Bangalore, May 18 (IANS) Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah Saturday inducted 28 members into his five-day-old ministry, keeping out two strong but mining-scam hit aspirants for cabinet berths. The two are former working president of the state Congress D.K. Shivakumar from Kanakapura, about 55 km from here, and mining baron Anil [...]

Patna, May 18 (IANS) Left parties in Bihar Saturday urged the CBI to appeal in the Supreme Court against the acquittal of former Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MP Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav in the murder of a CPI-M leader. Citing lack of evidence, the Patna High Court Friday acquitted [...]

Singapore, May 18 (IANS) A Malaysian Indian politician of the Democratic Action party (DAP) has asked the party’s Chinese-origin secretary-general to apologise to the Indian members of the party. N. Gobalakrishnan has asked Lim Guan Eng to apologise to over 700 Indian members of the party after they were stopped [...]

Kolkata, May 18 (IANS) It’s poll time again in West Bengal – and the judiciary is playing a vital role in making it happen. Facing its first major test since its massive electoral triumph in the assembly polls two years back, the Trinamool Congress regime has faced some tough times [...]

Shimla, May 18 (IANS) The Congress government in Himachal Pradesh has effected a staggering 15,000 transferes in the little over four months it has been in office but the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) says the number is more than double that. The Himachal Pradesh High Court has now stepped [...]