Accusing the BJD government of turning Odisha into a "police-state", Congress leader and union minister Srikant Jena on Friday said it had lost the moral authority to continue in office, particularly after yesterday`s action against demo
Union minister for rural development and Rajya Sabha member from the Congress, Jairam Ramesh, hit out at BJP after the opposition party demanded that the prime minister resign over irregularities in the allocation of coal blocks. The prime ministe
Parliament was disrupted even on the last day of the Monsoon Session on Friday with BJP members insisting on their demand for resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the issue of coal block allocation. Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha w
With the monsoon session drawing to a close, BJP-led NDA on Friday held a demonstration in Parliament House complex demanding prime minister Manmohan Singh`s resignation, cancellation of coal blocks, and a fair probe and declared that it will now
Amid furore over coal blocks allocation, the government will place its views before Parliament`s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) by September 14 on the observations made by CAG. "The Coal Ministry will submit its comments to the PAC o
Simon Denyer, the New Delhi bureau chief of the Washington Post, has been requesting an interview with the
The Prime Minister`s Office (PMO) has lodged a formal protest with Washington Post newspaper for an article critical of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, terming it as "unethical and unprofessional" conduct of the journalist. The
Air India`s long wait for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner is finally over, with the first of these long-haul planes set to arrive here on Saturday, sources said on Thursday. The national carrier, which had placed orders for 27 of these aircraft
The fracas over coal block allocations continued for the twelfth day in Parliament on Thursday as BJP members vociferously demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha were adjourned till noon after
Insurgents of seven major outfits on Thursday asked the outsiders particularly migrant labourers to leave Manipur as their presence overwhelmed the identities, customs and cultures of minority communities who have been living here peacefully for s
The CBSE honoured 15 mentors and 32 teachers on Tuesday at the India International Center for their efforts to promote Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE). Speaking at the awards function, minister of state for human resource
The Time magazine called him ‘underachiever’. Today, the Washington Press has some more choicest epithets to describe prime minister Manmohan Singh. “But the image of the scrupulously honorable, humble and intellectual te
Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Wednesday dismissed Shiv Sena leader Uddhav Thackeray`s comments against Biharis living in Maharashtra, saying every citizen has the right to travel freely across the country. "It is not in the int
Against the backdrop of opposition by Samajwadi Party and disruption of proceedings by BJP over coalgate issue, Government on Wednesday appealed to all political parties to get a bill providing for reservation to SCs and STs in promotions in gover
A slew of new extra-budgetary taxes has outraged Punjab, leading to state-wide protests. The ruling Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) sees no other way of bridging the state`s fiscal deficit and staggering debt burden of Rs 69,000 crore (even after a part
A suspected terrorist was arrested by National Investigation Agency here, police said on Tuesday. The man, identified as Anis, was arrested yesterday from Banguspura locality by a joint team of NIA from Hyderabad and Uttar Pradesh Po
The stalemate in Parliament over coal block allocations entered the tenth day on Tuesday as BJP persisted with its demand for resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha were adjourned till noon after opposit
The CBI on Tuesday registered cases against five companies and unknown government officials as part of its probe into alleged irregularities in allocation of coal blocks and carried out searches across 10 cities. According to CBI spokes
1. What’s the coal block allotment scam all about? Going strictly by the CAG report, 57 captive coal blocks were allotted free of cost to private companies in an arbitrary and opaque manner between 2004 and 2009. The government had d
