The Supreme Court on Friday cleared the decks for ousted Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat to take a floor test in the assembly on Tuesday but nine disqualified rebel Congress legislators won't be allowed to vote. The top court said it will monitor the voting that is to take place at 11 a.m. The entire proceedings of the 70-member hous...
Efforts were made by the previous UPA government to favour AgustaWestland and attempts were made to "hoodwink" the probe into kickbacks in the chopper deal, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said in the Lok Sabha on Friday during a debate on the VVIP chopper scam. "The field trials of the chopper were initially opposed by (then defence minister) ...
Heavy rains accompanied by squalls lashed Telangana and Andhra Pradesh on Friday, officials said. The heavy downpour, which began around Thursday midnight, continued till early Friday morning, inundating roads and low-lying areas in Hyderabad and suburbs. Strong gales uprooted trees, electricity poles and hoardings while snapped electricity wires plu...
Destabilising elected governments in states with a motive to capture power all over, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is "killing democracy", Congress president Sonia Gandhi said here on Friday. "Their (BJP) lust for power is increasing and thus they are killing the democratically-elected governments forcefully," Sonia said, addressing the crowd at the L...
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday alleged that some media houses were asked "not to touch" the controversy over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's degree. ...
Chinese archaeologists said they have found a paddy field more than 8,000 years old. This could be the earliest wet rice farming site in the world. ...
US House Speaker Paul Ryan said he was not ready to support the campaign of presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump....
Goa Congress MLA Jennifer Monserrate, the wife of disgraced legislator Atanasio Monserrate who has been accused of "buying" and raping a minor girl, has backed her husband, claiming he is a victim of "political vendetta"....
BJP president Amit Shah on Thursday set up a three-member committee to look into incidents of atrocities against Dalit women in election-bound Kerala, and also visited Perumbavoor to meet the family members of a 30-year-old Dalit woman who was raped and brutally murdered....
With his Art of Living Foundation (AoL) yet to pay the major chunk of "environment compensation" for its cultural fest on the Yamuna floodplains, spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar was on Thursday slapped with a contempt suit for "alleged disrespect shown by him to the orders of National Green Tribunal (NGT)"....
