India

New Delhi, August 23: Expressing shock at the magnitude of the alleged illegal export of 35 lakh metric tons (MTs) of iron ore by private firms in Karnataka, the Supreme Court today said it wants to explore the possibility if the guilty could be punished within six months. A three-judge forest bench headed by Justice Aftab Alam asked the Central Empowered Committee(CEC) to suggest viable

Mumbai, August 23: Find Bangladeshis, get Rs 2 crore. That was Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Abu Asim Azmi’s singular challenge to Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on Wednesday. While blaming ‘illegal immigrants’ to the city for the August 11 violence at Azad Maidan, Raj had alleged during his rally on Tuesday that Azmi — a Maharashtra MLA — had won the 2009 polls because of the

New Delhi, August 23: The standoff between Opposition and government over the CAG report on coal block allocation resulted in the wastage of the third consecutive day of Parliament today as BJP was unrelenting on its demand for resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha saw the repeat of scenes witnessed during the past three days, with Opposition members

Mumbai, August 23: Mumbai Police Commissioner Arup Patnaik, who was facing flak over the August 11 Azad Maidan violence in the city, has been transferred, Home Minister R R Patil said here today. Patnaik has been promoted as Director General and posted as Managing Director of Maharashtra State Security RPT Security (MSSC), Patil told PTI. Senior IPS officer Satyapal Singh has been appointed as the

Guwahati, August 23: Tarun Gogoi, the beleaguered Chief Minister of Assam, has taken umbrage at comparisons being made between the Gujarat riots of 2002 and the ethnic clashes that have rocked his state in the last month; he says such comparison is "unfair." "The Gujarat situation was sponsored by the state. They took months to control, thousands died. We controlled the situation within a week,"

Jaipur, August 23: Incessant rains in Rajasthan have thrown life out of gear and brought normal life to standstill in the Pink City. Reports say rains and flooding have left 14 people dead across the state and thousands have been affected. Normal life and vehicular traffic came to a standstill in several districts, including Sikar, Dausa, Jhunjhunu and Dholpur due to the heavy rains. The state

New Delhi, August 23: Corporate Affairs Minister Veerappa Moily on Wednesday said that CAG reports on power and coal have been done without proper study and that they will precipitate policy paralysis in the government. "As far as the CAG is concerned, we are going through the reports. And you know that he has come out with so many things that I don't think anybody can find an answer, because you

Ahmedabad, August 23: An international consortium, led by Turner Project Management, the project management consultant for Burj Khalifa, the tallest tower in the world, are to build the tallest statue in the world in India. The Times of India reported on Wednesday that the consortium signed an agreement with the Gujarat government for "engineering, design and contract management" to construct the

New Delhi, August 23: In a country where religious intolerance and communal hatred dominate the news nowadays, here is something that goes to show that all is not rotten and ugly. Muslim residents of Joshimath in Uttarakhand offered Eid namaaz (prayers) on Monday in a gurdwara (Sikh temple), after being invited in by its head priest, according to the local media. There is no mosque or idgah in

New Delhi, August 23: The government-opposition showdown over corruption escalated sharply on Wednesday with BJP MPs storming out of a meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Committee probing the 2G scam, leading the UPA brass to plan for the possibility of BJP members resigning en masse from Parliament to force early polls. The UPA coordination committee on Wednesday, which discussed the stalemate in