Saturday, June 23, 2012

JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav issues gag orders to end war of words with BJP

JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav issues gag orders to end war of words with BJP


JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav issues gag orders to end war of words with BJP

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 03:08 AM PDT

Janata Dal (United) chief Sharad Yadav has issued gag orders on leaders of his party to end the war of words with its ally the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The BJP top leadership too has refused to b...


Pranab Mukherjee's son appeals to Mamata Banerjee to support his father for President

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 03:07 AM PDT

Pranab Mukherjee's son Abhijeet Mukherjee has appealed to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to support his father's bid for the post of President of India. Ms Banerjee is the only Congress al...


Pranab Mukherjee to resign tomorrow as Finance Minister

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 03:03 AM PDT

Millimetres away, but rescuers could take hours to reach Mahi who's stuck in borewell

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 02:55 AM PDT

It's been more than 60 hours, but five-year-old Mahi Upadhyay still remains trapped inside a 70-feet borewell she fell into on Wednesday night in Khaow village close to Gurgaon. Her rescuers say she i...


Blog: Sidelights at Rio+20

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 02:37 AM PDT

Who says summits are boring and don't make for some fun. It's not always about the punctuation in the outcome draft or the informal informals, as the meetings in the run up to the high level session w...


Karnataka's Law Minister Suresh Kumar quits, Chief Minister Sadananda Gowda rejects resignation

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 02:29 AM PDT

Karnataka Minister for Law, Parliamentary Affairs and Urban Development S Suresh Kumar resigned today in the wake of charges that he had secured a residential site violating rules. However, Chief Mini...


UP policemen told to get leaner, not meaner. Asap.

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 02:20 AM PDT

Indian Air Force aircraft makes emergency landing

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 01:52 AM PDT

Politicians, industrialists among top LPG consumers in Delhi

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 01:50 AM PDT

Nithyananda: The cases just keep piling up

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 01:10 AM PDT

I stand by my remarks on Mamata Banerjee: Digvijaya Singh

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 12:51 AM PDT

Congress leader Digvijaya Singh has said he stands by his remarks on his party's estranged ally Mamata Banerjee. Mr Singh had recently called the Trinamool chief "immature" and "irrational." His comme...


President-in-waiting Pranab Mukherjee in Kolkata; will he meet 'sister' Mamata Banerjee?

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 12:45 AM PDT

UPA's presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee received a rousing welcome as he arrived in Kolkata last night. This is Mr Mukherjee's first visit to the city after he was chosen by the ruling coalition...


Stung by Tatra truck deal, government overhauls rules for suppliers

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 12:34 AM PDT

Defence Minister AK Antony has told the three services - the Army, Navy and the Air Force - that Defence Public Sector Units (PSUs) can no longer enjoy the privilege of being the preferred suppliers f...


N Srinivasan questioned by CBI again in Jagan assets case

Posted: 23 Jun 2012 12:04 AM PDT

The burden of being Karnataka Chief Minister: Sadananda Gowda holds 21 portfolios

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 11:12 PM PDT

At the Vidhan Soudha or state secretariat in Bangalore, the Chief Minister of Karnataka, DV Sadananda Gowda has his hands full, quite literally. He is not only the Chief Minister of Karnataka but also...


IIT Directors to meet today over entrance test row

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 10:54 PM PDT

In the backdrop of raging row over government proposal for single entrance test, IIT Directors will meet in Delhi today to chalk out a plan of action amid indications that some more of the elite insti...


For four months, Delhi government HQ was a fire-trap

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 10:26 PM PDT

After a major fire broke out at the Maharashtra secretariat in Mumbai, reports emerged to show that several safety measures were flouted in the building premises. Now NDTV has learnt that fire safety ...


IIT revolt: Sibal calls emergency meet; students caught in between

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 09:14 PM PDT

A day after Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi rejected the entrance exam format announced by Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal on May 28 and said it would hold its own ent...


Mantralaya fire in Mumbai: Major lapses in safety exposed already

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 01:49 PM PDT

Mumbai News: Evidence suggests lapses that made a bad situation drastically worse. Fire extinguishers inside the building did not work. It took an hour for the water sprinklers inside to kick into ac...


NRI in Canada asked to pay alimony to wife living in India

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 12:34 PM PDT

Blog: Rio +20 - The Indian Perspective

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 12:33 PM PDT

To quote from the Prime Minister's speech at the Rio+20 summit here in Brazil: "Sustainable development (also) mandates the efficient use of available natural resources. We have to be much more frugal...


Akhilesh Yadav ducks test by skipping municipal polls

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 12:13 PM PDT

Three months after the high pitched Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, the state is once again set for another electoral clash. 12 municipal corporations, 189 nagarpalika parishads and 404 nagar panchay...


Full transcript: Pranab is my guru, but I will contest for democracy, says PA Sangma

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 10:13 AM PDT

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