Shimla, Sep 3 (IANS) In a setback to Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh, the Himachal Pradesh High Court Friday turned down his plea for quashing the police complaint against him and his wife filed last year in the infamous CD case. After reserving his order A...More

New Delhi, Sep 3 (IANS) A handful of posters hanging on a flimsy wire and policemen outnumbering the voters and students -- this was the scene outside Sri Venkateswara college in south campus as Delhi University (DU) went to polls Friday sans fervour. The ...More

Chennai, Sep 3 (IANS) AIADMK general secretary J. Jayalalithaa Friday accused the union government of taking actions against her during 1991-1996 for standing firm on the state's rights. 'I stressed on the rights of Tamil Nadu in respect of Katchatheevu an...More

Patna, Sep 3 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has called an all-party meeting Saturday to discuss the Maoist deadline set for releasing their eight jailed commanders and the rebels' claim that they had killed one of the four policeman they had abducted, sources in the chi...More

Amethi, Sep 2 (IANS) Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi reached a police station in his Amethi parliamentary constituency and asked the policemen there to investigate a murder case properly and within a stipulated period of time, a party leader said Thursday. ...More

Kolkata, Sep 2 (IANS) In the wake of union Home Minister P. Chidambaram's comments on the existence of camps of armed cadres in West Bengal's West Midnapore district, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Thursday claimed they were set up to house those evicted by the Maoi...More

New Delhi, Sep 2 (IANS) With Sonia Gandhi set to be formally re-elected Congress president Friday, the focus has shifted to the state units, who have been advised to elect their chiefs and other office bearers and complete the process by Sep 17. Central El...More

New Delhi, Sep 2 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari will be visiting Russia for five days from Monday on an invitation from awareness group Water Freedom Revolution (WFR), a party statement said Thursday. According to the statement, WFR ...More

New Delhi Sep 2 (IANS) Sonia Gandhi, already the longest serving incumbent, was Thursday set for a successive fourth term as Congress president with 55 valid sets of nomination papers filed in her favour by party leaders. No other candidate is in the fray. ...More

Mumbai, Sep 2 (IANS) Former union law minister Ram Jethmalani Thursday decried what he termed as the 'totally dishonest' attitude of the centre in the matter of huge amounts of money hidden in foreign banks. Addressing media persons here, the Rajya Sabha M...More