India

New Delhi, May 23: Congress tribal leaders led by former Chhatisgarh Chief Minister Ajit Jogi today opposed the candidature of P A Sangma for presidential election, saying the NCP leader is ''playing into the hands of communal forces''. Asked who are these communal forces, the former Chhatisgarh Chief Minister told reporters, "BJP and its allies are representing communal forces." Sangma has sought

Mumbai, May 23: Continuing free-fall for the sixth day in a row, rupee today crashed below the psychological level of 56 against US dollar to yet another all time low on heavy demand for the American currency from importers, especially oil refiners, amid foreign fund outflows and weak equities. At the Interbank Foreign Exchange (Forex) market, the domestic unit recorded its steepest fall ever by

New Delhi, May 23: Air India today filed a contempt petition against striking pilots in the Delhi high court on grounds that the agitators have failed to comply with its previous order restraining them from undertaking the stir. Filing the petition through counsel Lalit Bhasin, Air India management said despite the court's restraint order, several opportunities were given to the striking pilots to

Mumbai, May 23: Alarmed by the deaths of two tigers in Maharashtra forest reserves, state Forest Minister Patangrao Kadam announced that over 500 armed guards will be recruited for the four forest reserves of the state and will be given shoot at sight orders against poachers. This comes a week after an alert by the state Forest Department that poachers in Madhya Pradesh have been paid an advance

New Delhi, May 23: Marking the third anniversary of the UPA II government, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday put the ruling coalition in poll mode, warning her party and allies that they have two years to get their act together as UPA-2 can hope to renew its mandate in 2014 only on the basis of performance rather than promises. Her remarks came after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in his

New Delhi, May 23: A trial court here on Tuesday asked the Delhi Police to apprise it of action taken by it on a complaint against Yoga Guru Ramdev for his controversial remarks against parliamentarians. Metropolitan magistrate Purshotam Pathak sought an action-taken-report (ATR) from the police by June 22 on a complaint by a law student, Vibhor Anand, in which he said that remarks made by the

Mumbai, May 22: Continuing its free fall for the fifth day in a row, rupee set a new low of 55.47 before ending at 55.39 against the dollar on relentless demand for the American currency from importers, especially oil refiners, even as foreign fund flows remained muted. At the Interbank Foreign Exchange (Forex) market, the domestic unit opened sharply higher at 54.60 per dollar from its last close

New Delhi, May 22: Notwithstanding Italy’s unhappiness over the “unacceptable nature of the judicial developments” involving two of its marines, India today made it clear that it will not “interfere” in the trial of two Italians facing murder charges in Kerala. “The judicial process is on and the Government of India is never known to interfere in that process,” External Affairs Minister SM Krishna

Chennai, May 22: A G Perarivalan, who is one of the three convicts on death row in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, has scored more than 91% in the Tamil Nadu class 12 examinations. Perarivalan scored 1,096 out of 1,200 marks and tops the list of 35 prisoners who successfully wrote the examination in March. Perarivalan is facing the gallows, along with Murugan and Santhan. The three had sought

New Delhi, May 22: Song writers, artistes and performers can now claim royalty for their creations as the Parliament has approved a law to provide the much-delayed justice to them. The Copyright Act (Amendment) Bill, 2012 was passed by the Lok Sabha, which witnessed unusual unanimity on the matter with members from all parties supporting the measure for creative artistes whose benefits are