A court at Ramanagar on Wednesday granted police permission to subject controversial self-styled godman Nithyananda to a medical test as sought by the CID in a sex scandal case in 2010 reportedly involving him. The CID had approache
Nine months after the announcement of the Saranda Development Plan (SDP), this 850 sq km sal forest in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum is still at the crossroads. The people of the region are yet to feel at ease after the eleven years of Maoist c
Amid the flutter created by Nitish Kumar`s remark that NDA`s prime ministerial candidate should have secular credentials, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Wednesday hit out at the Bihar chief minister, saying he was pandering to his vote bank.
As NDA struggled to firm up a decision on its support to P A Sangma in presidential polls, leader of one of its constituent Janata Party on Wednesday met the former lok sabha speaker and claimed consensus in the opposition alliance for his cand
Maharashtra BJP president Sudhir Mungantiwar on Wednesday said the 25-year-old alliance with Shiv Sena would not be snapped although Bal Thackeray`s party had extended support to Pranab Mukherjee for presidential polls. "We (Shiv Sena
Apparently toeing the central party leadership`s move to keep Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee in good humour ahead of the Presidential poll, the West Bengal Congress which had threatened to pull out of the state government, on Wednesday c
Determined to contest the Presidential poll, founder member of NCP P A Sangma on Wednesday resigned from the party which was opposed to his candidature for the top post and had warned him of disciplinary action. The former Lok Sabha Speake
Estranged BJP leader and former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa on Wednesday said UPA nominee Pranab Mukherjee is a "suitable man" for the post of President, but that the party central leadership would take an appropriate decisi
LJP president Ramvilas Paswan on Wednesday dubbed Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar`s call for a secular person to be projected as the NDA`s prime ministerial candidate as a `political stunt`. "It is nothing more than a politic
As leaders from developed and developing nations meet in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday to discuss and reach an agreement on their political commitments for sustainable development at the UN Rio+20 Summit, Greenpeace India’s investigative repor
With uncertainty over P A Sangma`s candidature for the Presidential poll in the wake of NCP`s threat to sack him, BJP on Wednesday decided to adopt a wait and watch attitude and deferred the NDA meeting. Party sources said the NDA meeting,
“Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed.” ?John Green, American novelist Leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have developed an uncanny habit of turning nostalgic o
Like Santa Claus, our PM is ready to give away an astonishing Rs 56,000 crore worth of taxpayers’ money to bail out Athens, Barcelona and Rome. But his government isn’t even on speaking terms with Italy, the principal likely benefi
Nomination papers of Pranab Mukhejee are getting ready. Senior union ministers and members of parliament are being called to the parliament house to put their signatures on them, sources said on Wednesday. By 11 am, rural development minis
Jagan Mohan Reddy has arrived. After defying Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and setting up his own party, YSR Congress, he proved his mettle in the by-election. He decimated the ruling Congress party, winning 15 of the 18 assembly seats and the sole
Former president APJ Abdul Kalam’s last July letter to foreign minister SM Krishna kept under wraps has come into public domain, slamming Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen for forcing him out of his brainchild project of the Nalanda Unive
Pakistan on Tuesday plunged into a fresh spell of political uncertainty after the Supreme Court ruled that Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani stood disqualified since his conviction for contempt and asked President Asif Ali Zardari to appoint a new
Backed by two former chief election commissioners, N Gopalaswami and TS Krishnamurthy, the National Election Watch, an NGO, has called for mandating background affidavits on criminal cases, assets etc, by the candidates in the ongoing presidential
Sports Minister Ajay Maken on Tuesady refused to intervene in the selection crisis that has shaken Indian tennis, leaving it to AITA to take a final call on the men`s doubles combination for the London Olympics. The ministry had sou
A day after he was snubbed by the party high command for criticising TMC leader Mamata Banerjee, Congress leader Digvijay Singh maintained that he had not "crossed any boundaries" of party line. "Which boundaries have
