The Left parties today asked the government to confiscate the black money allegedly stashed in Swiss Bank accounts and make the names of the account-holders public. "Government should not only obtain full details of these accounts, bu
Maoists were getting encouragement from civil society and support of well-minded citizens was required to stem the menace, West Bengal governor M K Narayanan said today. "The Maoists are getting the upperhand in people`s mind because
Tension grew today between Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa and governor H R Bhardwaj who rejected a cabinet resolution asking him not to accord prosecution sanction against the BJP leader who demanded an apology for his controversial rema
Lt gen P K Rath, former deputy chief of army staff-designate, was today found guilty by an Army court martial in the Sukna land scam, becoming the highest ranking serving officer to be convicted for corruption. The former 33 Corps commande
The Delhi high court (HC) on Friday turned down a fresh plea seeking permission for the assembly of more than 10 people to offer Friday namaz at the site of the demolished mosque in Jangpura in south Delhi. Dismissing the petition filed by
Telecom minister Kapil Sibal was today ticked off by the supreme court for undermining the CAG report in the 2G scam and told to "behave with some sense of responsibility". "It is unfortunate. The minister should behave with
Here is a statement byGopal Krishna of Toxic Watch Alliance and Prakash K Ray of Jawaharlal Nehru University Researchers Association raising their objections: Jaipur Literature Festival that began as ‘civil society’ in
Two major private airlines are allegedly being used in smuggling of endangered species, a high-level meeting chaired by environment minister Jairam Ramesh was told today. An astonished Ramesh decided to write to civil aviation minis
With the payment dispute between Australian firms and CWG organisers threatening to snowball into a major row, the Sports Ministry today issued a 10-day ultimatum to the organising commmittee to sort out payment issues. But unfazed
Frustrated by continuous adjpournments in an illegal human trafficking case against her, a former senior officer with Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), Nisha Bhatia on Thursday attempted to strip before Delhi high court judge Ajit Bharihoke inside
On the first day of assuming charge as the union urban development minister, Kamal Nath has said that a regulator for real estate in the country will be considered on a high priority by the ministry. Speaking at a press conference in New D
Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee today said dip in food inflation for the week ended January 8, was not "much consolation" and the government would continue to take steps to tame rising prices. "Some of the vegetable prices
The central bureau of investigation’s application to supreme court seeking transfer of the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter trial outside Gujarat raises serious questions about the agency’s conduct. The application contains observations th
Sonia Gandhi-led aational advisory council has recommended deletion of some of the RTI rules proposed by the government, holding they are "legally wrong" while some others may encourage "blackmail" and "murder" of inf
In the cabinet reshuffle, prime minister Manmohan Singh has applied formulae of economics in politics. He seems so convinced of the utilitarian theory of “greatest good for greatest number” that he accommodated and elevated leaders fro
The country seems to have been hit by an avalanche of scams making corruption one of the discussed topics in the media today. As if the contempt case in the supreme court about allegations of corruption in the higher judiciary in an interview to a
Asserting that it does not require a no objection certificate from the Jammu and Kashmir chief minister to hoist the national flag at Lal Chowk in Srinagar, BJP on Wednesday said it would be better if Omar Abdullah welcomes the Ekta Yatra when it
Signalling escalation of friction between the BJP government and governor H R Bhardwaj, the state cabinet on Wednesday asked him not to permit prosecution of chief minister B S Yeddyurappa on alleged land scams, saying that such a move was nothing
Ahead of the budget session, prime minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday expressed readiness to explore "all possible approaches" to end the deadlock in parliament on the issue of a JPC probe into 2G spectrum scam. "As far as
