Union minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday made a strong pitch for roping in organisations like those run by Catholic Church to bring development in Maoist-hit areas but asked them to respect the `Lakshman Rekha` and not engage in "religious mobi
Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare and AICC General Secretary, Ghulam Nabi Azad, said here today that the Congress should not accord importance to comments made by BJP leader Uma Bharati against Rahul Gandhi and instead focus on other iss
Sports Minister Ajay Maken today said that sacked Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Chairman Suresh Kalmadi, who was released from jail on bail yesterday, should have resigned from IOA presidency after he was charged for corruption in runnin
Winds of change are sweeping the poll-bound Uttar Pradesh. Young leaders like the Congress scion Rahul Gandhi and Samajwadi Party supremo’s son Akhilesh Yadav are making heads turn even as an older generation in politics is pushed to backsta
The 77 incumbents in the Punjab assembly elections this year saw an average spurt of 133 percent in their assets over the last term of the state legislature. Punjab Election Watch (PEW) and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) arrived at the f
Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi today began a day-long fast here as part of his `Sadhbhavana Mission, a move which comes nearly a month ahead of the tenth anniversary of the Godhra carnage. Before the fast meant to promote peace, harm
Breaking his silence on the age controversy surrounding Army chief Gen V K Singh, Defence Minister A K Antony today said he was "sorry and sad" over it and left it to the Supreme Court to decide the matter. Noting that there are
After days of speculation, controversial author Salman Rushdie has called off his visit to India for the Jaipur Literature Festival citing security issues. Festival organisers read out a statement by the Booker Prize winning author, which
The directorate general of civil aviation (DGCA), in a reply to an RTI query, has substantiated its concerns over the safety standards in the airlines industry. The reply, accessed by Governance Now, indicts several airlines for lax safety
The age-row involving the army chief, General VK Singh, is as much about his age as about the perversion of logic and law and arrogance of power. But above all, it is about a simple fact that a few individuals run and control a highly disciplined
Trinamool Congress and Congress, feuding alliance partners in West Bengal, have apparently decided to bury the hatchet after Mamata Banerjee on Friday kept a studied silence on the issue and Congress leader Sachin Pilot saying he hoped to work tog
Early last year, the Left Front government in West Bengal launched an online platform for pensioners to check the status of their retirement
The Supreme Court today dismissed a PIL seeking a direction to the government to restore the Army Chief Gen V K Singh`s date of birth as May 10, 1951 saying it was not maintainable in law. "In our view, the writ petiti
The UGC has asked universities across the country to prepare their own plans for seeking grants from the commission for development purpose, a step aimed at granting more autonomy to the varsities. So far, expert committees deputed by UGC
Odisha high court on Thursday refused to entertain a review petition of the Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) for its refinery and captive power unit`s expansion bid at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district. The division bench of chief justice V Gopal
The Bombay high court on Thursday asked the Election Commission of India and State Election Commission to inform the court whether they can add a column for `Negative Vote` in the Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) on the lines of inclusion of Brail
Bankers on Thursday explored various options including conversion of the Rs 18,000 crore loans to SLR as part of the debt restructuring of the ailing Air India carrier and may finalise the bailout package next week. "We are looking at
Amid allegation of misuse of the law, the Law Commission on Thursday recommended watering down the anti-dowry law to make it less stringent by allowing the woman involved in the case to withdraw the case with the permission of the court provided s
A Mayawati statue without a tarpaulin cover makes an odd sight. Then what is this statue doing, standing shamelessly uncovered in these election times? And what is the election commission doing, covering up every elephant big and small while leavi
A day after Gujarat high court verdict against his government in Lokayukta case, chief minister Narendra Modi On Thursday targeted the centre, saying it may "use constitutional bodies against the state" but Gujarat will not bow before &q
