The letters that stirred up the latest political controversy - Congress president Sonia Gandhi had written to BJP leader L K Advani protesting the BJP task-force report which contended that the former and her late husband Rajiv Gandhi had accounts
Not caring two hoots about human resource development minister Kapil Sibal and his controversial Foreign Educational Institutions (regulation of entry and operations) Bill, 2010 under scrutiny of a parliamentary standing committee, the All India C
Ten months after a trial court pronounced death for Ajmal Kasab, the lone terrorist captured alive after the mayhem in Mumbai on November 26, 2008, the Bombay High Court upheld the sentence on Monday morning. But even as the due process of law has
Abduction of Malkangiri collector Vineel Krishna by the Maoists should remove any illusion about the real motive of the ultras. For ages, Arundhati Roy, Swami Agnivesh and other apologists like them have been deceiving the world by asserting th
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leaders are very upset over L K Advani`s admission of regret over the party report which named Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her late husband Rajiv Gandhi as account holders in Swiss banks stashing black money.
Delhi’s Patiala House court on Friday, directed the CBI, anti-corruption branch of Delhi Police and Parliament street police station to file an action taken report on the complaints of corruption in the commonwealth games 2010. On No
The CBI has moved the supreme court challenging an Allahabad high court order that dropped charges of criminal conspiracy against top BJP leaders including L K Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi in the Babri Masjid demolition case. In i
Facing flak at home over black money stashed abroad, India will press for transparency in the functioning of tax havens at the G20 finance ministers meeting in Paris on Friday to unearth "ill-gotten" money lying in such sovereign jurisdi
Gujarat high court has ruled that police personnel of the rank of head constable and constable cannot be permanently transferred from one district to another. The judgement was passed by a division bench of justice S J Mukhopadhaya and jus
Five MLAs, including three from TRS and two from TDP, were on Friday suspended from the Andhra Pradesh assembly for seven days for their unruly behaviour during governor E S L Narasimhan`s address to the joint sitting of both the houses. L
A broadcasting council comprising industry stakeholders and civil society members is on the anvil to deal with complaints from people over television content in a time-bound manner. The setting up of the 13-member Broadcasting Content Comp
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
