Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa today announced opening of seven new traffic police stations across the state. The new traffic stations will come up in Mamallapuram (Kancheepuram), Tiruthiraipoondi (Tiruvarur), Tiruthangal (V
With his government`s image taking a beating due to sleaze and corruption allegations, Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot has carried out a reshuffle of his ministerial team, dropping six ministers including education minister Bharosilal Jatav
The Delhi High court today granted five days parole to Manu Sharma, serving life term in Tihar Jail for killing ramp model Jessica Lall in 1999, on the condition that he will not visit night clubs or discotheques during the period.
Entrepreneurs from SC, ST, OBC and minority communities will now get loans of upto Rs five lakh from Delhi government instead of Rs one lakh, chief minister Sheila Dikshit announced on Tuesday. "We have decided to raise the existing l
Calling Maoists the "biggest violators of human rights", union home minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday said anti-Naxal operations in Chhattisgarh seemed to be losing momentum though incidents of ultra-Left violence have come down.
Petrol price was slashed by Rs 2.22 a litre, the first reduction in 33 months. Petrol in Delhi will cost Rs 66.42 per litre with effect from midnight tonight as against Rs 68.64 a litre now. The reduction comes days after state-own
Close to Rs 600 crore in potential revenue was lost as an international consultant hired by Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (OC) did not have the desired expertise and experience, a report said. The `Delhi 2010 Post Games Report` b
At a time the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) was examining 2G spectrum allocation last year, an official of the government auditor had purportedly received a phone call from chairman of parliament`s public accounts committee Murli Manohar J
Battling financial crisis, Kingfisher Airlines chairman Vijay Mallya on Tuesday said he has not asked for a bailout from the government but wants the lenders to help with Rs 700-800 crore working capital as short-term need and interest concessions
In a bid to outsmart rivals ahead of the Assembly elections, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati on Tuesday announced bringing a resolution in the House for carving out four new states in the winter session beginning next week. Addressin
In the wake of the murder of two youths by eve-teasers in Amboli here, the Maharashtra Government has planned to crack down strongly on the menace of eve-teasing, through a helpline and by launching an awareness campaign. Minister o
In a landmark judgement, Bombay high court bench in Goa on Tuesday ruled that Governor of Goa was a Public Authority and did come within the ambit of the Right to Information Act. Delivering the judgement, the high court held that the Gove
A police constable attached to Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) had sent Rs 3,000 in 2008 by money order to an approver-turned-hostile accused, currently lodged in a city jail for his alleged role in the 2006 Malegaon bomb blasts, an RTI que
Australian prime minister Julia Gillard on Tuesday made a strong pitch for uranium sale to India, saying the time has come to lift the long-standing ban on its exports to the dynamic and democratic country. Gillard said she will urge the p
Team Anna on Tuesday appealed to parliamentary standing committee looking into Lokpal Bill not to exclude lower bureaucracy and judiciary from the ambit of the anti-corruption ombdusman. The reaction came amidst reports that the committee
Giving a boost to its missile programme, India on Tuesday successfully test-fired a new variant of the nuclear-capable Agni ballistic missile with a strike range of 3,000 km from an island off Odisha coast. Now christened Agni-IV, the tria
Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Vinod Rai on Tuesday appeared before the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC), a day after his former colleague R P Singh sought to dismiss the presumptive loss of Rs 1.76 lakh crore due to 2G spectrum allocati
On Tuesday, Vijay Mallya assures that Kingfisher will not close down as operating on loss making route not possible. On Monday, a eight hours long marathon meeting of the board of directors of the cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines went inc
Prime minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said the country needs creativity and innovation to address the problems of poverty, health and environment. "We have made innovations in areas such as space technology, atomic energy and autom
Petrol prices in India may be cut by Rs 2 a litre from Wednesday as global oil rates have softened and the rupee has stabilised against the US dollar. The cut in prices would negate the Rs 1.80 per litre petrol price hike effected earlier
