The dinner party hosted by prime minister Manmohan Singh here for president Barack Obama saw a sorted bunch of 80 top politicians, industrialists and bollywood actors, but the famous US-based hotelier, Sant Singh Chatwal was missing from the grand
I was struggling to make space between two seats in an overcrowded ladies compartment of the Delhi Metro for a little girl to sit when my phone beeped. It was my mother. The message said: Women are beating men in the ladies compartment of the G
Sonia Gandhi should pay attention to her own party that was "full of scams", Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati said here on Friday while hitting out at the Congress president for her remarks on "rampant corruption" in the s
The environment and forests ministry has halted all constructions at the new Lavasa lakeside hill station in Pune district and issued a show cause notice to reply within 15 days why the unauthorised structures should not be demolished "in ent
Bihar has been a victim of the worst kind of stereotypes. Earlier, whenever there was a mention of the state, people reacted as if it existed in 18th century, a state that was extremely backward, a state that did not understand what development me
Without a proper legislation to keep a tab on practitioners and propagators of electrohomeopathy, a stream of medicine from Italy based on combinations of plant extracts, continues to flourish unchecked. Running on a residential plot of
The central bureau of investigation (CBI) Thursday got two more days to interrogate M Jayachandran, a former Common Wealth Games (CWG) official involved in the alleged financial misappropriation during the Queen’s Baton Rally in London last
A day after Bihar election result were announced, a new report found that the number of candidates with criminal cases filed againt them and crorepatis has increased in the 2010 assembly elections. “141 newly elected MLAs (59 percent
Akhil bharatiya hindu mahasabha today said it has written a letter to the Chief Justice of India expressing its dissatisfaction over the Allahabad high court`s verdict on the Ayodhya title suit. The CJI has been requested through a
Canada has begun talking to the families of the 329 victims of the Kanishka bombing about financial compensation as it tries bring to closure the 25-year-old terror case, the worst in country`s history. Canadian public safety minist
Women have their best ever representation in the 15th state assembly this time since 1962 with 32 seats inspite of the fact that they constituted only 8.74 per cent of the total number of candidates in the fray for the elections in Bihar.
India would launch a new communication satellite from its spaceport of Sriharikota next month to augment capacity and services in the field. Sources in the Indian space research organisation told PTI today that top space scientists
On the eve of the second anniversary of the 26/11 terror attacks, IAF chief air chief marshal P V Naik today said the country was "now much better prepared" to tackle Mumbai-type strikes. "The armed forces were prepar
A YSR loyalist and four-time MLA, Andhra Pradesh speaker Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy, who has been selected to be the new chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, faces the daunting task to revitalize the party ridden by dissidence. A legisl
Human resources development minister Kapil Sibal may have to wait for the next session of Parliament for the tabling of his pet bills even if the opposition rests it ongoing blockade on proceeedings in both Houses. Tabling of all four bill
Delhi urban development minister A K Walia has said that accumulation of water in the areas near Yamuna river bed is a cause of concern and the state government will soon fund a solution to it. “A feasible solution is a must oth
What can explain the dramatic results of the Bihar assembly elections? A clear answer, as Nitish Kumar said in his interview with Governance Now more than three months ago, is that the Grammar of Bihar politics had changed even as Lalu Prasad
Slamming BJP central leadership for deciding to allow B S Yeddyurappa to remain as Karnataka chief minister despite alleged land scams, Congress and JD-S on Wednesday vowed to continue their campaign for his government`s ouster. "Till
A number of ports located at Jagathsinghpur in Orissa are likely to have a bearing on South Korean steel giant Posco`s plan to set up a captive port in the region with a green panel planning to examine their ecological impact in the coastal zone.
Even as the Bharatiya Janata Party exulted at its windfall gains in Bihar, courtesy the Nitish wave that swept across the state, it did not let the moment get the better of its natural instincts. The news from Patna had barely begun to sink in, an
