Washington, April 27 (IANS) Miffed over the brief detention of his Urban Development Minister Azam Khan at Boston airport, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav skipped a Harvard University event they had come to participate in. Instead, UP Chief Secretary Jawed Usmani took the duo’s place in a panel discussion [...]

Moscow, April 27 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Several environmental groups in Russia have been classified as “foreign agents” by prosecutors for alleged political activity, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has said. Four WWF partner organisations in the Amur, Chelyabinsk, Khabarovsk and Irkutsk regions were targeted under new controversial legislation on [...]

Kolkata, April 27 (IANS) Compounding the miseries of West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress, employees of a news channel run by the collapsed Saradha Group lodged an FIR against party MP Kunal Ghosh while protests continued to rock the city and the districts over the chit fund muddle Friday. On a [...]

New Delhi/Lucknow, April 26 (IANS) A parliamentary panel was Friday told that India and China were trying to resolve through existing mechanisms the row arising over incursion by Chinese troops in Ladakh area, even as Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav accused the government of showing weakness on the issue. [...]

Kolkata,, April 26 (IANS) Blaming the central government’s casual approach and the failure of its agencies for the multi billion chit fund scam, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday demanded it return the money of the depositors. Banerjee also lashed out at the state’s erstwhile Left Front regime for [...]

New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) With opposition members demanding details about the stand-off between Indian and Chinese troops in Ladakh, Defence Secretary Shashi Kant Sharma and defence ministry officials appeared before a parliamentary committee Friday to give details of the incursion. The parliamentary panel was told that Chinese troops had [...]

New Delhi: The beleaguered Manmohan Singh government yesterday appeared to be in deep political crisis after the opposition demanded Law Minister Ashwani Kumar’s resignation for vetting a CBI affidavit meant only for the Supreme Court on the coal blocks allocation. In its two-page affidavit, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) chief [...]

Kolkata, April 26 (IANS) Assuring people of justice and swift action for relief in the Saradha Group chit fund case, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday lashed out at the erstwhile Left Front regime for not taking the right steps and failing to implement a bill to deal with [...]

Haveri (Karnataka), April 26 (IANS) Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Friday said the BJP government in Karnataka has created a “world record” in corruption but was talking about corruption of the central government. “The Karnataka government has created a world record in corruption but this did not come to Bharatiya [...]

Kolkata, April 26 (IANS) Youth Congress and the BJP’s women front Friday staged separate demonstrations to protest against the chit-fund scam in West Bengal and demanded strictest action against Saradha Group kingpin Sudipta Sen. Hundreds of Youth Congress cadres staged a protest rally in front of the state secretariat, Writers’ [...]