Samim Khan wants to send her youngest son, 5-year-old Zishan, to a private school. She has five children and four of them have studied at a government school in Kalyanpuri in East Delhi. Her husband is a daily-wage labourer and earns aroun
Rahul Gandhi on Monday said he was not "obsessed" with becoming the Prime Minister but remained committed to transform Uttar Pradesh where people have been "fooled" for the last 22 years by successive regimes.
Amid the logjam over Koodankulam nuclear power project, a senior anti-KNPP functionary on Monday threatened to file a cri
Union minister Farooq Abdullah on Monday warned people against forces exploiting religion at the time of elections for po
Over 96,000 cases pertaining to traffic rules violations were on Monday decided in Lok Adalats organised at all six distr
Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) has announced a list of 22 candidates for the forthcoming Goa polls.
The Gems and Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) has decided to set up a common cutting and polishing facility to
Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee says though food inflation has moderated the country is not out of the "woods totally", asserting inflationary pressures must be brought down to a tolerable and acceptable level before Indian economy can
This comment first appeared on this website way back in June last year. The supreme court had just condemned the delay in instituting a CBI probe into the 2G scam in spite of repeated representations to the prime minister by Subramanian
The Gems and Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) has decided to set up a common cutting and polishing facility to combat the deadly silicosis disease afflicting most of the workers in agate industry in Khambhat town of Kheda district. Agate
Sports minister Ajay Maken has promised government help to cricketer Yuvraj Singh, who is undergoing chemotherapy in the United States to recover from lung cancer. "Wish Yuvraj a speedy recovery! Asking officials to find the quantum and natur
In a huge relief to Home Minister P Chidambaram and to the UPA government, a Delhi court on Saturday threw out a plea to make him an accused in the 2G case holding that he did not indulge in any criminal conspiracy or derived any pecuniary advanta
Reliance Industries, pulled up by the CAG for alleged contract violations of a gas block, told a parliamentary panel on Friday that it was not given a "fair" opportunity to be heard and the observations by the government auditor were on
Amid grim global situation and high domestic interest rates, prime minister Manmohan Singh said on Friday that the country`s economic growth is likely to slow down to 7-7.5 per cent this fiscal from 8.4 per cent last year. "...growth
The Orissa high court on Friday upheld the January 19 notification of the state election commission, saying the step taken by it to keep the election of lower rung panchayat members above party politics was within its constitutional ambit.
Ahead of rail budget, railway minister Dinesh Trivedi met prime minister Manmohan Singh on Friday seeking adequate financial support for the modernisation of the national transporter. Trivedi had prepared a blueprint for railways modernisa
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday urged regulators to keep in mind the larger interest of the general public before fixing electricity tariff rate. The electricity regulators should keep issues like transmission, distribution l
In the run up to the Rio+20 Earth Summit, India today said the principle of "equity" for cutting greenhouse gas emissions should be the "bottom line" of negotiations on climate change. "I would like to reiterate on
A short answer to those who find the 2G verdict shocking, unfair or lacking in foresight: all those adjectives are correct but should be applied to the UPA decisions, and not to the court ruling on them. Another short answer to thos
The campaigning for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly election is becoming dirtier as the polling day nears. The chief electoral office of the state had seized nearly Rs 31 crore and more than 2 lakh litres of liquor throughout the state with ju
