A hushed "beep, beep" signals on the Military Intelligence (MI) handheld detector during a routine sweep in defence minister A K Antony`s office last month created a sensation of someone spying on him, but the defence ministry was quick
Opposition parties in Andhra Pradesh on Friday alleged that the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme has become a "golden goose" for the ruling Congress party and demanded constitution of a House Committee to prob
Shiv Sena on Friday described the raids conducted by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Mumbai police on the premises of former city Congress chief Kripashankar Singh as "farcical" and alleged that Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithvi
With the ONGC disinvestment barely scraping through, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday said the government has decided to study the auction process before going ahead with stake sale of other companies. "This (ONGC auction)
Amid tight security, former Karnataka Tourism Minister and mining baron G Janardhana Reddy was on Friday produced before a special CBI court here which remanded him to CBI custody till March 12 in connection with an illegal mining case.
At a time when almost all major mainstream political parties are engaged in a fierce battle to win the hearts of Muslims in Uttar Pradesh, a section of Muslim clerics busied themselves to push the community into a deadly religious ideological trap
The motive behind the murder of Madhya Pradesh RTI activist Shehla Masood continues to be shrouded in mystery even after investigators arrested three persons including a woman interior designer, in this connection. While the CBI arrested i
Holding that a PIL questioning CJI S H Kapadia being part of the bench which delivered the Vodafone tax matter verdict as "highly scandalous, frivolous and irresponsible", the Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the plea for quashing the j
In a setback to dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar facing trial in the murder case of their daughter Aarushi, the Supreme Court on Friday refused to shift the trial against them from a Ghaziabad court to Delhi A bench of justices B S C
A Supreme Court bench on Friday recused itself from hearing a petition challenging the validity of the USD 8.5 billion Cairn-Vedanta deal and seeking a CBI probe into reasons for ONGC and government in "not asserting" their legal rights
The Mumbai Police on Friday conducted raids on the premises of former city Congress chief Kripashankar Singh, who has been accused of amassing disproportionate assets. "The house and office of Kripashankar Singh in suburban Mumbai wer
Vigilance officials on Friday raided premises of three personal security officers to former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi here in connection with a disproportionate assets case. Search is on on six premises, including properties
The cabinet committee on infrastructure (CCI) approved the construction of four new highways on Thursday. This will improve the connectivity among the existing highways in Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan and Odisha. While welcoming the CCI nod for the highw
The government last month announced convergence of the member of parliament local area development (MPLAD) scheme with the rural employment guarantee scheme MNREGA for creating more durable assets in the country. “The governme
The Delhi High Court today extended its stay on the National Highways Authority of India`s (NHAI) decision to terminate its contract to the Delhi-Gurgaon Super Connectivity Limited (DGSCL) to operate the expressway between the capital and the NCR
The Delhi-Mumbai corridor will have the highest number of green buildings, minister for new and renewable energy Dr Farooq Abdullah said here on Thursday. “The rapid growth of the building (sic) sector is a cause of concern, and one
A city court on Thursday remanded Akash Banerjee, nephew of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, and three of his associates to day-long judicial custody for allegedly assaulting a police sergeant. Second Chief Judicial Magistrate,
The Legislature committee probing the porngate episode on Thursday decided to summon three MLAs who had to quit as Ministers following the scandal, even as its decision to first question the television channels which aired the footage has sparked
The setting up of the proposed India International Institute of Democracy and Election Management (IIIIDEM), a pet project of the chief election commissioner (CEC) S Y Quraishi, has been put on the backburner by the government citing the need for
The US-based search engine Google Inc on Thursday told a Delhi court that that it has aleady removed alleged objectionable contents from its web posts as it was aware of its responsibility as a service provider. The search engine, in a wri
