Even as team Anna member and Magsaysay award winner, Arvind Kejriwal has been slapped with an income tax notice to pay up 9.4 lakh rupees for breach of service terms, Arvind has refused to pay the amount. In support of Kejriwal who is figh
Lok Sabha will drop impeachment proceedings against Justice Soumitra Sen, originally scheduled for on Monday. The decision was taken at a meeting finance minister Pranab Mukherjee had with law minister Salman Khurshid and parliamentary aff
Mining baron and former Karnataka minister G Janardhan Reddy and managing director of Obalapuram Mining Company (OMC) B V Srinivas Reddy were arrested on Monday by CBI after searches at their premises allegedly led to seizure of over 30 kg of gold
"Khuda haafiz, Abba," were Shehla Masood`s last words to her father as she left for the state secretariat around 10 km from her house – A-100, Kohe Fiza Colony, an upscale locality in old Bhopal. Little did her father realise that
President Pratibha Patil has referred to department of justice the resignation of Calcutta High Court judge Justice Soumitra Sen five days before the Lok Sabha was to take up an impeachment motion against him as it was not in proper form.
A motion will be moved in the Lok Sabha on Monday seeking an extension of term for the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) looking into 2G spectrum allocation scam till the next budget session. The JPC`s decision to seek extension c
BJP today raised questions over the notices sent to civil society activist Arvind Kejriwal and Yoga guru Ramdev, saying the Government should come clear on whether they were intentional or mere coincidental. "It is very amusing
Irom Chanu Sharmila, the ‘iron lady’ of Manipur, is back in the limelight. For a few weeks now, in fact. Certain media houses and public intellectuals resurrected her ever since Anna Hazare went on a fast at the Ramlila Grounds.
At a recent function in New Delhi, Amartya Sen observed that it wouldn’t be right to say there has been a decline in our democracy because “we have enormously more power to make society better than we are led to believe”.
The 71-year old former Gujarat Chief Minister Shankarsinh Vaghela, who was the textile minister in the UPA-I government but lost elections in 2009, was on Friday given the reigns of the Congress campaign in the Gujarat Assembly elections slated ne
The Supreme Court today agreed to hear the plea of Maharashtra government against the acquittal of two accused in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack. A bench headed by Justice Aftab Alam, however, made it clear to the state government t
The Supreme Court today asked the Delhi Police to trace the source of money used to allegedly bribe some parliamentarians ahead of a confidence vote in Lok Sabha in 2008. While asking police to trace the source of the funds, a bench
The Supreme Court today declined to entertain a plea challenging the August 16 arrest of Anna Hazare hours before he was to begin his fast demanding a strong Lokpal. A bench of justices P Sathasivam and B S Chauhan said it would not
Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh today refuted Madhya Pradesh home minister Umashankar Gupta`s claim that the activities of banned outfit SIMI had increased during his tenure as chief minister of the state. "The home m
The appointment of Gujarat Lokayukta created turmoil in Parliament today with Opposition BJP forcing several adjournments of both the Houses demanding recall of Governor Kamala Beniwal for what they alleged was a "dictatorial" act.
Calcutta high court judge Soumitra Sen resigned on Thursday, four days before the motion for his impeachment was to be taken up by the Lok Sabha. The impeachment proceedings were slated to be taken up by the Lok Sabha on Monday and Tuesday
Calcutta High Court judge Justice Soumitra Sen`s impeachment proceedings are slated in the Lok Sabha on Monday and Tuesday and he has been informed that he can defend himself or through any lawyer before the motion, as passed against him by the Ra
A fresh attempt is being made to build consensus within the Government to amend the controversial Armed Forces Special (Powers) Act (AFSPA), home minister P Chidambaram indicated on Thursday. "I am trying to revisit AFSPA but as you k
The Bharatiya Janata Party`s MP and spokesman Tarun Vijay, a former editor of RSS mouthpiece `Panchjanya`, was on Thursday questioned by police in connection with the broad daylight murder of Bhopal-based RTI activist Shehla Masood in front of her
Bombay High Court has held that an estranged wife can seek maintenance from her husband for and on behalf of her major daughter or son so long as the child is dependent on her. "A daughter may have attained majority but so long as she
