After a gap of three years, Reserve Bank governor D Subbarao on Tuesday slashed short term lending rate by 0.50 per cent to 8 per cent, a move that will reduce the cost of home, auto and corporate loans. The [...]
In a huge relief to Maharashtra government, the judicial commission of inquiry looking into the Adarsh housing scam has held that the land on which the controversial building stands belongs to the state and not the army. The two-member panel, [...]
BEML chairman and managing director V R S Natarajan on Saturday appeared before the CBI as the agency had asked him to come for giving clarifications pertaining to procurement and supply of Tatra all-terrain trucks to the Army. CBI sources [...]
New Delhi: Vectra chairman Ravinder Rishi was on Monday questioned by the CBI in connection with alleged irregularities in the supply Tatra all-terrain trucks as it prepares to quiz the BEML chairman VRS Natarajan tomorrow. British national Rishi, 57, named [...]
New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who chose to skip the CMs’ conference on internal security in New Delhi, today voiced her dissent over the proposed National Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC) and asked the Centre to play an “effective [...]
New Delhi: Reaching out to states complaining over NCTC, PM favoured joint and coordinated efforts to deal with challenges of terrorism. PM warned that threats from terrorism, left wing extremism, religious fundamentalism and ethnic violence persist in the country.
Under attack from several chief ministers, including UPA ally Mamata Banerjee, on NCTC, home minister P Chidambaram today said there was no conflict between the central and state agencies and they worked together on the ground to deal with terrorists. [...]
Reaching out to states complaining over NCTC, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday favoured joint and coordinated efforts to deal with challenges of terrorism whatever its origin, whether internal or external. “There is no question that the burden of the [...]
New Delhi: Ahead of the annual credit policy review, RBI governor D Subbarao on Saturday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and is believed to have discussed the macro-economic situation and steps to arrest the decline [...]
Mumbai: Following complaints from customers, the Reserve Bank has made it clear to banks that there are no restrictions in allowing use of electronic modes for various transactions including repayment of loans. “It is, therefore, advised that all banks should [...]
Manesar: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today expressed the hope that the new Companies Bill, which seeks to update corporate law and promote CSR, will be passed by Parliament shortly. “The Companies Bill presently under consideration of Parliament seeks to to [...]
New Delhi: US today apologised to Shahrukh Khan for any inconvenience when he was detained and said it would put in place systems that can help address such circumstances. US Embassy spokesperson Peter Vrooman said many Americans are great fans [...]
Bhopal: The Opposition Congress today demanded a CBI probe into the alleged illegal mining in the BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh. The demand was made by Leader of Opposition Ajay Singh while releasing a book based on the issues raised by the [...]
New Delhi : The three service chiefs are unlikely to be called before Parliament’s Standing Committee on Defence to give an account of the state of preparedness of the forces. This has become clear with sources in the committee and [...]
Mumbai: The Reserve Bank will soon issue Rs 20 and 50 notes with the rupee symbol. “The Reserve Bank of India will shortly issue of Rs 20 and Rs 50 denomination Banknotes without inset letter and with (Rupee) symbol…bearing the [...]
New Delhi: With 689 cases of swine flu resulting in 35 deaths reported in the last two months across the country, Cabinet Secretary Ajit Kumar Seth today chaired a meeting of the Committee of Secretaries to review the preparedness to [...]
New Delh: The Cabinet on Thursday approved a bill that seeks to regulate government purchases of above Rs. 50 lakh through a transparent bidding process. The Cabinet meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, approved the public procurement bill that [...]
New Delhi: Foreign ministers of India and China will meet tomorrow for a bilateral meeting in Moscow during which important international issues and terrorism in the region are likely to figure. The meeting between external affairs minister S M Krishna [...]
Bhubaneswar: Italian hostage Paolo Bosusco was released by the Maoists today, 29 days after he was abducted along with his countryman Claudio Colangelo by the Naxals in Odisha’s Kandhamal district. Saying that he loves Odisha very much, Bosusco told reporters, [...]
New Delhi: India on Wednesday said there was no likelihood of tsunami waves being formed anywhere in the Indian Ocean region after an earthquake of 8.6 magnitude hit waters off western coast of northern Sumatra in Indonesia. (Initial reports had [...]
