The Congress-DMK stalemate ended on Tuesday with the Tamil Nadu party agreeing to allot the grand old party 63 assembly seats in the upcoming polls in the state. On Monday, DMK`s six union ministers had arrived in Delhi with resignation letters af
The Andhra Pradesh high court on Monday issued notices to the state government and others on a petition seeking direction to Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) not to allocate funds for non-charitable purposes. A division bench comprising
The Supreme Court today cleared the deck for the Centre and the Medical Council of India (MCI) to hold a single eligibility-cum-entrance examination for MBBS and post-graduate medical courses in the country from this academic session. A be
The government today said the proposal to impose service tax on healthcare will not hurt the common man as only services provided by the centrally AC hospitals with more than 25 beds would attract the new levy. "As far as CBEC is conc
Five Maoists booked at Koraput jail expressed their unwillingness to be released despite being granted bail by the Orissa High Court after the state government decided to withdraw cases against them in the wake of Malkangiri district collector`s a
The CPI(M) today ruled out the possibility of joining the DMK-led alliance for the April 13 Tamil Nadu assembly elections even if there was a split in the DMK-Congress combine. "There is no question of joining the DMK-led allian
Stud farm owner Hasan Ali Khan, accused of massive money laundering and tax evasion, was detained by the ED which carried out multi-city searches at his Pune home and his associates` premises cracking the whip to meet tomorrow`s Supreme Court dead
Accusing the Centre of neglecting Orissa in rail budegt, BJD workes today staged a dharna (sit-in) in front of the railway station here. Organised by the youth wing of BJD`s Ganjam district unit, senior BJD leaders including party?s distri
Prime minister Manmohan Singh today termed as an "error of judgement" the appointment of P J Thomas as CVC and told the Lok Sabha that he accepts "full responsibility" for it. Left parties were not satisfied and staged
Commonly perceived as corrupt, Indian bureaucracy may soon receive a forced image makeover with the governmnet mulling to make it complusory for babus to list their assets -movable and immovable - on a website. It is even bneing planned to have th
In a path-breaking judgement, the Supreme Court today allowed "passive euthanasia" of withdrawing life support to patients in permanently vegetative state(PVS) but rejected outright active euthanasia of ending life through administration
The DMK today put on hold the resignation of its six ministers from the UPA Government in a dramatic new turn with the party and Congress engaged in hectic negotiations to sort out their seat-sharing problems in Tamil Nadu. On a day of hec
Taking a serious View of the fiasco in the appointment of the chief vigilance commissioner, the Congress core committee is understood to have directed prime minister Manmohan Singh to revamp the prime minister`s office (PMO) since the existing off
Notwithstanding the prime minister`s statement in Jammu on Friday that he would speak first in parliament on the supreme court verdict quashing appointment of P J Thomas as CVC, it will be V Narayanasamy, a junior minister in the Prime Minister`s
The Indian Commercial Pilot Association (ICPA) has warned all its members to be cautious as it feels that the Air India managment might create a difference among its members using divide and rule tactics. A letter from the ICPA general secretary,
Jet Airways and Kingfisher airlines have regularly been used in smuggling of body parts of endangered species. The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) informed this as response to the RTI query filed by Governance Now. “As p
"I respect the judgement of the Supreme Court and I accept my responsibility," Prime Minister Manmohan Singh responded today, a day after the apex court struck down the controversial appointment of P J Thomas as the Central Vigilance Com
Senior Congress member P C Chacko was today made the Chairman of the JPC on the 2G spectrum issue, setting in motion the probe into what the opposition is alleging as the biggest scam in independent India. 65-year old Chacko, who represent
Veteran Congress leader and former Union Minister Arjun Singh, who had served in various capacities including as Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, died today. He was 81. Admitted to the AIIMS some days ago with chest pain and neuro pr
The government today remained non-committal on withdrawal of service tax on healthcare services, even as the medical practitioners stepped up pressure for roll back of the proposal. "We are getting representations (for withdrawing the
