Asking scam-tainted Adarsh Housing Society to surrender the 31-storey building to the defence ministry, the Bombay high court on Thursday said the structure posed a threat to sensitive defence installations nearby and lessons had to learnt from Mu
Anti-gay law in the country is an offshoot of British colonialism and the Indian society earlier was more tolerant towards homosexuality, the centre today submitted before the supreme court while pleading for decriminalisation of gay sex.
The planning commission will constitute an expert group in three months to revisit the methodology for estimating poverty amid demand for removal of its deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia for pegging the poverty line at Rs 28.65 daily per capi
Triggering a virtual rebellion against Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, state health minister D L Ravindra Reddy Thursday sent his resignation to Congress president Sonia Gandhi "taking moral responsibility" for the par
The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has ordered a probe in the alleged corruption in the purchase of mosquito nets from a Swiss multinational, a civil society agency said in a release on Thursday. CVC has handed over the investi
Former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, insisting on his reinstatement, today expressed happiness over his meeting with BJP president Nitin Gadkari and said he was confident the party leadership will take the "right decision".
Remember how Trinamul supremo Mamata Banerjee said she had "no objection" to the rail fare hike in the highest classes used by the wealthy when she pushed railway minister Dinesh Trivedi out of office for the across-the-board hike? Her l
Anna Hazare has written a letter to prime minister Manmohan Singh requesting his government to accept the agenda put forward by prof GD Agarwal who is on a fast for the past 67 days demanding a `nirmal and aviral` (clean and flowing) Ganga.
Union coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal on Thursday condemned media reports of the comptroller and auditor general`s estimate of losses from allocation of coal blocks saying that the CAG report being cited was "fake". Jaiswal said that co
Senior IAS officers Pradeep Vyas and Jairaj Phatak have been placed under suspension pending investigation in the Adarsh Housing Society scam, Maharashtra government informed the Bombay High Court on Thursday. While Vyas was the Collector
Talks between Maoist mediators and those of the Odisha government are expected to start soon to resolve the Italian hostage crisis, according to Dandapani Mohanty, one of the two negotiators chosen by the ultras. Mohanty said the Maoists w
The government has lost over Rs 10.7 lakhs crore by not auctioning coal blocks, according to a report in
Apparently under pressure from Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee, Congress on Thursday asked its candidate Abdul Mannan to withdraw from the Rajya Sabha elections in West Bengal. "I have asked Mannan this morning to withdraw his nominat
Accepting four key recommendations of a Parliamentary panel, government has redrafted a bill on marriage laws which now seeks to give share to women in her husband`s property acquired after marriage and gives rights to adopted children on par with
Amid growing emphasis on adopting alternative and environmental-friendly means to meet energy demands, the first solar power unit of Uttar Pradesh has started functioning on the outskirts of the city. Situated at Naini, about 25 kms from A
Cracking down on the accused in the Adarsh Housing Society scam, a senior IAS officer in the Maharashtra government and two former Major Generals of the Army were arrested by the CBI on Wednesday for their alleged role in the irregularities.
Coal India Limited (CIL) will sign fuel supply agreements (FSA) with power generation companies that have entered into long term power purchase agreements with distribution companies. The minister of state for coal Pratik Patil said this in a repl
Maharashtra has two of the seven investment regions selected under the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor for setting up the National Industrial Manufacturing Zones (NIMZs) under the new national manufacturing policy. NIMZ is conceptualised
Sitting on surplus foodgrain stock, the government today said it plans to roll out the proposed National Food Security Bill by this year-end. The Bill, which seeks to provide legal entitlement over subsidised foodgrain to 63.5 per cent of
BJP MLAs have decided not to vote for Anshuman Mishra for the Rajya Sab
