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
Condemning the killing of two CPI(M) leaders in Burdwan town, opposition CPI(M) and ruling Trinamool Congress ally, Congress, on Wednesday demanded that the "politics of killing" is stopped forthwith. Demanding immediate a
Ailing Kingfisher Airlines, whose services remained affected for the sixth day, on Wednesday filed a fresh flight schedule with DGCA, scaling down its operations to about 170 daily flights with 28 functional aircraft. Faced with the regula
Coming under attack on reported move to curb the powers of Election Commission, Congress on Wednesday said the party never attempted directly or indirectly to bring disrepute or challenge the poll body`s authority. "Congress party`s s
A high-powered Group of Ministers on corruption met on Wednesday but did not discuss the controversial proposal for giving statutory backing to the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) which in effect would take away its enforcement from the hands of the E
The Goa governor`s secretary Rajeev Verma, the Rajasthan chief minister`s secretary Rajat Kumar Mishra and agriculture minister Sharad Pawar`s private secretary Vimlendra Sharanare are among the 44 lucky IAS officers of the 1992 batch empa
The country`s premier stock exchange BSE Ltd on Wednesday launched `BSE-Greenex`, the first environmental friendly equity index, which will enable investors take more informed decisions in the green theme of India. Corporate Affairs Minist
