Responding to the call given by the Bar Council of India, the members of Odisha High Court Bar Association here have decided to boycott courts on Wednesday and on July 12. Opposing the inclusion of legal education within the ambit of the p
In a last minute hitch, the ruling BJP Legislature party meeting to elect Jagadish Shettar as its leader was delayed on Tuesday morning with outgoing Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda`s camp insisting on their demands being met. Ministers
With Mamata Banerjee keeping silent on the role of Trinamool Congress in the Presidential elections, her party has been excluded by the Congress in its calculations for the vice-president`s election on August 7. "Even without h
As the home ministry prepares for a counter Maoist strategy here on Friday with the police chiefs of nine rebel-affected states and central forces in the light of villagers killed in the June 28 encounter by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)
The Bhartiya Janata Party on Monday made it clear that it would not let the election for the post of vice-president go uncontested. This hints that a second term for Hamid Ansari might not be a cakewalk. "There is no question of suppo
Here is the text of letter (translated from Hindi): Dear Arjun Mundaji, As you are aware, Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY), one of the major poverty reduction programme launched in 1999 by the ministry, has
“I am pleasantly surprised that we have had the most success with the integrated watershed management project though it had been intended as a medium-term project. In fact, it was a last minute addition in the SDP,” Jairam said, as the
I envy Time magazine. These guys don’t need to dig a single new fact on prime minister Manmohan Singh. They use all the masala that Indian journalists and commentators, and to their credit, several erudite pieces in the Economist, have state
National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) on Monday slapped a notice on West Bengal government asking it to investigate in next 10 days the incident in which a fifth class student was allegedly forced to drink her urine in Santini
Minerals The area has 25 percent of the known iron ore deposits in the country. There are at least 12 mining firms operating 50 mines (and more could be on the way). Chiria mines, which has the biggest iron ore deposit in A
JDS supremo H D Deve Gowda on Monday rubbished allegations levelled by BJP leader B S Yeddyurappa and his supporters that D V Sadananda Gowda, who resigned as Karnataka chief minister to be replaced by Jagadish Shettar, was "obeying" his
The government on Monday attacked the BJP`s criticism of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh`s performance as "distasteful" and exuded confidence of taking the economy out of the present "trough" and back to high growth.
Saranda will be a role model for the entire country. Success in Saranda is important for the country…if successful the model will be replicated across other areas hit by the Naxal menace. It is the first syst
The JD-U on Monday asked the government to "introspect" over its support to the open market economy in the wake of TIME magazine`s criticism of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh dubbing him as an "underachiever". "The
With the dust settling over the leadership issue in Karnataka, the focus is now on government formation under Chief Minister-designate Jagadish Shettar as lobbying for Cabinet berths and key ministries gathered momentum on Monday. In-charg
The prime minister has repeatedly said that Naxalism is a bigger threat to India than external terrorism. That`s perhaps why our home minister wanted to hunt them down not very long ago and governments have seldom come up with a non-gun solutio
If you think the Maoists have any intention of abjuring violence and join the peace process, junk it. The intelligence agencies have forwarded a sensational piece of information to the union home ministry: The Maoists have put a bounty on
An Air India relief plane on Monday left for Pakistan to bring back fliers stranded there after its aircraft, flying in from Abu Dhabi, made an emergency landing at Nawabshah Airport in Sindh. The A-320 aircraft, with engineering ma
The Goa unit of BJP on Monday demanded that Congress publish the Shah Commission report on illegal mining in the state, saying it had been kept under wraps to save the Congress leaders. State BJP chief Laxmikant Parsekar said at a press co
UPA Presidential nominee Pranab Mukherjee on Monday said he will talk to Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee to seek support for his candidature when she is ready to talk to him. "I am ready to talk to her as and when she is re
