At a time when the issue of minority sub-quota in OBC reservation has snowballed into a controversy and allies are blocking key bills, Congress top brass including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and party President Sonia Gandhi on Friday held consu
After forcing Sanjay Joshi out of the BJP national executive, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Friday ensured that his bete noire is also out of the party. BJP, whose president Nitin Gadkari and Modi joined hands at the party concla
Former Lok Sabha Speaker and NCP leader P A Sangma on Friday met BJP leader L K Advani in an apparent bid to solicit the support of the NDA for his candidature as President. Sangma met Advani, who is also the NDA Working Chairperson
Dimple Yadav, wife of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav is all set to be elected unopposed from the Kannauj Lok Sabha seat with both candidates in the fray against her withdrawing their nominations for the by-election. On
Four years after teenager Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj were found killed, the trial against accused dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar began here on Friday. The CBI, which probed the case, has sought examination of three of
Close on the heels of Parliamentarians going up in arms over a cartoon concerning B R Ambedkar in NCERT books, another such row erupted on Friday with MDMK leader Vaiko protesting against depiction of the anti-Hindi agitation in Tamil Nadu in Clas
The newly-formed Akhilesh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh, which marked power as a priority area in its vision document released a few days ago, has moved quickly to ink a power pact with a consortium of banks to secure funds for a thermal power
The CBI has called BCCI chief and India Cements Managing Director N Srinivasan for questioning in connection with disproportionate assets cases against YSR Congress chief Jaganmohan Reddy, agency sources said on Friday. They said Sr
While the railway ministry is keen to develop the iconic Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) in Mumbai into a world-class modern railway station, the Grade I World Heritage Site tag conferred on the 124-year-old building by the UNESCO in 2004 is th
After the government deftly ducked several volleys fired by graft crusader Anna Hazare, it has finally some answers to give to the United Nations as what steps it has taken to fight the menace of corruption in the country. After its ratification o
A day after Congress appeared going soft on Ramdev, party General Secretary Digvijay Singh on Thursday hit out at the yoga guru asking him to first declare how much black money he possesses before launching a campaign to bring back ill-gotten weal
Gujarat government’s unique annual programme aimed at increasing the enrolment of children, especially girls, in primary schools all across its 18,000 villages is set to kick off on June 14. The six-day Shala Pravesh Utsav celebrates
Government and Congress on Thursday came in defence of Home Minister P Chidambaram rejecting opposition demands for his resignation in the wake of the Madras High Court order that declined to dismiss a petition challenging his election to Lok Sabh
Ridiculing the statement of TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao that Telangana would be formed within next three months, BJP state spokesperson NVSS Prabhakar on Thursday challenged him to facilitate Telangana state in three months or quit political lif
The government will move the Supreme Court on the issue of 4.5 per cent sub-quota for minorities in July after the summer break of the apex court and not approach the vacation judge as the HRD Ministry has "no worry at this point" on stu
United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi is working hard to get the support of entire spectrum of political parties, including the Left as well as Bharatiya Janata Party, for party’s presidential candidate. Sources
The government on Thursday approved Rs 632 crore capital infusion in cash-starved regional rural banks (RRBs) to improve their capital adequacy and lending capacity to the agriculture sector. "RRBs will get Rs 632 crore from th
Amid differences among allies, the government on Thursday deferred a decision on the changes in the crucial Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority Bill, 2011. "It (the PFRDA Bill) was taken up and deferred," sai
Delhi will soon have its own Meta University. The concept of meta university is a new one and a step taken by four universities in Delhi – Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi University (DU), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and the Indian Institut
Andhra Pradesh Information Technology Minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah on Thursday appeared before the CBI in connection with a case pertaining to alleged illegal assets involving YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy even as the agency con
