Confirming the death of Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Dorjee Khandu, home minister P Chidambaram today said the state governor has been asked to take "necessary consequential steps", an indication that a new chief minister will be cho
Fighting the Congress in the family pocket-borough of Kadapa in prestigious by-elections, Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy today ruled out going back to the party, saying he cannot "throw his core values" for the sake of "power and position&qu
The environmental activist group Greenpeace has started a petition campaign against the proposed nuclear energy plant at Jaitapur in Maharashtra. It has urged its supporters to send a fax to prime minister Manmohan Singh and Maharashtra chi
Reacting to news reports of Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Dorjee Khandu`s body being identified, the Congress on Wednesday termed the incident "very unfortunate" and said that in the light of two similar crashed in the region in the r
Environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh has written to defence minister A K Antony to request him to ensure that the missile testing facility of defence research and development organisation (DRDO) at Wheeler Island in Orissa follows condit
To keep a tight leash over the total sanitation campaign (TSC) funds the centre releases to the states, the rural development ministry has made it mandatory for the states to submit utilisation certificates (UCs) before it releases further funds.
Commuters in Delhi can look forward to relief as the much awaited and much delayed cluster bus service is going to be functional from Thursday. The scheme, which aims at adding a fleet of buses jointly run by the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC)
Asserting that everybody should be treated equally before the law, the Bombay high court on Wednesday asked CBI to conduct a "good, honest and proper" investigation into the Adarsh Housing Society scam, and not get "bogged down by c
A Delhi court on Wednesday remanded sacked CWG organising committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi and two others, arrested on charges of cheating, conspiracy and corruption in the award of Games related contracts, in 14 days judicial custody. Sp
The supreme court on Wednesday reserved its order on a plea to set up a special investigation team (SIT) to track the black money stashed away in foreign banks and to take steps for bringing it back to the country. A bench of justices B
CBI has asked Swiss Timing to clarify its stand on alleged irregularities in the award of contract for installing Timing, Scoring and Results system during Commonwealth Games, a case in which sacked OC chairman Suresh Kalmadi has been arrested.
Delhi government on Wednesday decided to provide enhanced financial allocation to all aided schools in the city to help them expand infrastructure and implement provisions of the Right to Education Act. The decision to give enhanced grant-
Speaker Meira Kumar appears to be in no hurry to decide whether the "document" submitted by PAC chairman Murli Manohar Joshi on its scrutiny into the 2G scam issue is indeed the report of the committee. The controversial draft re
The Delhi high court on Wednesday reserved its order on the prosecution of 19 witnesses including model-turned-bollywood actor Shyan Munshi on charge of perjury for turning hostile during the trial of Jessica Lal murder case. "We rese
Nailing the government`s lie that it wants to amend the RTI act to discourage vexatious and frivolous applications, five public authorities including the PMO have said that they have not received even a single frivolous application in the last fiv
The government on Wednesday said coal linkage for 80,000 MW in various stages of implementation has been achieved, out of the 12th plan period target of 1,00,000 MW. "Coal is an issue, but we are not concerned with linkages for 80,000
Dealing a blow to Rajbhavan, Patna high court on Wednesday set aside the appointment of vice chancellors of Magadh University and Veer Kunwar Singh University. Notifications to this effect was earlier issued by the office of chancellor-cum
The supreme court on Wednesday warned chief secretaries of all states and union territories that they will have to appear in person if they fail to apprise the court of the steps taken by them to rehabilitate sex workers. Seeking details o
We might soon be in a queer situation, where two institutions, placed under as many union ministries, would claim to be the remake of the ancient Nalanda university without any contact between them though located in the same district. This is the
The government plans to hike diesel prices by up to Rs 3 a litre soon after the assembly elections in five states are over next week, while an equivalent steep increase in petrol rates is also on card. "An empowered group of ministers
