An emotionally choked bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, for the first time, clarified that he will not seek pardon and will surrender in time. The supreme court, on March 21, sentenced him to five-year imprisonment under the Arms Act. He has already se
I don’t get it. Maybe you are smarter, you do. But didn’t India send its army with its tanks into Sri Lanka to quell the Tamil rebels and get a bloody nose in the bargain? At one stage weren’t we on the side of the Colombo govern
In the first-high level contact after the new Chinese leadership took over, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met President Xi Jinping and raised the issue of Beijing`s proposal to construct three dams across the Brahmaputra river on its side.
Lakhs of students in across India will be travelling to smaller districts to take the joint entrance exam (mains) scheduled for April 7. The JEE (main) in 25 cities across the country and three outside India will be conducted only on computers, wh
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on March 22 notified an already-existing regulation, which restricts the advertising time on television channels (both entertainment and news) to 12 minutes in a one-hour slot, following complaints
Even as the human rights situation in Manipur has taken a turn for the worse in the recent years, the state human rights commission has been without a chairperson and thus dysfunctional since May 2010. “The state human rights
Voicing concern over increased attacks on Indian fishermen by Sri Lankan Navy, Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday asked the Centre to initiate diplomatic steps to check it and urged for withdrawal of the 1974 agreement ceding Katchatheevu islet to t
The Summit of BRICS nations here on Wednesday may take a call on the setting up of a development bank notwithstanding some key issues dogging it even as the leaders will advocate reforms of the global governance architecture. The Summit, w
Local BSP leader and businessman Deepak Bharadwaj was on Tuesday shot dead by two men in his farmhouse in south Delhi, police said. The incident took place in the farmhouse `Nitish Kunj` located in Vasant Kunj area around 9:15 AM.
Coming down heavily on defaulting digital service providers for failing to implement the subscriber management system, the telecom regulator warned them on Monday that it will take legal action against CEOs of such companies. According to
A representative of MGNREGA workers has written a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, drawing his attention towards the plight of persons employed in Vidarbha under the Centre`s flagship rural job programme. In the lett
Addis Ababa/Juba: As this is being written, Chinese president Xi Jinping and his glam wife are in the African theatre. Beijing expects the duo, on their very first overseas trip after Xi took over, to charm their Tanzanian hosts and those in South
Defence Minister A K Antony on Monday said "somebody has taken money" in the controversial AgustaWestland helicopter deal and no mercy would be shown to those involved. He also said that CBI is "vigorously" pursuing the
State-owned NTPC’s director (Finance) AK Singhal was awarded the lifetime achievement award- ‘The India CFO Award for Sustained Excellence Over a Decade’ for being the driving force behind NTPC achieving sustained financial excel
With the “successful” completion of the 5.8 percent stake sale in Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL), the government has added to its treasury Rs 24,000 crore which it claims will help reduce the country’s fiscal deficit sig
The Congress appears far from upbeat about its prospects in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections, which may well be preponed by six months to November this year. An internal assessment by the party says that a Narendra Modi-led BJP may win as many
The Delhi High Court has designated the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) of Patiala House Court here for holding the trial of the two Italian marines, accused of killing two Indian fishermen. According to official sources in the high co
Here is the complete speech that Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal made to the Wharton India Economic Forum via video-conferencing on Saturday: Thank you for inviting me to address the Wharton India Economic Forum. It is an h
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh left Monday on a 4-day visit to Durban for attending the BRICS Summit expressing the hope that ways to revive global growth and faster movement on reform of institutions of global, political and economic governance wi
In further signs of fissures within DMK, party chief M Karunanidhi`s son M K Alagiri on Monday skipped the crucial Executive committee meet, which is likely to take key decisions in the wake of the party`s pullout from the UPA. Alagiri lef
