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,
Railway minister Mamata Banerjee today suspected the involvement of Maoists in the derailment of the Gyaneshwari express today as the incident comes on the first day of the `black week` being observed by the Naxals. Banerjee, who rushed to
Sixty-eight passengers of a Mumbai-bound express train were killed and 200 injured in a Maoist attack here early today that derailed 13 coaches, five of which were hit by a goods train coming from the opposite direction. Maoist-back
The Madras High Court bench here today directed UGC and two others to fix uniform price for applications and prospectus sold by self-financing colleges, Deemed Universities and Institutes offering self-financing courses in Tamil Nadu.
Community policing initiated in the three Naxal-affected districts of Uttar Pradesh was showing good results and had helped restore the faith of the people in the force, a top state police official said today. Relations between the
Government is planning to launch a special scheme to provide a number of facilities, including insurance cover and housing, to nearly 55 lakh teachers in the country. The broad aspects of the scheme was discussed at a high-level mee
Life Insurance Corporation of India, the market leader in insurance sector, cannot charge any fee for transfer or assignment of its policies, the Bombay High Court has held. The court conceded that transfer of policy (such as its sale, or
