India

New Delhi, Feb 1: Diesel prices will be hiked by 40-50 paise per litre every month till losses on the nation's most used fuel are completly wiped out, Oil Minister M Veerappa Moily said today. "Until further orders, oil marketing companies can increase it (diesel price) by 40-50 paise (per litre) every month," he told reporters here. The government had on January 17 decided to move towards

New Delhi, Feb 1: In some relief to sociologist Ashis Nandy, the Supreme Court on Friday issued a stay on his arrest over alleged anti-dalit remarks. The court criticized him for his statements but protected him for arrest by any state government. When Nandy's counsel said he had no intention of hurting the backward class, the court asked why then was he making such statements when he did not

Kolkata, Feb 1: The radar of the Air Traffic Control at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport here stopped functioning, leaving the monitors which detect the planes blank, following a major technical snag and the entire flight operation was halted for two hours on Thursday. “ At 6:55 pm, the radar which captures the movement of the flights developed some technical problem and the

New Delhi, Feb 1: The Union Cabinet on Thursday paved the way for further consideration of Lokpal legislation in Parliament as it approved most of the modifications recommended by a Rajya Sabha Select Committee on its draft Lokpal Bill. The Cabinet approved 14 of 16 recommendations made by the committee. These include the mode of appointing the Lokpal and CBI director. The Cabinet, however

Bhopal, Jan 31: Bharatiya Janata Party today said there was no conspiracy to deny second term as party president to senior leader Nitin Gadkari. "The mention of a conspiracy in RSS ideologue M G Vaidya's blog for the removal of Gadkari has got nothing to do with the truth," senior BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu told PTI. The decision to replace Gadkari with Rajnath Singh was taken unanimously by BJP

New Delhi, Jan 31: India is hard selling its cost effective generic drugs to Iran and competing against the expensive medicines from Europe, according to Pharmexcil, the apex body responsible for promotion of the country's pharma exports. "Iran imports more active pharmaceutical ingredients than formulations from India. Instead of paying high cost to Europe, they should source drugs from India. We

Kolkata, Jan 31: Angry over disparaging comments made by some politicians recently directed at them, representative bodies of sex workers and trans-genders have approached the West Bengal Human Rights Commissions (WBHRC) seeking its intervention as their "human rights were violated". Members of the city-based NGO Durbar Mahila Samanway Committee - a leading body of sex workers in the state - and

Indore, Jan 31: A team of National Investigative Agency (NIA) officers accompanied by terror suspect Lokesh Sharma reached Mhow on Tuesday and quizzed his cousin Jitendra Sharma, who is the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha office bearer. The Bhopal NIA special court on Monday sent Lokesh Sharma to ten days remand in connection with late RSS functionary Sunil Joshi's murder case. The NIA team reached

New Delhi, Jan 31: On a day when newly elected BJP president Rajnath Singh advised party people to refrain from making public statements, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) ideologue M G Vaidya revisited embarrassing old wounds by claiming that former chief Nitin Gadkari was a victim of an “internal political conspiracy”. “There seems to be an internal political conspiracy over the turn of events

Chennai, Jan 30: Miscreants Wednesday attacked with petrol bombs a Tamil Nadu theatre that planned to screen actor-filmmaker Kamal Haasan's film "Vishwaroopam", police said. "Some miscreants attacked a theatre. However, nobody was injured," a police official told IANS over phone from Ramanathapuram district, where the incident took place. Ramanathapuram is about 310 km from here. A few movie