India

New Delhi, November 20: Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha has again resurrected his demand for the resignation of party president Nitin Gadkari. Mr Sinha had earlier allied with party MP in Rajya Sabha Ram Jethmalani in making the same demand. "Whether Gadkari is guilty or not is not the issue. Those in public life should be beyond reproach," Mr Sinha was quoted by Press Trust of India as saying

New Delhi, November 20: The revenue department is working on a comprehensive plan to recover tax dues from debt-ridden Kingfisher Airlines (KFA), which owes more than Rs200 crore to the exchequer, a top finance ministry official said on Tuesday. "As a matter of fact both Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) and Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) have quantified the amount which Kingfisher

New Delhi, November 20: Celebrated Iranian director Majid Majidi has set his sights on the sweeping desert sands of Rajasthan for his epic on Prophet Mohammed. However India's chance to be part of cinematic history hangs in balance with permission for the shoot of "Prophet Mohammed (Peace Be With You)" pending before the Indian government for the last one month. Government sources have expressed

New Delhi, November 20: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) met President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday to protest against the alleged targeting of Muslim youths in terror cases and demanded that innocent youths harassed by the police and investigative agencies be compensated. CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat led a delegation of terror victims to the President and submitted a memorandum

New Delhi, November 19: The Rajya Sabha Select Committee on Monday adopted draft report on the Lokpal Bill. The select committee has also taken care of the differences over federal rights of states on appointment of Lokayukta. According to TV reports, the panel has sought that the prime minister be brought under the purview of Lokpal barring departments like Intelligence, Atomic Energy which are

Bangalore, November 19: Most private medical colleges in Karnataka ‘buy’ patients. This startling revelation has been made by state medical education minister SA Ramadas himself. In fact, the ‘buying’ of patients was one of the major issues discussed at a conference of health and medical education ministers held in Delhi on November 1 and 2. As per an observation made by Ramadas, most medical

Hyderabad, November 19: Niloufer, the daughter of Mukarram Jah, the eighth Nizam of Hyderabad, said on Sunday that she will go to court if she is denied her rightful share in ancestral property. Estimates suggest that she is taking claim on property worth Rs 2,000 crore. Niloufer, who recently turned 21 and is in Hyderabad with her mother, Manolya Onur, the Nizam's third ex-wife, said she has not

Chennai, November 19: Union minister for environment Jayanthi Natarajan on Sunday said the Congress would return to power in 2014 and party general secretary Rahul Gandhi would become Prime Minister. While many ministers and senior Congress leaders have expressed their desire to see Rahul Gandhi at the helm, this is the first time that a Union minister has declared he would be PM if the Congress

Mumbai, November 19: The maximum city is expected to be back at work on Monday with the Shiv Sena ruling out a bandh in the city after the death of party supremo Bal Thackeray. The traders' associations in the city, however, are considering to observe the day as 'Shradhanjali Day'. Bal Thackeray, the torchbearer of Hindutva politics, was cremated at Shivaji Park on Sunday evening with full state

Mumbai, November 18: He was considered a right-wing Hindu leader -- but Shiv Sena patriarch Bal Thackeray, who died Saturday, had full faith in a Muslim doctor, who was treating him for the last four years. One might never to able to solve the mystery as to why Thackeray trusted his family's health on Jalil Parkar, but the meticulous chest physician ensured that the trust was never broken. In 2009