Congress leader Rahul Gandhi launched a fresh offensive on lack of governance in Uttar Pradesh, even as its chief minister —Mayawati —asserted she will punish Rita Bahuguna Joshi for making derogatory comments against the Dalit leader.
Joshi, who heads the Congress party in Uttar Pradesh, was arrested on Thursday following her comments, which were condemned [...]

What is common between Jagdish Tytler, Vinod Khanna, Renuka Chowdhury, Ram Vilas Paswan and Shakeel Ahmed ? All of them are among 36 former MPs who are unauthorised occupants of government accommodation in Delhis Lutyen’s zone, a Right to Information (RTI) application has found out. The RTI application was filed by Delhi-based activist Subhash Chandra [...]

There has been no appreciation in Indian rupee against US dollar during the period 2008-09 over 2007-08. In order to boost exports, arrest the impact of economic slow down and to improve liquidity, Government had announced two stimulus packages on 7th December, 2008 and 2nd January, 2009 to the domestic industry including textiles industry which [...]

The government has increased the budgetary allocation to the minority affairs ministry by Rs.740 crore for the year 2009-10 to address the educational and economic backwardness of the Muslim community, Minister Salman Khurshid said Monday.
“The plan provisions for the ministry has been enhanced from Rs.130.89 crore in 2006-07 to Rs.500 crore in 2007-08, Rs.1,000 crore [...]

The arrival of Maharashtra Industry Minister Narayan Rane to cast his vote at the Mumbai Cricket Association’s elections here on Friday created a stir among those assembled. The common refrain was “here comes one more political bigwig eyeing the cricket pie”. And the reason too was obvious as everyone saw the commotion created by the [...]

The foundation of US foreign policy rests on its national interest. To make the Americans change their foreign policy, it is necessary to persuade them that this change is in their own national interest. The ideology of modern nation states is founded not on concepts such as justice but on narrow self interest. Allama Iqbal [...]

The Jharkhand vigilance department Wednesday filed a criminal complaint against former state agriculture minister Nalin Soren and former director Nistar Minz for allegedly siphoning off Rs.41.6 crore (Rs.416 million) meant for farmers’ welfare, an official said.
An FIR (first information report) has been lodged against Nalin Soren and Nistar Minz in the vigilance police station. An [...]

CLEMENT FREUD, the English humourist-broadcaster-politician who died a couple of months ago, seemed intent on offending Australians. Asked during a visit here which city he preferred, Sydney or Melbourne, he replied, “It’s like comparing leprosy with syphilis.” He also had this to say: “In England, many men take sexual pleasures with women beneath their social [...]

Seven Muslim men and women, who got selected in Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission Group I Examination and were posted to the senior position in police and other departments today called on the Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy to thank him for his policy of 4% reservations for Muslims in education and government jobs.
Six [...]

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Tuesday filed a charge sheet in a court here accusing former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Ganga Ram Koli and seven others of helping nine people to fly away to the Netherlands by misrepresenting facts. Eight of the nine did not return to India.“Koli, who is an ex-MP from [...]