In a bid to outsmart rivals ahead of the Assembly elections, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati on Tuesday announced bringing a resolution in the House for carving out four new states in the winter session beginning next week. Addressin
In the wake of the murder of two youths by eve-teasers in Amboli here, the Maharashtra Government has planned to crack down strongly on the menace of eve-teasing, through a helpline and by launching an awareness campaign. Minister o
In a landmark judgement, Bombay high court bench in Goa on Tuesday ruled that Governor of Goa was a Public Authority and did come within the ambit of the Right to Information Act. Delivering the judgement, the high court held that the Gove
A police constable attached to Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) had sent Rs 3,000 in 2008 by money order to an approver-turned-hostile accused, currently lodged in a city jail for his alleged role in the 2006 Malegaon bomb blasts, an RTI que
Australian prime minister Julia Gillard on Tuesday made a strong pitch for uranium sale to India, saying the time has come to lift the long-standing ban on its exports to the dynamic and democratic country. Gillard said she will urge the p
Team Anna on Tuesday appealed to parliamentary standing committee looking into Lokpal Bill not to exclude lower bureaucracy and judiciary from the ambit of the anti-corruption ombdusman. The reaction came amidst reports that the committee
Giving a boost to its missile programme, India on Tuesday successfully test-fired a new variant of the nuclear-capable Agni ballistic missile with a strike range of 3,000 km from an island off Odisha coast. Now christened Agni-IV, the tria
Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Vinod Rai on Tuesday appeared before the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC), a day after his former colleague R P Singh sought to dismiss the presumptive loss of Rs 1.76 lakh crore due to 2G spectrum allocati
On Tuesday, Vijay Mallya assures that Kingfisher will not close down as operating on loss making route not possible. On Monday, a eight hours long marathon meeting of the board of directors of the cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines went inc
Prime minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said the country needs creativity and innovation to address the problems of poverty, health and environment. "We have made innovations in areas such as space technology, atomic energy and autom
Petrol prices in India may be cut by Rs 2 a litre from Wednesday as global oil rates have softened and the rupee has stabilised against the US dollar. The cut in prices would negate the Rs 1.80 per litre petrol price hike effected earlier
On August 1, the movement for banning chewing tobacco in India saw a turn in its favour. The Food Safety and Standards Authority (FSSA), a statutory body under the health ministry to handle food related issues, notified new regulations called the
Monday was not Rahul Gandhi’s day. Despite preparations which began well in advance for the Congress scion’s rally in the party’s traditional bastion Phulpur, a constituency which his grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru had represented
Appearing firm in his resolve for "a strong and effective" Lokayukta, chief minister Nitish Kumar on Monday said a three-member ministerial team led by deputy chief minister S K Modi would fine-tune the draft for the purpose before placi
Bihar boy Sushil Kumar, who hit the Rs 5 crore Kaun Banega Crorepati jackpot, was on Monday named by the centre as the brand ambassador for its flagship rural job guarantee scheme MNREGA. Announcing the decision, rural development minister
The parliamentary standing committee on finance headed by senior BJP leader and former finance minister Yashwant Sinha has fixed a meeting on Friday and Saturday to exclusively deal with the black money menace in the context of the latest disclosu
The advent of RTI Act has slowed down the decision making process but given a fresh impetus to transparency in governance, Maharashtra chief minister Prithiviraj Chavan said on Monday. "Everybody has become extremely cautious (because
The city police on Monday did not oppose the bail petitions of five jailed accused in the 2008 cash-for-vote case, including two former BJP MPs and L K Advani`s former aide Sudheendra Kulkarni, besides the anticipatory bail plea of a party MP in t
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday launched his party`s election campaign in Uttar Pradesh by attacking the Mayawati-led BSP government, saying it is corrupt, has siphoned-off central funds and is insensitive to the poor. In a symbolic
Former top CAG official R P Singh on Monday appeared before the joint parliamentary committee (JPC) looking into the 2G spectrum scam and is understood to have stuck to his stand that the presumptive loss in the radiowave allocation was only Rs 2,
