Gujarat is likely to witness a triangular fight in this year`s Assembly elections, as dissident BJP leaders, opposed to Chief Minister Narendra Modi and led by former Chief Minister Keshubhai Patel, are set to float their own party. The ot
Union Minister Jairam Ramesh has been admitted to the AIIMS after complaints of glandular swelling. It is believed some wild insect bit him. He is expected to remain in the hospital for the next two or three days. Doctors say it could be an insect
Buckling under B S Yeddyurappa`s pressure, BJP on Saturday decided to replace Sadananda Gowda with Jagdish Shettar as Chief Minister of Karnataka marking the third change in the state in four years. The decision was taken at the BJP core g
Central Vigilance Commission has sought a report from the CBI on alleged "leakage" of information related to the ongoing investigations in the disproportionate assets case against Kadapa MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy. "Some
Opposition nominee P A Sangma on Saturday sought the Election Commission`s intervention for a fresh probe into his objections against the candidature of UPA nominee Pranab Mukherjee, levelling new allegations that he was still holding two more off
A Delhi court on Saturday issued a bailable warrant against former Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss after he failed to appear before it in a case of allegedly allowing a medical college to go ahead with admissions without having sufficient resour
GOVT GETS SONIA`S IRE IN NAC REPORT NAC gives 35 pages report to the nation about non implementation On the day of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh gave a full page email interview to Hindustan Times talking about his achieveme
Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh on Friday asked Punjab government to "look into yourself" before blaming the centre for discrimination, and said that the state government could use only Rs 29 crore on rural sanitation
Facing financial downturn and dearth of development assistance by the donor agencies, the United Nations in its new report suggests an innovative idea to assist the poor countries in meeting their development goals by taxing billionaires across
The reconstituted national advisory council (NAC) has decided to focus on MNREGS works in view of the delayed monsoon and an impending drought which may mean more demand for public works. The council came to the conclusion that afte
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday told a Delhi court that it has been unable to get the custody of 26/11 key handler Abu Jundal, whom it wanted to interrogate for unearthing the conspiracy hatched by Lashkar-e-Toiba for terror stri
Calling the transfer of CBI Joint Director Rishi Raj Singh, who headed the probe in the Adarsh scam, as "inappropriate", a senior Maharashtra BJP leader has requested the Centre to put it on hold. Leader of Opposition in the Legi
Home Minister P Chidambaram may head the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on the allocation of telecom spectrum, which was reconstituted on Friday after Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar declined to head it. Official sources said Chidam
Maintaining that a Supreme Court appointed panel on Mullaperiyar Dam had accepted Kerala`s demand for a new reservoir, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Friday said the state, which is locked in a row with Tamil Nadu on the issue, would bring it to
Welcoming the Supreme Court order quashing the disproportionate assets case against her, BSP supremo Mayawati on Friday thanked party workers for standing behind her for the past nine years without getting perturbed by opposition forces.
In view of deteriorating global economic situation over the last one year, achieving average growth rate of 9 percent in the next five years is not possible, and it may be 8-8.5 per cent, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia
Union Agriculture Minister and NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Friday said he "would love to have a cup of tea with Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray" during UPA presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee`s visit to Mumbai next week.
After strident posturing, both the union home ministry and the Chhattisgarh government have come round to accept that innocent villagers were killed in the Bijapur encounter that saw 19 killed. Union home minister P Chidambaram was the fir
In a major relief to BSP supremo Mayawati, the Supreme Court on Friday quashed a nine-year-long disproportionate assets case against her and pulled up the CBI for initiating the probe against her without specific directions from the court.
A Congress legislator in Assam on Friday filed an FIR against party MLA Rumi Nath alleging that she along with her second husband had illegally entered his residence and beat up visitors suspecting them to be involved in the attack on the couple l
