Governor of Uttar Pradesh BL Joshi is in Delhi for a three days stay to consult central leadership on the resolution of Uttar Pradesh assembly dividing the state into four parts. BL Joshi is a former Police Service Officer therefore he wan
The accused in 2G spectrum case on Wednesday approached the Delhi high court challenging its administrative decision to shift the trial in the case from its present venue at Patiala House courts to high-security Tihar Jail. Around 15 defen
The excitement among relatives of the accused and ensuing commotion after grant of bail to five corporate executives in the 2G case on Wednesday led special CBI judge O P Saini to order their family members and scribes to move out of the court.
In the first bail in 2G case, the supreme court on Wednesday ordered the release of five top corporate executives from Tihar jail, raising hopes of other accused in the case including former telecom minister A Raja and DMK MP Kanimozhi who have be
The central rural development team found major irregularities in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS) during inspection in Barabanki district of Uttar Pradesh. The team also discovered fudging and manipulation of
The Jet Airways might find it difficult to meet its obligations if the cash flow is not generated soon. Jet Airways auditors have cautioned the company that it should start raising funds or generating cash flow in order to continue fling smoothly.
Don`t cry over the double digit inflation eating into your purchasing power. It is other way round. Your purchasing power has shot up and so you are consuming more, causing the demand-supply mismatch and resultant inflation, finance minister Prana
A cheerful Congress president Sonia Gandhi was back in parliament on Tuesday on the opening day of the winter session, indicating that she has fully recovered from the undisclosed ailment that prevented her to miss the entire monsoon session.
Trade and commerce organisations staged a protest here today against foreign direct investment (FDI) in the country`s retail sector. Over 300 office bearers of the Jammu Chamber of Commerce and Industries (JCCI), Jammu Computer Deal
With the Indian rupee falling to a historic low against the US dollar, the finance ministry today said the Reserve Bank and the government are monitoring the situation. "The RBI and government are monitoring the issue. While th
As opposition geared up to move a an adjournment motion on the issue of price rise, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee admitted that more needs to be done to get desired outcomes on inflation control, hoping it will come down to 6-7 per cent by Mar
Home minister P Chidambaram had the first taste of the BJP-led NDA`s boycott of him in Parliament with the Lok Sabha today witnessing a brief but sharp protest from the Opposition when he was called to reply to a question. The entir
Cash-strapped Air India may soon earn the lost credibility again. A panel of secretaries has voted in favour of providing support of Rs 30,000 crore in order to save the crippling Maharajah. The panel has also discussed the possibility of disinves
Two encounters, in which five persons were gunned down by Gujarat police who claimed they were terrorists and conspired to assassinate chief minister Narendra Modi, have turned out to be "fake" while in another shootout, the High Court h
Asking whether the electronic media was really free or under the control of corporates who have hired them, Press Council chairman Justice Markandey Katju has insisted that he wants regulation of the news channels by an independent statutory autho
Providing the cheapest energy to consumers, mineral-rich Chhattisgarh will remain a no-power-cut state for the next 20 years, chief minister Raman Singh has said. "There is no power cut (today) and there will be no power cut in
Two children were charred to death and one person suffered burn injuries after fire broke out in two AC coaches of Howrah-Dehradun Express in Jharkhand`s Giridih district in the wee hours today. "Two children were charred to de
MK Stalin DMK leader on Monday met Kanimozhi in Tihar Jail in Delhi spent half an hour discussing the family mattres also legal issues. Stalin spent two hours with DMK MPs discussed issues before the ensuing Winter Session of Parliament, b
The opposition Congress on Monday moved a no-confidence motion against the ruling BJP government, led by the chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, on the first day of the winter session of the legislative assembly. The motion was moved by
The Lokayukta court on Monday reserved its orders till Tuesday on the admissibility of a fresh private complaint against ex-Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa, housing minister V Somanna and two others alleging irregularities in denotificati
