Bhopal, Dec 8 The ruling BJP romped home in Madhya Pradesh Sunday, winning the mandate to be in power for the third consecutive five-year term by trouncing the Congress. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 145 seats and was leading on 19 seats, zooming past the half-way mark in the 230-member assembly and ensuring a […]
New Delhi, Dec 8 In a “semi-final” verdict ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha election, the BJP Sunday retained Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, snatched Rajasthan from the Congress but was denied a clear win in Delhi by the debutant Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) spectacular showing. So humiliating was the Congress rout in three places — […]
New Delhi, Dec 6 India would be sending a “very high level” delegation for the funeral of South African anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela who died Thursday at the age of 95, an official said Friday. After the dates of the funeral are worked out, then a “very high level delegation from India would go” for the […]
New Delhi/Hyderabad, Dec 5 Clearing the decks for the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, the union cabinet Thursday approved the draft bill for carving out Telangana as the 29th state of India. Setting aside speculations about Rayala-Telangana, the cabinet decided to carve out Telangana state comprising 10 districts of the region that includes Hyderabad. Also rejecting […]
New Delhi, Dec 5 The Supreme Court was Thursday told that the allocation of coal blocks rests with the centre but the grant of mining leases fell in the domain of the state governments subject to the compliance of statutory requirements. Jharkhand and Chhatisgarh told the apex court bench of Justice R.M. Lodha, Justice Madan […]
New Delhi, Dec 1 Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Sunday attacked the Congress on issues of corruption and security of women in the national capital. He said people of Delhi should remember “Nirbhaya” while going to vote for the assembly polls Dec 4 and asserted that the city was not safe […]
Jammu, Dec 1 Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Sunday reacted with a barrage of posts on microblogging social networking site Twitter to contest the criticism levelled against him and his government by Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi during his maiden public rally here Sunday. Commenting on the ‘facts’ Modi […]
Jaipur, Dec 1 About 29 million people voted across Rajasthan Sunday to pick a new 200-seat Rajasthan assembly in keenly fought elections which both the Congress and the BJP claimed they would win. More than 72.49 percent of the state’s 40 million electorate had voted by 5 p.m., and the polling percentage could be higher […]
Panaji, Dec 1 A Goa court Sunday sent Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal to six days in police custody for interrogation over charges of rape filed by a now former colleague. Tejpal’s arrest late Saturday and his remand Sunday followed two weeks of drama after the woman colleague accused the veteran journalist of sexually molesting her […]
New Delhi, Nov 29 A three-member panel that probed the charge of sexual harassment of a young lawyer by a Supreme Court judge has submitted its report, identifying the judge as A.K. Ganguly, court sources said Friday. The report was submitted Thursday after the committee of three judges met six times. It is the first […]