The economic growth is likely to fall to a three-year low of 6.9 per cent in 2011-12, mainly due to sharp slowdown in manufacturing, agriculture and mining sectors, against 8.4 per cent expansion in the last fiscal. Agriculture and allied
A controversy broke out over the transfer of a poll observer, an IAS officer, who allegedly ordered the stopping of a motorcycle rally of Congress campaigner and Priyanka Gandhi`s husband Robert Vadra on the charge of violating the model code of c
Polling for the first phase of the high voltage Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections for 55 seats in 10 districts would be held tomorrow that will decide the fate of two ministers, 31 MLAs and 15 former ministers. More than 1.70 lakh electorat
The CVC also hailed as "very significant" a recent supreme court order holding that sanction would be deemed to be granted against a `corrupt` official
The ISRO row intensified on Monday with the space agency chief K Radhakrishnan refuting the charge by his predecessor G Madhavan Nair that no enquiry was conducted on the findings of an official report on the Antrix-Devas deal
Our cities may not be able keep pace with their populations unless urban planning in India is radically rethought, warns a Ficci report released on Friday. “In just over a decade from now, nearly 500 million Indians will need new, ur
Rebutting criticism that the 2G judgement was a case of judicial overreach, Justice A K Ganguly, who was on the two-member bench of the Supreme Court that cancelled 122 licences, on Monday asserted that the courts can certainly scrutinise an
Samim Khan wants to send her youngest son, 5-year-old Zishan, to a private school. She has five children and four of them have studied at a government school in Kalyanpuri in East Delhi. Her husband is a daily-wage labourer and earns aroun
Rahul Gandhi on Monday said he was not "obsessed" with becoming the Prime Minister but remained committed to transform Uttar Pradesh where people have been "fooled" for the last 22 years by successive regimes.
Amid the logjam over Koodankulam nuclear power project, a senior anti-KNPP functionary on Monday threatened to file a cri
Union minister Farooq Abdullah on Monday warned people against forces exploiting religion at the time of elections for po
Over 96,000 cases pertaining to traffic rules violations were on Monday decided in Lok Adalats organised at all six distr
Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) has announced a list of 22 candidates for the forthcoming Goa polls.
The Gems and Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) has decided to set up a common cutting and polishing facility to
Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee says though food inflation has moderated the country is not out of the "woods totally", asserting inflationary pressures must be brought down to a tolerable and acceptable level before Indian economy can
This comment first appeared on this website way back in June last year. The supreme court had just condemned the delay in instituting a CBI probe into the 2G scam in spite of repeated representations to the prime minister by Subramanian
The Gems and Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) has decided to set up a common cutting and polishing facility to combat the deadly silicosis disease afflicting most of the workers in agate industry in Khambhat town of Kheda district. Agate
Sports minister Ajay Maken has promised government help to cricketer Yuvraj Singh, who is undergoing chemotherapy in the United States to recover from lung cancer. "Wish Yuvraj a speedy recovery! Asking officials to find the quantum and natur
In a huge relief to Home Minister P Chidambaram and to the UPA government, a Delhi court on Saturday threw out a plea to make him an accused in the 2G case holding that he did not indulge in any criminal conspiracy or derived any pecuniary advanta
Reliance Industries, pulled up by the CAG for alleged contract violations of a gas block, told a parliamentary panel on Friday that it was not given a "fair" opportunity to be heard and the observations by the government auditor were on
