Prime minister Manmohan Singh has taken command of permissions to prosecute corrupt bureaucrats. The prime minister will be personally monitoring the persistence reluctance and refusal of sanction to the CBI and other investigating agencies
Leader of the mazdoor kisan shakti sangathan and RTI activist Aruna Roy during a press conference raised the demand for universal pension rights for the elderly. The press conference was organised by the pension parishad which has planned an agita
The central bureau of investigation (CBI) questioned the former Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML) chairman and managing director (CMD), TVS Shastri, at the agency headquarters in the national capital, for the first time in the Tatra deal on Frida
Nine persons were sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday and 30 acquitted by a special court for the killing of twenty three members of a Muslim family in Ode village who were burnt alive during the 2002 post-Godhra riots in Gujarat. The
Two Maoist mediators in the Sukma Collector abduction episode today demanded that cases against about 400 tribals languishing in jails in Chhattisgarh be taken up on a fast-track mode for review and maximum of them released. "We want
Security forces engaged in anti-Naxal operations in various states, including Chhattisgarh, have decided to get different variants of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) ranging from small drones to long-range surveillance ones. Forces deploye
The number of suicide by farmers has gone down in the country, the government stated in the Lok Sabha today. Minister of State for Finance Namo Narain Meena informed the Lok Sabha during Question Hour that due to several measures ta
The government has decided to ban TV cameras inside the Vigyan Bhawan during the controversial National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) meeting on Saturday. Cameras will be allowed only for a brief period during the prime minister`s
RJD supremo Lalu Yadav has advocated to abolish the princely practice of providing post-retirement government-accommodations to former presidents, vice-presidents, prime ministers. Several former presidents never availed this facility and spent th
Rejecting the contention that students from North East are subjected to discrimination and racial profiling, home minister P Chidambaram today said the government will take every step to ensure their security and asked states to do the same.
Nine persons were convicted while 32 others acquitted by a special court in Anand on Friday in the 2002 Ode village riots case that left three persons dead. Special court judge R M Sarin convicted the nine accused under the charges of murd
A small company in the glass industry has taken on an international major head-on and brought it to book for using anti-competitive practices and abusing its dominant position in the market to snuff out small competitors. The C
The supreme court on Friday dismissed a PIL seeking action against Anna Hazare and his team members for allegedly showing disrespect to the national flag during his agitation for the Lokpal Bill last year. A bench of justices B S Chauhan a
The Supreme Court on Friday permitted Kerala and Tamil Nadu to get copies of the report submitted by the monitoring committee on the Mullaperiyar Dam row. A five-judge constitution bench of the court headed by Justice D K Jain, whil
Chattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh and the Maoists` mediators on Friday emphatically said there was no secret deal or any quid pro quo between Naxals and the state government behind the release of Sukma Collector Alex Paul Menon after he was h
A session court on Friday convicted nine people in the infamous Ode massacre case which took place in 2002 in Gujarat. Twenty three people were killed in the massacre post Godhara riots at Ode village in the Anand district. Thirty
After 12 days in captivity, Sukma Collector Alex Paul Menon was released unharmed by Maoists on Thursday bringing to an end the hostage crisis in Chattisgarh marked by some anxious moments just before he stepped out of the rebel stronghold.
Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee appears to be emerging as front runner in the race for president`s post within his party and outside with allies and some others backing him. Key UPA constituent Trinamool Congress and Samajwadi Party, whi
Senior BJP leader SS Ahluwalia was on Thursday defeated in the Rajya Sabha elections in Jharkhand as Congress and JMM candidates emerged victorious in the two seats for which the polling was held. Ahluwalia finished third with 20 votes whi
About 60 per cent of India`s rural population lives on less than Rs 35 a day and nearly as many in cities live on Rs 66 a day, reveals a government survey on income and expenditure. "In terms of average per capita daily expenditure, i
