Union minister Sriprakash Jaiswal on Thursday said if Congress fails to get a majority in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls he sees a possibility of president`s rule, a statement that came under attack from rivals, forcing him to go for damage cont
Facing severe turbulence, Kingfisher Airlines on Thursday started truncated operations in accordance with its new flight schedule, as aviation regulator DGCA examined its operational details to consider whether to take any punitive action against
Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy on Thursday moved the supreme court challenging the trial court order which had held that Home Minister P Chidmbaram did not indulge in any criminal conspiracy in the 2G case and refused to make him an accused
Union Home Ministry opposes before the Supreme Court decriminalisation of gay sex in the country. This is highly immoral and against the social order, the Ministry tells SC. Our moral and social values are different f
Italian deputy foreign minister Stefan de Mistura on Thursday met the two arrested naval guards, charged with the killing of two Indian fishermen off Kerala coast, at nearby Wellington Island. He was accompanied by Italian Ambassador Giaco
Hundreds of activists of Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), the youth wing of CPI-M, on Thursday blocked the government secretariat here, in protest against the UDF government`s move to raise the superannuation age of government employee
Defending its decision to do away with Common Entrance Test (CET) for admission into professional courses, Tamil Nadu government said the enrolment of rural students into engineering courses has gone up by more than 10 percent since it was scrappe
Polling for the fifth phase of Uttar Pradesh assembly elections covering 49 seats spread over 13 district, including Bundelkhand region, began here on Thursday. Fate of 829 candidates, including that of leader of opposition in the state assembly S
Veteran Congressman and Goa Assembly Speaker Pratapsinh Rane is subtly being promoted as the chief ministerial candidate by the Congress-NCP combine in the run-up to the March 3 Assembly polls. In an apparent indication to this, Rane repla
Maoists fired indiscriminately at a police station in Latehar district in the wee hours of Thursday killing a destitute man, police said. The man was sleeping at the roadside around 1.30 am, when a bullet hit him as Maoists opened gun fire
At least nine Army jawans were killed on Thursday as avalanches struck two army camps in Ganderbal and Bandipora districts of Kashmir Valley. 15 jawans were pulled out alive from the thick snow which buried several Army shelters. A
Call it politics of matrimony but `Dadda` (elder brother) Deepanarayan Singh, sitting MLA of Samajwadi Party, is banking on this to help see him through the caste cauldron against his Congress and BJP rivals in the assembly polls here. Dee
The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday presented a status report of its probe into the 2G spectrum allocation case to the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC). An ED team, led by Director Arun Mathur, gave the presentation to a panel of the CVC, h
Appreciating Prime Minister Manmohan Singh`s clarifications on the anti-terror body NCTC, Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Wednesday said that the centre`s intention was not to curtail the powers of the states which play a major role in curtail
Parliament`s Public Accounts Committee on Wednesday held discussions with representatives of various unions and associations of Air India on huge losses incurred by the national carrier and invited suggestions from them to deal with the issue.
The Karnataka Assembly committee set up to probe the porn scandal involving three former ministers met for the first time here on Wednesday amid boycott of the proceedings by opposition Congress and JDS. All the four members of the ruling
The coal ministry these days is in the action mode. After the PMO pushed for coal supplies to the power projects – crucial to meet the power demand, which in turn is crucial for higher economic growth, the ministry is exploring every possibi
An operational guideline suggested for a radically improved version of MNREGA calls for "urgent measures" to convert the rural job scheme into a productivity-enhancing instrument, particularly in the agriculture sector. Ru
An operational guideline suggested for a radically improved version of MNREGA calls for "urgent measures" to convert the rural job scheme into a productivity- enhancing instrument, particularly in the agriculture sector. Rural de
A day after receiving a letter from prime minister Manmohan Singh on the NCTC, Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday said the state government was now waiting for the Centre`s next step for consultation. "The prime ministe
