India

New Delhi, Sep 27: In a major embarrassment to the UPA government, Rahul Gandhi on Friday denounced the controversial ordinance to negate the Supreme Court verdict on convicted lawmakers as “complete nonsense” and said what “our government has done is wrong". Making a surprise brief appearance at a meet-the-press programme of his party’s general secretary Ajay Maken at the Press Club in New Delhi

New Delhi, Sep 27: In a landmark judgement on Friday, the Supreme Court for the first time allowed voters to cast negative vote by pressing a button saying none of the candidates is worthy of his vote. The SC asked the Election Commission to provide None Of The Above (NOTA) button on EVMs and ballot papers. The apex court said the right to vote and the right to say NOTA are both part of basic

Washington, Sep 27: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet US President Barack Obama at the White House today to review the status of the bilateral relationship and chart a course for the future, particularly in the areas of defence, security, trade and investment and civil nuclear cooperation. US Vice President Joe Biden, who was in India early this year and considered to be a strong advocate of

New Delhi, Sep 26: The Raghuram Rajan panel report has made a case for ending the 'special category' criteria for providing additional assistance to poorer states, as it ranked Goa and Kerala as the most advanced state and Odisha and Bihar the least. The committee, headed by the then Chief Economic Advisor Raghuram Rajan (now RBI governor) which was set up by the government amid demand for

New Delhi, Sep 26: Ahead of a crucial meeting of Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on 2G scam, senior CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury has submitted a dissent note to its Chairman P.C. Chacko, alleging the panel has failed to live up to its mandate by not quizzing the Prime Minister and the Finance Minister on the issue. Claiming that the report of JPC was prepared without consultations with its

New Delhi, Sept 26: The Raghuram Rajan panel report has made a case for ending the 'special category' criteria for providing additional assistance to poorer states, as it ranked Goa and Kerala as the most advanced state and Odisha and Bihar the least. The committee, headed by the then Chief Economic Advisor Raghuram Rajan (now RBI governor) which was set up by the government amid demand for

Indore, Sep 25: day before Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi addresses a rally in Bhopal, Congress party general secretary Digvijaya Singh on Tuesday alleged that 10,000 burqas were purchased here to feign the support of the Muslim minority towards the opposition party at the rally. "In the entire country, it is being built up that the Bharatiya Janata Party has

Washington, Sep 26: As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrives here on a four-day visit, a Sikh rights group has secured summons against him from a US court in connection with the alleged human rights violations in the counter-insurgency operations in Punjab in the 1990s. The Sikh for Justice (SFJ), the New York-based rights body, is now planning to file an urgent leave "to effect alternative means

Jammu, Sep 26: The three terrorists who sneaked into Jammu and Kashmir and killed 10 people today, have been gunned down, the Indian Army has said. Combing operations are currently on at the Army cantonment in the Samba district where the gunmen were killed after a four-hour-long gunbattle. The bodies of the three terrorists - aged between 16 and 19 - and believed to be from the banned Pakistan

New Delhi, Sep 26: The Congress trumpeted the constitution of seventh pay commission as another of its welfare measures in line with land and food bills, in what appeared a thinly-veiled attempt to milk the olive branch to government employees at the upcoming state and Lok Sabha polls. The surprise decision on the pay commission targetting middle-classes comes on the back of legislations to win