Embarrassed by the Karnataka porn clip controversy, BJP today said the incident involving its three ministers is "un
India’s forest cover has decreased by 367 sq km in the last two years with the maximum amount of forest cover disappearing from the northeast states and Andhra Pradesh. According to the Forest Survey of India (FSI) report 2011 relea
The revelations last week about officers of the Rashtriya Rifles collaborating with rogue police officers to set up fake encounters have shocked the nation. Even the supreme court condemned the shameful acts and said the perpetrators of such crime
The department of personnel and training is now hurrying to get sanction for the prosecution of senior bureaucrats accused of irregularities from their concerned ministries. Prompted by the supreme court order on deadlines for sanction of pros
BJP leader Kirit Somaiya on Tuesday said Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi "deserves to be shown black flags&q
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday urged the Centre to give fertiliser subsidy to farmers and assailed
The Tamil Nadu government has demanded that the centre intervene after 600 fishing boats returned to shore near Rameswaram without any catch after they were pelted with stones and bottles by some personnnel of the Sri Lankan navy as they veered cl
Opting out of the Karnataka Lokayukta post, former Kerala High Court Chief Justice S R Bannurmath on Tuesday launched a tirade against Governor H R Bhardwaj for the "unverified and untrue" observations coming from Raj Bhavan agains
The budget session of Parliament will begin on March 12 and the union budget for 2012-13 will be presented on March 16. The railway budget will be presented on March 14 while the economic survey will be tabled on March 15. The session will
The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Tuesday airlifted 313 people of Kargil district who were stranded at Leh and Srinagar
The meeting of the search committee to finalise the names of the nominees for the post of University Grant Commission (UGC) chairman is underway. There are two top contenders for the post - professor Deepak Pental, former vice chancellor o
The Delhi University Teachers` Association (DUTA) will hold a protest in all colleges under the university for four days starting on Tuesday. The protest will be held in the morning colleges from 11am to 2pm and from 3pm to 5pm in the evening coll
The economic growth is likely to fall to a three-year low of 6.9 per cent in 2011-12, mainly due to sharp slowdown in manufacturing, agriculture and mining sectors, against 8.4 per cent expansion in the last fiscal. Agriculture and allied
A controversy broke out over the transfer of a poll observer, an IAS officer, who allegedly ordered the stopping of a motorcycle rally of Congress campaigner and Priyanka Gandhi`s husband Robert Vadra on the charge of violating the model code of c
Polling for the first phase of the high voltage Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections for 55 seats in 10 districts would be held tomorrow that will decide the fate of two ministers, 31 MLAs and 15 former ministers. More than 1.70 lakh electorat
The CVC also hailed as "very significant" a recent supreme court order holding that sanction would be deemed to be granted against a `corrupt` official
Had Uttar Pradesh been a country, it could have been more populous than most of the 170 countries that exist today, and if by choice, also had it been a democracy, it would have been the fourth-biggest democratic nation. However, it is true that,
The ISRO row intensified on Monday with the space agency chief K Radhakrishnan refuting the charge by his predecessor G Madhavan Nair that no enquiry was conducted on the findings of an official report on the Antrix-Devas deal
Our cities may not be able keep pace with their populations unless urban planning in India is radically rethought, warns a Ficci report released on Friday. “In just over a decade from now, nearly 500 million Indians will need new, ur
Rebutting criticism that the 2G judgement was a case of judicial overreach, Justice A K Ganguly, who was on the two-member bench of the Supreme Court that cancelled 122 licences, on Monday asserted that the courts can certainly scrutinise an
