A Delhi court on Monday allowed CBI to interrogate afresh former telecom minister A Raja and two other accused in the 2G case in the Patiala House court complex. Special CBI judge O P Saini allowed CBI, which is yet to file its second supp
The Bombay high court on Monday dismissed a batch of petitions seeking a CBI probe into the murder of veteran crime reporter Jyotirmoy Dey. However, justices Ranjana Desai and R V More did not pronounce the reasons in the operative part of
After Gopal Subramaniam quit last week as the solicitor general, additional solicitor generals Mohan Parasaran and Indira Jaisingh are both being tipped as the successor in government circles. Both have been serving at their posts for a lo
Lucknow is less than 500 km but a world apart from the twin villages of Bhatta-Parsaul in Greater Noida. Especially so for the embattled villagers who boarded an air-conditioned luxury bus courtesy of the state administration less than a month aft
Congress on Friday hit out at the principal opposition party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for demanding the resignation of union home minister P Chidamabaram a day after the Mumbai blasts. Party spokesperson Shakeel Ahmed said that the BJP
If you missed a flat in the last DDA housing scheme, this might be your chance to get one. The agency is coming up with how cost houses in the EWS and LIG categories. DDA will construct 19560 EWS houses in Dwarka, Narela and Rohini by usi
Amidst questions being raised on security issues in the wake of the Mumbai blasts, Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Friday said Congress agreeing to give the key home portfolio to NCP was a mistake. "I think it was a mi
Amid growing concern over the problem of black money, Indian president Pratibha Patil on Friday said the war against the menace should be fought through domestic and cross-border measures. The president, while addressing the concluding cer
If you are for a strong Lokpal bill and want to do your bit, this is your chance. Starting July 21 (the coming Thursday), Team Hazare will launch a referendum on the Lokpal issue and is inviting volunteers for the same. The team has launch
The seventh list for colleges under Delhi University (DU) was released on Thursday, in which colleges were ordered by the supreme court to exercise complete 10 percent relaxation for OBC (other backward class) students. The court intervened becaus
The Gujarat high court on Friday relieved Satyapal Singh as chief of special investigation team probing the Ishrat Jahan encounter case and appointed senior IPS officer J V Ramudu as his successor. Ramudu, a 1981-batch officer of Andhra Pr
Indian adolescents who are exposed to tobacco use in Bollywood films are more likely to be tobacco users, concluded a study conducted recently by a Mumbai-based ngo Hriday. The study titled, ‘Tobacco use in Bollywood movies, to
Dreamliner made its much-awaited landing in India on July 13, bringing hope to the authorities of the national carrier Air India. The ailing airline has ordered 27 such aircrafts, which it hopes, will revive its sagging fortunes. While the
Civil aviation sector in the country has registered phenomenal growth in the past decade and has the potential to grow further, civil aviation secretary Nasim Zaidi said here on Thursday. Zaidi said that India is one of the fastest growing aviatio
The construction of the Barapullah elevated road connecting East Delhi with South Delhi will help save fuel worth Rs 100 crore annually, Delhi Government PWD today said. "According to an estimate, this road will help in saving fuel wo
As the metropolis nursed its wounds from yesterday`s triple terror blasts, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi visited the injured in hospitals and shared the feelings of grieving Mumbaikars. The two leaders a
Rahul Gandhi`s remark that it was "very difficult" to stop every single terror attack today sparked off angry outbursts from the Shiv Sena and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, even as the Congress found "nothing wrong" in
Bangladesh and India today launched the first joint census in 162 `enclaves` on both sides of the borders, as part of efforts by the two sides to reach a decisive end to the protracted border problem. The enclaves, or areas land-loc
Chief economic advisor Kaushik Basu expects headline inflation to moderate to around 6 percent by March 2012 from the current rate of over 9 per cent, even as he said food inflation might stay elevated due to base effect. "I am
Investigators today probed "every possible hostile group" in their search for culprits behind the Mumbai terror attack and the involvement of a suicide bomber was not being ruled out. As Mumbaikars slowly came to grips wit
