A total of 35 rounds of bidding were completed at the end of Day 5 Friday of the second generation (2G) spectrum or airwaves auction, an official statement said here. The government has received cumulative bids worth Rs.54,600 crore so far. “The government received cumulative bids worth Rs.54,600 crore at the end of the fifth […]
Brushing aside opposition from some Congress ministers from Andhra Pradesh, the union cabinet Friday gave its nod to a bill to form a Telangana state even as parliament was plunged into chaos for a third straight day. The approval for the Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Bill came at a two-hour cabinet meeting held at Prime Minister […]
T. Subbarami Reddy, K. V. P. Ramachandra Rao and K. Keshava Rao are among six leaders elected to Rajya Sabha from Andhra Pradesh in the elections held Friday. Subbarami Reddy, Ramachandra Rao and M.A. Khan of the Congress, T. Sitarama Lakshmi and G. Mohan Rao of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Keshava Rao of Telangana […]
Bihar Police Friday gave a clean chit to state Minorities Welfare Minister Shahid Ali Khan over his alleged connection with two agents of the Indian Mujahedeen or Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence. “Police inquiry found it was not true. Minister has no connection with two suspected IM or ISI agents,” ADGP Ravinder Kumar said at a press […]
The Aam Aami Party Delhi government Friday ordered yet a probe into one of the projects in the Commonwealth Games conducted in 2010 when the Congress was in power. The Anti-Corruption Bureau under the government will probe the alleged irregularities in the the construction of roads and flyovers in which the government allegedly incurred a […]
mamtReaping the fruits of cross-voting, Trinamool Congress gained an extra Rajya Sabha seat in West Bengal while the TRS made its debut to the upper house from Andhra Pradesh in the polls held in four states Friday. Veteran Bollywood actor Mithun Chakraborty, celebrated painter Jogen Chowdhury, former MP K.D. Singh and journalist Ahmed Hasan Imran […]
Two children were burnt to death here late Friday when their hut caught fire, police said Saturday. The incident took place near the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences where a group of snake charmers lived in hutments. An official told IANS the huts caught fire late Friday when everyone was fast asleep. […]
The wife of a slain Marxist leader in Kerala Friday ended her hunger strike after Chief Minister Oommen Chandy promised a CBI probe into the conspiracy behind her husband’s murder. K.K. Rema, wife of the late T.P. Chandrasekheran, launched her protest Monday in front of the secretariat to urge the Kerala government to go in […]
As parliament continued to be disrupted over the Telangana issue, the government Friday asked all political parties to settle the matter as it was something which had already been promised. “Let us see. This (Telangana) is something, which is already promised,” Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde told media outside parliament when asked whether the union cabinet […]
In a victory for working journalists and newspaper employees, Supreme Court Friday upheld the validity of the Majithia wage board, saying that its recommendation are based on genuine consideration. It also junks newspaper organisations’ challenge to the constitutional validity of the working journalists and newspaper employees act. An apex court bench headed by Chief Justice […]