India

Kolkata, May 3: Desperate to hold back Muslim votes in the forthcoming Panchayat elections, the West Bengal government led by the Trinamool Congress has decided to include 33 more categories in the OBC list. According to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, will bring 99 per cent of the Muslim community in the OBC net. “At present there are 65 communities in the OBC category and today the cabinet has

New Delhi, May 2: Parliamentarians across party lines have once again united in the face of criticism and this time it is yoga guru and anti-corruption activist Baba Ramdev who has earned their wrath for calling the members of Parliament corrupt and characterless. He had said, "There are some politicians who are good. But some others are corrupt and have no character." Reacting to the comments of

New Delhi, May 2: After Anna Hazare and his team, it is now the turn of yoga guru Ramdev to kick up a controversy by attacking MPs calling them ''dacoits and murderers''. Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar and several MPs, including senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha, did not mince words in condemning the utterances and asked people to show respect to Parliament. Addressing the media while launching his

Ghaziabad, May 2: In a major setback for Nupur Talwar in the Aarushi Hemraj murder case, the sessions court of additional district judge Shyam Lal on Wednesday refused to grant bail to her, saying she is an "accused in double murders - of her own daughter and a poor servant - Hemraj". The court denied bail on the grounds that she may tamper with evidence if granted bail. On Tuesday, Nupur Talwar's

Guwahati, May 2: While the district administration Wednesday resumed the search operation with the help of Border Security Force (BSF) and National Disaster Rescue Force (NDRF) personnel for the victims of Monday's ferry tragedy, the state government has sought help from the Bangladesh government for recovery of the dead bodies, an official said. A government spokesman said Wednesday that the

New Delhi, May 2: As many as 858 unidentified bodies have been recovered in the city in the last four months, prompting Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit to take up the issue with Home Minister P Chidambaram today. Sources said Dikshit conveyed her serious concern to Chidambaram over the recovery of such a large number of unidentified bodies in the city in a few months and urged him to direct

New Delhi, May 2: Making a mockery of the government’s afforestation programme, many non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have disappeared with crores of tax-payers’ money released by the government for planting saplings. Out of 560 projects sanctioned to voluntary agencies between 2003 and 2008, proponents of 537 projects vanished midway with the first and second instalment of funds amounting

New Delhi, May 2: The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Army to decide whether its personnel involved in fake encounter killings in Pathribal in Jammu and Kashmir and Assam should be court-martialled or tried in regular criminal courts. If Army authorities were not keen on court-martial proceedings, the Central Bureau of Investigation could seek sanction from the Centre for prosecution of the

New Delhi, May 2: Depletion of groundwater and its increasing pollution could be leading to a silent, nationwide public health crisis as aquifers in many stretches across India are becoming unfit for drinking, according to the government's own figures. Data submitted in Parliament by the water resources ministry on Monday shows groundwater in pockets of 158 out of the 639 districts has gone saline

Bangalore, May 1: Pegging the estimated loss caused by drought at Rs 5,000 crore, Karnataka Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda today expressed hope that the Centre would share at least half of this burden to help the BJP government carry out relief works on a war-footing. Gowda is leading an all-party delegation to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other Union Ministers to discuss the drought