Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy today pleaded before a Delhi court that it should bring on record purported new facts that former finance minister P Chidambaram and former telecom minister A Raja had a role in deciding 2G spectrum prices and
Karnataka High Court today granted anticipatory bail to former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa in a case filed against him for alleged irregularities in awarding an irrigation contract to a private firm. Allowing the bail plea of Yed
The Supreme Court today directed Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) to abolish its system of contractual labour and asked it to pay compensation of Rs 5 lakh to each of its 136 workers who were not reinstated after expiry of their contract
Naxal violence is yet to abate in the worst-affected states of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar and Orissa even as there are reports that Maoists have directed their West Bengal unit to develop guerrilla bases in Jangalmahal, home minister P Chidamb
The labour unrest at Maruti Suzuki India`s Manesar plant took a violent turn Thursday when a group of supervisors were attacked on their way to work, with five of them sustaining injuries. According to the police, one Dhiraj Soni, a
Home minister P Chidambaram said on Thursday that the large presence of security forces in the northeastern states was necessary to deal with the threat of violence and cases of extortion there. Addressing the conference of DGPs and IGPs,
The government approved on Thursday the approach paper for the 12th Plan (2012-17) which seeks to raise annual economic growth rate to 9 per cent during the five-year period, up from 8.2 per cent estimated in the current Plan. The approach
The CIDCO chairman Pramod Hindurao has said that acquisition of land up to nearly 70 percent has been completed for the proposed international airport near Panvel and the issues pertaining to those displaced by bigger projects are being settled.
Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh was on Thursday granted interim bail till September 19 on health grounds by a Delhi court in the 2008 cash-for-vote scam. The 55-year-old former Samajwadi Party leader was granted interim bail by special judge San
Terming the two recent blasts in Mumbai and Delhi as a "blot" on government`s record, home minister P Chidambaram on Thursday said many homegrown modules are active across the country and several of them have acquired the capacity to mak
Food inflation in India declined marginally but was still high at 9.47 per cent for the week ended September 3, with prices of all items, barring pulses and wheat, rising on an annual basis. Food inflation, as measured on the basis of the
On August 27, the nation bore witness as parliament grappled with an issue that has found resonance in the hearts and minds of everyone. For many who claim that televising proceedings of parliament has increased the shrillness and histrionics in p
The indefinite strike by power loom job workers in Coimbatore and Tirupur demanding 100 per cent wage hike would continue as the Powerloom Cloth Manufacturers Association (PCMA) declined to to concede to the demand. The seventh roun
Union home minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday held a high-level unscheduled meeting here in which he was told that "much" progress has been made in connection with the July 13 serial bomb blasts inquiry, official sources said.
To attract more tourists at Kasauli, a Rs 8.66 crore Tourism Complex and Geo museum would come up in the fascinating hill town besides improving basic infrastructure facilities, chief minister P K Dhumal said on Tuesday. Laying th
The union ministry of textiles has sanctioned a grant of Rs 24.5 crore to the city-based Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT) to set up National Centre of Excellence (NCE) in Sportech. The NCE Sportech will research and develop
With ginners not showing any sign of withdrawing agitation till their demands are met, cotton growers in Haryana are forced to either offload their crop in neighbouring markets of Punjab or store it at their homes. Though cotton arr
Security arrangements were tightened in the city on Tuesday after a local resident received a suspicious call from Pakistan, police said. "Bharat Sharma received a call from Pakistan. It was regarding some lottery but moments later Sh
Women`s forest rights groups on Tuesday demanded sorting out technical problems to enable single women get forest land as per the law. "Applications of tribal single women to get forest land as per law are being rejected on technical
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has raised to Rs 10 lakh the reward money for anyone providing information on the Delhi high court blast even as the investigators suspect that clone of a SIM card was used to send one of the emails claiming
