With elections for the three-tire panchayat polls due in January-February, 2012, Orissa Government has asked the district collectors to complete the task of delimitation and reservation of seats by the end of next month, official sources said toda
The trial in the US of Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Rana, co-accused in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks case, is throwing new light on the conspiracy to carry out the worst terrorist strike in India, Indian Ambassador to America Meera Shankar said today.
Though it was announced that the government would make public the agreement between the West Bengal government and Tata for its Nano project at Singur, Industry minister Partha Chatterjee today said more time was required to study the legal implic
The Congress on Wednesday took note of falling child sex ration in the coutry and said that the issue of sex selective abortion was a serious one and needed to be dealt with a heavy hand. Referring to the census 2011 data on child sex rati
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today left on three-day visit to Tanzania to take the bilateral ties forward in a comprehensive manner. Singh`s visit is the first by any Indian head of government after September 1997. It is also the f
Apparently gloating over the mayhem the Pakistani attackers were creating in Mumbai, Tahawwur Rana, a co-accused had proposed that nine of the ten LeT militants who carried out the carnage should be decorated with Pakistan`s highest military award
The Uttarakhand Electricity Regulatory Commission (UERC) has announced new power tariffs for the year 2011-12 with an average increase of five percent for the consumers in the hill state. Under the new tariff order all consumers inc
The Supreme Court today refused to direct the CBSE to conduct a fresh All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE), which was mired in controversy after its question papers were leaked. A vacation bench of justices G S Singhvi
A Delhi court today reserved its order on the bail plea of Cineyug Films director Karim Morani, an accused in the 2G spectrum case. "Put up for order for May 30," Special CBI Judge O P Saini said. During the
Airports Authority of India (AAI) chairman V P Agarwal today reviewed the ongoing expansion and modernisation works at the airport here. Agarwal inspected the works presently underway at the domestic and international terminals and
Union Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde today told the judicial panel probing the Adarsh Society Housing scam that the land where the controversial building stands belongs to the Maharashtra government and was never reserved for defence personnel
In a setback to former Indian cricket team captain Sourav Ganguly, the Supreme court today quashed the land allotment to him by the West Bengal Government in 2000. Quashing the allotment of 63.04 `katha` land in the posh Salt Lake c
As aviation regulator DGCA began probing the Faridabad air crash that claimed 10 lives, the preliminary probe pointed towards technical malfunction and high velocity winds as the major reasons for the accident. A Committee of Inquir
After France`s Finance Minister Christine Lagarde announced her candidacy for the post of Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), India Thursday said developing nations are trying to "consolidate" their position to ta
The Special Court today adjourned to May 30 the disproportionate assets case against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, granting time to the defence for arguments. Special judge B M Mallikarjunaiah posted the case to Monday whe
President Asif Ali Zardari had wanted to retain military ruler Pervez Musharraf`s close aide Tariq Aziz as a key Pakistani interlocutor for India but the move was opposed by army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, a US diplomatic cable released by Wi
Pakistan will use all "means" to eliminate terrorists and their sanctuaries inside the country, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said amidst rising criticism of the country`s armed forces in the wake of deadly 17 hour standoff at a
Noted personalities in various fields today paid tributes to Ramon Magsaysay award winner Dr Rajnikant Arole who died last night at Pune. Dr Arole was the recipient of Mother Teresa Award (2005), Padmabhushan (1990) and Ramon Magsay
India has sent a high-level 12-member parliamentary delegation led by Jammu and Kashmir Congress chief Saifuddin Soz to Pakistan to look for a political solution to the Kashmir tangle, besides discussing steps to build confidence and trust.
Food inflation surged to a one-month high of 8.55 percent for the week ended May 14, driven largely by the spiralling cost of fruits, and experts have warned of the recent petrol price hike further fuelling the rate of price rise. T
