?The Sonia masterstroke: Congress` best president is in prime minister`s office and its best prime minister is in president`s office! ?Why did Sonia refuse to make Manmohan pr
Soon after UPA announced Pranab Mukherjee as its candidate for the Presidential election, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj to seek BJP`s support for him. Sources close to Swaraj said
The central bureau of investigation (CBI) is likely to tighten noose around Anant Kumar Mishra, former health minister of Uttar Pradesh and Navneet Sehgal, a 1988 batch Uttar Pradesh cadre IAS officer, in connection with cases related to the natio
Crisis-ridden Air India faced fresh trouble on Friday with its executive pilots serving a warning that they cannot maintain the truncated global flight schedule "much longer" as they are stressed and do not want to jeopardise lives of
Leading pharma companies, including glaxosmithkline, pfizer and ranbaxy, sell commonly used drugs at a rate 10 times the cost of production, a study by the corporate affairs ministry has found. A study by the cost audit branch of the MCA
On the morning of May 4, senior officials of the maharatna public sector undertaking Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) and some mid-level mandarins of the government were expected at the middle school in Dimbuli village, a few kilometres awa
In the backdrop of the escape of Kailash Jakhar, an accused in the Bhanwari Devi abduction and murder case, a four-member committee will review security arrangements in court premises in Rajasthan. The decision was taken after Jakhar ma
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday gave an assurance that the autonomy of IITs will remain "intact", the IIT faculty federation, opposing the proposed common entrance to these institutes, said after meeting him. "
The construction of houses under the Indira Avas Yojana for the Mushar community in Bihar`s Kalaazar-prone districts since 2006-07 has remained suspended due to Centre`s non-release of funds according to a revised rate per unit under the Kalazar S
Unfazed by reports that Mulayam Singh Yadav may have a rethink on their joint proposal to pit A P J Abdul Kalam, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Friday said the former President is their Presidential candidate. "It
Making it clear that it is firmly behind UPA candidate in the presidential race, NCP has told former Lok Sabha speaker P A Sangma not to press for his candidature in the polls. The advice was given to Sangma by party general secretary D
Ruling AIADMK established a comfortable lead over its closest rival DMDK in the byelection to Pudukkottai assembly constituency on Friday. At the end of the fourth round of counting of votes polled in the June 12 bypoll, AIADMK`s Karthi
Ahead of UPA`s meeting in the evening, talks between Congress and SP gained momentum over the possibility of Mulayam Singh Yadav`s support to the ruling dispensation candidate for the Presidential poll. Sources in Samajwadi party
YSR Congress party candidates were leading in at least 15 of the 18 assembly constituencies where bypolls were held, as per the initial trends in counting of votes. In Kadapa district, the Lok Sabha constituency of YRS Congress chief Ja
Switzerland on Thursday said the quantum of money held by Indians in Swiss banks stood at 2.18 billion Swiss francs (about Rs 12,740 crore) at the end of 2011 -- rising for the first time in the past five years. The total funds held
Toughening its stand, key UPA constituent Trinamool Congress on Thursday said if Congress names Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee or Vice-President Hamid Ansari as its Presidential candidate, it will "contest" the election with A P J Abd
It may be a matter of debate whether naming of the prime minister as one of their presidential candidates by two key allies of the UPA government - Mamata Banerjee of Trinamool Congress and Mulayam Singh Yadav of Samajwadi Party - amounts to an ex
Pinning hopes on good monsoon, the government on said the inflation for the current fiscal will be around 6.5-7.5 percent and steps will have to be taken to address supply constraints. "I am confident that range of inflation wo
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has called for one day nationwide medical strike on June 25 to protest against government policies after all methods to convince the government failed. The central government has come up with stringent
The Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday said former Chief Minister Mayawati spent a whopping Rs 86.56 crore to maintain her Mall Avenue bungalow during her tenure. "An amount of Rs 86.56 crore was spent on maintenance and Rs 2
