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.
The Joint Parliamentary Committee examining the 2G scam has sought a copy of the Presidential Reference made by the Centre before the Supreme Court on its February 2 decision on allocation of second generation radiowaves. "Thre
The Supreme Court today sought response from the Centre and the Odisha government on a petition seeking to restrain the release of jailed Maoists in exchange for captive BJD MLA Jina Hikaka. A bench of justices T S Thakur and Gyan S
India on Thursday conducted a successful test-fire of its indigenously developed nuclear capable "Agni-V" ballistic missile with a strike range of over 5,000 km from a test range off Odisha coast. "The mission was successful
Against the backdrop of the cartoon controversy, Press Council of India Chairman Justice Markandey Katju today said the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee must learn to function in a democratic and more mature manner as she is no more a st
Delhi Government on Wednesday informed the Delhi high court that as many as 765 unaided private schools in the capital did not give 25% EWS admissions in the academic year 2011-12 as required under RTE Act. The government has issued show-cause not
Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee President Amarinder Singh today served a two-week ultimatum to Akali-BJP government in the state for withdrawing all "false" cases registered against Congress workers and said otherwise party workers wou
