As many as 300 policemen divided into ten teams from the Naxal Special Duty wing and Q Branch wing started combing operations in 34 identified Maoist-affected villages in the district on Sunday. The operations are being conducted ahead of
Only 47 percent of the schemes taken up under MG-NREGA were completed in 2009-10 in Jharkhand, says the CAG report. "Out of a total 1,60,813 schemes only 75,767 schemes completed at the end of 2009/10," said the CAG report for th
Alleging that injustice was done to Andhra Pradesh by the Krishna Water Dispute Tribunal, YSR Congress president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy on Sunday demanded that the state be given its rightful share of water from the Krishna river. Injustice
Communist Party of India (CPI) leader D Raja on Monday said there was a strong possibility of the emergence of a third front as both Congress and BJP`s economic beliefs were "contrary to the common man`s interest". "The econ
Industrial growth fell to a meagre 3.3 per cent in July this year on account of poor performance mainly by capital goods, manufacturing and mining sectors, reflecting sluggishness in the economy. Growth in the factory output, as measured i
In a relief to Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, the supreme court on Monday refused to pass any order on his alleged inaction to contain the 2002 Gujarat riots after the Godhra carnage and referred the matter to the magistrate concerned in Ah
Pitching for reforms in the education system, former Maharashtra additional chief secretary Leena Mehendale said the budgetary allocation for the sector should be increased five-fold. "Bring in reforms in education, increase budget fi
With two more persons succumbing to injuries at a hospital, the death toll in the police firing on a stone-pelting mob of Dalits, who indulged in violence following detention of their leader John Pandian, has risen to seven, police said on Monday.
The ambitious free laptop scheme of the Tamil Nadu government, in which 68 lakh laptops are to be distributed to government-aided higher secondary school and college students, is all set to get rolling this week. Under the scheme, a poll p
Tihar Jail authorities on Friday told a Delhi court that Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh, who has sought bail on health grounds in the 2008 cash-for-vote case, has been kept in a separate cell under hygienic conditions in the prison. The report
A two-day meeting of Team Anna core committee will begin at his village Ralegan Siddhi on Saturday. "Arvind Kejriwal reached the village this afternoon, while Kiran Bedi and Prashant Bhushan will be reaching tomorrow morning," Ha
Ahead of the assembly elections due in the next few months, speculation is rife in Uttarakhand unit of ruling BJP tonight about a change of guard in the wake of a series of alleged scams facing the government. BJP sources here said chief m
CBI, probing the alleged irregularities in the 2005 APIIC-Emaar Properties land deal, has served notices to over 80 persons, including some politicians, their kin and Telugu filmstars. These persons, whose identity were not revealed by off
Uttar Pradesh Congress on Thursday demanded a CBI probe into the alleged irregularities in mining of sand and stone in the state which it said could prove to be of bigger magnitude than in Karnataka`s Bellary. "Illegal mining of sand
In an attempt to retrieve the anti-graft campaign yielded to Anna Hazare and camp, the Bhartiya Janata Party on Thursday set its 84-year old patriarch Lal Krishna Advani on yet another Yatra to mobilise people against corruption.
The monsoon brings in its wake a primeval expression of joy as the first showers bring welcome rain, followed by sporadic outbreaks of seasonal diseases, mudslides and water-logging, and finally panic as the season reaches its peaks with a deluge
NDA leaders today protested in Parliament premises against the arrest of two former BJP MPs who had acted as "whistleblowers" in the cash-for-vote scam and demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, alleging that he was h
National auditor CAG (comptroller and auditor general of India) on Thursday castigated the Oil Ministry for allowing Reliance industries to retain its entire eastern offshore KG-D6 block in contravention of the Production Sharing Contract, but did
The decision to acquire 111 planes by Air India through debt was "a recipe for disaster" and should have raised alarm in the government, the comptroller and auditor general (CAG) has said. Terming the move for getting of a
With food inflation falling to a single-digit for the week ended August 27, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee expressed hope on Thursday that it would moderate further after the end of the festive season, though high prices of non-food items conti
