In a first-of -its-kind, an open public hearing into the encounter killings will be held in Gujarat between May 14 and May 15 by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). Its chairman justice KG Balakrishnan, will preside over the hearing in Ah
The supreme court on Monday suspended the life sentence of CPI (Maoist) activist Narayan Sanyal, held guilty of committing sedition by a Chhattisgarh court in 2010, and granted bail to him. A bench of justices G S Singhvi and S J Mukhopadh
Amid vociferous protests by the opposition on the plight of farmers due to lack of storage for record production of foodgrains, government on Monday admitted a mismatch between procurement and storage and said efforts were on to ease pressure on g
Defence minister AK Antony on Monday turned tables on the BJP, saying that the NDA government signed a contract in 2003 for buying the controversial Tatra trucks and procured as many as 2,950 of them for special needs of the Operation Parkaram bet
The supreme court-appointed SIT on Monday handed over its voluminous report on the Gulbarg Society carnage to complainant Zakia Jafri, whose husband and ex-parliamentarian Ehsan Jafri was among 69 people killed during the 2002 post-Godhra riots in
Defending the move to force Coal India to sign agreements to supply coal to power companies, Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal on Monday said the government`s priority was to ensure availability of electricity at cheaper rate and it will not be cow
The Delhi High Court on Monday asked Lt Gen (retd) Tejinder Singh, seeking withdrawal of an alleged defamatory press release accusing him of offering bribe to the Army chief to clear a defence deal, to prove that the right to reputation is a funda
Seeking to turn the tables on the opposition, defence minister A K Antony on Monday said the present government has not purchased a single new Tatra truck and the current deliveries were being made as per the contract signed in 2003. Takin
Facing criticism over her foreign visits, President Pratibha Patil on Sunday said there has been a "misconception" and wanted people to ascertain the factual position. "Right now, there has been a misconception so far as the
The Himachal Pradesh government has decided to provide 33 per cent reservation to women in co-operative societies to strengthen the co-operative movement, especially in rural areas, chief minister P K Dhumal today said. "The larger re
The feud in Rajasthan BJP intensified on Sunday with 56 MLAs loyal to sulking leader Vasundhara Raje offering to resign but the party played down the crisis and tried to placate her. Senior leader L K Advani, BJP president Nitin Gadkari an
Seeking concrete steps to bring back Maoists into national mainstream, Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Sunday said development of tribals and economic activities in Naxal-hit areas were essential, apart from security measures.
Terming anti-terrorism body NCTC as a "Constitutionally vulnerable" instrument which went against the country`s federal structure, BJP on Sunday asked prime minister Manmohan Singh as to why the fight against terror through POTA was &quo
The CBI has arrested former Lucknow chief medical officer A K Shukla in connection with the murder case of his predecessor Vinod K Arya in October 2010. Shukla was arrested here late on Sunday night on charges of conspiring to kill Arya, a
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
