Yoga guru Baba Ramdev met Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu here on Monday morning to drum up support for his anti-corruption crusade. This was the second meeting between the two in recent months on corruption and bla
With Air India considering further crackdown on the striking pilots, the government on Monday said it is for airlines management to decide for how long to keep them on their payroll when they are not working. "It is for the Air
Quateel Siddiqui, alleged Indian Mujahedeen operative killed is Yerwada Jail on Friday morning, is suspected to have been murdered by fellow inmates “for being part of anti-national activities”. According to the police, local gangsters
Sonia Gandhi expressed her desire for M Karunanidhi to propose the name of Pranab Mukherjee when Congress nominee for the presidential polls presents the nomination papers on June 16 to returning officer VK Aghnihotri in parliament.
Former Army Chief Gen V K Singh and four top serving officers were on Friday summoned as "accused" in a criminal defamation case filed by Lt Gen (retd) Tejinder Singh, in perhaps the first occasion when top-ranking officials have been ca
Not satisfied with the Rs 2 a litre cut in petrol prices, BJP on Friday said it will launch a `jail bharo` agitation on June 22 against the Rs 7.50 a litre petrol price hike, saying the ad-hoc policies of the UPA government had played havoc with t
Backing Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Friday slammed the demand for his resignation in the wake of a high court order rejecting his plea for dismissal of a petition challenging his election to Lok Sabha, saying it w
As the World Bank office in India has been conducting various consultations for its country assistance strategy (CAS) for 2013-16, it has come in the line of fire by the several civil society groups. In a press note released on Friday, the civil s
Expecting Air India to induct the first three Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft this month, government is likely to approve next week a compensation package from the US aircraft manufacturer for an over three-year delay in delivery of the planes.
At a time when the issue of minority sub-quota in OBC reservation has snowballed into a controversy and allies are blocking key bills, Congress top brass including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and party President Sonia Gandhi on Friday held consu
After forcing Sanjay Joshi out of the BJP national executive, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Friday ensured that his bete noire is also out of the party. BJP, whose president Nitin Gadkari and Modi joined hands at the party concla
Former Lok Sabha Speaker and NCP leader P A Sangma on Friday met BJP leader L K Advani in an apparent bid to solicit the support of the NDA for his candidature as President. Sangma met Advani, who is also the NDA Working Chairperson
Dimple Yadav, wife of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav is all set to be elected unopposed from the Kannauj Lok Sabha seat with both candidates in the fray against her withdrawing their nominations for the by-election. On
Four years after teenager Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj were found killed, the trial against accused dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar began here on Friday. The CBI, which probed the case, has sought examination of three of
Close on the heels of Parliamentarians going up in arms over a cartoon concerning B R Ambedkar in NCERT books, another such row erupted on Friday with MDMK leader Vaiko protesting against depiction of the anti-Hindi agitation in Tamil Nadu in Clas
The newly-formed Akhilesh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh, which marked power as a priority area in its vision document released a few days ago, has moved quickly to ink a power pact with a consortium of banks to secure funds for a thermal power
The CBI has called BCCI chief and India Cements Managing Director N Srinivasan for questioning in connection with disproportionate assets cases against YSR Congress chief Jaganmohan Reddy, agency sources said on Friday. They said Sr
While the railway ministry is keen to develop the iconic Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) in Mumbai into a world-class modern railway station, the Grade I World Heritage Site tag conferred on the 124-year-old building by the UNESCO in 2004 is th
After the government deftly ducked several volleys fired by graft crusader Anna Hazare, it has finally some answers to give to the United Nations as what steps it has taken to fight the menace of corruption in the country. After its ratification o
