India

New Delhi, April 20: The Supreme Court on Firday has stayed proceedings against IPS officer Sanjiv Bhat in a chargesheet filed against him by Gujarat government for allegedly forcing a constable to depose falsely against state chief minister Narendra Modi. The Gujarat government in its chargesheet alleges that Sanjiv Bhat forced the constable to say that Bhat was present in the CM's residence on

Chennai, April 20: The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, which is on a safety-cum-morality drive, is having trouble keeping its house in order. At an open campus forum on Thursday, IIT-M director Bhaskar Ramamurthi said hostel wardens don't have the authority to impose curfews without his approval. The director's statement comes in the wake of reports that a few wardens are imposing their

New Delhi, April 20: With just over a month left for the close of nominations for the presidential elections, the ruling Congress is focusing all its energies on zeroing in on a candidate who will secure the approval of its allies in the United Progressive Alliance. The UPA holds around 40 per cent of the votes, approximately 10 per cent ahead of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic

Washington, April 20: Major economic reforms in India would hit a roadblock and are unlikely to happen before the next parliamentary elections slated for 2014, chief economic adviser Kaushik Basu has said. Addressing a meeting at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on Wednesday, an eminent Washington-based thinktank, Basu said that relatively less important bills might go through

Yderabad, April 19: India on Thursday welcomed Pakistan Army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani's remarks on resolving the Siachen issue and demilitarization there and said the money spent on deployment of troops can be spent on development of the two countries. "I am glad that our neighbouring country Pakistan is also realising the challenges and the economic problems of maintaining troops on the

New Delhi, April 19: The Supreme court on Thursday upheld the Centre's policy to stop funding 1700 fast-track courts, which were created a decade ago to speed up trial in pending cases. A bench of Justices A K Patnaik and Swatanter Kumar directed the Centre and states to create 10% additional posts in lower judiciary. This will mean creation of additional cadre strength of 1700 posts of judges in

New Delhi, April 19: The Supreme Court on Thursday sought response from the Centre and the Odisha government on a petition seeking to restrain the release of jailed Maoists in exchange for captive BJD MLA Jhina Hikaka. A Bench of Justices T.S. Thakur and Gyan Sudha Misra asked the respondents to file a reply within two weeks. The Court initially expressed disinclination to issue any notices, but

New Delhi, April 19: India on Thursday test-fired for the first time its most-ambitious strategic missile, the over 5,000-km range Agni-V, in a bid to join the super exclusive ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) club that counts just US, Russia,China, France and UK as its members. The solid-fuelled Agni-V, which will bring the whole of China as well as other regions under its strike envelope

New Delhi, April 19: India on Wednesday made the most persuasive case for India's "full membership" of the global non-proliferation regimes. In a major policy statement, foreign secretary Ranjan Mathai told a gathering of nuclear experts that "the logical conclusion of partnership with India is its full membership of the four multilateral regimes." Mathai, unusually, gave a detailed exposition of

Kolkata, April 18: A woman in West Bengal attempted suicide after she was molested and her family members were beaten up by a group of people for her refusal to join the Trinamool Congress, police said Wednesday. "We have received a complaint by Toton Das, who has alleged that his mother was molested by a group of people who also assaulted his other family members for refusal to join the Trinamool