Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday offered to resign shortly after the Supreme Court served him a notice for contempt of court for failing to reopen graft cases against the President, according to a media report. Gilani t
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has formulated potential-linked credit plans (PLCPs) worth Rs 4,180 crore to give a boost to the agriculture sector in Jammu and Kashmir in 2012-13. "The credit potential un
On the ghats of Banaras, most inhabitants have a philosophical, self-abnegating attitude towards life, barring two indulgences: chillum and cricket. Both are dopes, neither less important than the other. Not a speck of jingoism creeps into the way
Human resource development minister Kapil Sibal on Monday criticized the state governments for not performing their duties. He put the blame of failure of the education system on state governments. After releasing
The student enrolment rate in rural areas has been constantly increasing. It has been steady since 2010 at 96.7%. But there has been a decline in children’s attendance. From 73.4% in 2007 it has declined to 70.9% in 2011 in rural primary sch
Endless price rise in Petrol, milk vegetables, dal , cooking gas, railway tickets,electricity and water bills is having no resonance with people. With no increase in salary, wages and profit Aaam Admi (common man) feels cheated. Congress argument
Kendrapara (Odisha): In a bizarre turn of event, a woman in Kendrapara district posed herself as the daughter of the man whom she had legally married. The reason was to stave off delay in the submission of caste certificate for the ensuing panchay
A deputy election commissioner responsible for the arrest of those evading warrants during the West Bengal assembly elections is himselg trying to evade a non-bailable arrest warrant for allegedly leasing out jaipur`s famous Jal Mahal to a private
A group of activists led by Prashant Bhushan has accused the Indian Express newspaper of "intellectual dishonesty" and possible confilct of interest for having Jaypee Group as the main sponsor of its Excellence in Journalism awards. The
Congress will swing to the tune of `Kolaveri Di` in the upcoming assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Uttarakhand. Only, the lyrics will be `Utho, jaago aur badlo`. Party sources have said that the song was Rahul Gandhi`s pick.
Notwithstanding Congress backing the election commission`s direction to the Mayawati government on the statues issue, senior leader Digvijay Singh was criticial of the constitutional body`s decision, saying it should have frozen the BSP symbol `el
Cracking the whip, the Andaman & Nicobar police today warned tour operators of stern action if they resort to `Jarawa tourism` by offering tourists any glimpse of the near extinct tribe as part of their package. This follows advertisem
Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh on Sunday warned all rebels contesting against party`sofficial candidates in the January 30 state assembly election to withdraw from the contest or face expulsion. In a statement here, he said indiscip
A top Finance Ministry official today defended Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on the controversial March 25 note on 2G by telling the Joint Parliamentary Committee looking into the issue that seeing a file does not mean approving it.
`Not another coup, please`, was the advice given by the Pakistani media today to the powerful military, which is engaged in a major stand off with the weak civilian government over the memo scandal. The standoff - which reached a head yest
In a bid to provide insurance cover to more people hailing from vulnerable sections, government plans to widen the ambit of the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana. The scheme, which was reviewed at the union cabinet meeting on Thursday, has al
The Delhi high court on Thursday stayed an order of a lower court asking the CBI director to personally appear before it to explain disappearance of some documents pertaining to the sensational multi-crore rupees Molarband and Dheerpur land scam c
The government has agreed to the parliamentary standing committee`s recommendation not to treat 16 years as the age of consent for girls and not to classify sexual acts with children aged 16 to 18 years as consensual but to treat them as offence.
A day after Rahul Gandhi escaped irate young demonstrators in Azamgarh inviting them to Delhi after polls to discuss their demand for a probe into the 2008 Batla House encounter in south Delhi, home minister P Chidambaram on Thursday shut out any
In the run up to the January 30 assembly polls in Uttarakhand, both the ruling BJP and Congress have had their share of post-ticket distribution revolts but the saffron party seems to have suffered more. According to sources in both the pa
