Taking up some long-pending issues in the oil and gas space, India on Thursday approved a new policy for their exploration, while also defining the norms for pricing of existing and new discoveries made in difficult areas. Briefing reporters on the decisions taken at a meeting of the cabinet, presided over by Prime Minister Narendra Mod...
Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday said that key documents related to the Ishrat Jahan case have gone missing from his ministry. "Two letters from the then home secretary to the attorney general in 2009 have gone missing. The then attorney general had vetted two affidavits regarding the case. Those are also not available," Rajnath Singh told the Lok Sabha w...
Five people were killed in a shooting spree at a home in Pennsylvania state, media reports said on Thursday. The incident took place on Wednesday night in Wilkinsburg borough of Allegheny county, CNN reported. Police got reports of the shooting around 11.00 p.m. about a house where there was some sort of cookout or "backyard party," senior police official An...
Faulting every concerned government agency over a cultural event on the fragile banks of Yamuna this weekend, a green court has slapped a Rs.5 crore fine on its organisers, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar-led Art of Living (AoL). But it did not stay the event....
The Supreme Court Wednesday extended, till April 28, the interim bail granted to social activists Teesta Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand in the alleged misuse of funds collected by their NGO Sabrang Trust for setting up a museum at Gulbarga Society which witnessed one of the worst carnage during 2002 Gujarat riots....
Happy over the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) getting to host the high-voltage India-Pakistan World Twenty 20 tie, its president Sourav Ganguly on Wednesday said he was ready to take the challenge, but conceded that ticketing would be an issue. ...
The Left parties on Wednesday met Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi and demanded strong action against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for "threatening the voters" in the upcoming state assembly poll during a television interview last week....
The use of army personnel for a private or a non-governmental organisation's event, like the mega cultural show of the Art of Living Foundation in Delhi, is a wrong precedent, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said on Wednesday. ...
Anti-Terrorist Front of India (ATFI) , which has been stridently opposing the Pakistan cricket team playing in India, on Wednesday threatened to dig up the pitch at Eden Gardens here that is hosting the high voltage India-Pakistan tie in the World Twenty20. ...
The BJP on Wednesday announced the first list of 52 candidates for the upcoming assembly election in West Bengal and pitched Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's grandnephew Chandra Kumar Bose against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. ...
