India

New Delhi, May 13: A day after she said she had information that a political party had held a meeting to advance general elections to 2013, Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said she would be happy to see the United Progressive Alliance — of which her party is a part — last its full term. Her statement about the possibility of early elections came at a party

New Delhi, May 13: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday expressed the hope that all shades of political opinion in Maldives would get together to find a way forward as President Mohamed Waheed expressed his deep commitment to democracy and conduct of elections. Mr. Waheed, who is on his first foreign visit since assuming power in a tumultuous political transition in February, held wide

New Delhi, May 12: With the agitation by Air India pilots entering the fifth day on Saturday, the national carrier cancelled 16 flights from here and Mumbai even as senior pilots sought the Prime Minister's intervention to end the impasse. "16 of our flights originating from Delhi and Mumbai have been cancelled," an AI spokesperson said. Supporting the agitation, senior pilots wrote a letter to

Pune, May 12: A group of persons today ransacked the office of Prof Suhas Palshikar, who resigned as NCERT adviser in the wake of the row over cartoon of B R Ambedkar in school text books. Police said the persons involved in the incident had been invited by Palshikar for discussion in his office after they raised objections on the cartoon. They later damaged furniture in his office located in Pune

New Delhi, May 12: Ruling out a mid-term poll, the Congress on Saturday reacted to West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee's claim that the Lok Sabha polls would be advanced, and said the United Progressive Alliance (UPA)-II will complete its full term. "I have not gone through the statement given by Banerjee, but one thing is clear the UPA -II will complete its term and elections will be held

New Delhi, May 12: With the agitation by Air India pilots entering the fifth day today, the national carrier cancelled 16 flights from here and Mumbai even as senior pilots sought the Prime Minister's intervention to end the impasse. "16 of our flights originating from Delhi and Mumbai have been cancelled," an AI spokesperson said. Supporting the agitation, senior pilots wrote a letter to the

Lucknow, May 12: In a decision of far-reaching political consequences, the Akhilesh Yadav government on Friday scrapped 26 programmes and schemes of the Mayawati regime, replaced the Ambedkar Gram Sabha Vikas Yojana (AGSVY) with a project named after the Samajwadi Party ideologue, Ram Manohar Lohia, and ended the quota system in government contracts. All these populist measures were launched by

Mumbai, May 12: If a wife is accustomed to a particular lifestyle, it is difficult for her to adjust in bad times, the Bombay high court said on Friday while hearing a plea for enhancement of maintenance. A division bench of Justice P B Majmudar and Justice Anoop Mohta was hearing a petition filed by film producer Gaurang Doshi's wife Madhuri challenging the family court's June 16, 2010, order on

New Delhi, May 12: Two eminent scholars have resigned their positions as advisers to the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) after a furore in Parliament led Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal to withdraw a book on the Constitution because it contained a cartoon some legislators said was offensive. Yogendra Yadav and Suhas Palshikar, both eminent political

Jammu, May 11: Ahead of the annual Amarnath Yatra that begins on June 4, the Bajrang Dal on Thursday said it will send its team to the cave shrine on May 13 to assess the ground situation and take stock of preparatory measures. "We will send a team of 100 activists of Bajrang Dal to Baltal base camp to assess the ground situation and state of route to cave shrine of Amarnath in South Kashmir