Welcoming the Supreme Court order quashing the disproportionate assets case against her, BSP supremo Mayawati on Friday thanked party workers for standing behind her for the past nine years without getting perturbed by opposition forces.
In view of deteriorating global economic situation over the last one year, achieving average growth rate of 9 percent in the next five years is not possible, and it may be 8-8.5 per cent, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia
Union Agriculture Minister and NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Friday said he "would love to have a cup of tea with Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray" during UPA presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee`s visit to Mumbai next week.
After strident posturing, both the union home ministry and the Chhattisgarh government have come round to accept that innocent villagers were killed in the Bijapur encounter that saw 19 killed. Union home minister P Chidambaram was the fir
In a major relief to BSP supremo Mayawati, the Supreme Court on Friday quashed a nine-year-long disproportionate assets case against her and pulled up the CBI for initiating the probe against her without specific directions from the court.
A Congress legislator in Assam on Friday filed an FIR against party MLA Rumi Nath alleging that she along with her second husband had illegally entered his residence and beat up visitors suspecting them to be involved in the attack on the couple l
Review preview On July 1, union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh was in Saranda for the third time in the last nine months. The minister had come to this sal-forest in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district to r
Union home minister P Chidambaram’s pet project, the National Anti Terrorism Centre (NCTC), continues to be in a limbo because the states are yet to come to an agreement with the union home ministry over its powers and functioning as part of
In the last few months, several economists and industrialists have raised question mark on the Indian economy as the growth slowed down in the last two quarters. Several analysts called it a policy paralysis at the centre but despite such negativi
Hitting out at Opposition presidential candidate P A Sangma and his poll managers for indulging in "mud slinging" against UPA nominee Pranab Mukherjee, Union minister Jairam Ramesh on Thursday lamented the lack of "sanctity" in
A National Defence Academy (NDA) spokesman on Thursday said it had not received any official communication "so far" regarding immediate transfer of Academy commandant Lt Gen Jatindar Singh, ordered by Defence Minister A K Antony.
With the CBI filing its first charge sheet in the Adarsh scam, the Enforcement Directorate, which is separately investigating the case, would speed up its probe, sources in the anti-money laundering agency said. "We were waiting for t
Opposition backed Presidential candidate P A Sangma on Thursday said his legal team is going through the Returning Officer`s ruling in the Pranab Mukherjee Office of Profit case and he would decide the future course of action after consulting his
India on Thursday made it clear to Pakistan that bringing those guilty in the 2008 Mumbai attacks to justice is the biggest confidence building measure that Islamabad could do. After two days of parleys, Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai and
Dr. Manmohan Singh Honorable Prime Minister, Government of India, N Delhi Dear Sir, Subject: Reverse CCEA`s decision of Exporting food grain, instead Universalise PDS and distribute it to the peopl
Taking a cue from the Mantralaya fire in Mumbai, several steps have been taken to secure the 92-year-old Parliament House building from any such untoward incident. All LPG cylinders have been ordered to be removed from the first floor cant
Congress nominee for Vice-President of India is likely to be Vyricherla Kishore Chandra Suryanarayana Deo. He is presently the Union minister for Tribal Affairs. The UPA2 leadership is seeking the support of JDU and Shiv Sena for Kishore
An unperturbed Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday rubbished the BJP charge of "fabricating" signatures on his letter of resignation from the Kolkata-based Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) even as rival Purno A Sangma and the BJP threatened
The Election Commission is all geared up to hold the assembly elections of the BJP-ruled Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh in December as their assemblies complete the five-year term in January. There should be no surprise if the BJP leadership
India on Wednesday said it has become increasingly clear that `state actors` were involved in executing the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks and that without state support the terror control room could not have been established in Pakistan.
