Four Kingfisher flights from Mumbai were cancelled on Monday due to the strike by a section of airline pilots. The flights have been cancelled since morning due to non-availability of pilots, airport sources said. The
The CBI is likely to confront suspended BEML Chairman VRS Natarajan and Vectra Chairman Ravinder Rishi in its probe related to alleged irregularities in the procurement and supply of Tatra all-terrain vehicles. The agency will also questio
The draft guidelines issued by the Finance Ministry on General Anti-Avoidance Rules (GAAR) on Friday appeared to have got caught in a controversy with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh distancing himself by saying that he had not approved these.
Congress leader Digvijay Singh on Friday sought Team Anna`s cooperation in getting answers to questions raised by the party related to assets and Income-Tax raids on two businessmen who are said have to close links with ruling BJP in Madhya Prades
The Indian Institute of Public Health and Freedom from Hunger in association with Microcredit Summit Campaign released their report titled ‘Integrated Health and Microfinance in India: Harnessing the Strengths of Two Sectors to Improve Healt
In its efforts to bring lasting peace in Assam, the Centre on Friday held talks with ULFA and discussed the group`s demands to find a permanent solution to the three-decade-old insurgency in the Northeastern state. Top government officials
The CBI on Friday conducted simultaneous raids at 52 places in Jharkhand and Bihar in connection with the approximately Rs 1000 crore land scam detected in Deogarh district last year, sources in the investigating agency said. The ra
With the presidential nomination of K Parasaran, the Rajya Sabha has now four Iyengar Vaishanvites, Jairam Ramesh, V Maitreyan and TK Rangarajan the CPM MP. The heads of Vaishanavites’ mutts lauded the gesture of UPA2 on the n
What does the prime minister mean when he speaks of reviving ‘animal spirits’? It sounds like an unusual metaphor coming from this mild-mannered and soft-spoken man. Yes, the phrase may conjure images of
Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah today said he would not be chased off the social networking site Twitter by online "trolls" "Some times I ask myself what I`m doing here (on Twitter), I guess I refuse t
The Maoists may have gone off the headlines, especially after Sukma collector Alex Paul Menon was freed from their clutches in the first week of May, but their threat to internal security continues to be as grave as it was when the prime minister
The Congress has made its choice clear from the way it handled the presidential election nominations that it would prefer to develop relationship with the Janata Dal (U) to wean it away from the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance.
The flood situation in Arunachal Pradesh remained grim today, though the water level of most of the major rivers are showing a receding trend as over a hundred villages across the state lay submerged by the flood waters. An Indian Air F
The government has reconstituted the National Advisory Council (NAC) chaired by Sonia Gandhi by dropping three members and inducting two new faces. Mihir Shah, Member, Planning Commission, and Ashis Mondal, founder of the Bhopal-bas
Goa government will auction the low grade ore piled up in its properties over last several decades causing environmental hazards, a senior official said on Friday.The new Goa Minerals (Prevention of Illegal Mining Transportation and Storage) Rules
Within 24 hours of Finance Ministry issuing the draft guidelines on controversial General Anti-Avoidance Tax Rules (GAAR), the PMO appears to have distanced itself from the proposal saying that it was not seen by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and
Life across Kashmir Valley remained disrupted for the fifth day on Friday due to a strike called by Grand Mufti of the state over gutting of the 200-year-old Dastageer Sahib shrine even as restrictions continued on movement of people in the old ci
Already facing a social, personal and professional dilemma in their lives, the latest salvo against eunuchs in Madhya Pradesh has come in the form of their election to senior posts being nullified by courts, on the basis of their gender. K
In a major crackdown by CRPF, at least 20 naxalites, including a woman, were killed in a fierce overnight encounter in the dense jungles of Dantewada in Chhattisgarh that left six jawans wounded. The encounter, which took place in the fore
Politicians from Maharashtra, among others, had allegedly enjoyed their stay free of cost at Shirdi Saibaba Trust`s guest house during most of the tenure of its chairman and former Congress MLA Jayant Sasane, an RTI query has revealed.
