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Yeddyurappa will abide by party decision: Gadkari

Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari on Monday sought to deny any kind of confrontation with the party by the tainted Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa in the letter he wrote for a party panel to first establish charges levelled a

Labouring for better employment

Mohammad Nasir, the only earning member in the family of four, is a painter by profession. A daily wage labourer, Nasir’s monthly income hardly ever touched Rs 4000 till few months back. Some days, work was hard to come by. On some others, t

Cong wants DMK to give Raja the boot

UPA partner DMK has come under pressure from Congress to suspend Lok Sabha MP and former telecom minister A Raja from the party after he named prime minister Manmohan Singh and former finance minister P Chidambaram in a statement to the CBI court

Darul sacks reformist Vastanvi as VC

Darul Uloom Deoband`s Vice Chancellor Ghulam Mohammed Vastanvi was today sacked for his comments praising Narendra Modi which had raised hackles of the conservatives soon after the reformist theologian took over the reins of the prominent Islamic

Pilots object to AI`s low-cost carrier plans

Debt-ridden Air India`s proposed domestic sector budget airline route to contain losses has found little favour among its pilots. The proposal to overhaul Alliance Air’s current operations and turn it into a low-cost domestic carrier

Raja names prime minister, Chidambaram in court

Appearing in court on Monday in the 2G spectrum scam trial former telecom minister A Raja said prime minister Manmohan Singh and the then finance minister P Chidambaram were aware of the spectrum allocation decisions that landed him in jail.

Natarajan to clip MoEF babus` wings?

The new minister for environment and forests Jayanthi Natarajan may make significant changes in the bureaucracy at the ministry. Two or three senior mandarins may be moved out of the ministry while most others will find the freedom they enjoyed un

Coming Jul 27: Lokayukta report on K`taka illegal mining

Karnataka Lokayukta justice Santosh Hegde will submit his much-awaited report on illegal mining to the government on Wednesday. "Yes, I will submit the report on Wednesday," Hegde, a former supreme court judge and member of Jan L

BSY rules out resignation over mining scam

Embattled Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa on Monday returned here from his holiday and ruled out his resignation in the wake of the Lokayukta report indicting him on the illegal mining issue. "Opposition parties hoping that I

Indian slush funds in Swiss banks may gross over $2.5 bn

It`s official now -- Indians hold about USD 2.5 billion (over Rs 11,000 crore) in Swiss banks, but this figure of Switzerland`s central bank may be a gross understatement of the total wealth directly and indirectly held there by entities from Indi

Lokpal Bill to be placed in next Cabinet meeting

Government today said the Lokpal Bill is ready and will be placed before the Union Cabinet for approval in its next meeting where a decision on whether to put the Prime Minister in its purview would be also be taken. "The Lokpal Bill

Jairam on recce of Red districts

Union Minister of Rural Development Jairam Ramesh on Friday began his first on the spot visit to District Bastar, to understand the Rural Development schemes implementation. Ramesh on the day of assuming office declared that he would first

BJP ready to axe Yeddy, Shibha may be new CM

The Bhartiya Janata Party for the first time on Friday indicated that Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa will have to quit once the Lokayukt report reportedly against him is out. The indication came officially from party spokesman Ra

Increasing accidents: PMO seeks railway safety plan

Amid concerns over increasing number of train accidents, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has sought a detailed safety plan from the Railways. "A detailed safety plan is being readied to be submitted to the Prime Minister`s Office shortl

Reliance Infra comes under RTI Act, rules SIC

Energy consumers served by Reliance Infrastructure can now obtain information about its services under the RTI Act as the State Information Commission has, in a significant order, ruled that being a public utility service provider it comes under t

Chandigarh bench labels nicotine as poison

A double bench of Punjab and Haryana high court has labelled artificial, chemical and extracted nicotine as a poisonous substance and has directed that it cannot be used as an additive to any other material.  The bench has ask

Dreze’s letter to PM: PDS is reviving; why hasty shift to cash?

A group of research scholars and student volunteers led by development economist and former NAC member Jean Dreze has written a letter to the prime minister asserting that its survey shows that the public distribution system (PDS) is witnessing &l

AI fleet expansion plan may get grounded

The Air India’s much talked about plan for the fleet expansion may not be able to see the light of the day. Blame it on the management of the national carrier which has failed to utilize the number of aircrafts and the crew it owns currently

Total Sanitation Campaign not up to the mark in Bihar: CAG

Total Sanitation Campaign to provide sanitation in all rural areas of Bihar by 2012 has not been up to the mark, according to a CAG report. Principal Accountant General (Bihar) Preman Dinaraj told reporters today that the programme, launch

Farmers protest land acquisition, sit on dharna in Noida

Hundreds of farmers today sat on dharna at Sector 74-75 here, protesting land acquisition by the state government and demanding hike in compensation. The farmers, under the banner of Kisan Sangarsh Samiti Sorkha Jahirabad, claimed that sta

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