Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Wednesday refused to give any fresh deadline for making any announcement on Telangana, saying discussion on the issue was still on. ...
01:16 PM, Jan 30, 2013
Pro-Telangana leaders lashed out sharply against Centre's postponing of taking a decision on Telangana statehood. "It is disappointing for us. It is pressure from some MPs who are working for the YSR party. They are masterminding and putting pressure on high command," Congress MP Madhu Yashki Goud said. ...
11:10 PM, Jan 27, 2013
Opposition parties in Andhra Pradesh on Sunday accused the Centre of "betrayal" on the Telangana issue and threatened to intensify their agitation for a separate state. Some Congress leaders were also critical of the statements made by Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and AICC general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad that the "consultation process" on Telangana statehood would continue and a final decision on it may take a little more time....
10:10 PM, Jan 27, 2013
Over 10,000 fake call centres are operating in New Delhi and many of them indulge in illegal activities of cheating innocent people, a police officer said on Monday. ...
12:58 AM, Jan 22, 2013
Even as the pro-unified Andhra Pradesh leaders stepped up activity in New Delhi, Telangana seeking groups on Monday threatened to launch a "militant struggle" if their demand for a separate state was not conceded by January 28, "as promised" by the Centre. Congress legislators from Telangana decided to go to Delhi on Tuesday along with ministers and MPs from the region and prevail upon the Centre to take a favourable...
06:33 PM, Jan 21, 2013
While the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister announced a compensation of Rs 25 lakh, the Centre decided to give the family Rs 46 lakh. ...
10:40 PM, Jan 14, 2013
The family of slain Indian Army Lance Naik on Monday broke its four-day-long fast after a visit by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, who promised all help to them and even announced a compensation of Rs 25 lakh. ...
05:12 PM, Jan 14, 2013
Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Wednesday described the ongoing phase in the country's politics as a "transition period" and said his party can offer an "alternative" at the Centre. Yadav was addressing party workers after a meeting of district and city presidents at SP headquarters in Lucknow. ...
08:20 PM, Jan 09, 2013
Former Army chief General VK Singh on Monday blamed successive governments at the Centre and states for the rise of Naxalism in the country, noting that a host of issues like lack of development and violation of people's rights helped strengthening base of the ultras in the country. ...
09:55 PM, Jan 07, 2013
Dismayed that family members are spread out over the house, each with a separate PC or tablet? Lenovo has something it believes will get them back together: a PC the size of a coffee table that works like a gigantic tablet and lets four people use it at once. ...
11:16 AM, Jan 07, 2013
Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is setting up its data centre at Manesar in Haryana and this captive 'Green Data Centre' would be built as per global standards. While stating this on Sunday, an official spokesman said that this data centre would be one of the biggest data centres in the country. ...
03:21 AM, Jan 07, 2013
Steve Jobs had the genius to turn a product launch-even an upgrade-into an occasion that sent Apple fans into fits of ecstasy. If there's one product that they have been looking forward to more than any other, it's Apple TV. No one knows if or how it will be disruptive. But the launch is likely to happen in 2013. It will also be the first product in a new category...
03:56 PM, Jan 05, 2013
Ranjana Kumari, Director of Centre for Social Research, has slammed the police and the people, who did nothing to help the 23-year-old braveheart and her male friend after they were thrown out of a moving bus by the six accused. "I think it is time for tremendous self reflection and people should understand that blaming the government is not the only option," she said. ...
12:15 PM, Jan 05, 2013
India has started building an advanced centre for agricultural research and education in Myanmar capital Nay Pyi Taw to train agriculturists in the country, official media reported on Thursday. ...
03:03 AM, Jan 04, 2013
Twenty five years ago when Dr Satyajit Mayor shifted from engineering to chemistry while studying at IIT-Mumbai, he was the butt of jokes for moving to a non-lucrative course. But today Dr Mayor has shown he made the right choice. His research could now help find cure to fatal diseases like cancer and AIDS. ...
10:00 AM, Jan 03, 2013
Refuting charges that the Union Government was biased in allocating funds for Tamil Nadu, Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilisers MK Alagiri on January 1 said whatever allocation was made to the state during DMK rule is being made now. "The chief minister (Jayalalithaa) is deliberately making such statements for political reasons.She is giving political cover to ordinary issues," he said when asked about Jayalalithaa's reported charge that the Centre...
05:44 PM, Jan 01, 2013
Two men and a woman have been arrested in Britain after a pig's severed head was left at the doors of a Muslim place of worship, British newspaper the Daily Mail reported Friday. Police were called after the head was found at the entrance to the community centre in Thurnby Lodge area of Leicester. The centre is used by a local Muslim group. ...
07:36 PM, Dec 29, 2012
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on December 28 allayed fears of the states on the proposed national legal framework on water, saying the Centre has no intention of encroaching upon their rights on the issue. "The central government does not wish to encroach, in any manner, upon the constitutionally guaranteed rights of states or to centralise water management...I would like to emphasise the need to see the proposed national legal framework...
03:37 PM, Dec 28, 2012
Unhappy over the outcome of the all-party meeting on the issue of statehood for Telangana, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has called for a shutdown in the region on Saturday. ...
02:04 PM, Dec 28, 2012
The National Development Council meeting in New Delhi began on a stormy note on Thursday Jayalalithaa accusing the Centre of stifling the voices of opposition-ruled states and then in a dramatic act walked out of the venue. ...
11:30 PM, Dec 27, 2012
