A day after chief minister of eastern Indian state of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee sent an ultimatum to the Centre seeking a moratorium on repayment of loan by her state, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday said a committee has been asked t
CBI on Sunday searched the residence of Congress MLA K N Tripathy here as it continued raids for the second day to make headway in the alleged corruption and horse-trading that marred the March 30 Rajya Sabha elections. "Yester
Maoists on Sunday demanded release of eight of their jailed leaders in Chattisgarh and a halt to "Operation Green Hunt" in exchange for freedom of Sukma collector Alex Paul Menon, who was safe, a day afer he was abducted and they also se
The sordid sex video freely circulating in the social media purportedly linking elevation of the impugned lady to judgeship flows beyond the senior MP and parliamentary committee chairman allegedly promising the lady to precisely what coinc
Under the visionary leadership of chief minister Narendra Modi, Gujarat has been spinning the wheel to be a success model in water management programme. Gujarat is the only state where groundwater level has considerably increased in the last eight
The Punjab government has banned the manufacture, import and use of pesticides which are injurious to health. It has also withdrawn registration of some pesticides in addition to restricting use of some other dangerous pesticides. It has also made
According to reports in certain sections of the media, Indian high commissioner in Male, Dhyaneshwar Mule asked the Maldivian government to provide a ‘note’ when requested for help to deal with coup that was underway in the archipelago
Four union ministers have sought the Congress high command to take them into the organisational set-up in the All India Congress Committee (AICC). Grapevine has it that one union minister has written a letter to UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, sayin
The figure of Rs 10.67 lakh crore is a mind-numbing one. The numeral one followed by 13 zeroes. It is over 10% of the annual size of India’s economy today, and around 9% of the total value of India’s existing coal reserves. But this is
About 8,000 seats, meant for children from economically weaker section (EWS) are lying vacant in private public schools in the national capital. This was discussed at the review meeting of the Education department chaired by state educatio
Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal wrote a letter to Union Minister Virbhadra Singh on Thursday, refusing to seek apology. The union minister for micro, small and medium enterprises had earlier threatened to file a criminal defamation suit a
The Centre today refused to take any stand on the issue of declaring mythological Ram Setu a national monument and asked the Supreme Court instead to decide it. Appearing before a bench headed by justices H L Dattu and Anil R Dave,
Cases involving "influential" persons deserve "special focus" to avoid long delays in investigation and trial, but at the same time any blanket direction to set up special courts whenever such personalities are involved should
The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a case against VRS Natarajan, chairman and managing director of Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML) in Bangalore. The probe agency has also registered a case against CS Srivatsan, who is director o
The government on Thursday brushed aside the pressure being built by the global trade bodies in the Rs 11,000 crore Vodafone tax dispute case and asserted that the British telecom major cannot invoke the India-Netherlands investment treaty as the
After SpiceJet, cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines Thursday said it has received official approval to directly import jet fuel, a move that would help it reduce its operating costs to a significant extent. "Kingfisher Airlines h
Senior BJP leader Uma Bharti on Thursday asked the Uttar Pradesh government to desist from "Muslim appeasement policy", saying it could create animosity between the minority community and Hindus. "There should not be
The government is considering to set up an inter-ministerial group to tackle the menace of misleading advertisements, Food and Consumer Affairs Minister K V Thomas said on Thursday. "We may have an inter-ministerial group that
Setting aside internal differences, BJP today declared S S Ahluwalia- its outgoing Deputy Leader in Rajya Sabha- as the party candidate from Jharkhand for the biennial elections to the Upper House. Ahluwalia, who completed fourth term as a
Maoists on Thursday produced abducted ruling BJD MLA Jhina Hikaka before a people`s court to decide his fate, a day after the Odisha government said it would withdraw cases against 13 prisoners in exchange for freedom of the tribal legislator.
