Was it a genuine encounter that led to the killing of 20 Maoists in Basaguda of Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh last Thursday night, as is being claimed by the state and CRPF? Or was it a huge intelligence failure that led to the massacre of inno
Taking a strident stand against the Jharkhand government`s proposal to open up Saranda for further private mining, union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh has said he would roll back the Saranda development plan (SDP) if this were to ha
The government on Monday told the Supreme Court that a high-level committee in its report has suggested that alternative alignment other than mythological Ram Sethu for Sethusamudram project was not economically and ecologically feasible.
The Commission directed the CPIO concerned to provide to the appellant within 10 working days a list of those officials against whom cases have been registered by competent agencies for the offences in the
Madhya Pradesh is performing well in MNREGA implementation and is in the top-10 list of states in five categories, as per the Union government`s quarterly delivery monitoring unit (DMU) report. Besides providing maximum employment t
Allying apprehensions over the possibility of deficit rainfall this monsoon season, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Monday said it is too early to reach the conclusion that something adverse is happening. &quo
A magisterial inquiry has been ordered into the assault on Congress MLA Rumi Nath and her second husband at a Karimganj hotel which sparked off violent protests and bandh in south Assam`s Barak Valle
Suspense and sensation was created in the scrutiny of nominations for the July 19 Presidential elections on Monday on prospects of rejection of UPA nominee Pranab Mukherjee`s candidature for holding an "office of profit" as the head of t
A crucial meeting of the reconstituted Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM), scheduled for Monday, has been postponed, agriculture minister and head of the ministerial panel Sharad Pawar said.
Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday announced various steps to benefit IAS aspirants from the state, including increasing stipend offered at a government training institute here. The chief minister announced increasin
Prime minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, accompanied by chief minister Tarun Gogoi, on Monday made an aerial survey of flood affected areas in Assam. The three leaders made an aerial survey by helicopter of Ma
The unusual political heat that the presidential election has generated this time around has made the country skip its silly season, a popular media jargon for high summer months when trivia makes headlines for the lack of interesting stuff. At th
The crisis in the BJP government in Karnataka appears to have been defused on Monday with nine ministers loyal to B S Yeddyurappa deciding to withdraw their resignation after the central leadership assured them that they would decide on their dema
Four Kingfisher flights from Mumbai were cancelled on Monday due to the strike by a section of airline pilots. The flights have been cancelled since morning due to non-availability of pilots, airport sources said. The
The CBI is likely to confront suspended BEML Chairman VRS Natarajan and Vectra Chairman Ravinder Rishi in its probe related to alleged irregularities in the procurement and supply of Tatra all-terrain vehicles. The agency will also questio
The draft guidelines issued by the Finance Ministry on General Anti-Avoidance Rules (GAAR) on Friday appeared to have got caught in a controversy with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh distancing himself by saying that he had not approved these.
Congress leader Digvijay Singh on Friday sought Team Anna`s cooperation in getting answers to questions raised by the party related to assets and Income-Tax raids on two businessmen who are said have to close links with ruling BJP in Madhya Prades
The Indian Institute of Public Health and Freedom from Hunger in association with Microcredit Summit Campaign released their report titled ‘Integrated Health and Microfinance in India: Harnessing the Strengths of Two Sectors to Improve Healt
In its efforts to bring lasting peace in Assam, the Centre on Friday held talks with ULFA and discussed the group`s demands to find a permanent solution to the three-decade-old insurgency in the Northeastern state. Top government officials
The CBI on Friday conducted simultaneous raids at 52 places in Jharkhand and Bihar in connection with the approximately Rs 1000 crore land scam detected in Deogarh district last year, sources in the investigating agency said. The ra