New Delhi: India issued a tsunami warning for Nicobar islands and alerted the coastal regions of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh after an earthquake of 8.9 magnitude hit waters off western coast of northern Sumatra. The ITEWC also issued an [...]
New Delhi: Former Telecom Secretary D S Mathur on Tuesday told a Delhi court that he did not find the Department of Telecom officially processing some key letters on the 2G spectrum allocation issue, exchanged between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh [...]
New Delhi: Chief Election Commissioner S Y Quraishi today asked top poll officials of states to help make “error-free” electoral rolls. Inaugurating a two-day annual Conference of Chief Electoral Officers in Faridabad on the outskirts of Delhi, Chief Election Commissioner [...]
New Delhi: Army chief General V K Singh today sent his complaint to the CBI regarding Rs. 14 crore alleged bribery offer made to him by a retired officer to clear the supply of a tranche of 600 vehicles. CBI [...]
New Delhi: In an extraordinary step, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence today decided to call the three service chiefs to give an account of the state of preparedness of the forces against the backof Army Chief Gen V K [...]
“AOA India Peace be with you,” is what 23-year-old Bilawal Bhutto first said as he landed along with his father and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari here on Sunday. Dressed in a dark pathani suit, Bilawal, the heir apparent, tweeted [...]
Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari signalled a positive movement forward, with both the leaders saying they were keen on improving relations between the two neighbours. The statement a made after a 30 minute one-on-one [...]
New Delhi: As Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari arrives in Delhi on a private visit on Sunday, the Congress on Saturday said India should tell him that Islamabad hand over to New Delhi the fugitives demanded by it. Party spokesman [...]
Vijayawada: National Federation of Indian Railwaymen (NFIR) today said the Centre should take immediate steps to improve the financial health of Railways and prevent it from going the way of debt-ridden Air India. The Government should either hike the passenger [...]
New Delhi: Terming as extremely alarming the media report of two Army units moving towards Delhi without notifying the Government in January this year, BJP leader LK Advani on Friday said it shows that the Government-Army ties are at an [...]
Kathmandu: Army Chief Gen V K Singh today dismissed as “absolutely stupid” a report that the Indian government panicked for several hours in the face of unexplained troop movements near Delhi in January. “This is absolutely stupid,” Singh said when [...]
Chennai: The 15th edition of Exercise Malabar, the annual military exercise between the navies of India and the United States in the Bay of Bengal, will commence from April 7. The 10-day long exercise, to conclude on April 16, would [...]
New Delhi: Faced with criticism for slashing interest rate on deposits by 1.25 per cent for 2011-12, the retirement fund body EPFO may raise it to 8.6 per cent for this fiscal to benefit about 5 crore subscribers. Last month, [...]
Breaking his silence, Army chief Gen VK Singh has dismissed as “absolutely stupid” a report on the “unusual” movement of two army units towards Delhi in mid-January, saying unnecessary attempts were being made to “throw muck” at the government and [...]
New Delhi: Amid renewed engagements between India and Pakistan, Home Secretaries of the two countries may hold a bilateral meeting later this month in Islamabad. Pakistan has offered to host the next India-Pak Home Secretary-level talks in the later half [...]
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the defence establishment today dismissed a news report in a Delhi daily on the “unusual” movement of two elite Army units towards the capital in mid-January as “alarmist” and “absolutely baseless”.
New Delhi: Members of Parliament today quizzed Defence Secretary Shashi Kant Sharma and Army Vice Chief S K Singh on a media report of suspicious movement of troops near the capital in January but they dismissed it as baseless.
New Delhi: Amid controversies involving Gen VK Singh, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said everybody has an obligation to do nothing to lower the dignity of the office of the army chief. “The army chief’s office is an exalted [...]
Muzaffarnagar: Islamic seminary Darul Ulum Deoband has issued a fatwa against beauty parlours saying running such a place is against the Shariat Law. The fatwa was issued in response to a question posed before the Darul Uloom asking whether the [...]
