Facing criticism over her foreign visits, President Pratibha Patil on Sunday said there has been a "misconception" and wanted people to ascertain the factual position. "Right now, there has been a misconception so far as the
The Himachal Pradesh government has decided to provide 33 per cent reservation to women in co-operative societies to strengthen the co-operative movement, especially in rural areas, chief minister P K Dhumal today said. "The larger re
The feud in Rajasthan BJP intensified on Sunday with 56 MLAs loyal to sulking leader Vasundhara Raje offering to resign but the party played down the crisis and tried to placate her. Senior leader L K Advani, BJP president Nitin Gadkari an
Seeking concrete steps to bring back Maoists into national mainstream, Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Sunday said development of tribals and economic activities in Naxal-hit areas were essential, apart from security measures.
Terming anti-terrorism body NCTC as a "Constitutionally vulnerable" instrument which went against the country`s federal structure, BJP on Sunday asked prime minister Manmohan Singh as to why the fight against terror through POTA was &quo
The CBI has arrested former Lucknow chief medical officer A K Shukla in connection with the murder case of his predecessor Vinod K Arya in October 2010. Shukla was arrested here late on Sunday night on charges of conspiring to kill Arya, a
Prime minister Manmohan Singh has taken command of permissions to prosecute corrupt bureaucrats. The prime minister will be personally monitoring the persistence reluctance and refusal of sanction to the CBI and other investigating agencies
Leader of the mazdoor kisan shakti sangathan and RTI activist Aruna Roy during a press conference raised the demand for universal pension rights for the elderly. The press conference was organised by the pension parishad which has planned an agita
The central bureau of investigation (CBI) questioned the former Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML) chairman and managing director (CMD), TVS Shastri, at the agency headquarters in the national capital, for the first time in the Tatra deal on Frida
Nine persons were sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday and 30 acquitted by a special court for the killing of twenty three members of a Muslim family in Ode village who were burnt alive during the 2002 post-Godhra riots in Gujarat. The
Two Maoist mediators in the Sukma Collector abduction episode today demanded that cases against about 400 tribals languishing in jails in Chhattisgarh be taken up on a fast-track mode for review and maximum of them released. "We want
Security forces engaged in anti-Naxal operations in various states, including Chhattisgarh, have decided to get different variants of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) ranging from small drones to long-range surveillance ones. Forces deploye
The number of suicide by farmers has gone down in the country, the government stated in the Lok Sabha today. Minister of State for Finance Namo Narain Meena informed the Lok Sabha during Question Hour that due to several measures ta
The government has decided to ban TV cameras inside the Vigyan Bhawan during the controversial National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) meeting on Saturday. Cameras will be allowed only for a brief period during the prime minister`s
Rejecting the contention that students from North East are subjected to discrimination and racial profiling, home minister P Chidambaram today said the government will take every step to ensure their security and asked states to do the same.
Nine persons were convicted while 32 others acquitted by a special court in Anand on Friday in the 2002 Ode village riots case that left three persons dead. Special court judge R M Sarin convicted the nine accused under the charges of murd
A small company in the glass industry has taken on an international major head-on and brought it to book for using anti-competitive practices and abusing its dominant position in the market to snuff out small competitors. The C
The supreme court on Friday dismissed a PIL seeking action against Anna Hazare and his team members for allegedly showing disrespect to the national flag during his agitation for the Lokpal Bill last year. A bench of justices B S Chauhan a
The Supreme Court on Friday permitted Kerala and Tamil Nadu to get copies of the report submitted by the monitoring committee on the Mullaperiyar Dam row. A five-judge constitution bench of the court headed by Justice D K Jain, whil
Chattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh and the Maoists` mediators on Friday emphatically said there was no secret deal or any quid pro quo between Naxals and the state government behind the release of Sukma Collector Alex Paul Menon after he was h
