The UPA wanted to install information commissioner M A Ansari as the next CIC following Wajahat Habibullah's acceptance of the J&K state information commissioner's post but leader of Opposition L K Advani, it is learnt,
Sri Lanka's former army chief will run for president as head of a coalition of opposition parties, one of the parties said on Tuesday, challenging President Mahinda Rajapaksa in an electoral battle between two national
Polling began on Wednesday at 7 am for the first of the five-phase assembly elections in Jharkhand under air surveillance and tight security, state election commission sources said. With the minimum temperature hovering around 9
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was on Tuesday given a rousing welcome at the White House where he was received by President Barack Obama before they sat down for bilateral talks during which the two countries
A Delhi court on Tuesday remanded Company Law Board member R Vasudevan and a company secretary of a leading media house Manoj Banthia to six days of police custody after they were arrested in connection
Former prime minister A B Vajpayee and BJP leader L K Advani head a list of 68 leaders of the Sangh Parivaar and bureaucrats held culpable by the Liberhan Commission for leading the country to
The BJP on Tuesday asked why a warrant of arrest was not issued against former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda in the money-laundering scam though he failed to honour the Enforcement Directorate summons for appearance.
The government on Tuesday sought to increase the representation of women in urban local bodies by providing 50 per cent reservation to them instead of the existing 33 per cent. Introducing the Constitution (One Hundred
The Delhi Transport Corporation on Tuesday launched smart cards for passengers on selected routes in Dwarka sub-city. Along with it was launched a low floor air conditioned shuttle bus service in Dwarka sub city, home
The Liberhan Commission that probed the Babri Masjid demolition came down heavily on mixing politics and religion and has recommended a law providing for exemplary punishment for such misuse to acquire political power. The voluminous
The Liberhan Commission Report on Babri Masjid demolition and Action Taken Report on it was on Tuesday tabled in Lok Sabha, but in the Rajya Sabha an unseemly scuffle took place after Home Minister Chidambaram
In a set back to Samajwadi Party General Secretary Amar Singh, the Allahabad High Court on Tuesday refused to grant stay on his arrest in connection with an FIR accusing him of amassing Rs 500
India's nuclear-capable intermediate range Agni-II missile, test-fired for the first time after sunset on Monday, reportedly failed to get the desired results.The Army test-fired the surface-to-surface Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) from the Integrated Test
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Monday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and briefed him on the broader contours of the new Af-Pak policy of the Obama Administration, which has almost reached its conclusion. During
Promising to push economic reforms, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has invited US investors to tap "enormous opportunities" in sectors like infrastructure, energy and agriculture, exuding confidence that India would return to 9 per cent growth
Continuing its revelations from Liberhan Commission report, the Indian Express on Tuesday again frontpaged excerpts from the report, which said, bureaucrats in Uttar Pradesh helped the then Kalyan Singh government to subvert the system so
Against the backdrop of some provocative steps by China, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said there was "certain amount of assertiveness" by China lately, which had to be taken note of. In a hard-hitting statement,
Expressing confidence that the country's economic growth will return to 9 per cent within two years, India on Monday in Washington invited US investments in a host of areas including infrastructure, energy and agriculture, while
The Shiv Sena on Monday demanded action against journalists who "beat up" party activists during last week's attack on IBN Lokmat channel offices. A delegation of Sena leaders met Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil
Trinamool Congress, a constituent of the UPA government at the Centre, on Monday demanded the full report of the Liberhan Commisson on demolition of Babri Masjid be placed in Parliament as early as possible and
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