The organisers of pop star Enrique Iglesias` concert held here on Wednesday night have alleged that a senior police official roughed them up when they objected to allow his guests without requisite passes. Without naming the officer, the o
The cash-strapped Deccan Chargers on Friday moved the Supreme Court against the team`s termination from the Indian Premier League (IPL) by the India`s cricket governing body -- Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). The Deccan Charg
Even as BJP MPs are boycotting the Joint Parliamentary Committee looking into the 2G spectrum scam, the panel`s chairman PC Chacko has ruled out summoning of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. After Thursday`s meeting, he said that finance minister P
Former IPS officer YP Singh on Thursday accused Arvind Kejriwal of shielding Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar even as the India Against Corruption (IAC) came to the anti-corruption activist’s defence, and clarified that it
Like the Italian Mafiosi bound by the pact of secrecy known as Omerta, India’s elites are intrinsically secretive. They fight back bitterly whenever this unwritten code is challenged. This is why Jinnah’s eating habits and Nehru’
Arvind Kejriwal deserves credit for his undeterred resolve in whatever he believes in; ‘opportunism and power’ as his opposition shouts, ‘political’ as former friends whisper, ‘incorruptible’ as new friends boas
Amid demands for calling Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram as witnesses before the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on 2G, BJP members in the panel on Thursday once again abstained from its proceedings. Du
In the backdrop of transfer of Haryana IAS officer Ashok Khemka for his decision to probe into land deals, including that of Robert Vadra and realty major DLF, former Karnataka Lokayukta Santosh Hegde on Thursday asked state and Central government
If the babus of the planning commission were asked to name the line that divides Abu Road into two halves, they would have said: below poverty line (BPL). This line that demarcates this quaint block in Sirohi district of south Rajasthan in
A dilapidated structure that houses office of the block development officer (BDO) of Noorserai block of Nalanda district is symptomatic of the ills that afflict governance in Bihar. Till 11 am on September 11, offices are either closed or partiall
The Supreme Court on Thursday slapped a Rs.5 lakh fine on an ex-SP MLA while dismissing as without substance his petition against Rahul Gandhi in which he had alleged that the Congress leader had confined a girl in Uttar Pradesh. "The
Two CRPF troopers were killed and eight others injured, three of them seriously, when Naxalites triggered an IED blast blowing an anti-landmine vehicle in Bihar`s Gaya district on Thursday. The incident occurred at 6:20 AM near Chakarbanda
With its much awaited press meet of Wednesday, the India Against Corruption (IAC) has made two points clear: it is not a B-team of the BJP, as alleged by the Congress, and that it is targeting the whole specturm of existing political parties, as n
The eagerly awaited next episode of `expose` from the India Against Corruption (IAC) targeted, as widely expected, BJP president Nitin Gadkari. The overcrowded press meet at the constitution club started with IAC convener Arvind Kejriwal
The Congress has fully backed the government on its decision to raise the diesel price and ration LPG cylinders, but a demand has now come from within the party to revise the twin decisions, citing adverse implications in the elections. Th
An IPS officer has gone missing from Tippi in West Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh when he was on his way to Tawang from Itanagar. Superintendent of Police of the Special Investigation Cell in the state police M S Chauhan went missing
Fireworks are expected in the next meeting of the JPC on 2G issue scheduled for Thursday with the demand for calling Finance Minister P Chidambaram as a witness becoming a sticky issue. The issue of summoning Chidambaram as a witness is ba
After being censured by his party`s Central Committee for defying the official line on the Kudankulam nuclear power plant issue, CPI(M) veteran V S Achuthanandan has also come under sharp attack in the Kerala unit of the party for openly taking di
The Delhi government is likely to take a radical step of phasing out the public distribution system (PDS) as we know it and replace it with cash transfer: a topic of hot debate for quite some time. Chief minister Sheila Dikshit has approve
Editor`s note: As the toilet vs temple debate rages on, fanned by Narendra Modi`s statement and the Congress`s immediate retaliation, we revisit a story on toilets – rather, the lack ot it – and why, how they more important than we