New Delhi/ Visakhapatnam: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Defence Minister AK Antony on Wednesday rubbished a news report on “unusual” troop movement towards Delhi in the middle of January as “alarmist” and “absolutely baseless”. “These are alarmist reports. They should [...]
New Delhi: With the World Bank reportedly listing questionable practices in highway projects in UP and Bihar funded by it,Road Transport Minister C P Joshi today said government has no connection “with corruption” and has asked for facts from the [...]
New Delhi : With the World Bank reportedly listing questionable practices in highway projects in UP and Bihar funded by it,Road Transport Minister C P Joshi today said government has no connection “with corruption” and has asked for facts from [...]
New Delhi: The government will take action against those responsible for the leak of Army Chief V K Singh’s Letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after it receives the probe report from the Intelligence Bureau. “The leak is being probed. [...]
New Delhi: Conceding the demand of three Chief Ministers including ally Mamata Banerjee, the Centre has convened a stand-alone meeting on May 5 to discuss NCTC which has been held up due to stiff opposition from several states. Addressing a [...]
New Delhi: The US has announced a $10 million bounty on Pakistan-based Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed, the mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, a move welcomed today by India, which said it sends a strong signal to LeT and [...]
Kolkata: HRD Minister Kapil Sibal today said until every university in India starts a uniform semester-based system of examination, mobility and choice would not be available to students. “If a semester system is available in every university, then mobility is [...]
New Delhi: Warning that instruments of internal security were in disrepair, National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon today made a strong case for setting up of the NCTC bluntly telling its opponents that “events will not wait upon us for a [...]
New Delhi: Army chief Gen V K Singh has named retired Lt Gen Tejinder Singh in his complaint to CBI on alleged Rs.14 crore bribe offered to him to clear tranche of nearly 600 Tatra trucks. CBI sources said Singh [...]
Kolkata: Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today sought to downplay the battle of attrition between Army Chief Gen V K Singh and the government. “There is no fiasco. It has been explained by the Defence Minister on the floor of [...]
Delhi-based NGO, Centre for Science and Environment, has alleged that leading food manufacturers are guilty of “large scale misbranding and misinformation” by claiming that their food contained zero trans-fats even though tests showed that they have heavy doses of it. [...]
Continuing to blow hot and cold on the leadership issue, BJP Karnataka strongman B S Yeddyurappa today said the central leadership has not given any positive response to his “supporters’ demand” to reinstate him as Chief Minister. ”The central leadership [...]
After giving green signal to the Kudankulam nuclear power plant, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Saturday demanded that the entire 2000 MW power to be generated by its two units be given to the state in view of the [...]
New Delhi: Retreating from his hard positions in the last few days, Army Chief Gen V K Singh today said “rogue elements” were trying to project a “schism” between him and Defence Minister A K Antony and made it clear [...]
New Delhi: The CBI on Friday registered a case in connection with the supply of all-terrain Tatra trucks through state-owned BEML to the Army and called for questioning Vectra group chairman Ravi Rishi who is a majority stakeholder in Tatra. [...]
Telangana issue rocked the Lok Sabha for the fifth day paralysing proceedings on the last day of the first part of the Budget Session on Friday. The House was adjourned for the day soon after it reassembled at noon as [...]
New Delhi: In possible signs of thaw, Defence Minister A K Antony on Thursday appeared to be ruling out any action against Army chief Gen. V K Singh but vowed to take the “strongest action” under laws against those responsible [...]
New Delhi: Defence Minister AK Antony on Thursday said that expenditure on defence is bound to increase as the armed forces need to have access to the latest technologies and equipment to counter any threat. “With the projected growth of [...]
New Delhi: Facing demands for his dismissal, Army Chief Gen V K Singh said leak of his letter to PM presenting a grim picture of force’s defence preparedness should be treated as “high treason” and source of leakage dealt with [...]
New Delhi: Army Chief Gen V K Singh still appears undecided as to whether to file a complaint with the CBI as it began preparing a case diary into his allegation that he was offered a bribe to clear a [...]
New Delhi: The row between Army Chief and Government worsened today with Defence Minister A K Antony saying ”appropriate action” would be taken for leakage of a letter written by Gen V K Singh to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh amid [...]
