The incumbent Vice-President, Mohammed Hamid Ansari, is likely to get a second term as the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) has decided to field him in the vice-presidential poll.
Though it was known in the Congress circles that Mr. Ansari was the front-runner, the first official indication of the...
The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has said it is best for him “to remain neutral” on the issue of more than 40 Tibetans setting themselves on fire in the Tibetan areas of China over the past year, amid allegations by Beijing of a plot and concerns among some Tibetans about the spreading...
An “exhaustive” list of witnesses, which includes former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and former Finance Minister P Chidambaram, was on Tuesday placed before the JPC probing the 2G spectrum allocation scam, but a decision whether to call them was deferred.
The list is likely to be finalised...
A CBI court on today summoned Aruna Lakshmi, the wife of former Karnataka minister G Janardhana Reddy, to appear before it on July 10 in connection with the illegal mining case.
CBI special court judge B M Angadi ordered the issue of summons to Lakshmi, who is the co-owner of the Deccan Mining Syndicate...
New Delhi, Jul 8: The veteran journalist Kuldip Nayar once again has come up with another controversial statement in his autobiography, “Beyond the Lines”. This time Mr Nayar claimed that Arjun Singh insisted that Sonia Gandhi and not Rajiv Gandhi should be the Prime Minister of India.
According...
There is a possibility of a meeting between Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna and his Pakistani counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar on the sidelines of a conference on Afghanistan in Tokyo on Sunday.
“Though the minister has two confirmed bilateral meetings with France and Japan on the margins of this conference,...
A three-year-old girl, kidnapped from a railway station in Mumbai last month, has been traced in the holy town of Haridwar in Uttarakhand from where she was rescued on Saturday, police said.
The alleged kidnapper has been arrested by the Haridwar Police, they said.
“Haridwar Police has informed us...
Hyderabad, Jul 7: YS Jaganmohan Reddy must be relieved as his mother YS Vijayamma announced that she will take care of the party till her son comes out of the Chanchalguda jail where he was lodged over some corruption cases. However, Jagan’s mother also has taken some decisions which may create...
New Delhi, Jul 7: Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC) cracked whip at Manmohan Singh government and urged it to fast-track two important anti-corruption bills.
Well-known social activist and Magsaysay Award winner Aruna Roy, who is also a key member of NAC, sent a letter to the Congress...
Opposition nominee P A Sangma on Saturday sought the Election Commission’s intervention for a fresh probe into his objections against the candidature of UPA nominee Pranab Mukherjee, levelling new allegations that he was still holding two more offices of profit.
Expressing dissatisfaction over the...
