The supreme court on Tuesday struck down the government`s policy of giving subsidies to Haj pilgrims and directed that it be progressively "eliminated" within a period of 10 years. "We hold that this policy is best done away
Opposition BJP and AIADMK on Tuesday created a storm in Parliament over the alleged role of home minister P Chidambaram in the with lok sabha being adjourned till noon and rajya sabha twice during Question Hour. Also read:
A packet containing a white substance suspected to be sulphas was recovered from the possession of former chief medical officer of Lucknow A K Shukla during frisking in the jail. Shukla, who was arrested by the CBI in connection with the m
Terming the strike by Air India pilots as "illegal", civil aviation minister Ajit Singh on Tuesday said the management of the national carrier would take appropriate action against those involved in the stir. Singh said the pilot
Four Air India international flights were cancelled from Delhi and Mumbai on Tuesday after about 100 pilots refused to join work. The airlines domestic operations, however, were unaffected. "Four flights - Delhi-Toronto, Delhi-Chicago
The Delhi High Court today asked the CBI to respond to DMK-run Kalaignar TV Managing Director Sharad Kumar`s plea for quashing of criminal charges against him in the 2G spectrum allocation case. "Issue notice to the CBI for May 10,&qu
The supreme court on Monday sought the stands of the centre and the election commission of India on Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy`s plea to incorporate either paper printouts with EVMs or restore paper balloting as the electronic machines a
The supreme court on Monday reserved its order on a plea for its direction to the centre to take action against NHRC Chairman and former CJI K G Balakrishnan for his alleged misconduct during his tenure as apex court judge. A bench of just
In a jolt to chief minister Narendra Modi, a Supreme Court-appointed amicus curiae has held that he can be prosecuted under various sections of the IPC for "promoting enmity among different groups" during the 2002 Gujarat riots.
Bowing to pressure, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday announced a slew of measures to provide relief to the jewellery sector and postponed implementation of the general anti-avoidance rules (GAAR) by one year, but offered no concessions
Government on Monday assured the lok sabha that complete transparency would be maintained in the on-going procurement process for 197 helicopters for defence forces after the earlier Eurocopter deal was scrapped. Defence minister A K Anton
Attacking Government over defence preparedness and shortage of equipment, BJP today specifically targeted Defence Minister A K Antony in Rajya Sabha saying his "no work, no mistake and clean image" was a dangerous policy. Initiat
In a first-of -its-kind, an open public hearing into the encounter killings will be held in Gujarat between May 14 and May 15 by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). Its chairman justice KG Balakrishnan, will preside over the hearing in Ah
The supreme court on Monday suspended the life sentence of CPI (Maoist) activist Narayan Sanyal, held guilty of committing sedition by a Chhattisgarh court in 2010, and granted bail to him. A bench of justices G S Singhvi and S J Mukhopadh
Amid vociferous protests by the opposition on the plight of farmers due to lack of storage for record production of foodgrains, government on Monday admitted a mismatch between procurement and storage and said efforts were on to ease pressure on g
Defence minister AK Antony on Monday turned tables on the BJP, saying that the NDA government signed a contract in 2003 for buying the controversial Tatra trucks and procured as many as 2,950 of them for special needs of the Operation Parkaram bet
The supreme court-appointed SIT on Monday handed over its voluminous report on the Gulbarg Society carnage to complainant Zakia Jafri, whose husband and ex-parliamentarian Ehsan Jafri was among 69 people killed during the 2002 post-Godhra riots in
Defending the move to force Coal India to sign agreements to supply coal to power companies, Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal on Monday said the government`s priority was to ensure availability of electricity at cheaper rate and it will not be cow
The Delhi High Court on Monday asked Lt Gen (retd) Tejinder Singh, seeking withdrawal of an alleged defamatory press release accusing him of offering bribe to the Army chief to clear a defence deal, to prove that the right to reputation is a funda
Seeking to turn the tables on the opposition, defence minister A K Antony on Monday said the present government has not purchased a single new Tatra truck and the current deliveries were being made as per the contract signed in 2003. Takin
