Jailed former telecom minister A Raja and 13 others on Thursday told a Delhi court to separately deal with CBI`s fresh plea to invoke additional charge of criminal breach of trust against them to enable them to seek bail in the 2G spectrum allocat
A special court on Thursday convicted all 269 police, forest and revenue department officials accused in the Vachathi case relating to atrocities on tribal people including rape of several women during a search for smuggled sandalwood. The
The Indian publishing industry seems to have woken up to the emergence of the digital publishing business in the country. At a Ficci event on the publishing sector, Dolly Bhasin of SPH Consultancy and e-Services Pvt Ltd said, “Publishing mar
A larger-than-life portrait of Sardar Patel, hung on the front of the staircase leading to the home minister’s office in North Block, is a reminder of the grandeur and awe in which this office was once held. For every home minister, Patel us
Genuinely transformative ideas always have a strong rustic whiff of the earth. Once Tamil Nadu chief minister and Congress stalwart Kumaraswami Kamaraj was stuck at an intersection near the town of Cheranmahadevi in Tirunelveli district waiting fo
Days after Orissa government appointed some BJD leaders as heads of state-run cooperative, the Orissa high court on Thursday restrained a state nominated body from taking charge of Cuttack Urban Bank. Instead, the high court in its interim
Police today prevented Independent MLA Sheikh Abdul Rashid from staging a protest outside the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly against the stalling of the resolution seeking clemency for Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. The MLA along wit
The directorate of vigilance and anti-corruption on Thursday carried out raids at the residence of former Tamil Nadu minister T M Anbarasan at Kundrathur near here in connection with a disproportionate assets complaint, police said. Anbara
Amid the raging row over the controversial 2G note, three ministers met finance minister Pranab Mukherjee at his residence on Wednesday night to find a way out to end the political storm. P K Bansal, V Narayanaswamy and Rajiv Shukla met Mu
On slowing down of world economy, concerns among G 20 countries about state of global economy and what could India do about it? Well let me say, the world economy is an increasingly inter-dependent entity. Fuel of trade and
The JPC examining the 2G scam today took exception to Finance Ministry`s "attempts to supress facts" by not submitting to it the controversial internal note on the issue and decided to summon Finance Secretary R S Gujral for an explanati
Telecom users today got the much-awaited relief from unsolicited commercial calls and SMSes as the new regulation came into force. Telecom regulator Trai today said it is also planning to impose five paise termination charge per SMS from O
Come Wednesday, prime minister Manmohan Singh will have to tackle many contentious issues that have made headline in the last few days when he was in New York for the UN general assembly meeting. The Telangana and Kudankulam protests will need imm
India will press Switzerland to break its bank secrecy code to stop pilferage of black money at a 2-day conference of the affluent donor nations beginning here on Wednesday. It will prod the Swiss representatives on the commitment they mad
The most exasperating aspect of terror strikes in our country is the perpetrators’ supreme confidence. They had, in a way, issued a warning on May 13 by putting a bomb at the Delhi high court’s parking lot. It didn’t kill anyone
India accounts for 58 per cent of all open defecations in the world and the problem needs to be addressed on a war footing to improve public health, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh said today. Seeking an increased fund allocation
With the Opposition gunning for Home Minister P Chidambaram in connection with the controversial finance ministry note on 2G spectrum allocation, DMK president M Karunanidhi today said there should be no political interference in the case.
A 51-year-old woman, who was battling for life for about four months in a city hospital after she sustained serious spinal injuries in a police crackdown against yoga guru Ramdev`s fast at Ramlila Maidan, died in New Delhi on Monday. Rajba
Law minister Salman Khurshid on Monday downplayed the row over the finance ministry note on home minister P Chidambaram`s stand on 2G spectrum issue, saying there is no scope for any worry in the document and that inferences drawn out of it were &
BJP on Monday backed former telecom minister A Raja`s demand that the court make then finance minister P Chidambaram a witness in the 2G spectrum case and demanded that he should be sacked and criminal investigations be initiated against him.
