Petroleum Minister Murli Deora on Wednesday started consultations with political parties, including UPA's partners, ahead of taking a proposal to increase fuel prices to the Union Cabinet, possibly on Thursday. Deora met A Raja, Telecom
After his friend Amitabh Bachchan became Gujarat's brand ambassador, expelled Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh on Tuesday said Chief Minister Narendra Modi could be "loved or hated but not ignored". "The civil society can boycott
The ruling Congress and the Shiv Sena were on the path of bitter confrontation in the escalating row over the screening of Shah Rukh Khan film 'My Name is Khan' in Maharashtra this Friday, as
In a rebuff to Shiv Sena, Shah Rukh Khan starrer 'My Name is Khan' was screened in major cinema halls in the city to packed houses on Friday amid unprecedented security. After a shaky start
Describing its ties with India as "friendly and cooperative," China on Tuesday said both countries did not pose mutual threat. Dismissing reports that India's nuclear-capable Agni-III missile, which has a range of 3,500 km posed
Offering carrot and stick, the Centre on Tuesday in Kolkata said it was ready to hold talks with the Maoists if they "halt" violence after a meeting of chief ministers of eastern states skipped by
29-year-old Utsav Sharma, who inflicted knife injuries on former Haryana DGP S P S Rathore, convicted in the Ruchika molestation case, was on Tuesday sent to one-day police remand. The youth was produced before the
Facing intense opposition from within and outside, government on Tuesday refused to give a go-ahead to commercial cultivation of Bt Brinjal, a genetically-modified version of the vegetable that is said to be more resistant to
Former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore has declined to file an FIR against Utsav Sharma who had attacked him with a penknife outside the court on Monday in Panchkula, police said. Meanwhile, more details have emerged
Indian scientists have discovered a natural tunnel near the equator of the Moon, which is even bigger than that discovered by the Japanese, says A S Arya, scientist SF of Ahmedabad-based Space Application Centre. Arya
A fresh avalanche hit Kashmir Valley on Tuesday, killing an army jawan in Kupwara district, a day after 17 armymen met a similar fate during a winter warfare training exercise. The avalanche hit Tangdhar, 145
Rattled by the spate of honour killings in northern states, the UPA government is preparing a legislative route to amend Indian Penal Code (IPC) and provide a deterrent punishment against khap panchayats, which order death
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Monday said her government has asked the MCD to remove the illegal mobile towers across the city but told it to take all care to see that people do
In the worst-ever snowslide in recent years in Kashmir, 17 soldiers were killed and an equal number injured when an avalanche slammed into them during their winter warfare training on steep slopes of a ski
Former Tony Blair aide Alastair Campbell broke down on live television on Sunday as he defended the former British PM's 'honour' over the Iraq war. In an extraordinary performance on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show,
Aradhana, the sole eye witness to Ruchika Girhotra s molestation, on Monday strongly condemned the attack on former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore outside a district court here asked people to desist from taking law into
A Constitution bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court on Monday set aside an act legislated by the state Assembly and a subsequent 2007 government order providing 4 per cent reservation to 15 groups belonging
Former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore, convicted in the Ruchika molestation case, was on Monday attacked when a student of the prestigious NID posing as a journalist and said to have a pyschological disorder stabbed him
An ordinary loaf which very few poor people in the country can afford can still be made available to them if it is wrapped in a single-sheet newspaper. Sounds strange? A senior human rights activist
Congress on Monday refused to read any political overtures in the meeting between NCP chief Sharad Pawar and Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray in Mumbai, saying it was to ensure conduct of a hassle-free IPL.
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