Shortly after Orissa chief minister Naveen Patnaik`s appeal to Maoists to extend deadline for fulfilment of demands for release of abducted Malkangiri district collector and an engineer, Maoist ideologue V V Rao on Friday demanded announcement of
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Friday made a strong pitch for bringing to an end the policy of implementing Centrally-sponsored schemes in states, saying the Centre should confine itself to broad policy making. "You (Centre) dev
A local court has issued a fresh notice to the shahi imam of Delhi`s Jama Masjid to appear before it in a case of alleged violation of the model code in the 2007 assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. Imam Syed Ahmed Bukhari had reportedly u
The Orissa assembly witnessed pandemonium scenes for the second day on Friday over the abduction of Malkangiri district collector R V Krishna with opposition and treasury bench members virtually clashing in the speaker`s podium. The uproar
Mentally unstable people who attempt suicide may not be booked under the law once the amended mental health act comes into being, said additional director general health services Jagdish Prasad here on Thursday. “Under the amended me
Casting a wider net, the CBI Friday conducted searches at the premises of certain OC officials here in connection with the multi-crore CWG overlays scam. Officials sources said the searches were conducted at the premises of R P Gupta, U K
Senior BJP leader L K Advani has apologised to Congress president Sonia Gandhi for a party-appointed task force report, which had alleged that she and her late husband Rajiv Gandhi had accounts in Swiss banks. BJP had appointed the task fo
The supreme court on Friday asked attorney general G E Vahanvati to apprise it about the status of a complaint filed in May last year against former chief justice of India and chairman, National Human Rights Commission K G Balakrishnan, seeking a
The CBI on Friday carried out searches in the offices and residences of top management of DMK first family run Kalaignar TV in connection with the 2G spectrum scam. The raids came days after the channel claimed it had no links with the cas
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has been investigating top industrialist Anil Ambani`s alleged hand in weaving the 2G spectrum loot in a conspiracy with arrested telecom minister A Raja, with charge of pay-offs through a Mauritius firm a
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal today hinted that the government may reach an agreement with the Opposition on formation of a Joint Parliamentary Committee to probe the 2G Spectrum scam. "We have worked out something
Electric crematoriums are no longer the only green option for environmentally sensitive Hindus. Harit Moksha, a joint initiative of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and a non-government organisation, Mokshda Paryavaran Evam Van Suraksha Sam
The Bombay High Court today transferred from the Mumbai Police to CBI the investigation into the missing documents relating to crucial clearances in the Adarsh housing society scam. The order was passed by a bench headed by Justice B H Mar
Construction of foot-over-bridges and subways in the city will now take a pause with the norms getting stricter. As per the directives of unified traffic and transportation infrastructure (planning and engineering) centre or UTTIPEC, an advisory b
India Inc has rejected the government`s move to make corporate social responsibility mandatory and force companies to earmark 2 percent of their profits for the same. Corporate affairs minister Murli Deora said, after an interactive sessio
More than 1,700 qualified mental health professionals will be added to the health system every year in the country, health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said here on Thursday. “Under the National Mental Health Programme (NMHP), we have t
Issues of spurt in global food prices to "dangerous levels" and fragile economic recovery will figure prominently during the two-day meeting of the G-20 Finance Ministers beginning here tomorrow. The meeting, which will also be a
Former Telecom Minister A Raja, arrested for his alleged role in 2G Spectrum allocation scam, was sent to Tihar Jail by a Delhi court today under 14-days` judicial custody. "The accused is remanded in judicial custody till March 3,&qu
In the wake of the abduction of a district collector by Maoists in Orissa, the centre today hinted at temporary suspension of operations against the extremists to facilitate his safe release. Union Home Secretary Gopal K Pillai said the ce
In the wake of falling onion prices, the government on Thursday lifted the ban on export of onions. The decision to this effect was taken by an empowered group of ministers on food headed by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee.
