A crucial meeting of the NCP is being held this afternoon in the wake of the stand-off with the Congress that has seen the UPA constituent deciding to pull out of the government. Party chief Sharad Pawar will hold consultations with
Union ministers Farooq Abdulla, Gulam Nabi Azad, Jairam Ramesh and G K Vasan protested against the rude behaviour of Special Protection Group (SPG) personnel at 7 Race Course Road, when their cars were entering the prime minister house for a Union
The Maratha in Sharad Pawar seems to have risen again. This is the third time that he has embarked on a mission to forge new alliances and realignments. It was part of this strategy that agriculture minister Sharad Pawar wrote a 5-page not
A high powered ministerial panel headed by Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday decided the final call on issues like reserve price, spectrum usage charge and terms of payment will be taken by the Cabinet. "The EGoM discussed
“Solar batti kabua, bijli batti abua (no to solar lights, yes to electric lights).” This was a cry, in Ho language, that rose from over two hundred voices joined as one. On June 22, over 200 tribal villagers from the Chiria, Ga
Maruti Suzuki India`s plant here will remain closed for the second day after the violence on Wednesday in which one senior company official was killed, the company said on Friday. "The plant will remain closed," a company
NDA`s nominee Jaswant Singh on Friday filed his nomination papers for the Vice Presidential poll in the presence of opposition leaders including L K Advani, Sushma Swaraj and Sharad Yadav. 74-year-old Singh, whose candidature was de
[This was the cover story of Governance Now a couple of years ago, September 16-30, 2010 to be precise. Little seems to have changed in the intervening period, except that this week Rahul Gandhi has hinted he intends to take up more responsibi
Rail traffic was on Friday disrupted on the Kalyan-Kasara section of the Central Railway with 12 trains cancelled and over a dozen others diverted after the Vidharbha Express collided with derailed bogies of a local train leaving one person dead a
Around 1.25 lakh Haj pilgrims will be covered this year under the subsidy scheme of the government, which also decided to go for competitive bidding for airlines to negotiate fares. The pilgrims will have to pay Rs.20,000 as air far
Damage to crops due to cold wave and frost would now be eligible for central and state assistance following the government`s decision to consider such weather condition as natural calamity. At present, cyclone, drought, earthquake,
The NCP`s stand-off with the Congress leadership continued on Friday with the party saying it has "serious issues" over the functioning of the government and the coalition but remained vague on reports of resignation by senior ministers
Jammu and Kashmir government has accorded sanction for prosecution of former minister and Congress leader Abdul Gani Vakil for making "false" allegation of corruption against a minister from his own party Taj Mohiuddin. &q
The Supreme Court on Friday granted two weeks more time to CBI to complete its probe in the alleged encounter killing of Tulsiram Prajapati, an eyewitness to the `fake encounter` of Sohrabuddin Sheikh. A bench of justices B S Chauhan and S
An ex-Army Chief and four top serving officers, including Vice Chief of Army Staff, on Friday appeared before a Delhi court following summonses against them in a criminal defamation case and were granted bail. Former Army Chief Gen V K Sin
An exchange of firing has been going on between CRPF jawans and Maoists in the Kaneri forest near Pendhri in Dhanora taluka of the district since early morning on Friday, police said. The firing between the two sides began around 7.
Goa government has hinted that it might not accept Gadgil panel`s recommendations on the Western Ghats as it would amount to locking almost 50-60 percent of the state`s land resource. "We need protection for Western Ghats...But
In a bid to fast-track road projects in Naxal-hit areas, the Road Transport and Highways Ministry has asked states to consider awarding contracts for smaller stretches of highways there. The direction comes in the wake of road build
The special investigation team (SIT) of Assam police set up to probe the July 9 molestation case in the city will send raw footages of the incident recorded by a private channel for forensic test. "We have gathered the footage
June 23, 2012. 5.30 am, Ramnagar (Uttarakhand) reservation counter inside the office of field director, Corbett Tiger Reserve (CTR) Two dozen olive-green Maruti Gypsies with yellow Uttarakhand taxi plates crowd the field di
