In a bid to ensure transparency in administration, Trinamool Congress-led West Bengal government would bring out a "white paper" on the "precarious" financial situation and make salary payments to all its employees through bank
A Muslim organisation here has taken a strong exception to the depiction of Prophet Muhammad in a class IV book of the ICSE board. The founder of Sunni Markaz, Syed Maulana Hashmi Kichachauvi, said the Prophet has been depicted in l
Punjab is all set to launch an ambitious scheme from July 1 to empower girls by providing them free education up to class 12. Punjab has taken this step to encourage the poor families to educate their girl child without feeling any
Ruling out handing over the investigations into murder of senior journalist J Dey to CBI, Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Tuesday said that Mumbai police would crack the case soon. "If the High Court orders the
Criticising the decision to exclude CBI from the ambit of RTI, activist Arvind Kejriwal today accused the government of not bringing it under an independent Lokpal to "arm twist" political leaders opposed to it. Ahead of the fina
Under an integrated child development scheme (ICDS) of the Delhi government, 778 children and eight pregnant women enrolled in the scheme died in 2010. This information was obtained from the women and child department of the Delhi governme
Only 1,628 of the total 3,243 Indian police service officers in the country have filed details of their immovable property returns (IPR), as per the home ministry website. Uttar Pradesh tops the list with 324 defaulters.The state has 335 o
India faces an annual shortage of twenty lakh units of blood, said health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad at the end of world donors’ week at the Indian Red Cross Society here. Encouraging the youth to get themselves recruited at the neare
Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said intelligence agencies had investigated reports of bugging in his office and found nothing during the probe. Commenting on the possible breach of security in his office and that of his aides
In a unique verdict, the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court has ruled that shouting by a person on his death bed cannot fit into what can be called as a "dying declaration". A division bench comprising AH Joshi and UV Bakre wa
In a bid to bring about a consensus on the controversial Women`s Reservation Bill ahead of the monsoon session of Parliament, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar has convened an all-party meeting on Wednesday. In a letter to political parties, K
Upset over his daughter being denied bail in the 2G spectrum case, DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Tuesday flew in here to meet Kanimozhi at the Tihar Jail. This is the former Tamil Nadu chief minister`s second visit to Delhi in a month
Elections to three Rajya Sabha seats from Gujarat will be held on July 22, as terms of Congress MP Ahmed Patel and BJP MPs Pravin Nayak and Surendra Patel will come to end in that month, a senior state official said. "Elections
Prabhu Dayal, the Indian Consul General in New York, has been accused of treating a former domestic help as a slave and making sexual advances, a charge rejected by Dayal as "complete nonsense". Santosh Bhardwaj, Dayal`s f
The second lists for admissions into undergraduate courses in Delhi University colleges brought little relief to students with the BA Economics (Hons) seats filled at least 15 colleges on the first day of the lists` publication. Admissions
After the Supreme Court (SC) dismissed the bail pleas of DMK MP Kanimozhi and Kalaignar TV MD Sharad Kumar, both accused in the 2G scam, the other three accused in the case including Swan Telecom promoter Shahid Usman Balwa played safe by withdraw
For a city that understands finance like Tendulkar the cover drive a bit of number crunching will help us put its urban woes in perspective. Let’s take up two symbols of every Mumbaikar’s existential reality – the Bandra-Worli Se
The supreme court on Monday issued notice to Ramdev-run Bharat Swabhiman Trust, saying it wants to hear its version over the eviction of the yoga guru and his supporters from Ramlila Maidan. A vacation bench comprising justices P Sathasiva
Ashok Chavan, who was the revenue minister from 1999-2003 when land was allotted to the Adarsh Housing Society, today said that the plot was sanctioned by then chief minister and he had no role to play in it. Without naming Vilasrao Deshmu
After a four-year-long probe, the National Investigation Agency on Monday charged suspected right-wing extremist Swami Aseemanand and four others with triggering explosions in the cross-border Samjhauta Express in 2007 that left 68 people dead.
