Five fastest growing economies, including India, today vowed to oppose trade protectionism as they agreed to coordinate their positions in the multilateral fora, including the G-20 and climate change negotiations, to uphold the interests of develo
Five corporate honchos, who have been named in the charge sheet in the 2G spectrum case, on wednesday moved bail pleas in a Delhi court which asked the CBI to file its replies. "The CBI is granted time to file reply and put up the mat
Four funerals were held simultaneously in Ireland, Kenya, Canada and The Netherlands. A cricket bat and a white cricket ball were dispatched to ashes and an eulogy to greed read out at the ceremony. The tragic circumstances which surround
An FIR has been lodged against some Congress workers on charges of attacking policemen and loot, police said here. A case has been lodged by incharge of Wazirganj police station Pankaj Singh alleging that Congress workers attacked p
Voicing confidence that his party will win the Tamil Nadu assembly polls, DMK president M Karunanidhi today hinted at a possible coalition government, a key issue said to have been raised by long-time ally Congress as a post-poll arrangement.
The Election Commission today ordered Suspension of a Deputy Superintendent of Police and two Inspectors in this district "for not effectively performing their duties." Police said the tahsildhar of a EC flying squad and m
The US has reminded Pakistan of its "special" responsibility to bring perpetrators of 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks to justice and asked it to do so "urgently". "There`s an international responsibility to coop
The supreme court today questioned the CBI for approaching it 16 years after it had diluted in September 1996 the charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against the accused in the Bhopal gas tragedy case. A five-judge special
Tamil Nadu recorded about 25 per cent polling and Kerala an impressive 45 per cent till 1 PM in today`s closely fought assembly polls which largely remained peaceful. In Tamil Nadu, polling got off to a brisk start at 8 am reaching the 25
Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) Maharashtra state unit president Jaiparakash Chajjed on Tuesday gave an ultimatum to the MSRTC to resolve the long-pending issues of ST workers at the earliest or face serious agitation from May one.
To put pressure on the government prior to the supreme court hearing on the ban on plastic sachets of smokeless tobacco packets on Wednesday, directors of 16 regional cancer centres in India wrote letters individually to prime minister Manmohan Si
Veteran Gandhians and activists have written to Anna Hazare, saying that claims of rural development made by Gujarat under chief minister Narendra Modi were false and the noted anti-corruption crusader needs to correct his statement about the BJP
In a bid to speed up its probe, the CVC has asked the chief vigilance officers of government departments to prepare a list of officials who were allegedly involved in corruption while executing Commonwealth Games related projects. It has a
Japan has reportedly decided to raise the severity level of the crisis at its tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to the maximum seven on an international scale from the current status of five. The Nuclear and Industry S
With certain navigational aids at the Goa airport being switched off for certain periods due to repairs, aviation regulator DGCA today initiated action against four airlines for operating flights despite being asked not to do so at those times.
In the backdrop of uproar over corruption and blackmoney issues, government has sought suggestion from people on a proposed anti-graft law which will facilitate extradition and prosecution of foreign public officials involved in bribery. I
The enforcement directorate is all set to attach properties worth Rs 130 crore allegedly belonging to former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda and his aides. The directorate, which is probing charges of huge illegal investments and hawal
The Air India management on Saturday threatened to derecognise the Indian Commercial Pilots` Association (ICPA), a pilots` union, over its recent protest demanding pay parity for the pilots of the national carrier. ICPA pilots had started
The International Moneytary Fund (IMF) has forecasted a 8.25 percent growth for India in 2011. IMF released the World Economic Outlook report for April 2011 on Monday. The report, however, says that India`s growth will slow down in 2012 and pegs i
India`s dated policies on water are on their way out. Union water resources minister Salman Khurshid said at an event here on Monday that the government will be introducing a new national water policy next year. Khurshid said that the union govern
