Authorities today lifted curfew from Sopore town and restriction on movement of people across Kashmir Valley but life continued to remain disrupted due to a week-long shutdown called by the separatists. The situation in Batmaloo in central
CPI(M) leader Basudeb Acharya today accused railway minister Mamata Banerjee of not taking "any initiative" to maintain and modernise the public transport service, especially at Sainthia where two express trains collided early this morni
At least 60 people were killed and over 90 passengers injured when a train in high speed tore through the rear of another at the Sainthia station in Bhirbhum district of West Bengal, after it apparently overshot the signal in the small hours of th
Kerala government would seriously consider the demand for setting up a co-operative university in the state for the control of educational institutions in the sector, co-operatives minister G Sudhakaran said today. Replying to a cal
The decision of the three-member group of ministers (GoM) to allow the Loharinag Pala hydroelectric project on Bhagirathi to continue with construction has the civil society up in arms against the ministry again. Professor G D Tripathi, an
In accepting the recommendations of the Planning Commission on the Food Security Bill, the National Advisory Council (NAC) has acknowledged what the government has been saying all along, that food entitlements cannot stretch beyond the food supply
After reaching out to millions of unskilled persons across rural India through the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), the centre now looks set to bring the tribals in its fold. The rural development ministry has constituted a work
Cabinet secretary K M Chandrasekhar on Friday assured that his office will go paperless by 2011, at the press conference on teh sidelines of the apex committee meeting on the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP). The Apex committee on N
It took two many insults within as many days from the Pakistani foreign minister SM Qureshi for the Indian media to finally conclude on Friday afternoon that India-Pakistan talks had collapsed. But it will take the Indian establishment a lot more
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has sought Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi`s opinion on ways to resolve the ethnic issue in Sri Lanka "once and for all" through political agreement. "My government will certainly
The National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes has served a notice on the medical university here following a complaint by a teacher that he was denied promotion. Santosh Kumar, who is attached with the Pulmonary
With the Opposition continuing its indefinite dharna demanding CBI probe into alleged illegal mining in the state, the Karnataka Assembly was today adjourned sine die, cutting short the session by nearly a fortnight. The session whi
The near-fatal gas leak in the Bombay Port Trust (BPT) is an eye-opener to various cargo handlers importing hazardous chemicals, the country`s top pollution watchdog said today, asking them to prepare an emergency plan to prevent such situations.
The congress is gearing up to defeat any no-confidence motion that the opposition may bring in the Lok Sabha in the coming monsoon session from July 26, as the UPA-II government is 13 votes short of the half mark in the house to be able to sail th
Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi was in South Africa for the World Cup finals tie between Spain and Holland on July 11, according to a senior functionary of the government. Rahul is apparently a big-time sports buff: he had a
The centre plans to introduce a constitutional amendment bill regarding the general sales tax (GST) during the monsoon session of parliament. Unless ratified by eight states, the constitutional amendment cannot be signed by the Pres
The BJP today asserted its majority in the Karnataka Assembly and ensured passage of ten Bills, including one to amend Lokayukta Act to empower the anti-graft body with more powers, amid vociferous protest by the Opposition. Amidst
Opposition Congress today demanded resignation of BJP president Nitin Gadkari for giving clean chit to Uttarakhand Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank over the controversial allotment of 56 hydel projects. "The way the allotments
Stepping up their demand for resignation of two ministers for their alleged involvement in the multi-crore coal scam, opposition Congress and BJP today paralysed Orissa assembly for the third day today. "We demand resignation of the t
The Khairlanji Action Committee has alleged that the most important "caste factor" was diluted in the infamous Dalits killing case during the trial and subsequently when the Bombay High Court commuted the death sentence of six accused to
