The Supreme Court took strong objection to the Delhi Police`s midnight crackdown on yoga guru Ramdev`s supporters saying unlawfully depriving a person from sleep is a violation of his fundamental rights. "Deprivation of sleep has tumu
Serving an ultimatum, BJP strongman of Karnataka B S Yeddyurappa set February 27 as a deadline to the party`s central leadership to reinstate him as chief minister, failing which he would decide on his course of action. At a meeting of leg
Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav has accused the Mayawati government of snatching away farmers` land for builders. "The present BSP government in the state is involved in land-grabbing. It is snatching away farmers` lands f
Gearing up to tackle possible chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) emergencies, premier research organisation DRDO is developing an array of ground-based and unmanned aerial systems to detect and map contamination zones in all geo
The management of the Delhi-Gurgaon expressway could soon pass into the hands of the national highway authority of India (NHAI) from DS construction private limited which had been managing the expressway under a public-private-partnership project.
Former TRAI Chairman Nripendra Mishra on Thursday told a Delhi court, trying the 2G spectrum case, that ex-Telecom Secretary Siddharth Behura, an accused in the case, had written a letter to him in January, 2008, saying the government`s action on
BJP leader L K Advani on Thursday criticised Union Minister Shri Prakash Jaiswal`s remark that president`s rule could be imposed in Uttar Pradesh in the event of Congress not getting majority in assembly poll and said such a move would be "mi
Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi on Thursday told the state legislative council that the banking facility would soon be made available in 5934 villages with population of more than 2000 and bank representatives would be appointed in 9
Troubled Kingfisher Airlines may risk losing a large number of its prime flying slots as it began operating a truncated flight schedule on Thursday, with DGCA considering punitive action against it for allegedly flouting regulations.
A number of non-Congress chief ministers have opposed the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) terming it a violation of federalism and draconian, but they seem to have read the law selectively. The NCTC, proposed to be set up o
Caught in a cauldron of protests against atomic power plants, India`s nuclear regulator, AERB is mulling involving the public in the process of granting safety licences to such projects. The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) has drawn
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on thursday undertook a road show here, the second such exercise in as many days, and travelled across the old city areas to garner support for his party. During his over hour-long road show, he passed through areas li
In a show of strength, BJP strongman of Karnataka B S Yeddyurappa on thursday mobilised a sizeable number of legislators at a meeting convened by him apparently to exert pressure on the party central leadership to reinstate him as chief minister.
Riding on hopes of coming to power in Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party`s national secretary Ajay Agarwal said that if voted to power the party will take a range of steps for the benefit of traders. "The party has already acquired 70 per
A three-member fact-finding team was on Thursday constituted by Press Council chief Justice Markandey Katju to inquire into the murder of journalist Chandrika Rai and his family in Madhya Pradesh`s Umariya District. The three-member team f
The Madhya Pradesh Assembly was on Thursday adjourned for the day when Opposition Congress created a ruckus after denial of permission to discuss the breach of privilege motion on the issue of arrest of its MLA, Kalpana Parulekar. S
An estimated 57 per cent of the electorate exercised their franchise on Thursday in the fifth phase of Uttar Pradesh assembly elections spread over 49 seats, including the stronghold of the Yadav family and former Chief Minister Kalyan Singh
To speed up the process of issuing passports with transparency, the ministry of external affairs (MEA) in partnership with the IT firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) inaugurated a passport seva kendra (PSK) here on Thursday. The initiative falls
The police on Thursday baton-charged a protest rally taken out by Congress workers and detained Gujarat state unit president Arjun Modhvadia and senior leader Shankarsinh Vaghela among 200 others. The rally was taken out coinciding with th
Shortly after a top law officer disapproved gay sex as highly "immoral" in the Supreme Court, the Home Ministry on Thursday said it has not taken any stand on the Delhi High Court order decriminalising homosexuality. It said the
