India

Hyderabad, Feb 13: Normal life was thrown out of gear in coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions of Andhra Pradesh due to a bandh called against the Centre's move to table the Telangana Bill in Parliament today. The TDP, YSRCP activists and other united Andhra supporters held rallies at several places in the two regions against the state's division. They squatted in front of the bus stations and

Patna, Feb 13: Former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad claimed Wednesday that he was the "real tea seller" and that BJP veteran Narendra Modi was junior to him in this business. "I used to sell tea at a shop in the veterinary college campus in Patna during my childhood," the Rashtriya Janata Dal leader told the media. He was responding to Modi's countrywide address to tea shop sellers Wednesday

Mumbai, Feb 12: The Maharashtra Police on Wednesday arrested Raj Thackeray along with a number of protesters for disrupting traffic at many places as the state-wide 'rasta roko' against toll plazas called by the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief began today. Thackeray, who was scheduled to lead the stir at the Vashi toll plaza in adjoining Navi Mumbai, was arrested by the Mumbai Police in

Ahmedabad, Feb 12: The former IB Special Director, Rajinder Kumar, who has been charge-sheeted, along with three serving IB officers, by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the 2004 Ishrat Jahan ‘fake encounter’ case, has challenged the move, arguing that the investigating agency did not have the mandatory sanction to prosecute the four. The CBI’s supplementary charge sheet filed on February 6

New Delhi, Feb 12: Congress president Sonia Gandhi has been made the Chairperson of the party's 50-member Campaign Committee for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls in which Rahul Gandhi will be the co-chairman, the party announced on Tuesday night. The announcement came less than a month after the Congress had said that Rahul, the party vice president, will lead its campaign in the upcoming general

New Delhi, Feb 11: Delhi government's decision to order filing of an FIR against Petroleum Minister M Veerappa Moily, former minister Murli Deora and RIL chief Mukesh Ambani for alleged collusion to hike the prices of natural gas has invited sharp criticism from Samajwadi Party even as CPI's Gurudas Dasgupta welcomed the move. UB Group chairman Vijay Mallya, on the other hand, said that the Delhi

Brussels, Feb 11: The EU needs to send a "strong message" to India as the trial of two Italian marines for the killing of two Indian fishermen has "huge implications" for Europe's fight against piracy, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has said. The case of the marines has "huge implications for Italy but also for all countries engaged in anti-piracy" measures, Ashton said after a meeting

Mumbai, Feb 10: In a sensational claim, two former presidents of the BCCI told Justice Mudgal led committee that matches in the Indian Premier League were fixed and the matter required a thorough investigation. The committee's report, submitted today to the Supreme Court, said this was also the general perception of many people who deposed before the SC-constituted panel. "The Committee would like

New Delhi, Feb 10: A Supreme Court panel, inquiring into the IPL spot fixing scam, has come down heavily on Mumbai police for "not willing" to investigate involvement of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim in it and for protecting "lots of persons" involved in the betting syndicate. Probe by Mumbai Police in the scandal was sharply cricised by a three-member apex court panel headed by former Punjab and

New Delhi, Feb 10: Lt Governor Najeeb Jung today sought Union Law Ministry's opinion on the constitutional position whether it was necessary for the Delhi government to obtain prior approval from the Centre before tabling the Jan Lokpal Bill in the Assembly. In a statement, the Lt Governor's office said to avoid any dispute in the matter and to obtain full clarity, Jung has referred the issue to