
The West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education announced examination results for Class 12 students for the year 2012 on Monday, June 4, 2012. Results for the Uchcha Madhyamik Pariksha were put up online after 11 am. Lakhs of canditates who have been waiting with baited breath for their results can log on to http://wbresults.nic.in/ to get their results. In case, heavy traffic slows down the site, candidates may log...

10:51 AM, Jun 04, 2012

Hyderabad: Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy's first day of questioning revolved around crores of investments that flowed into his companies allegedly through hawala routes. The CBI also sought to know the alleged pressure exerted by the MP and his late father and chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy, on the then investments and infrastructure minister Mopidevi Venkata Ramana Rao with regard to the Vanpic deal. The CBI, according to sources,...

10:44 AM, Jun 04, 2012

New Delhi: Team Anna member Kiran Bedi on Sunday said that the Lokpal, if made a law would create fear among wrongdoers like the way the "chopping of hands of thieves" does in UAE. Addressing protesters at the fast venue of Anna Hazare and yoga guru Ramdev, Bedi also asked people not to vote for those politicians who are opposed to Lokpal in the next elections. "There is no democracy...

03:49 PM, Jun 03, 2012

The Prime Minister's Chief Economic Advisor Dr C Rangarajan has admitted that a hike in diesel and LPG prices is imminent despite a steep hike in petrol prices last week. While speaking to Karan Thapar on 'Devil's Advocate', Dr Rangarajan said the government can soften the blow but fuel price hike is the need of the hour to contain the fiscal deficit. Karan Thapar: Hello and welcome to the Devil's...

12:01 PM, Jun 03, 2012

Mumbai: The specifications for revised version of the world's cheapest tablet PC - Aakash 2 will be finalised by month-end, Union Telecom and HRD Minister Kapil Sibal has said. "During the course of this month, we will finalise the specifications and technology for the Aakash project and move forward with its manufacturing," Sibal said at an event over the weekend here. The tablet will be a platform on which public...

11:03 AM, Jun 03, 2012

New Delhi: Foreign universities entering into agreement with their Indian counterparts for offering twinning programmes will have to be among the global top 500. The Indian varsities on the other hand, should have received the highest accreditation grade, according to the new set of guidelines approved by University Grants Commission (UGC) on Saturday. "The underlining objective is to ensure that only quality institutes are permitted for offering the twinning programmes...

07:47 AM, Jun 03, 2012

New Delhi: Hitting back at Union Minister V Narayanasamy for alleging that his close associate benefitted from coal allotments, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Nitin Gadkari on Saturday said all those making such baseless charges should apologise or face criminal and civil suits from him. "Honesty is my only capital. UPA leaders are levelling false charges against me. I have already discussed this particular issue with two of my advocates...

11:29 PM, Jun 02, 2012

New Delhi: Starting the probe into alleged irregularities in coal block utilisation, the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) officials are likely to visit Coal Ministry next week seeking clairification on some points. The officials are likely to visit the offices of Coal Ministry on Monday and might collect some documents related to allocation and reports of utilisation of the coal blocks by private allottee companies, CBI sources said. The agency...

07:42 PM, Jun 02, 2012

New Delhi: Launching a fresh attack against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare called him a remote-controlled leader. Rejecting CBI probe into the alleged coal block allocation scam between 2006-09, Anna asked why an independent probe had not being ordered. "If there is no problem then why are you (PM) scared from investigation? And I think we should not call for a CBI investigation into this. There should...

12:59 PM, Jun 02, 2012

New Delhi: Strongly opposing the new format for admission to IITs and other central institutes from 2013, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) alumni association have decided to take the Union Human Resource Development(HRD) ministry to court. The association will be moving the Delhi High Court on Monday. In a meeting on Friday, the alumni and faculty members of institutions like the IIT, NIT and IIIT have decided to file...

08:59 AM, Jun 02, 2012

New Delhi: Just a day after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) registered a case in the coal block allocations case of 2006-09, the Prime Minister's Office has turned the tables, accusing BJP President Nitin Gadkari's son of benefiting in the deal. "Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh's government allocated coal blocks to those close to BJP President Nitin Gadkari. The issue was not allowed to be raised in the Assembly,"...

07:42 AM, Jun 02, 2012

The CBI on Friday began a preliminary probe into coal block allocation from 2006 to 2009. ...

11:43 PM, Jun 01, 2012

The CBI on Friday registered a preliminary enquiry into the coal block allocation. The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has asked the investigating agency to complete the inquiry in three months. ...

11:31 PM, Jun 01, 2012

New Delhi: The preliminary probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the coal scam has failed to impress both Team Anna as well as the Opposition. While both demand a separate independent probe, the government has rejected it saying that the CBI probe has nothing to do with the Prime Minister or the Coal Ministry. "If we are not afraid of an independent probe, why is the Prime...

09:00 PM, Jun 01, 2012

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday registered a preliminary enquiry into the coal block allocation. This comes a day after the CVC referred the allocation between 2006 and 2009 for a CBI probe. The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has asked the investigating agency to complete the inquiry in three months. However, the preliminary probe will not look into the policy matters. According to reports, the CBI...

06:15 PM, Jun 01, 2012