Insurgents of seven major outfits on Thursday asked the outsiders particularly migrant labourers to leave Manipur as their presence overwhelmed the identities, customs and cultures of minority communities who have been living here peacefully for s
The CBSE honoured 15 mentors and 32 teachers on Tuesday at the India International Center for their efforts to promote Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE). Speaking at the awards function, minister of state for human resource
The Time magazine called him ‘underachiever’. Today, the Washington Press has some more choicest epithets to describe prime minister Manmohan Singh. “But the image of the scrupulously honorable, humble and intellectual te
Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Wednesday dismissed Shiv Sena leader Uddhav Thackeray`s comments against Biharis living in Maharashtra, saying every citizen has the right to travel freely across the country. "It is not in the int
Against the backdrop of opposition by Samajwadi Party and disruption of proceedings by BJP over coalgate issue, Government on Wednesday appealed to all political parties to get a bill providing for reservation to SCs and STs in promotions in gover
A slew of new extra-budgetary taxes has outraged Punjab, leading to state-wide protests. The ruling Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) sees no other way of bridging the state`s fiscal deficit and staggering debt burden of Rs 69,000 crore (even after a part
A suspected terrorist was arrested by National Investigation Agency here, police said on Tuesday. The man, identified as Anis, was arrested yesterday from Banguspura locality by a joint team of NIA from Hyderabad and Uttar Pradesh Po
The stalemate in Parliament over coal block allocations entered the tenth day on Tuesday as BJP persisted with its demand for resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha were adjourned till noon after opposit
The CBI on Tuesday registered cases against five companies and unknown government officials as part of its probe into alleged irregularities in allocation of coal blocks and carried out searches across 10 cities. According to CBI spokes
1. What’s the coal block allotment scam all about? Going strictly by the CAG report, 57 captive coal blocks were allotted free of cost to private companies in an arbitrary and opaque manner between 2004 and 2009. The government had d
Against the backdrop of MNS chief Raj Thackeray threatening to throw Biharis out of Maharashtra, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Monday said people have a right to seek employment anywhere in the country. "Everybody has a
The Supreme Court on Monday lifted its ban on iron ore mining operations in Karnataka by companies which had not flouted lease conditions. A three-judge forest bench headed by Justice Aftab Alam accepted the report of its Central Empowered
Over 300 people including 114 women and four organisers were arrested after police raided a party at a hotel where liquor was being served allegedly without a license in Wagholi near here, police said. Acting on a tip-off, police raided th
Parliament was deadlocked for the ninth day on Monday on the issue of CAG report on coal block allocation as BJP persisted with its demand for resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha were adjourned till noon
Errant private recognized schools may have to give back money collected from unjust fee hikes to its students with 9 percent interest, as the fee hiked by these schools was not required. The report submitted by Justice Anil Dev Singh commi
Valsan Thampu, the Principal of St Stephen’s College, was pronounced guilty of attempting a Lasith Malinga on India’s young cricketing prodigy. In a cricket-crazy nation, he was branded the spoil sport for derailing young Unmukt’
Gujarat chief minister and BJP leader Narendra Modi emerged as the top choice as a probable prime minister among the respondents of a survey conducted by ABP News and AC-Nielsen. Modi was the favourite of 42 percent of the respondents, ahead of Ra
In a major setback to the Sahara Group, the Supreme Court on Friday directed two of its companies to refund around Rs 17,400 crore to their investors within three months with 15 per cent interest. A bench of justices K S Radhakrishnan and
SP leader Mulayam Singh Yadav and MPs from TDP and Left parties on Friday sat on a dharna in front of Parliament House to seek a judicial inquiry into coal blocks allocation. Eight parties, including the Samajwadi Party and the Left, have
