Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on tuesday asked officials to black-list companies supplying poor quality power transformers and meters. "The companies involved in supplying poor quality transformers and meters should be b
Union Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Tuesday deposed before the two-member judicial panel set up by the Maharashtra government to go into the Adarsh housing society scam. Deshmukh, Union Minister of Science and Technology, was the state`s C
Union Minister Virbhadra Singh resigned on Tuesday in the wake of a Himachal Pradesh court framing corruption charges against him, the third minister in UPA-II to step down on similar grounds. A five-time Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh
In spite of a parliamentary panel’s scathing comments in regard to construction of roads and highways, the ministry of road transport and highways continues to be hamstrung by internal differences. The panel, in its report submitted in May t
Holding that freedom of expression is an essential component of democracty, CPI(M) stalwart V S Achuthanandan expressed serious concern over the intolerance shown by certain political quarters towards cartoons and caricatures in recent times.
Life across Kashmir was disrupted on Tuesday due to a strike called by separatists over gutting of the 200-year-old Dastageer Sahib shrine in Khanyar area of the city. Schools, colleges, offices, shops and other commercial establishments w
About 80 engineers have quit beleaguered Kingfisher Airlines during the past four months due to non-payment of salaries by the near-bankrupt carrier, sources said. "Some 60-80 engineers have already quit the carrier in the last 4-5 mo
Delhi Police is likely to seek an extension of remand of 26/11 handler Abu Jundal, which may put a spanner in Mumbai Police`s efforts to question him soon. Sources in Delhi Police said Jundal`s role was being examined in the larger conspir
"We learn a lot from him" was how Rahul Gandhi acknowledged the significance of Pranab Mukherjee as he drove down to the Finance Minister`s North Block Office on his last day in government. The gesture by the young leader
The Congress on Monday bid a warm farewell to Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, poised to become the country`s President, with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh saying that the veteran leader will be missed. At a special meeting of the Congre
In the wake of framing of charges against Union Minister Vir Bhadra Singh in a graft case, the BJP on Monday said he should tender his resignation and if he refuses to do so Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should sack him immediately.
Outgoing finance minister Pranab Mukherjee has asked the Human Resources Development ministry to fast-track approval of president Pratibha Patil to the IIT Kharagpur to confer an honorary degree of DSc honoris causa on him at its convocation on Au
Bharatiya Janata Party patriarch LK Advani on Monday dropped an indirect hint that he was against the conscience vote to decide the upcoming presidential election that alone can help former Lok Sabha speaker PA Sangma backed by his party surmount
Pranab Mukherjee will not be a rubber stamp president but will certainly be a super prime minister. The president`s office in India is ceremonious as he has to act on the advice of the prime minister and the Union cabinet, but it may not remain an
Congress MP from Guntur Rayapati Sambasiva Rao has attributed party`s debacle and YSR Congress`s landslide victory in the state by-elections to the "tears" of Vijaya Lakshmi, the wife of former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister late YS Rajas
A local CBI court on Monday extended till July 4 the judicial remand of YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy in connection with a disproportionate assets case. Jagan, who appeared before the judge through video conference from Ch
There was no end in sight to the 49-day-old Air India pilots strike with the government on Monday making it clear that they have to return to work "unconditionally" and the pilots insisting that sack orders be withdrawn immediately.
Taking note of the limited storage capacity and the buying agencies exceeding their target this year, the Uttar Pradesh government has decided to end wheat procurement by the end of this month. Seven agencies have been stopped from wheat p
The over 200-year-old shrine of Dastageer Sahib was on Monday gutted in a fire at Khanyar in old city, triggering protests by locals. An official of the Disaster Management Cell said the fire broke out in the shrine of Syed Abdul Qa
Union Power Minister and former Maharashtra Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde deposed before the Adarsh Commission here on Monday in connection with the Adarsh housing society scam. Shinde was the chief minister of Maharashtra from 2001 t
