The water level in the Ganga has started receding, a week after it started rising rapidly following rains in some areas, an official of the central water commission said on Tuesday. After touching the mark of 67.69 m, Ganga`s water
The water level in the Ganga has started receding, a week after it started rising rapidly following rains in some areas, an official of the central water commission said on Tuesday. After touching the mark of 67.69 m, Ganga`s water
The Central Information Commission (CIC) has directed the CBI to make public properties of its officials posted in Delhi and Mumbai and their source of income for the last 10 years. The transparency panel also directed the CBI to di
The Telangana movement gathered further steam on Tuesday with Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) president K Chandrasekhar Rao and party MP Vijay Shanthi resigning from their Lok Sabha membership in support of the demand for a separate state.
Nearly two months after his visit to the epicentre of farmers` protests at Bhatta Parsaul that led to his midnight arrest, Rahul Gandhi made his way to the twin villages again here early this morning throwing a fresh challenge to Uttar Pradesh chi
Engineering colleges in Maharashtra, which were finding it extremely difficult to get candidates for degree courses, have some reason to cheer now. The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), an an advisory body in all matters r
Minister of corporate affairs Murli Deora has offered to resign ahead of talk of a possible cabinet reshuffle. Deora, 74, said he has submitted his resignation and sought to dismiss reports that he has asked for his son Milind Deora`s incl
In a setback to Sikkim high court chief justice P D Dinakaran, the supreme court on Tuesday refused to quash some of the charges framed against him by a Rajya Sabha-appointed panel. The panel was looking into allegations of corrupt practices and m
With a joint parliamentary committee probing 2G spectrum allocation scam allowing former telecom secretary Siddhartha Behura to depose before it, a Delhi court today asked Tihar jail authorities to produce him before the lawmakers` panel on July 1
The CBI may ask oil ministry to appoint an expert to assist it in understanding transactions surrounding Reliance Industries` crown jewel KG-D6 fields, where the company has shown a phenomenal increase in cost of producing gas. The central
For many like Monika Sinha from Chhattishgarh, cut-offs are not the only barrier to admission into a Delhi university college. Sinha, who is visually impaired, had to give up a seat at Lady Sri Ram (LSR) college despite making it to the BA (prog)
The Delhi high court on Monday ordered the union home ministry to pay Rs 15 lakh each to the families of Pradeep Goyal and Jagjit Singh who were killed in a fake encounter at Connaught Place (CP) in 1997. The ministry has been directed to
National spokesperson for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Nirmala Sitharaman is being considered for a Rajya Sabha nomination from Gujarat. The BJP parliamentary party is meeting on July 12 to finalise a list of candidates. Sitharaman`s p
Favouring that linkages be built between MNREGA and HIV/AIDS programmes, prime minister Manmohan Singh on Monday said ministries should make "HIV sensitive" policies and programmes to provide employment and succour to victims. &q
The Tamil Nadu government today handed over to its top investigative agency CB-CID, the probe into the killing of a 13-year-old boy who died of gunshot injuries after he trespassed into an army area at Island Grounds here. "The case h
The government is making an effort to pass the Lokpal bill at the earliest and it may be presented in the coming monsoon session of Parliament, provided parliamentary procedures are followed, home minister P Chidambaram said here on Monday.
Mounting pressure on the centre for an early decision on separate Telangana, 10 Congress MPs and 39 of its MLAs, including 11 ministers, and 34 TDP MLAs from the region today resigned from Parliament and Andhra Pradesh Assembly. The minist
Pulling up the government for the "laggardly pace" in investigations into the issue of black money stashed abroad, the Supreme Court today appointed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by former apex court judge B P Jeevan Reddy to
The pro-Telangana campaign today assumed new dimensions with 37 ruling Congress MLAs, including four ministers, and 28 TDP MLAs from the region resigning their membership of the Andhra Pradesh assembly. In Delhi, seven Congress MPs,
The Delhi government has to contend with embarassment as 101 applications for benefits under the Laadli scheme have gone missing from the office of the department of women and child welfare (DWCD). The forms had been submitted by parents of girls
