D Sadananda Gowda will replace B S Yeddyurappa as Karnataka chief minister, the BJP announced on Wednesday. However, tainted Yeddyurappa may still have had the last hurrah in the episode. Handpicked by BSY, as his successor, Gowda fa
In a major setback to national investigation agency (NIA), the Bombay high court on Wednesday granted bail to two accused in the September 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case, after observing that there was no material to connect the duo to the blast.
Concerned over price rise, the opposition on Wednesday warned that it will be forced to tell the government `Go, for God`s sake, Go` if it failed to check the spiral, which has hit the common man hard, at the earliest. Leading the charge,
The BJP on Wednesday created ruckus in rajya sabha over land allotment in Haryana to the Rajiv Gandhi Trust forcing two adjournments and accused the Congress of following a different standard in party-ruled state on land acquisition issue.
City-based Indian national centre of ocean information services (INCOIS) is working towards covering the entire fishing community of India in the next couple of years under the the potential fishing zone (PFZ) advisory services, that delivers accu
BJP legislature party meeting began here this afternoon to find a successor to Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa amid indications that a consensus for the leadership issue is elusive. Arrangements have also been made for a secret ba
The centre will in the next few days decide if it will seek a review of the recent supreme court ruling on disbanding Salwa Judum and disarming tribals deployed as special police officers (SPOs) in operations against Maoists, home minister P Chida
Troubles continued for former CJI K G Balakrishnan, who is now NHRC chairman, with the survey department concluding that his son-in-law and advocate P V Sreenijan had allegedly encroached government land. Following a complaint by president
In fresh trouble for B S Yeddyurappa, Karnataka governor H R Bhardwaj on Wednesday gave sanction to lokayukta police to initiate criminal proceedings against him over the report on illegal mining. Bhardwaj accepted the findings and re
Agriculture minister Sharad Pawar has convened an all-party meeting at his chambers at 1 pm today to clear the contentious Seeds Bill, pending for some time now. The bill has been criticized by many as anti-farmer and detrimental to conserving our
Pawan cries whenever he remembers the incidence. Not that he is likely to forget getting beaten up by CRPF cadets for no fault of his. His friend Shoaib says, "They didn`t let us go and held us for four hours. I did not know if I had done som
Hours before Karnataka Lokayukta Santosh Hegde demitted office, outgoing chief minister B S Yeddyurappa on Tuesday filed a petition before him seeking reconsideration of his report indicting him in the illegal mining that cost him the top post.
The National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) pl
As a direct fall-out of the iron ore mining scam in Karnataka, pig iron manufacturer Tata Metaliks Limited might have to close down its Goa plant in a week, a top company official said on Tuesday. "The iron ore supplies to the Goa pl
Accusing the Income Tax department of being "very lenient" to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), a Parliamentary panel said on Tuesday that it allowed the cricketing body to "enrich its coffers at the expense of the e
The much talked about Lokpal Bill could be introduced in the Lok Sabha tomorrow with the government writing to the speaker to waive off the two-day period required before introducing a bill. Minister of State for Personnel V Narayanasamy o
Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday reached out to Kashmiri pandits in the state and assured adequate facilities to improve their living condition. Accompanied by minister for revenue and rehabilitation Raman Bhall
Civil society groups have come together to reject the draft national food security bill recently approved by an empowered group of ministers (EGoM). Writing to the prime minister and his council of ministers, members of the Right to Food C
Coming down heavily on the CBI on Tuesday, for its slow pace of probe into the missing files case of the scam-hit Adarsh Housing Society, the Bombay high court has sought a reply from the investigating agency tomorrow. "This is a v
The government has received information about Indians having accounts in Swiss banks and is taking appropriate action to bring back funds stashed abroad, Parliament was informed on Tuesday. "We have received some information
