The situation in trouble-hit parts of the old city here, remained peaceful on Monday even as indefinite curfew continued for the second day in the communally sensitive Madannapet and Saidabad areas. "The situation is totally peaceful
Members of the Tamil Nadu assembly have been banned from carrying mobile phones inside the house following a directive from the Speaker D Jayakumar. The Speaker informed the assembly that usage of cellphones is being banned for all, includ
Uttar Pradesh government has transferred Superintendent of Police, Gonda, and attached him to the DGP office, official sources said on Monday. SP Gonda Upendra Kumar Agarwal has been attached to the DGP office in Lucknow in the same
CBI on Thursday arrested former Rajasthan Minister and BJP MLA Rajendra Rathore for his alleged involvement in the fake encounter case of local liquor smuggler Dara Singh in 2006. Dara Singh, a resident of a village in Churu district of R
If it wasn’t so comical, it would be grand tragedy. Except for embarrassing 1.2 billion Indians and providing gales of mocking laughter for India’s detractors and enemies, real and imagined, the report on the ‘coup’ attempt
Ruling out any move for a third front at the national level, CPI-M on Thursday said it was attempting to forge a combine comprising Left, democratic parties and secular forces for joint action on people`s issues. "There is no d
That there was some talk about the mid-January movement of two elite Army units towards the capital which had exercised Army Chief Gen V K Singh`s mind is evident in an interview he had given to an English magazine in middle of March. &quo
After almost two years of painstaking efforts, the CRPF has successful used unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to pick up ground conversation and movement of Maoist cadres in terrains of Chhattisgarh. A special squad of the anti-Naxal force r
The Gujarat Police has approached a Delhi court seeking custody of Naxal leader Kobad Ghandy to interrogate him for his alleged role in guiding Maoist activities in the state before he was caught by city police. The Gujarat police has move
"Lokpal lao nahi to jao" will be the refrain for the next phase of social activist Anna Hazare`s agitation for the Jan Lokpal Bill, till the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. "We will wait for the passing of the bill till the cur
For the second time, the Department of Space has declined to give details on why punitive action was taken against former ISRO chief G Madhavan Nair in connection with the controversial Antrix-Devas deal, evoking a sharp reaction from the scientis
S Narsing Rao will be the new chairman and managing director of Coal India Limited. Afte
The Government on Thursday said it will "very soon" take a decision on the issue of allowing foreign airlines to pick up stake in the Indian carriers. "This has been discussed with the Finance Minister, Civil Aviation
Former BJP leader B Sreeramulu in Thursday flayed the tour undertaken by former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in drought hit district of the state and termed it as another "drama" to regain power. "Chief Minister
Jharkhand High Court on Thursday granted bail to former state Chief Minister Madhu Koda, who was in prison for over two years in connection with illegal investments and hawala transaction case. Koda, who was in judicial custody sinc
With the Congress debacle in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls coming as a jolt, Rahul Gandhi on Thursday began the task of analysing the outcome to make the party battle-ready ahead of the Lok Sabha polls in 2014. Gandhi, who led the party
The Border Security Force (BSF) Kashmir Frontier has established a human rights cell in the Valley with an aim to sensitise its personnel about human rights. "A human rights cell headed by Deputy Commandant K S Rawat has been e
Arunachal Pradesh government has released an amount of over 98 crore for paying the salary of teachers serving under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA). "The arrears from May last year to March this year has been released and will be
In the Congress-led UPA government, the sun of good fortune never sets on a loyalist. Perhaps, that’s why the Manmohan Singh government doesn’t even blink when its blue-eyed boy, the science and technology minister, Vilasrao Deshmukh g
CBI arrests BJP MLA Rajendra Rathore in Dara Singh fake encounter case in Rajasthan.
