AP CM brings T-stir to Delhi, meets Prez
Andhra Pradesh chief minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy took his protest against the formation of Telangana to Delhi on Wednesday and staged a four-hour sit-in at Jantar Mantar. He was joined by PCC...
View ArticleDoubtful of passage of key bills: PC
Sharing his assessment of the state of affairs in Parliament, finance minister P. Chidambram on Wednesday expressed his doubts whether any key legislation, except for the vote-on-account, would see the...
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LS condemns, vows to protect N-E people
Amidst widespread outrage over the recent death of a youth from Arunachal Pradesh, Nido Taniam, the government says that his case will be dealt with by a fast-track court. The decision comes even as...
View ArticleDelhi govt files FIR in CWG streetlight scam
The Delhi government’s anti-corruption branch filed an FIR Thursday over the purchase of imported streetlights ahead of the 2010 Commonwealth Games. The Shunglu Committee, appointed by Prime Mini-ster...
View ArticleCabinet set to finalise T-bill today
With the government considering introduction of the Telangana Bill in Parliament on February 17, a special Cabinet meeting has been called on Friday to clear the legislative proposal. Fearing...
View ArticleAseemanand points finger at Sangh role, RSS hits back
The Hindu terror issue has stormed back to political centrestage with Samjhauta Express blast accused Aseemanand pointing a finger at top RSS leaders, including Mohan Bhagwat and Indresh Kumar. In a...
View Article‘We need will to reach the top’
Calling for India to realise its potential and become a world leader in education, President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday stated that a large pool of talent was lying untapped in Indian universities....
View Article‘Aircraft decision wrong’
A report of the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has concluded that the decision of the government (in 2005) regarding the number of aircraft to be procured by national carrier Air India...
View ArticleHouse panel slams DoPT on policy
A Parliamentary Standing Committee has pulled up the department of personnel and training for not having an effective promotion policy in Central Bureau of Investigation, the country’s premiere...
View ArticleIn J&K, worrying Taliban slogans
It is still doubtful if Taliban and likeminded militant forces will turn to Kashmir after the US troops’ withdrawal from Afghanistan or will try to find any opening somewhere else to continue with...
View ArticleMoily skips 2 top green meets
The minister of environment, Veerappa Moily, has failed to show up for two high profile environmental meets even though his office had confirmed his presence. Teri’s annual Delhi Sustainable...
View ArticleKejriwal, German Prez share ideas
India’s aam aadmi Arvind Kejriwal met Germany’s “aam aadmi”, President Joachim Gauck, in the capital on Thursday evenining when he called on him at the German ambassador’s residence. But it seems the...
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Kalmadi wants LS Pune seat for aide
MP Suresh Kalmadi wants the Congress to field his protégé for the Pune Lok Sabha seat; otherwise he would contest as an Independent against the Shiv Sena-BJP combine. Mr Kalmadi, who has been suspended...
View ArticleAgni-V induction likely next year
The 5,000 to 5,500 km-range Agni-V Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) is expected to be ready for induction in the armed forces by next year (2015), even as the Defence Research and Development...
View ArticleCampaign for ‘half-widows’ to remarry
Kashmir’s social groups and some NGOs have independently launched a campaign aimed at encouraging its “half widows” to remarry and have also agreed to extend financial assistance towards their...
View ArticleVarsity hunts for gold-medallists
In a bizarre development, a premier university of Chhattisgarh has launched a manhunt for its alumni, who have won gold medals by topping in various streams in the past two decades. The authorities of...
View Article‘Cong will try defame my govt’
Sources dismissed the suggestion that only financial bills needed legal vetting. Officials said the Delhi government had earlier sent the Gurdwara Administration Amendment Bill to the Union ministry of...
View ArticleCop stabs colleague to death
A policeman stabbed his colleague with a knife in full public view in Parbhani, Maharashtra, on Thursday. The injured policeman succumbed to injuries at the civil hospital an hour after the incident,...
View ArticleRampaging tiger claims 9th victim
A man-eating tiger on the prowl in Uttar Pradesh has claimed its ninth victim, defying hunters and wildlife officials who have been trying to gun down the animal, an official said Friday. Since...
View ArticleTrust wants to return prime plots to Maha govt
The BAG Films Education Society, with whom Union minister Rajiv Shukla was associated, has offered to give back the possession of allotted plots to the state government, for the third time. The...
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