Back from the US, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday said he will speak on the controversial 2G spectrum note only after discussions with prime minister Manmohan Singh and other colleagues. Mukherjee told the waiting media at the
Between 30,000 to 35,000 families who came to India after partition in 1947 and settled in Jammu are struggling to get statehood rights till date, West Pakistan Refugees Action Committee claimed in Chandigarh on Monday. "Between 30,00
Taking a serious view of the reluctance shown by medicos in Maharashtra to join government medical services for a year after their graduation, the health department is considering a proposal to stop financial assistance to those students who dont
Former Karnataka lokayukta justice Santosh Hegde on Monday said he was not willing to be Goa lokayukta, even if that office was offered to him. Talking to reporters after attending a private function near Panaji, Hegde replied in negative
Indicating that the government will soon take a decision on the issue of allowing foreign law firms to operate in India, law minister Salman Khurshid on Monday said the concerns of the Bar will be addressed before taking a final call. Perh
Amid public outcry over pegging urban poverty line at per capita consumption of Rs 32 a day, Planning Commission on Monday said the percentage of poor is declining in the country. "The percentage of people who are poor today is declin
Gujarat governor Kamla Beniwal has sought details of expenditure incurred on Narendra Modi`s three-day `Sadbhavna` fast, intensifying the faceoff with the chief minister who has demanded her recall. Beniwal, who has been locked in a row wi
The CBI has filed a new chargesheet against DMK MPs K Kanimozhi and A Raja in the 2G scam, booking the two under charges that carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. So far, both faced seven-year jail terms if convicted. The CBI on
Goa chief minister Digambar Kamat on Sunday steered himself clear of the controversies surrounding illegal mining activities in the coastal state claiming that he himself was a crusader against this increasing phenomenon. "During my t
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday night said the killings by Maoists in Junglemahal were targeted at derailing the peace initiative in the state. "We gave them an opportunity to return to the mainstream. This is an
Government may push for some early action on enactment of crucial economic legislations like the pension reforms and banking and insurance bills in India after investors and CEOs in the US expressed concern over the delay in their adoption.
In an apparent potshot at L K Advani, Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Sunday said the senior BJP leader should take out a "peace journey" instead of rathyatra. "There may be ideological differences but I do not thin
Around 70 per cent of the population in Himachal Pradesh avail benefit of health facilities at the state-owned medical institutions, chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal said on Monday. The state has been ranked at the top in delivery of healt
Government today opposed in the Supreme Court any CBI probe against Home Minister P Chidambaram in connection with the 2G spectrum case. "There is no need to pass any order on the interim application (filed by Swamy)," senior adv
In a bid to eradicate illiteracy in Bihar, the state government has decided to rope in 10.5 lakh class IX and X students to educate 1.2 crore adult illiterate people in Bihar. The plan will be executed under a five-month literacy campaign
In a setback to former Indian Premier League commissioner Lalit Modi, the Supreme Court of India on Monday dismissed his plea seeking reconstitution of the BCCI-appointed disciplinary panel probing allegations of financial irregularities against h
The Delhi high court has anulled the appointment of widely-known historian and DU professor Mahesh Rangarajan as the director of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) ruling that it violates the prescribed procedure. The appointment
Fourteen students of the Delhi-based Vardhman Mahavir Medical College have been learning more about law than medicine. Even after winning a court battle, they are likely to lose one year of studies. The reason: caste bias. The st
The Indian Social Action Forum (INSAF), a national forum of over 500 social action groups and people`s movements, says it will be moving the Supreme Court against the government`s bid to throttle foreign funds to the voluntary non-government organ
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has quietly given an undertaking in writing to the Supreme Court to examine the controversial finance ministry note produced by Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy. It is questioning the role of Home
