Over 48 hours after one of the biggest Maoist attacks in Chhattisgarh`s tribal area claimed 24 lives and left several others injured at Jiram valley near Darbha, intelligence sources on Saturday claimed it was a joint operation of Kerlapal area co
Ajay Maken, Union Minister of Housing and Poverty alleviation has ordered a CBI probe into the allegation of poor quality dwelling units by Central Government Employees Welfare Housing Organisation (CGEWHO) in Chennai, Vishakhapatnam and four othe
The union government is seriously deliberating on increasing the retirement age of central government employees to 62 from the existing 60. Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, scheduled for early next year, the decision, the poll strategists
Amid indication that the route was changed at the last minute, which ostensibly brought the Congress leaders’ convoy directly into the path of insurgents in Maoist-controlled territory, the Chhattisgarh police have launched a massive manhunt
People are dying, being killed, maimed – half the world lives on the razor’s edge, and the other half is getting there. It’s a harsh life but we are writing about fried chicken and Tiger Wood’s feelings. Come
Linguists usually don’t use the term ‘dialect’. Each language is just a language, a variety of some language. Because there are no scientific criteria to distinguish a ‘standard’ language from a ‘dialect’.
Dear cricket fans, By the time this post is up, it would be less than a couple of hours to go for the IPL final between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings. So this is not a match preview or analysis – those times
Saturday evening’s ambush by a posse of armed Naxal militants was one of the biggest in Chhattisgarh. It claimed 24 lives, including those of top state Congress leaders, and left a trail of unanswered questions. And most of them pretty probi
A day after an armed Maoist ambush left several top Chhatisgarh Congress leaders dead, the police on Sunday recovered the bullet-ridden bodies of state party president Nand Kumar Patel and his son Dinesh, along with those of eight others, from Jir
Two senior Congress leaders of Chhattisgarh – Mahendra Karma and Udai Mudliar – were shot dead by Naxalites during a parivartan yatra in Bastar on Saturday evening. Former union minister VC Shukla was seriously injured while Nand Kumar
Kapil Sibal is a classical Indian politician. You got a problem? I got a harangue for you. That’s his style of operation. So in comes the union law minister as Indian cricket goes from crisis to crisis on Saturday, with calls now com
Ranbaxy, punished by a US court this month for quality violations in drug manufacturing, now faces heat at home. The health ministry has asked the drug controller general of India to examine the documents, dossiers and the approval given to the la
Preparations to hold state assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Delhi are under way, with the preliminary conference of chief electoral officers of these states slated to be held in the national capital in the first we
Delhi-based RTI activist Subhash Chandra Agrawal has criticised the central information commission (CIC) for sending back an RTI petition filed by him on a flimsy ground – that it was not legible and readable, among other. The CIC, w
Ram Manohar Lohia was far from being apt when he described Indira Gandhi as “gungi gudia (dumb doll)”. The loquacious socialist leader obviously always proved to be more than a match even for her father Jawaharlal Nehru when it
Do you talk the land you walk? In case of Uttar Pradesh, it seems so. The ancient place has always cast — history is witness — its soothing effect on its inhabitants, rendering them tolerant in face of oppression and helping them incul
While a Mumbai Police team did not find either Gurunanth Meiyappan, ‘team principal’ of IPL team Chennai Super Kings and son in law of BCCI chief and team owner N Srinivasan, at his home yesterday, and he sought to be excused for the w
While a Mumbai Police team did not find either Gurunanth Meiyappan, ‘team principal’ of IPL team Chennai Super Kings and son in law of BCCI chief and team owner N Srinivasan, at his home yesterday, and he sought to be excused for the w
The public accounts committee (PAC) will scrutinise the expenditure of funds on schemes under the rural development ministry on May 29. The PAC chairman, Murli Manohar Joshi of the BJP, has asked senior officials of the ministry to be present for
Neeraj Kumar must be a very sensitive man. A week after policemen from his team arrested three Rajasthan Royals players and a few non-cricketing men on suspicion of spot-fixing matches in IPL, the Delhi Police commissioner says he has stopped watc
