Why should the Congress party be hitched to the Nehru-Gandhi family like train compartments to the engine was how the late PV Narasimha Rao reacted to the suggestion that Sonia Gandhi be made the Congress chief after the assassination of her husba
The nomination papers of opposition-backed P A Sangma for the Presidential poll were on Tuesday accepted by the returning officer after scrutiny. The nomination papers and related documents were in order and were accepted by Returning Offi
Vigilance officials on Tuesday conducted raids at the premises of four former officials of Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly here for alleged malpractices during their tenure. The raids were in progress at the premises of former Assembly Sec
Vijayalakshmi, the mother of Jagan Reddy will meet prime minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday to discuss drought situation in Andhra Pradesh and will also assure support to Pranab Mukherjee. The PMO confirmed that Vijayalakshmi sought appoin
Notwithstanding UPA`s presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee defeating the "office-of-profit" objection before returning office Vivek K Agnihotri on Tuesday, he may face music in the Supreme Court if his election is challenged.
Rail travellers can breath easy as the government has decided not to levy 12 percent service tax on passenger fares and freight till September 30. "Government has exempted the core services provided by the Indian Railways, name
Was it a genuine encounter that led to the killing of 20 Maoists in Basaguda of Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh last Thursday night, as is being claimed by the state and CRPF? Or was it a huge intelligence failure that led to the massacre of inno
Taking a strident stand against the Jharkhand government`s proposal to open up Saranda for further private mining, union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh has said he would roll back the Saranda development plan (SDP) if this were to ha
His patience has finally paid. Sanjeev Chaturvedi, an IFS officer of Haryana cadre, has got the support of the central government and has been appointed a deputy secretary in the health ministry. Thanks to his habit of exposing wrongdoings in prev
The government on Monday told the Supreme Court that a high-level committee in its report has suggested that alternative alignment other than mythological Ram Sethu for Sethusamudram project was not economically and ecologically feasible.
The Commission directed the CPIO concerned to provide to the appellant within 10 working days a list of those officials against whom cases have been registered by competent agencies for the offences in the
Madhya Pradesh is performing well in MNREGA implementation and is in the top-10 list of states in five categories, as per the Union government`s quarterly delivery monitoring unit (DMU) report. Besides providing maximum employment t
Allying apprehensions over the possibility of deficit rainfall this monsoon season, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Monday said it is too early to reach the conclusion that something adverse is happening. &quo
A magisterial inquiry has been ordered into the assault on Congress MLA Rumi Nath and her second husband at a Karimganj hotel which sparked off violent protests and bandh in south Assam`s Barak Valle
Suspense and sensation was created in the scrutiny of nominations for the July 19 Presidential elections on Monday on prospects of rejection of UPA nominee Pranab Mukherjee`s candidature for holding an "office of profit" as the head of t
A crucial meeting of the reconstituted Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM), scheduled for Monday, has been postponed, agriculture minister and head of the ministerial panel Sharad Pawar said.
Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday announced various steps to benefit IAS aspirants from the state, including increasing stipend offered at a government training institute here. The chief minister announced increasin
Prime minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, accompanied by chief minister Tarun Gogoi, on Monday made an aerial survey of flood affected areas in Assam. The three leaders made an aerial survey by helicopter of Ma
The unusual political heat that the presidential election has generated this time around has made the country skip its silly season, a popular media jargon for high summer months when trivia makes headlines for the lack of interesting stuff. At th
The crisis in the BJP government in Karnataka appears to have been defused on Monday with nine ministers loyal to B S Yeddyurappa deciding to withdraw their resignation after the central leadership assured them that they would decide on their dema
