hoarding of onions and potatoes and rein in their prices, the Centre on Wednesday empowered states to fix a limit on the quantities of the kitchen staples that can be held in stock.

 PATNA: The RJD and Congress on Wednesday attacked the Narendra Modi government for increasing rail fares, hiking prices of petroleum products and for the rising prices of almost all essential commodities, including onions, despite making promises of 'achche din aane wale hain' (good days are coming) to the public during the recent Lok Sabha elections.

NEW DELHI: With reports that US national security agency snooped on BJP kicking up a political storm, a seething India looks set to strongly lodge a protest with the top rungs of the US administration.

NEW DELHI: Army chief General Bikram Singh, who is also the chairman of chiefs of staff committee, is beginning an official tour to China on Wednesday.

NEW DELHI: NTPC lost two years of progress in developing two major captive coal mines — Kerandari and Chattibariatu — due to the government's decision to de-allot and then re-allot the blocks, the state-run generation utility said on Tuesday.

SHIMLA: Search teams on Tuesday recovered another body of an engineering student from Pandoh Dam, taking the headcount to 21, while search in on to trace the remaining four bodies.

NEW DELHI: Ahead of hearing in the Supreme Court, the Central Bureau of Investigation has closed investigations into five-six more coal block allocations for want of sufficient evidence of irregularities.

 KOLKATA: A visit to Cambodia to attract investors to Kolkata's realty business is unheard of. So is it difficult to comprehend the continuous telephone calls lasting over 10 minutes each between Saradha owner Sudipta Sen and certain unknown numbers which have been issued to aides of some top political leaders.

LONDON: Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer can inch closer to a Wimbledon semifinal clash when they headline a delayed last-16 schedule on Tuesday.

PORTO ALEGRE: That wildly infectious AC/DC rock number 'Thunderstruck' which blares out of Brazil's stadiums before the team's line up could well have been Germany's theme song for the day here. What a day poor Thomas Mueller had, what an equally wretched day his goalkeeper Manuel Neuer had. And, in the dark grey clouds of cold, rainy Porto Alegre, what a soaring journey his opposite number Rais Mbolhi had.