The government on Wednesday approved a Personal Data Protection Bill that will ensure a proper way of handling the user data by public and private entities.

Former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, asking him not to include his name in the new government due to his ill health.

In the last Cabinet meeting ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections, the Modi government took 30 key decisions, which included projects for Delhi Metro and a committee to draw up norms for unauthorised colonies, to benefit the people of India.

In a big infrastructural move, the Cabinet on Friday approved management of six airports -Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Lucknow, Guwahati, Thiruvananthapuram and Mangaluru under the proposed Public Private Partnership (PPP) model.

The Tamil Nadu government on Sunday decided to recommend to Governor Banwarilal Purohit the release of seven convicts serving life term for the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Fisheries Minister D. Jayakumar said.

Former Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar, who faces a Lokayukta probe in connection with the Rs 1.44-lakh crore mining renewal scam, has stated in his affidavit filed before the anti-corruption authority that "certain individuals", who were involved in the process of granting renewals, were "left out" in the complaint filed by an environment foundation.

The Goa Congress on Friday took exception to Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar going to the US for indigestion treatment and sought Governor Mridula Sinha's intervention to prevent the collapse of governance in the state.

Political party leaders in Tamil Nadu on Thursday welcomed a Supreme Court order asking the Governor to decide on the mercy petition of A.G. Perarivalan, serving life term for the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

Nearly nine months before its term was to end, the Telangana Assembly was on Thursday dissolved by the Governor on a recommendation by the state cabinet.

The Telangana cabinet met on Thursday afternoon and is understood to have taken a decision on recommending dissolution of the Assembly to pave the way for early elections.