Chennai: India today achieved a milestone in nuclear power generation, touching 32,000 million units, a target that nuclear operator Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) had set for this fiscal. “We had our annual target of electricity production, which [...]
New Dehi: With the Army Chief’s allegation of bribe offer kicking up a storm, Defence Minister A.K. Antony on Tuesday said he had asked General V.K. Singh to take action but he did not want to pursue the matter for [...]
Lok Sabha on Tuesday frequent disruptions by members on a host of issues, including Team Anna members’ comments against parliamentarians. Janata Dal (U) chief Sharad Yadav’s notice for motion to censure members of Team Anna is likely to be taken [...]
Defence minister AK Antony has corroborated Army chief General VK Singh’s claim that he was informed by the Army chief about the alleged bribe offer made to him. Speaking on the issue in Rajya Sabha, Antony said that though Gen [...]
New Delhi: Army chief Gen VK Singh, who has claimed that he was offered a bribe of Rs 14 crore for clearing a ‘sub-standard’ procurement order, has said he could not understand the import of the statement and that is [...]
New Delhi: The government today ordered a CBI inquiry into the allegation made by Army chief Gen V K Singh that he was offered a Rs 14 crore bribe by a lobbyist. Terming Gen Singh’s allegations as “serious”, Antony told [...]
New Delhi: In a relief to its employees and pensioners hit by inflation, the centre today decided to give a 7% rise in dearness allowance which will cost the exchequer Rs 7,500 cr more.
In a bid to evolve consensus over the controversial Lokapl Bill, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today met leaders of various political parties with an assertion that his government was committed to an effective Lokpal legislation. Leaders of parties in Rajya [...]
New Delhi: The hike in rail passenger fares for 2nd class suburban and non-suburban, Sleeper, AC Chair Car and AC 3-tier was today rolled back with Railway Min Mukul Roy dubbing it as a “huge drain” on the pocket of [...]
New Delhi: Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia was in the eye of a storm in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday over the fresh poverty estimates pegging poverty line at Rs. 28.65 per capita daily consumption in cities. “Ahluwalia [...]
New Delhi: The government has noticed “minimal” presence of Maoists in the northeast region, Home Minister P Chidambaram told Rajya Sabha today. “In recent months, we have noticed minimal presence of Maoists in North-East,” he said during Question Hour. So [...]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court today dismissed Government’s plea seeking review of its verdict which held that Income Tax Department does not have jurisdiction to levy Rs 11,000 crore as tax on the overseas deal between Vodafone International Holdings and [...]
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said difficult decisions were needed to revert to the 9 per cent growth trajectory and asked political parties to eschew narrow partisan approach and stand united. He told the Rajya Sabha that the [...]
New Delhi: Attacking the Prime Minister over the removal of Dinesh Trivedi, the BJP today said if the former Railways Minister was sacked due to increase in fares, the role of the Prime Minister and Finance Minister should also be [...]
Chennai: As the Sri Lankan Tamils issue rocked Parliament for the second day, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today expressed dissatisfaction over Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s “non-committal” response on India’s stand on the US-backed resolution against Colombo at the UNHCR [...]
New Delhi: Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha today opposed the hike in train fares announced in the Rail Budget, saying the government should not have increased the rate in one go and put an “additional burden” on the common man. [...]
New Delhi: Presenting a populist budget, Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi on Wednesday announced marginal hike in passenger fares ranging from 2 paise per kilometre to 30 paise per kilometre in various categories of trains despite noting that Railways was passing [...]
Allahabad: Allahabad HC asked Ghaziabad”s Special CBI court to expeditiously decide the bail plea of Nupur Talwar, being tried along with her dentist husband Rajesh
New Delhi : Non-congress states on Monday opposed formation of the NCTC, saying that it will infringe upon the duties of the state police forces. Representatives from Gujarat, Chhattisgarh and Bihar voiced their concern at the high-level meeting chaired by [...]
New Delhi: Government unveiled a blueprint for internal, external security and economic and livelihood security as it expressed confidence that it will steer the country back to high growth.
