Days after CBI chief`s statement that Indians are the largest depositors in Swiss banks, Switzerland today said such estimates and statistics lack evidence and are uncorroborated. In an unusual step, the embassy of Switzerland here issued
Burdened with as many as 16 portfolios, Karnataka Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda today said he proposed to expand his ministry `shortly` and would seek the party central leadership`s nod for the exercise. "In a couple of da
`Don`t trouble poor vendors` -- this was the advice given by lieutenant governor Tejinder Khanna today to Delhi Police personnel on the occasion of 65th Raising Day of the force. He also asked police personnel to develop "good rapport
The long-pending demand of Kerala for a rail coach factory in Palakkad has been approved by the centre on Thursday. The union cabinet approved the setting up of a new rail coach manufacturing unit as a joint venture project to manufacture
This is a statement from eminet academic-activist Jean Dreze, also a former member of the national advisory council. Palpati Kumari, a 14-year old girl who was studying at Barwahi Middle School in Manika Block of Latehar District
Delhi has the highest monthly per capita expenditure (MPCE) and the highest monthly per capita income in the country. MPCE has increased from Rs 2,078 in 2008 to Rs 2,905 in 2010 in urban area. Nationwide, the MPCE in urban areas stands at Rs 1,98
After Salman Khurshid, union steel minister Beni Prasad Verma dared the election commission to take action against him when he declared that quota for Muslims would be increased. "Reservation for Muslims will be increased and if the E
Three former Karnataka BJP ministers, who lost their jobs over watching porn film clippings on mobile when the assembly was in session, today submitted their replies to the show cause notice slapped on them by speaker K G Bopaiah. The trio
India remains a country of hungry children, reveals a new report by the international NGO Save the Children. That the scale of hunger among the young ones in India is on a par with Nigeria takes the sheen off the country’s claims of being a
It was around four in the afternoon on a Monday and cool, late-winter breeze blew, but the crowd in front of Ahlcon International School, in southeast Delhi’s Mayur Vihar appeared far from relaxed. It had gathered for the draw of the lottery
Polling for 10 municipal corporations across Maharashtra, including Mumbai, to decide the fate of 1,244 candidates, began this morning amidst tight security. The elections are being held in Thane, Ulhasnagar, Pune, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Solapu
Days after the supreme court ordered the cancellation of 122 second generation (2G) licences, telecom minister Kapil Sibal on Wednesday shared policy guidelines on issues such as delinking spectrum with licences and enhancing the spectrum limit.
The total sanitation campaign (TSC) to make the country open-defecation free needs restructuring, union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh said on Wednesday, even as he said that the goal will be met in ten years. The rejig is a part of the
The Delhi car bomb blast has put the India-Iran ties under pressure but New Delhi has hinted that there can be further cooperation with Tehran to fulfill its energy security needs. “We can find out potential in countries across the (
The government has intensified its search for a new chief for the national highways authority of India (NHAI) to fill the vacancy which came up several months ago. The union ministry of surface roadways and transportation has already published an
The 42-year-old Tal Yehoshua-Koren, wife of the military attache in the Israeli embassy, is out of hospital two days after she was wounded in a bomb attack on his car by a motorcyclist near the PM`s house on Monday, her brother in Jerusalem claime
Israeli Ambassador Alon Usphiz will meet External Affairs Minister S M Krishna to discuss the progress in investigations into the sticky bomb attack on an Israeli diplomat two days ago. External Affairs Ministry spokespe
In fresh trouble for the Narendra Modi government, the Gujarat high court on Wednesday issued contempt notice to it for not obeying its order to compensate people whose shops were burnt down in the post-Godhra riots. The
The NSG has alerted all its commando squads guarding VVIPs and will soon bring out new security drills following the rece
At 11.30 on Wednesday morning a siren sounded across Delhi announcing the beginning of a massive emergency drill. The idea was to test the city’s preparedness and response to an earthquake measuring 7.9 on richter scale. Delhi comes
