A number of non-Congress chief ministers have opposed the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) terming it a violation of federalism and draconian, but they seem to have read the law selectively. The NCTC, proposed to be set up o
Caught in a cauldron of protests against atomic power plants, India`s nuclear regulator, AERB is mulling involving the public in the process of granting safety licences to such projects. The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) has drawn
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on thursday undertook a road show here, the second such exercise in as many days, and travelled across the old city areas to garner support for his party. During his over hour-long road show, he passed through areas li
In a show of strength, BJP strongman of Karnataka B S Yeddyurappa on thursday mobilised a sizeable number of legislators at a meeting convened by him apparently to exert pressure on the party central leadership to reinstate him as chief minister.
Riding on hopes of coming to power in Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party`s national secretary Ajay Agarwal said that if voted to power the party will take a range of steps for the benefit of traders. "The party has already acquired 70 per
A three-member fact-finding team was on Thursday constituted by Press Council chief Justice Markandey Katju to inquire into the murder of journalist Chandrika Rai and his family in Madhya Pradesh`s Umariya District. The three-member team f
The Madhya Pradesh Assembly was on Thursday adjourned for the day when Opposition Congress created a ruckus after denial of permission to discuss the breach of privilege motion on the issue of arrest of its MLA, Kalpana Parulekar. S
An estimated 57 per cent of the electorate exercised their franchise on Thursday in the fifth phase of Uttar Pradesh assembly elections spread over 49 seats, including the stronghold of the Yadav family and former Chief Minister Kalyan Singh
To speed up the process of issuing passports with transparency, the ministry of external affairs (MEA) in partnership with the IT firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) inaugurated a passport seva kendra (PSK) here on Thursday. The initiative falls
The police on Thursday baton-charged a protest rally taken out by Congress workers and detained Gujarat state unit president Arjun Modhvadia and senior leader Shankarsinh Vaghela among 200 others. The rally was taken out coinciding with th
Shortly after a top law officer disapproved gay sex as highly "immoral" in the Supreme Court, the Home Ministry on Thursday said it has not taken any stand on the Delhi High Court order decriminalising homosexuality. It said the
Union minister Sriprakash Jaiswal on Thursday said if Congress fails to get a majority in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls he sees a possibility of president`s rule, a statement that came under attack from rivals, forcing him to go for damage cont
Facing severe turbulence, Kingfisher Airlines on Thursday started truncated operations in accordance with its new flight schedule, as aviation regulator DGCA examined its operational details to consider whether to take any punitive action against
Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy on Thursday moved the supreme court challenging the trial court order which had held that Home Minister P Chidmbaram did not indulge in any criminal conspiracy in the 2G case and refused to make him an accused
Union Home Ministry opposes before the Supreme Court decriminalisation of gay sex in the country. This is highly immoral and against the social order, the Ministry tells SC. Our moral and social values are different f
Italian deputy foreign minister Stefan de Mistura on Thursday met the two arrested naval guards, charged with the killing of two Indian fishermen off Kerala coast, at nearby Wellington Island. He was accompanied by Italian Ambassador Giaco
Hundreds of activists of Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), the youth wing of CPI-M, on Thursday blocked the government secretariat here, in protest against the UDF government`s move to raise the superannuation age of government employee
Defending its decision to do away with Common Entrance Test (CET) for admission into professional courses, Tamil Nadu government said the enrolment of rural students into engineering courses has gone up by more than 10 percent since it was scrappe
Polling for the fifth phase of Uttar Pradesh assembly elections covering 49 seats spread over 13 district, including Bundelkhand region, began here on Thursday. Fate of 829 candidates, including that of leader of opposition in the state assembly S
Veteran Congressman and Goa Assembly Speaker Pratapsinh Rane is subtly being promoted as the chief ministerial candidate by the Congress-NCP combine in the run-up to the March 3 Assembly polls. In an apparent indication to this, Rane repla
