A RSS activist has filed a defamation case against Congress general secretaries Rahul Gandhi and Digvijay Singh at a court here for comparing the saffron outfit with terrorist organisations. RSS activist Mukesh Pedwa has filed a cas
The Bharatiya Janata Party seems to have taken inspiration from Marx – Groucho, not Karl. “These are my principles, and if you don`t like them... well, I have others,” said the famous wag. As H D Kumaraswamy, the JD-S chief in Karnataka, pres
Stepping up their attack on police establishments and government structures, armed Maoists blew up a police station in Orissa`s Koraput district, police said today. Around 30 heavily armed rebels raided the police station at Kakirig
The CAG today indicted former telecom minister A Raja for ignoring the advice of Prime Minister, Finance and Law ministries to allocate 2G spectrum to new players in 2008 causing a whopping revenue loss of over Rs 1.76 lakh crore.
Even as the death toll in the east Delhi building collapse mounted, the Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit was heard expressing her helplessness in bringing the guilty to book. “Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) gives no-ob
The Plan panel on Sunday said the government is likely to come out with a new water policy within 3-4 months to tackle scarcity of the natural resource, and may levy new charges on consumers for sewerage treatment. It also said that
Improper and irrelevant questioning by policemen to doctors examining a rape victim in sexual assault cases is leading to miscarriage of justice, a study has said. The 67-page study, conducted by Dr Indrajit Khandekar, submitted to
The death toll in the east Delhi building collapse today mounted to 64 as scores of rescue workers struggled to pull out those trapped in the debris of one of the worst such incidents in the capital. At least 80 people were also inj
A Raja is gone. The UPA government is taking concrete measures to stem corruption. End of the story? No. Because all the real questions are, well, yet to be raised. Questions like why it took the Congress and the prime minister so long to ease ou
The World Bank will fund road safety projects in three states - Assam, Gujarat and Karnataka. The global public projects financer has said that provision of training, technology and support boosting road safety capacity in the states` publ
Microfinance institutions drew some sharp raps from the government on Monday in the backdrop of the suicides in Andhra Pradesh linked to the strongarm tactics of MFIs in recovering debts. The prime minister`s economic advisory council (PMEAC) chai
Painting a dismal picture, a government survey today revealed that only 30 per cent of rural population had access to safe drinking (tap) water in the country. It said 55 per cent depend on tube well or hand pumps to meet their drin
The Adarsh scam has become a downward spiral for the Congress in Maharashtra with another chief minister being named in connection with it. Ex- IPS officer and advocate Y P Singh has named former chief minister Sushil Kumar Shinde
The Delhi cabinet has decided to lay the Delhi Prevention of Touting and Malpractices against Tourists Ordinance 2010 before the legislative assembly. It will be placed before the assembly in the winter session which commences on November 23
The Delhi high court today issued notice to the city government seeking its response as to why criminal case should not be registered against hardline Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, writer Arundhati Roy and Delhi University professor S A R
Registering its first case in alleged irregularities in Commonwealth Games, CBI today filed two separate cases involving UK-based A M Films and former officials of CWG Organising Committee on charges of forgery and cheating in organising Queen`s B
The department of telecommunication (DoT) is trying all tricks in the book to come out clean in the the 2G spectrum scandal. It has evaded a clear response to the RTI query seeking details of the 2G spectrum cases being heard by the suprem
Fertiliser minister M K Alagiri is keen to return to Tamil Nadu politics, by resigning from the union cabinet by mid December to campaign for his party, DMK, in southern districts of Tamil Nadu. Highly placed DMK sources said Alagiri was n
HRD minister Kapil Sibal was today given the additional charge of the telecom ministry by prime minister Manmohan Singh in a development that takes the portfolio away from DMK at least for the time being. Official sources said Sibal
Cornered by the opposition in the Parliament over the 2G scam, Congress is mulling over ways to get DMK chief K Karunanidhi to agree to the removal fo telecom minister A Raja. Sources say that the Congress could offer Raja`s post to former
