Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh, sent to judicial custody for his alleged role in the cash-for-votes scam, is likely to be lodged either in jail number 1 or 3 of Tihar prisons. He reached the jail premises at 6.25 pm and entered through Gate No
Former Tamil Nadu minister and senior DMK leader Veerapandi S Arumugam was rearrested on Tuesday in connection with a land grabbing case soon after he was released from jail on bail. Arumugam, lodged in the Central jail here in connection
Andhra Pradesh minister T Narasimhulu has said that Rs 4,000 crore has been allocated in the state budget this year for the development of education sector. He said the state government took an initative to develop education sector with an
India on Tuesday lost the hosting rights of this year`s Champions Trophy hockey tournament, paying the price for an ongoing administrative row over the governance of the game in the country. The International Hockey Federation (FIH) announ
Kiran Bedi on Tuesday became the second Team Anna member after Arvind Kejriwal to ask "exact particulars" of her remarks, which the MPs have found "derogatory", so that she could effectively respond to the breach of privilege n
Cabinet ministers in the union council are facing the embarrassing task of having to inform environment minister Jayanthi Natarjan that her attendance of the cabinet meeting is a breach of protocol. Natarajan`s portfolio is a ministry of state (in
A Delhi court on Tuesday sought CBI`s stand on a plea by all 17 accused in the 2G spectrum case, including former telecom minister A Raja and DMK MP Kanimozhi, for making the TRAI report a part of the court`s records. All the accused, incl
The existence of uncle judges is an open secret, but if an order of the central information commission (CIC) is executed, then for the first time the Supreme Court itself may reveal the names of such judges. In an order dated August 11, the CIC di
With parliament proceedings stalled over the issue of appointment of lokayukta in Gujarat, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday held a meeting with BJP parliamentary party chief L K Advani in an effort to end the impasse. Sour
In a dramatic turn of events in the sensational 2008 cash-for-vote scam, Rajya Sabha member Amar Singh was on Tuesday arrested when he made a surprise appearance in a local court after first claiming that he was too ill to attend the proceedings.
Chief minister Mayawati wants WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be put in a "mental asylum" because she is upset over leaked US diplomatic cables that painted her as an "egomaniac." The leaked US diplomatic cables rel
FICCI (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry) is organizing a two day programme on publishing industry. "PubliCon 2011: The Business of Publishing", scheduled on 28-29 Sept at FICCI, New Delhi, acknowledge the potential
Prime minister Manmohan Singh says there need not be any fears in Bangladesh over the issue of offering transit facilities to India for getting easy access to the country`s landlocked northeast. Ahead of his two-day visit to Bangladesh sta
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday refused to say anything on her opting out of prime minister Manmohan Singh`s two-day visit to Bangladesh from Tuesday. "I have nothing to say," an official told reporter
The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) is examining a finance ministry report on complaints against K M Abraham, a former member of capital market regulator Sebi, by a sitting member of Parliament. "We have got
A high-level committee, appointed by the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) in the aftermath of the Fukushima incident, has expressed satisfaction over prevailing measures for safeguarding nuclear reactors, even as it proposed "back-up&quo
Though India has made substantial progress in containing tuberculosis (TB), its huge population poses a challenge in efforts to check the spread of the disease, a top World Health Organisation (WHO) official said on Sunday. "India has
In order to launch an attack on the Modi-led BJP government in the run up to Gujarat assembly elections due in December 2012, Gujarat Congress has decided to raise corruption as its main poll-campaign issue. Party sources said that
Amid a raging debate on the issue of clemency for killers of Rajiv Gandhi, the main investigator in the 20-year-old case D R Karthikeyan says that he will be happy if the death penalty of the three accused is commuted to life sentence. Wit
