India

New Delhi, April 29: The Centre on Saturday appointed former SPG (Special Protection Group) chie f B V Wanchoo as governor of Goa, and shifted Uttarakhand governor Margaret Alva to Rajasthan. Aziz Qureshi, a veteran Congress politician from Madhya Pradesh, will replace Alva as the Uttarakhand governor. Former head of IB, the domestic intelligence agency, E S L Narasimhan and K Sankaranarayanan

New Delhi, April 29: The government has rejected the allegations levelled by Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy against Home Minister P. Chidambaram in the Aircel-Maxis equity issue referring to them as “totally baseless”. Last week, Dr. Swamy had charged Mr. Chidambaram, the then Finance Minister, of delaying permission for the sale of Aircel to Malaysia-based Maxis in 2006 to benefit his son

Bathinda (Punjab), April 29: Despite key Congress allies opposing deregulation of diesel prices, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday stressed the need to rationalize fuel prices as spiralling cost of international crude severely impacts India's import bill. Inaugurating a nine-million tonne a year refinery here, the PM said imports account for about 80% of India's crude supplies and "we need

Bhatinda, April 28: Stating that India faces “formidable” challenges on the energy front, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said spiralling international oil prices have put a strain on the country’s import bill and domestic prices need to be rationalised. “With imports accounting for about 80 per cent of our crude supplies, the spiralling prices of crude in the international market have

New Delhi, April 28: Former BJP president Bangaru Laxman was sentenced today to four years in jail by a Delhi court for taking a bribe of Rs one lakh in a fictitious arms deal case 11 years ago. Additional Sessions Judge Kanwal Jeet Arora sentenced 72-year-old Bangaru, also a former Union minister, holding him guilty of taking the bribe from fake arms dealers to recommend to the defence ministry

New Delhi, April 28: India's nominee Justice Dalveer Bhandari of the Supreme Court was on Friday elected to the post of Judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the elections held in New York, United States. Justice Dalveer Bhandari defeated the 84-year-old Justice Florentino Feliciano of the Philippines in the elections held to fill the casual vacancy following the resignation of Awn

New Delhi, April 28: President Pratibha Patil on Friday wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh about her decision not to move into what would have been her post-retirement accommodation in Pune. Her office said she was “pained” at allegations of her taking over land meant for “war widows” and “distortion of facts by the media.” A controversy had broken out over the choice of land, owned by the

Mumbai, April 28: Bank customers who change jobs or locations will find it easier to shift their bank account to the new location now. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has made it mandatory for banks to allow transfer of accounts from one branch to another without insisting on opening a fresh account or making the customer undergo the full know your customer process again. Earlier, since the

New Delhi, April 28: From May 4, if your car has black film on the front and rear windscreens that blocks light by more than 30% and the tint on the side window panes is more than 50%, then you could be in contempt of court in addition to being prosecuted as per the rules provided under the Motor Vehicles Act. A bench of Chief Justice S H Kapadia and Justices A K Patnaik and Swatanter Kumar went

New Delhi, April 27: Former BJP president Bangaru Laxman has been convicted, 11 years after he was caught on camera allegedly taking bribe in a sting operation. A special CBI court here held Bangaru guilty of accepting Rs 1 lakh bribe in 2001 and convicted him under the Prevention of Corruption Act. The court of special CBI judge Kanwaljeet Arora sent Bangaru into judicial custody soon after