Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh on Sunday warned all rebels contesting against party`sofficial candidates in the January 30 state assembly election to withdraw from the contest or face expulsion. In a statement here, he said indiscip
A top Finance Ministry official today defended Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on the controversial March 25 note on 2G by telling the Joint Parliamentary Committee looking into the issue that seeing a file does not mean approving it.
`Not another coup, please`, was the advice given by the Pakistani media today to the powerful military, which is engaged in a major stand off with the weak civilian government over the memo scandal. The standoff - which reached a head yest
In a bid to provide insurance cover to more people hailing from vulnerable sections, government plans to widen the ambit of the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana. The scheme, which was reviewed at the union cabinet meeting on Thursday, has al
The Delhi high court on Thursday stayed an order of a lower court asking the CBI director to personally appear before it to explain disappearance of some documents pertaining to the sensational multi-crore rupees Molarband and Dheerpur land scam c
The government has agreed to the parliamentary standing committee`s recommendation not to treat 16 years as the age of consent for girls and not to classify sexual acts with children aged 16 to 18 years as consensual but to treat them as offence.
A day after Rahul Gandhi escaped irate young demonstrators in Azamgarh inviting them to Delhi after polls to discuss their demand for a probe into the 2008 Batla House encounter in south Delhi, home minister P Chidambaram on Thursday shut out any
In the run up to the January 30 assembly polls in Uttarakhand, both the ruling BJP and Congress have had their share of post-ticket distribution revolts but the saffron party seems to have suffered more. According to sources in both the pa
An online organisation, avaaz.org, is conducting a poll `worst Lokpal loser` to raise awareness about politicians who opposed the Jan Lokpal. The site claims to have registered over 13,000 votes already and will publish the results once the voting
Food prices fell for the second consecutive week as food inflation remained in the negative zone at (-)2.90 per cent for the week ended December 31, 2011. Food inflation, as measured by the Wholesale Price Index (WPI), stood at (-)3.36 per
As a nation, Pakistan is a curious case. Right from its birth it has been springing one surprise after another. The army overthrows the democratic government, then democracy limps back, then another coup takes place, Pakistan has seen the pendulum
The city government on Wednesday told the Delhi high court that it has not violated any law by allowing schools to admit children below four years to pre-school or nursery classes. The Delhi government`s directorate of education`s counsel
One of the main accused in the missing nurse Bhanwari Devi case, Om Prakash Bishnoi, on Wednesday refused to record his statement before the magistrate and was remanded to judicial custody. The CBI had moved an application in the court yes
RSS on Wednesday directed Karnataka chief minister D V Sadananda Gowda, former CM B S Yeddyurappa and state BJP chief K S Eshwarappa to bury their differences on the leadership issue and leave the matter to be decided by the BJP central leadership
As the date for withdrawing nomination for Punjab assembly election nears, there is trepidation in Congress camp over large number of rebels in the poll fray. The rebels who could queer the pitch for Congress, which is seeking to return to
The election commission on Wednesday asked the government to put on hold its decision on 4.5 per cent sub-quota for minorities in five poll-bound states till election process ends there as a controversy raged over the issue. "It has b
Hours after he fired the defence secreatary over an affidavit row with the Army, Pakistan`s beleaguered prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday said the top defence official had violated rules of business and had to go. Earlier in t
Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani today sacked Defence Secretary Lt Gen (retired) Khalid Naeem Lodhi, considered close to the army chief, marking an escalation in the row between the civilian government and the military over the Memogate
A new health insurance scheme for providing free medical and surgical treatment to 1.34 crore families in Tamil Nadu was today launched by Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa at an annual outlay of Rs 750 crore. Under the "Chief Minister`s
With Salman Rushdie`s proposed visit to India kicking up a political row, law minister Salman Khurshid on Wednesday said anybody having objections to the provision of PIO not requiring visa to visit the country can take up their complaints with th
