The condition of Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda, his wife and four others, who suffered injuries when a helicopter carrying them crash-landed at the airport here, is stable, doctors attending on them said on Thursday. "Th
Over 20 Air India flights were cancelled on Thursday from Delhi and Mumbai as the agitation by the protesting pilots entered the third day. Despite the Delhi High Court declaring their stir as illegal, the pilots remained defiant an
The supreme court on Wednesday gave bail to former telecom secretary Siddharth Behura, arrested last year on February 2 for his alleged role in the 2G case, and also upheld the bail granted to former telecom minister A Raja`s ex-private secretary
In the past couple of years, the union government has been accusing the apex court of stepping into the executive’s domain and making policy decisions on its behalf. This act of the court is described as “judicial overreach”.
Accusing the central government of diverting and denying them the SC & ST funds, thousands of protesters belonging to scheduled castes and tribes marched towards parliament and later staged a sit-in at Jantar Mantar on Wednesday.
Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda on Wednesday suffered injuries in a helicopter accident at the Birsa Munda Airport here. "The chief minister suffered injuries when the helicopter met with an accident while landing," R
Consider this: Cuba, unlike India, is not a rising economic superpower. MNCs are not falling over each other to invest in Uruguay, the way they are in India. Sri Lanka has not seen runaway economic growth that India has witnessed in the last two d
Asking partymen to draw lessons from the previous polls, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday said that leaders must shed factional behaviour and fight as one disciplined team as the party braces to face a series of state elections in the
A vociferous opposition on Wednesday forced adjournment of the Lok Sabha on the issue of non-availability of gunny bags to farmers for storage and transportation of their record farm produce. As soon as the House met, BJP members we
A special CBI court, hearing the infamous Nithari serial killings case, today recorded the statement of SP CBI A G L Kaul in connection with the murder of Badi Payal 22. The special CBI court has set May 14 as the next date for hearing.
The SIT closure report, which gave a clean chit to Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi in post-Godhra riots, has found faulted the supreme court-appointed amicus curiae`s finding that he can be charged with certain offences related to the riots.
Three international flights of Air India were cancelled from Delhi and Mumbai as the agitation by a section of pilots entered the second day on Wednesday. "Two flights from Delhi to Singapore (AI-380) and to New York (AI-101), while o
A Parliamentary panel on Tuesday asked the Department of Pharmaceuticals to finalise a new phama policy without delay and evolve a mechanism to regulate prices of new imported patented drugs. The Committee on Health and Family Welfa
A radically improved version of MNREGA expanding the schedule of work under the rural job scheme to enhance productivity in 30 areas including watershed related works, agriculture, livestock, fisheries and sanitation has come into force from Tuesd
Taking note of the "complex security matrix" in the Indian Ocean Region and "political developments", Defence Minister A K Antony on Tuesday asked the Indian Navy to maintain high levels of preparedness in the area.
Government has dismissed as "factually incorrect and totally baseless" news reports the then Finance Minister P Chidambaram had delayed clearance by Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) to Aircel-Maxis deal in 2006. I
The BJP today accused the CBI of playing a "partisan" role in pursuing the Ayodhya case against party leader L K Advani and decided to raise the issue in Parliament. At its weekly meeting here, the BJP Parliamenta
The central information commission on Tuesday directed the urban development ministry to disclose information related to allotment, occupation and use of a government bungalow by family members of late Indrani Devi including her daughter and lok s
Government on Tuesday ruled out any change in norms till 2015 for providing relief in the cases of drought, rejecting demands from various members in the Rajya Sabha for enhancement of compensation for drought. Replying to a Calling Attent
After dragging the government to supreme court, Army Chief V K Singh on Tuesday said the controversy over his date of birth could have been avoided by everybody. "I think it was something that could have been avoided," Gen Singh,
