Kolkata:  Stirring a fresh controversy, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday dubbed the death of a student activist in Kolkata as a “small” and “petty” matter, while sticking to her stand that it was an “accident” and not “due to police atrocity”. “Why, for what purpose, for what cause,” [...]

Chandigarh: Senior IAS officer Ashok Khemka, who had ordered a scrutiny of land deals of United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra last year, was today shunted by the Haryana government to an inconsequential post. Khemka, presently managing director of the Haryana Seeds Development Corporation (HSDC), will now [...]

New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi today denied he was in the race to be the prime minister, and came out strongly in favour of an inclusive India. Rubbishing unending speculation that he might pitch for the prime ministerial job, Gandhi said here: “It’s an irrelevant question. It’s all [...]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court yesterday frowned over the lack of response from some state governments to its notice seeking information on implementation of police reforms ordered in 2006. Describing as “unacceptable” and “totally unjustified” the conduct of some state governments, the apex court bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and [...]

Patna: A senior leader of the Congress in Bihar Monday invited the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) to join hands with the UPA “to strengthen secular and democratic forces” in the country ahead of the next general elections. “The JD-U is a secular party and it is time for it to leave [...]

Bhubaneswar, April 1 (IANS) A young man in Rourkela, Sundergarh district, Odisha, killed his mother, allegedly because she refused him money to buy a pair of shoes, police said Monday. The incident took place in a slum in the steel city of Rourkela, about 514 km from state capital Bhubaneswar [...]

Shimla: A Right to Information (RTI) plea has revealed that the Himachal Pradesh government lacks information about the personal details of a battery of legal eagles representing the state in the high court. “The public information officer of the advocate general provided me the names of the recently selected candidates [...]

New Delhi, March 29 (IANS) Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav Friday ruled out withdrawing support to the UPA government, saying it was his political compulsion to keep communal forces at bay. He also speculated that the general elections due in April-May 2014 could be held by November 2013. “There [...]

Chandigarh: Punjab Police has dismissed two officials from service – including international boxer Ram Singh – following their alleged involvement in a drugs racket busted in the state recently. The other person dismissed Thursday is sub-inspector Sarabjit Singh. Ram Singh, a head constable in the force, is a fellow boxer with [...]

New Delhi: Five years since the busting of a thriving racket in human kidneys in Gurgaon, where unsuspecting poor people would have their kidneys removed without their consent, a “huge disparity” between demand and supply of organs for transplant continues to promote a black market in kidneys, says doctors. Medical professionals [...]