In a politically sensitive debate, facts are normally distorted, manipulated, even massaged, to present blatantly wrong inferences. This happens across the globe, as is evident from the current presidential election campaign in the US. The Republi
The Prime Minister`s Office (PMO) on Saturday denied any hand of Congress President Sonia Gandhi`s political secretary Ahmed Patel in the allotment of coal blocks. The denial came on a cover story in Mumbai Mirror on Saturday that Prime Mi
The Supreme Court on Friday adjourned till September 28 the bail plea of YSR Congress chief Jaganmohan Reddy in the alleged multi-crore disproportionate assets scam being probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement Directorate.
Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari on Friday served a criminal defamation notice on Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh for implicating him in the allocation of a coal block to BJP Rajya Sabha member Ajay Sancheti by the BJP-rule
Planning commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia has strongly supported the hike in diesel prices and said the government needed to take a lot of tough decisions such as this to achieve an 8.2 percent growth rate during the 12th five-yea
The supreme court has issued notice to the centre on coal block allocations and has asked the govt what action it proposes to take against illegal allotments and those allottees who breached the contract. The apex court has asked the coal
Last week when oil minister S Jaipal Reddy shed tears of true remorse while saying that “difficult and painful” decisions need to be taken, the common man could see it coming. But the intensity of it was wholly unanticipated. Now, afte
Twelve people died and four others were injured as dozens of houses caved in following a cloudburst in Uttarakhand`s Rudraprayag district on Friday. A large number of people are feared trapped in the debris and rescue operations have been
Slamming the Centre for hiking the price of diesel and restricting supply of cooking gas, CPI-M General Secretary Prakash Karat on Friday said his party will hold discussions with other parties on organising a stir to press for roll back.
It was looming right from the day the presidential elections got over. The diesel price hike, announced last night, was in the offing for a while, but what was not expected was the double whammy, of an unprecedented quota system for cooking gas. T
The government-run Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML) continues to do business with Tatra Sipox (UK) limited of Ravindra Rishi and even sought a fresh lot of Tatra trucks at the price of Rs 59.6 lakh each in July, two months after the Central Bure
The group of ministers (GoM) on drought, headed by agriculture minister Sharad Pawar, has increased the number of days one will get the guaranteed work in the drought-hit areas under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (M
Following Justice M B Shah Commission report on illegal iron ore mining in Goa, the state government is apparently non-committal on recovering a whopping Rs 35,000 crore from the mine owners who illegally plundered the resources. In its re
Stepping up their protest against the atomic power plant here, anti-nuclear activists on Thursday stood in sea waters forming a human chain off nearby Indinthakarai coast. Taking a leaf from `Jal Satyagraha` activists in Madhya Pradesh, th
The Inter Ministerial Group (IMG) on coal block allocation has been asked to conclude its work without delay and give its recommendations at the earliest. A direction is this regard was given on Wednesday after Finance Minister P Chidambar
In a major breakthrough, Jammu and Kashmir Police has arrested a top militant who is suspected to have provided logistical support to hijackers of IC-814 in 1999 and was operating for the last 25 years in the state. Mehrajuddin alias Javed
DGPs and chiefs of central police organisations (CPOs) gather together every year for a conference organised by the Intelligence Bureau (IB), which safely passes off as an annual ritual marked by the usual rhetoric from the prime minister and the
Describing the Congress-led UPA government as "scam-tainted", Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Wednesday spoke of his party playing a major role in the country after the 2014 election. Explaining his party`s respons
Two days after accepting the demands of the Omkareshwar dam protestors in Khandwa district, the Madhya Pradesh government cracked down on a similar, peaceful protest in Harda. Police personnel forcibly evicted nearly 50 villagers of Badhkhaliya an
Lawyer Prashant Bhushan is likely to approach supreme court next week seeking cancellation of the controversial allocation of coal blocks and an independent probe on the lines of the 2G spectrum allocation case he filed. Bhushan said he is
