Against the backdrop of MNS chief Raj Thackeray threatening to throw Biharis out of Maharashtra, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Monday said people have a right to seek employment anywhere in the country. "Everybody has a
The Supreme Court on Monday lifted its ban on iron ore mining operations in Karnataka by companies which had not flouted lease conditions. A three-judge forest bench headed by Justice Aftab Alam accepted the report of its Central Empowered
Over 300 people including 114 women and four organisers were arrested after police raided a party at a hotel where liquor was being served allegedly without a license in Wagholi near here, police said. Acting on a tip-off, police raided th
Parliament was deadlocked for the ninth day on Monday on the issue of CAG report on coal block allocation as BJP persisted with its demand for resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha were adjourned till noon
Errant private recognized schools may have to give back money collected from unjust fee hikes to its students with 9 percent interest, as the fee hiked by these schools was not required. The report submitted by Justice Anil Dev Singh commi
Valsan Thampu, the Principal of St Stephen’s College, was pronounced guilty of attempting a Lasith Malinga on India’s young cricketing prodigy. In a cricket-crazy nation, he was branded the spoil sport for derailing young Unmukt’
Gujarat chief minister and BJP leader Narendra Modi emerged as the top choice as a probable prime minister among the respondents of a survey conducted by ABP News and AC-Nielsen. Modi was the favourite of 42 percent of the respondents, ahead of Ra
In a major setback to the Sahara Group, the Supreme Court on Friday directed two of its companies to refund around Rs 17,400 crore to their investors within three months with 15 per cent interest. A bench of justices K S Radhakrishnan and
SP leader Mulayam Singh Yadav and MPs from TDP and Left parties on Friday sat on a dharna in front of Parliament House to seek a judicial inquiry into coal blocks allocation. Eight parties, including the Samajwadi Party and the Left, have
SP leader Mulayam Singh Yadav and MPs from TDP and Left parties on Friday sat on a dharna in front of Parliament House to seek a judicial inquiry into coal blocks allocation. Eight parties, including the Samajwadi Party and the Left, have
The Telugu Desam Party (TDP), Andhra Pradesh’s main opposition, plans to launch a large-scale campaign, and it is not against the ruling Congress, but against the news network NDTV. A survey by NDTV in late August has showed that if
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has once again ducked the question of who is No. 2 in the Union Cabinet in the working arrangements he made during his 4-day Iran visit from February 28. It is because of this ticklish issue that he could not
Parliament remained parlaysed for the eighth consecutive day on the issue of CAG report on coal block allocation as BJP stuck to its demand for resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh which was vociferously countered by the Congress-led allia
Political slugfest over the CAG’s report on allocation of captive mines to the private companies has followed an irritatingly predictable routine so far and is unlikely to change any time soon. Sharp exchange of charges and stalling of parli
For dummies, and those who just landed from the moon, India has a new chief economic adviser (CEA). This is a job held by the likes of IG Patel, Shankar Acharya and Deepak Nayyar, not to mention prime minister Manmohan Singh himself. His name is R
The Delhi government on Wednesday notified 917 unauthorised colonies as regularized. These colonies were among 1,218 which were issued provisional regularization certificates (PRCs) in 2008 just before the assembly elections. But after four years,
BJP MLA and former minister in the Narendra Modi government Maya Kodnani and a Bajrang Dal leader were among 32 people convicted by a special court on Wednesday in the 2002 Naroda Patiya riots case in which 97 people belonging to the minority comm
Appointments of more than 2500 special educators for Delhi government and MCD run schools will not happen any soon. This is because the advertisement given by the government did not mention the reservation for candidates belonging to disability gr
Putting the heat on government to withdraw operation Green Hunt, the Naxals have now opposed the Mendha Lekha model which allowed tribals to exercise rights to harvest bamboo under the Forest Rights Act, terming at as a "ploy to loot forests&
When William Blake penned his famous poem ‘Tyger’ and wondered ‘what immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry’, little did he realise that in not too distant a future the mortal hand of humans would be enoug