New Delhi: The government Friday vehemently denied that Defence Minister A.K. Antony’s office was “bugged”, but clarified that routine security sweeps were done at his office and nothing was found during such checks. “Reports of ‘bugging’ in the South Block [...]
New Delhi: Defence Ministry authorities have detected alleged bugging of the office room of Defence Minister A K Antony and Intelligence Bureau (IB) has been asked to probe the matter. Sources in the Ministry told that the development came to [...]
Holding that a PIL questioning CJI S H Kapadia being part of the bench which delivered the Vodafone tax matter verdict as “highly scandalous, frivolous and irresponsible”, the Supreme Court today dismissed the plea for quashing the judgement and imposed [...]
The Mumbai Police on Friday morning raided the premises of former Mumbai Congress chief Kripashankar Singh, facing charges of amassing wealth disproportionate to known sources of income. On Friday morning the Mumbai Police Crime Branch raided Kripashankar’s three residences in [...]
In a setback to Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, facing trial in the murder case of their daughter Aarushi, the Supreme Court on Friday refused to shift the trial against them from a Ghaziabad court to Delhi. A bench of justices [...]
Panic gripped South Block on the morning of February 16 after a bug alarm was triggered in Defence Minister A.K. Antony’s South Block office. A hand-held bug detector wielded by Military Intelligence (MI) personnel beeped, indicating the presence a monitoring [...]
Erasing early gains, ONGC shares fell nearly two per cent to Rs 288, below the Rs 290 per share floor price set for stake sale via auction route. Market experts attributed this decline mainly to “weak participation” of institutional investors [...]
India and China on Thursday agreed to take steps to boost bilateral maritime cooperation between the two countries. Sources speaking on the sidelines of a meeting between Indian Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna and his Chinese counterpart Yang Jeichi, said that [...]
New Delhi: The government is understood have cleared a proposal to amend the Motor Vehicle Act to deal sternly with violators of traffic rules. According to sources, a meeting of the Cabinet held on Thursday has approved the amendments [...]
Government on Wednesday decided to increase its total health expenditure to 2.5 per cent of GDP by the end of the 12th Plan, from the current 1.4 per cent. A high-level meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh also decided [...]
Welcoming Pakistan”s policy initiative to liberalise bilateral trade, India today said the move would open business opportunities by providing market access to Indian goods in the neighbouring country. Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said that this development reaffirms the [...]
In a bid to end logjam over the issue of setting up NCTC, the Centre has convened a high-level meeting on March 9 to address the concerns of non-Congress chief ministers who opposed the counter-terror body claiming it usurped the [...]
The Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) sponsored terror module busted here on Wednesday had planned to attack a crowded locality with bombs, home minister P Chidambaram said. “There was no VVIP on their target,” he told a press conference here hours after central [...]
Beleaguered Kingfisher Airlines cannot be closed down just because it is making losses and banks are not helping it out with funds, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh said on Wednesday. “You can’t close down a company because they are making [...]
India is looking at holding spectrum auctions for the fourth generation (4G) mobile services by the end of this year, besides finalising plans to sell off radio waves for the 2G services, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal has said. “By the [...]
The army has issued the retirement note to General VK Singh saying that his tenure ends on May 31,2012. The army has taken the final decision on issuing official communication of his retirement after Gen Singh withdrew from the Supreme [...]
India’s economic growth rate slipped to 6.1 per cent in the third quarter this fiscal, lowest in more than 2 years due to poor performance of the manufacturing, mining and farm sectors. The Gross domestic product (GDP) growth the in [...]
DMK, a key constituent of the ruling UPA at the Centre, on Wednesday said India should not support Sri Lanka, which is facing war crime charges, in the hearings being conducted by the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. [...]
As many as 395 sonography centres in Maharashtra have been sealed and 95 Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) centres de-recognised as part of state government’s drive, sources said. The drive is aimed at curbing the female foeticide by ensuring strict [...]
In a major operation, Delhi Police has arrested two suspected LeT terrorists who were allegedly planning to carry out terror strikes in the capital targeting vital installations and VVIPs. Delhi Police sources said the operation was launched to nab the two [...]
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