With Maoists blowing up telephone towers in areas controlled by them, the government has found a unique way of preventing such attacks. The plan now being thought of is to erect the telephone towers within the "safe confines" of
Left parties today condemned the "Maoist sabotage" which led to the train accident in West Bengal, castigated the Railway Ministry for violating safety policies and sought Prime Minister`s intervention to ensure that Railways fulfil thei
Striking a discordant note from his party`s position, senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi today opposed the idea of including caste in census, saying it would "disintegrate" the society. "My view is that caste census is no
Indian Air Force today engaged four helicopters for relief and rescue operations in the derailment of the Mumbai-bound Gyaneshwari Express in West Midnapore district in West Bengal in which over 71 people have been killed and hundreds injured.
Maoists today blasted a landmine at Palamau in Jharkhand, killing a policeman and injuring two others. The ultras triggered the explosion when Jharkhand Armed Police and Palamau district armed police personnel were patrolling on foo
Throwing its weight behind the sports administrators, the Olympic Council of Asia today warned the sports ministry against interfering in the autonomy of the federations and criticised it for launching a "personal attack" on IOA secretar
Food inflation eased marginally to 16.23 per cent as of May 15 on cheaper food grains, but held out above the 16 per cent mark for the fifth straight week due to costlier fruits and vegetables. In the week ended May 8, food inflation was 1
TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao today said there will be a "terrible war" for achieving separate Telangana after the Sri Krishna committee submitted its report to the Centre towards the end of this year. "In the current sp
Jammu and Kashmir government is planning to construct six new bridges in Tangmarg area of Baramulla district to connect various villages, agriculture minister Ghulam Hassan Mir said today. To cost around Rs 15 crore, the new bridges will b
NDA working chairman L K Advani today conveyed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh his concern over illegal Bangladeshi migrants getting enumerated in the ongoing Census. The opposition leader also asked the Prime Minister to explore possibil
Disgraced former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore, sentenced to 18-month prison term by a court here in Ruchika molestation case, today again failed to get any relief as the Punjab and Haryana High Court adjourned hearing in his bail petition to May 31.
After days of outrage here, Canada today expressed "deep regret" over the foul language used by its officials against Indian security and intelligence establishments following which India treated the unpleasant chapter as closed.
Though Madhya Pradesh High Court has stayed the arrest warrant issued against the State Chief Secretary Avani Vaish by the National Commission for SC, the issue has snowballed into a major controversy in the state with both BJP and Congress tradin
Although hers is only a goodwill visit, President Pratibha Patil did not lose the opportunity of reminding the Chinese leadership of the huge trade imbalance between the two sides and pressed it to open up the market and give access to Indian phar
Uttarakhand is likely to pass the much-awaited Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) Act, setting the stage for private companies like RIL and ITC to get into contract farming in the state and set up private mandis. Agricul
India`s leading chain of technical education institutes, National Institute of Technology (NIT), will now have student ambassadors traveling abroad to increase the reach of its flagship scheme. "We will appoint 50 to 60 student ambass
Jagan Reddy arrested He insisted on launching his controversial yatra Andhra Pradesh Congress leader Jagan Reddy was arrested in Warangal on Friday for breaking law and order as he wanted to proceed with h
As families of the Air India crash victims grieve for their loved ones, the Indian government has created a whole new dimension to the tragedy by confirming that 10 passengers on that flight were carrying fake passports. Indian Ambassador
The Centre and Assam government have undertaken an ambitious plan to encourage small and medium entrepreneurs to venture into the plastic industry which will get a boost with the commissioning of the Assam Gas Cracker Project in 2012. The
In the wake of the Maoist attack on a train in West Bengal today, Railways are considering halting night operations in five Maoist-hit states. "We are discussing the issue of suspending night operation during the night time in Orissa,
