The BJP plans to move a private members bill in the Lok Sabha for a separate state Telangana. The move for the bill gained momentum after Lok Sabha suspended Congress MPs as they raised the issue of Telangana. The process for a private mem
The government has deputed eight senior IRS officers to officiate as First Secretaries in the newly-created Income Tax overseas units in countries like the US, the UK and Japan as part of efforts to curb the problem of blackmoney and illegal funds
Opposition on Thursday raked up the Bofors issue in the Rajya Sabha alleging "cover up" in probe and "burial" of the case leading to acrimonious exchanges with the ruling alliance culminating in repeated adjournments.
Dr Subramanian Swamy has written a letter to prime minister Manmohan Singh on Karti Chidambaram, son of P Chidambaram, providing documents to prove his arguement that Karti was involved in 2G and Aircel-Maxis deal.
Pakistan prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani was on Thursday convicted by the supreme court for contempt on the issue of pursuing graft cases against president Asif Ali Zardari and was given a symbolic sentence that lasted briefly but questions rema
Former CPI MLA Manish Kunjam, who on Thursday returned after delivering medicines to abducted Sukma district collector Alex Paul Menon, said the IAS officer`s health was "stable". Kunjam, who rushed medicines to Menon on behalf o
Odisha MLA Jhina Hikaka was released unharmed by Maoists on Thursday at a village in Koraput, 33 days after he was abducted from the same district by the rebels. Clad in a green kurta and pajama, Hikaka was escorted by a group of tribals t
Opposition BJP and AIADMK on Thursday stalled proceedings in the Rajya Sabha in the wake of claims made by former Swedish police chief in the alleged payoffs involved in the Bofors gun deal, forcing adjournment of the House for 15 minutes.
Achieving yet another milestone in its space programme, India on Thursday successfully launched its first indigenous all-weather radar imaging satellite RISAT-1 that will boost its remote sensing capabilities and facilitate agriculture and disaste
The Chhattisgarh government on Wednesday appealed to the Maoists for the extension of their deadline for the release of Sukma district collector Alex Paul Menon, who was abducted last Saturday. N Baijendra Kumar, principal secretary to chi
Retired Lt Gen Tejinder Singh on Wednesday approached the Supreme Court seeking CBI inquiry on the alleged role of Army Chief Gen V K Singh in the purported bugging of Defence Minister`s office and action against him for "misconduct".
A technical group to revisit the norms to estimate poverty will be set up within the next two weeks, the Lok Sabha was informed said. The Planning Commission`s new poverty estimates announced last month had created uproar in Parliam
Rural development minister Jairam Ramesh said money is not a constraint but honesty is required to make progress in the field of sanitation and hygiene. He was addressing a workshop on water, sanitation and hygiene at the Park Hotel on Wednesday.
Brushing aside fresh allegations in connection with the Bofors deal, Law Minister Salman Khurshid on Wednesday said the case is closed and there is no need to reopen it. The Law Minister also sought a public apology from all those m
Government on Wednesday ordered a fresh probe into the allegations of malpractices in procurement of 12 helicopters for the VVIP Communication Squadrons of the Indian Air Force (IAF) from Italian firm Agusta Westland. "Any such
The econocracy is busy doing the predictable downplay of the downgrade in India’s investment outlook. A more honest approach would be to confirm that Standard & Poor’s concerns (see full text below) are ours too. Honesty alone
Fifteen-year-old Masood, who loiters in the streets of Mustafabad in east Delhi on days when he is not working, jocularly calls himself a reverse engineer. His job is to dismantle computers. He does many every day to earn his wages, knowing little
Congress on Wednesday rejected reports that some of its ministers have offered to party President Sonia Gandhi to quit their posts and work for the party. "Till this moment, Congress President has not received any such letter f
Come monsoon we will have the spectacle of food grain rotting in the open once again. And that is because while the government has failed miserably to add capacity to store, stocks of food grain is increasingly at an alarming rate.
Bhartiya Janata Party on Wednesday decided to rake up the Bofors pay-offs issue in Parliament in wake of fresh allegations that the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi may have soft-pedalled the probe to protect Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocch
