Former supreme court judge, justice Shivaraj V Patil was today appointed the new Lokayukta of Karnataka, succeeding N Santosh Hegde, who welcomed the move saying it was a "very good choice". Patil had served as the one-man commit
Uttar Pradesh government has decided to withdraw a case registered against BSP MP Tabassum Begum in connection with the violation of model code of conduct during 2007 assembly election in the state, officials said today. "A case was r
The government is mulling over a proposal to deploy armed guards in merchant ships to fight pirates on the high seas, union minister for shipping G K Vasan has revealed in a letter. Vasan, in a letter to Goa`s Congress MP Shantaram Naik wh
Goa Crime Branch yesterday questioned chief wildlife warden Shashi Kumar and state transport director Arun Desai in connection with illegal mining case. Police have already interrogated state mines and geology director Arvind Lolienkar and
Swooping down on officials considered close to DMK chief M Karunanidhi, vigilance officials today raided the premises of former state intelligence chief M S Jaffer Sait and several others in connection with an alleged land allotment scam.
With the rate of price rise not showing signs of moderation, the Reserve Bank today raised its March end inflation projection to 7 per cent, from 6 per cent estimated earlier. "Keeping in view the domestic demand-supply balance, globa
Under attack from the opposition seeking his exit over the Lokayukta report on the mining scam, chief minister B S Yeddyurappa today said it is prime minister Manmohan Singh and home minister P Chidambaram who should first quit on the telecom issu
The centre will convene an all party meeting once the interlocutors on Kashmir submit their recommendations for discussing them, home minister P Chidambaram has said. "The interlocutors were appointed after the all party meeting. So I
The RBI on Tuesday hiked short-term lending and borrowing rates sharply by 50 basis points for the third time in three months to tame high inflation, a move that would make all personal and corporate loans more expensive. The RBI has also
Former telecom minister A Raja on Tuesday dragged prime minister Manmohan Singh again in the 2G case, alleging he too could be held guilty of "conspiracy" and dereliction of duty for not forming a group of ministers (GoM) to examine the
The coal ministry has assured greater transparency in the allocation of coal blocks planning a competitive bid for the mines by the year end. With most blocks up for auction having been indentified, the ministry is now working on drafting the fina
Congress on Wednesday slammed the BJP for its failure to remove Karnataka chief minister B S Yedyurappa who hasbeen named by the lokayukta Santosh Hegde in a report on illegal mining in the state. Congress sokesperson Manish Tiwari called
Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari on Monday sought to deny any kind of confrontation with the party by the tainted Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa in the letter he wrote for a party panel to first establish charges levelled a
Mohammad Nasir, the only earning member in the family of four, is a painter by profession. A daily wage labourer, Nasir’s monthly income hardly ever touched Rs 4000 till few months back. Some days, work was hard to come by. On some others, t
UPA partner DMK has come under pressure from Congress to suspend Lok Sabha MP and former telecom minister A Raja from the party after he named prime minister Manmohan Singh and former finance minister P Chidambaram in a statement to the CBI court
Darul Uloom Deoband`s Vice Chancellor Ghulam Mohammed Vastanvi was today sacked for his comments praising Narendra Modi which had raised hackles of the conservatives soon after the reformist theologian took over the reins of the prominent Islamic
Debt-ridden Air India`s proposed domestic sector budget airline route to contain losses has found little favour among its pilots. The proposal to overhaul Alliance Air’s current operations and turn it into a low-cost domestic carrier
Appearing in court on Monday in the 2G spectrum scam trial former telecom minister A Raja said prime minister Manmohan Singh and the then finance minister P Chidambaram were aware of the spectrum allocation decisions that landed him in jail.
The new minister for environment and forests Jayanthi Natarajan may make significant changes in the bureaucracy at the ministry. Two or three senior mandarins may be moved out of the ministry while most others will find the freedom they enjoyed un
Karnataka Lokayukta justice Santosh Hegde will submit his much-awaited report on illegal mining to the government on Wednesday. "Yes, I will submit the report on Wednesday," Hegde, a former supreme court judge and member of Jan L
