The much-awaited biggest draw of lots for 16,000 flats offered by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) for which 7.53 lakh applicants are vying was held on Monday in Noida amid tight security. With DDA restricting entry, hundreds o
The ministry of environment and forests has decided to lift the ban on sand mining in Maharashtra. The ministry plans to lift an administrative moratorium that had prevented sand from being mined in the state, environment minister Jairam ramesh sa
Congress general secretary, Digvijay Singh has said that not just the politicians, but the judiciary too should come under the purview of the Lokpal Bill. Talking to reporters here on sunday, Singh said this implied that the prime m
Brushing aside allegations against advocate and former union minister Shanti Bhushan and his son Prashant Bhushan, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Monday said the smear campaign against the anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare, Shanti Bhushan
A Chhattisgarh court today directed activist Binayak Sen to surrender his passport as a bail condition in line with the Supreme Court order. Additional District and Sessions Judge BP Verma directed that Sen be released on a personal bond a
A Chhattisgarh court today directed activist Binayak Sen to surrender his passport as a bail condition in line with the Supreme Court order. Additional District and Sessions Judge BP Verma directed that Sen be released on a personal bond a
A group of advocates on Monday moved the supreme court challenging the inclusion of five civil society members in a committee to draft the Lokpal Bill. Advocate M L Sharma and others have moved the court contending that inclusion of fiv
Anna Hazare on Monday wrote to Congress president Sonia Gandhi on the "smear" campaign launched against civil society members of the joint drafting committee on Lokpal Bill and asked her to advise her "colleagues" not to try to
Hundreds of people from Vasai in the district have set out for Vidhan Bhavan, in South Mumbai, to press their demand that 35 villages in the area be excluded from Vasai-Virar Municipal Corporation. Local MLA, Vivek Pandit, is leading the m
A special court on Monday asked the CBI whether Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy`s private complaint in the 2G spectrum case could be tagged with the agency`s FIR in the case. Special CBI judge O P Saini sought response from
Over 30 per cent turnout was today recorded in the first four hours of voting in 54 constituencies of North Bengal, which went to polls in the first phase of assembly elections, with no untoward incident reported. "Polling was 32 per
The supreme court on monday banned the employment of children in circuses and directed the government to rescue children employed in the sector and formulate a rehabilitation programme for them. A bench headed by Justice Dalveer Bha
Gujarat has managed to halt the speedy decline in child sex ratio in the previous decade, according to the 2011 census, but it still has a long way to go as the current ratio is below the national average. There has been a decline in the overall s
The Central Empowered Committee (CEC) of the supreme court leaves us aghast with the unprecedented loot and plunder in the 266 iron ore mines of Karnataka. It has recommended that SC directs the state to "ascertain the total quantity of iron
Janata Party president and former union minister for law and justice, Subramanian Swamy has petitioned the prime minister for his go ahead to prosecute UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi for, as swamy alleges, abetting Italian businessman Ottavio Quattr
The Election Commission on Thursday ordered repoll in seven polling stations in Tamil Nadu and two in Kerala. The repoll would take place on April 16, an EC official said. The repoll has been ordered in view of malfunctioning of EVM
Air India pilots have refused to fly to Kabul citing safety reasons.The Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA) has isued a directive asking the members to refrain from flying to the Afghan capital till the airport there
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Anna Hazare and his associates brought the government to its knees on the Lokpal Bill issue through a campaign on which a little over Rs 30 lakh was spent in the past one year. According to details provided by `India Against Corrupt
The supreme court on Friday granted bail to rights activist Binayak Sen, who has been convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment by a Chhattisgarh trial court for sedition and helping Maoists to set up a network to fight the state. The a
