Appeals and assurances of safety by the Karnataka government notwithstanding, people from northeast continued to flee the state in hordes for the third consecutive day on Friday, driven by rumours of impending attacks. The exodus so far co
Nine BJP chief ministers will meet on August 18 in the capital for a conclave on Good Governance. They will also talk about the problems in northeast, Maoists, fiscal and other issues. L K Advani, including other BJP leaders will
President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday called up LK Advani, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley to enquire the discomforts these leaders faced during `At Home` at the Rashtrapthi Bhavan while celebrating the 65the Independence day. Prana
The Uttarakhand High Court on Thursday granted bail to yoga guru Ramdev`s close aide Balkrishna, nearly a month after he was arrested by the CBI in a fake document case. Hearing the bail application, a single judge bench of Justice Tarun A
The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notice to the Centre and all the state governments on a PIL seeking its direction to them for tracing 55,000 missing children in the country. Agreeing to hear the public interest litigation (PIL), a ben
A section of lawyers on Thursday moved the Calcutta High Court seeking suo motu contempt proceedings against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her alleged comments against the judiciary on August 14. A division bench, comprisi
With several hundred Pakistani Hindus arriving in India following alleged persecution, the government on Thursday said they will get long-term visas to stay in the country if they apply under stipulated rules. "So far, no one h
Against the backdrop of exodus of people belonging to northeast from Karnataka, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Thursday warned of strict action against those who spread rumours. "If rumours are spread, strict action will be taken
The chief justice on Wednesday did not mince words in opposing the government`s move to silence the judiciary with the judicial accountability bill. This was the theme of our cover story of the April 16 issue.
Rural development minister Jairam Ramesh is of the view that there must be a 10-year moratorium on mining. “I am of the view that let there be 10-year moratorium on mining in certain areas and in these years train locals with an aim to make
Union minister Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, who was undergoing treatment for a serious liver ailment, died at a city hospital onTuesday. The end came early this afternoon a week after Deshmukh, 67, the Science and Technology Minister, was h
The Planning Commission on Tuesday said the biggest challenge before India is to improve investment climate, and the initiative taken by the government in setting up a review panel on GAAR has sent the right signal.
Far from being ideology-driven, the Maoist movement is a levy-based movement, the rural development minister Jairam Ramesh said here on Monday. The minister was delivering the inaugural edition of the Governance Lecture series, `Saranda and the Au
The current gloomy market scenario dictates the need for a more “investor-friendly” land acquisition bill, the rural development minister Jairam Ramesh said here on Monday. Elaborating on the more “investor-friendly&rdquo
A year after the Saranda Development Plan (SDP) was rolled out in Jharkhand, rural development minister Jairam Ramesh announced the commencement of a similar development plan in another region in the same state. Called Saryu Development Pr
Maruti Suzuki India is understood to have decided on resuming partial production at its violence -hit Manesar plant by next Tuesday. "Almost all the assessments have been completed and partial resumption of the Manesar plant is likely
Security measures were tightened in Manipur in view of Wednesday`s Independence Day boycott call given by major insurgent organisations with police forces intensifying roving patrol at the capital complex here to intercept the movement of armed ul
Yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Tuesday ended his fast on the sixth day of protest against black money and declared that he will launch a big movement against Congress before the Lok Sabha polls Home secretary RK Singh on Tuesday said that
The issue of violence in Mumbai over Assam riots stalled proceedings in the Lok Sabha for the second consecutive day on Tuesday as opposition members stormed the Well demanding dismissal of Maharashtra government, leading to adjournment of the Hou
"In one joint meeting of BSD and GHSR, one DOC woman com (comrade) had cried against the decision to arrest 3 women squad members, those were wishing to go home during Christian festival. In my presence there, Com Manoj/Bhaskar CCM (central c
