India

New Delhi, Dec 7: With most opinion and exit polls predicting a rout for it in four states, Congress has sought to shift the discourse from Assembly polls to Lok Sabha elections citing past trends to buttress the point that provincial polls do not have a bearing on general elections. "BJP should be cautious in celebrations, even if opinion and exit (O&E) polls are (r) true. We won all these 4

New Delhi, Dec 7: The fate of governments in Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh will be known tomorrow when counting of votes takes place in the assembly elections, considered the semi-finals ahead of the Lok Sabha elections next year. In Mizoram, where too election was held, counting will take place on December 9. Voting ranged between over 65 per cent in Delhi and over 81 per cent

Panaji, Dec 7: Tehelka founder and editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal's remand in police custody was extended by four days on Saturday. The extension was given by a local magistrate here after the police insisted on more time to question Tejpal as well as to corroborate the sequence of events leading to the alleged sexual assault. Tejpal has been accused of allegedly sexually assaulting a junior

Bali, Dec 7: In a major victory for India, the WTO on Friday agreed to allow countries to provide subsidy on staple food crops without any threat of punitive action, a concession that salvaged the current round of world trade talks from the brink of collapse. After burning the midnight oil and tough negotiations over the past four days in the face of India’s unrelenting stand on the food security

New Delhi, Dec 6: Alleging forcible closure of relief camps in riot-hit Muzaffarnagar by Uttar Pardesh government, a civil society group on Friday demanded that they be reopened with all basic facilities till a safe environment for the displaced has been created in their villages. A six-member fact finding team from Centre for Policy Analysis (CPA), which recently visited the relief camps in

New Delhi, Dec 6: Law Minister Kapil Sibal today questioned the decision of the Supreme Court of not taking further action against Justice A K Ganguly, indicted in a case of sexual harassment just because he has retired, saying the issue cannot be "brushed under the carpet". "I am a little disappointed because the institution which has found that sexual overtures were made, was to have taken the

Bhopal/Indore, Dec 6: Eighteen years after Samundar Singh brutally stabbed a Catholic nun in Madhya Pradesh and flung her on the roadside to bleed to death, the former convict has been invited to meet Pope Francis at the Vatican. The nun, Sister Rani Maria, was stabbed 54 times inside a packed Indore-bound bus passing through Udainagar village in Dewas in February 1995. The nun died by the

New Delhi, Dec 6: At a time when the nation is debating safety of women at workplaces, Union minister Farooq Abdullah on Friday triggered a fresh row by saying that the situation is so bad that he is afraid of speaking to women these days. Referring to the recent indictment of former SC judge Justice AK Ganguly by the SC panel, Abdullah said, "These days, I am afraid of talking to women. In fact I

New Delhi, Dec 6: Diesel demand has declined for the first time in over a decade as monthly price increase and rise in power generation pulled down demand, Indian Oil chairman R S Butola said on Thursday. "This year, there has been 0.8-1% de-growth," Butola said at the 3rd World Energy Summit here. Improved power generation reduced use of generator sets, which resulted in lesser demand for diesel

New Delhi, Dec 5: Dismissing allegations of irregularities in the DLF-Robert Vadra land deals, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today said that his government did not favour or acquire land for anyone and the issue was being raised to malign Congress and Gandhi family. "We have not given an inch of land to anyone. People buy land among themselves and we give (Change of Land Use)