With the presidential nomination of K Parasaran, the Rajya Sabha has now four Iyengar Vaishanvites, Jairam Ramesh, V Maitreyan and TK Rangarajan the CPM MP. The heads of Vaishanavites’ mutts lauded the gesture of UPA2 on the n
What does the prime minister mean when he speaks of reviving ‘animal spirits’? It sounds like an unusual metaphor coming from this mild-mannered and soft-spoken man. Yes, the phrase may conjure images of
Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah today said he would not be chased off the social networking site Twitter by online "trolls" "Some times I ask myself what I`m doing here (on Twitter), I guess I refuse t
The Maoists may have gone off the headlines, especially after Sukma collector Alex Paul Menon was freed from their clutches in the first week of May, but their threat to internal security continues to be as grave as it was when the prime minister
The Congress has made its choice clear from the way it handled the presidential election nominations that it would prefer to develop relationship with the Janata Dal (U) to wean it away from the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance.
The flood situation in Arunachal Pradesh remained grim today, though the water level of most of the major rivers are showing a receding trend as over a hundred villages across the state lay submerged by the flood waters. An Indian Air F
The government has reconstituted the National Advisory Council (NAC) chaired by Sonia Gandhi by dropping three members and inducting two new faces. Mihir Shah, Member, Planning Commission, and Ashis Mondal, founder of the Bhopal-bas
Goa government will auction the low grade ore piled up in its properties over last several decades causing environmental hazards, a senior official said on Friday.The new Goa Minerals (Prevention of Illegal Mining Transportation and Storage) Rules
Within 24 hours of Finance Ministry issuing the draft guidelines on controversial General Anti-Avoidance Tax Rules (GAAR), the PMO appears to have distanced itself from the proposal saying that it was not seen by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and
Life across Kashmir Valley remained disrupted for the fifth day on Friday due to a strike called by Grand Mufti of the state over gutting of the 200-year-old Dastageer Sahib shrine even as restrictions continued on movement of people in the old ci
Already facing a social, personal and professional dilemma in their lives, the latest salvo against eunuchs in Madhya Pradesh has come in the form of their election to senior posts being nullified by courts, on the basis of their gender. K
In a major crackdown by CRPF, at least 20 naxalites, including a woman, were killed in a fierce overnight encounter in the dense jungles of Dantewada in Chhattisgarh that left six jawans wounded. The encounter, which took place in the fore
Politicians from Maharashtra, among others, had allegedly enjoyed their stay free of cost at Shirdi Saibaba Trust`s guest house during most of the tenure of its chairman and former Congress MLA Jayant Sasane, an RTI query has revealed.
The day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called for reversing the mood of pessimism, top bureaucrats on Thursday took stock of the economic situation with secretaries of various ministries to firm steps for arresting the slowdown in growth.
Uncertainties and confusion prevail as the super policy-making body, the national advisory council (NAC), is about to start the third year of its second term. The first meeting was to happen on June 29 (tomorrow) as per the minutes of the last mee
After spending 31 years in Pakistani jail, Indian prisoner Surjeet Singh on Thursday walked free and crossed over to his home country to an emotional renunion with his family. 69-year-old Singh, who released from Lahore`s Kot Lakhpat Jail
The family of Sarabjit Singh on Thursday staged a protest here demanding the immediate release of the death row prisoner in Pakistan, accusing the neighbouring country of playing a "cruel joke" on them. Singh`s sister Dalb
Amid a show of strength, UPA nominee Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday filed his nomination papers for the July 19 presidential election in the presence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress President Sonia Gandhi and a host of leaders. Mu
“I shall make electricity so cheap that only the rich can afford to burn candles,” said Thomas Alva Edison. The legendary scientist was perhaps right to predict that his discovery would lighten up everyone’s home. But what he did
Normal life across Kashmir remained disrupted for the fourth day on Thursday due to a strike called by the Grand Mufti of the state over the gutting of the 200-year-old Dastageer Sahib shrine in Khanyar area of the city. Schools, co
