A 40-year old Imran Yusuf Lafangajiwala, arrested here along with his wife as Pakistani spies and sent to the 14-day judicial custody by a city court, is a resident of Ahmedabad. The crime branch of Delhi Police, which claims to hav
AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi today broke the security cordon and mingled with people on his way back from a madrasa during his five-day visit to western Uttar Pradesh. Gandhi visited the Hazrat Shalim Miyan Madarsa here and i
The rest of India rarely bothers about the northeast. Otherwise, it would have brought people to street when people of Manipur were forced to shell out Rs 2,000 for a gas cylinder during the 110-day economic blockade of the state that ended early
India needs to rapidly increase energy consumption to achieve the ambitious target of 9 percent economic growth in the 12th five-year plan (2012-17), prime minister Manmohan Singh today said. "We have set for ourselves an ambit
CBI, which has expressed unhappiness over various issues related to Lokpal, today got support from Team Anna which said the recommendations of the Parliamentary Standing Committee were dangerous and should be rejected. "We supp
The directorate of education has asked all the Delhi government schools to not to allow anyone to enter the school premises for inspection of the infrastructure facilities, violating the central information commission order to allow such inspectio
Comptroller and Auditor General Vinod Rai is immune to any action since he is a constitutional authority and yet a parliamentary panel on Wednesday virtually censured him for the haste with which he got a junior appointed as the managing director
The union cabinet on Tuesday cleared three major anti-corruption bills being brought to counter crusader Anna Hazare threatening yet another indefinite fast from December 27 instead of conceding his demand to include everything in the single Lokpa
Congress president Sonia Gandhi`s dream legislation on the national food security was stuck in the union cabinet meeting here on Tuesday, with indications that a revised one will come up in the next meeting likely only after the prime minister ret
Taking his campaign to Mulayam Singh Yadav`s turf, Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday stepped up his offensive against SP and BSP and sought a ten-year Congress rule in UP to bring about a major transformation through fast-tracking developmental work in the
Former telecom minister A Raja, who has so far not cross examined any witness in the 2G case trial, is likely to open his defence next week by questioning his former additional private secretary Aseervatham Achary, a prosecution witness, sources s
Broadening its probe in overseas black money cases, the finance ministry has decided to write to tax havens and other countries to obtain past information of banking-related transactions in select cases. Top sources said that the Central B
Prime minister Manmohan Singh has called an all-party meeting on the vexed Lokpal issue on Wednesday. On the eve of the meeting, political equations are clear: all opposition parties have endorsed Anna Hazare and his colleagues` demand to bring th
Kapil Sibal wants the government to play Big Brother to the cyber world. His guidelines asking Facebook and similar social-media websites as well as other websites to pre-screen content and remove any offensive comments have created a storm. But f
We reported last week that Bihar, of all states Bihar, was the least corrupt state in India today. [You can read the report here: Bihar win
The government plans to screen the nation`s entire population in next five years for cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and strokes for early detection and treatment of the ailments, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said today. He sa
Anna Hazare today said he will go ahead with his proposed fast here from December 27 if a strong Lokpal Bill is not enacted in the current session of Parliament. The activist said he and his supporters were working to eradicate corr
BJP has decided to press for the inclusion of Prime Minister, lower bureaucracy and Citizens` Charter under Lokpal at the all-party meeting tomorrow and will move amendment in the Bill after consultation with other parties in case the government d
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati has come out in support of Anna Hazare`s demand for bringing the prime minister under Lokpal. She said she would press for the inclusion of PM under the proposed anti-corruption watchdon. Addre
Government is mulling setting up a Rs 1,000 crore Credit Risk Guarantee Fund to encourage banks to give loans to the poor, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said today even as he asserted that policies cannot have one-size- fits-all approach towards b
