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’ [...]

Chandigarh: Rejecting a move by the central government to impose wealth tax on agricultural land near urban centres, the Punjab cabinet Friday asked Governor Shivraj Patil to convene an emergency session of the assembly on May 3. An emergency meeting of the Punjab cabinet here, chaired by Chief Minister Parkash [...]

New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) A group of MPs Friday urged the government to withdraw the “controversial” Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) bill that was tabled in parliament a few days ago. In a letter to Union Minister of Science and Technology Jaipal Reddy, the group of 16 MPs [...]

Bhubaneswar, April 26 (IANS) The 12-hour strike called by the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in Odisha Friday against the central government’s alleged neglect of the state evoked a mixed response, an official said. While shops down shutters in many places, commercial and passenger vehicles stayed off the roads. Rail [...]

New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) Setting off a political storm and putting the government on the backfoot, the CBI Friday told the Supreme Court that its status report on investigations into coal blocks allocation was “shared” with Law Minister Ashwani Kumar and senior officials in the Prime Minister’s Office and [...]

Chandigarh, April 26 (IANS) Savitri Jindal, said to be India’s richest woman, was Friday asked by the Punjab and Haryana High Court to vacate within 15 days her government accommodation, which she had been occupying unauthorisedly. The court said that if Jindal failed to vacate the government bungalow within the [...]

Kolkata, April 26 (IANS) The five-man inquiry commission headed by former Allahabad High Court Chief Justice Shyamal Kumar Sen Friday began probing the Saradha Group chit fund scam and will submit its report within six months. “The commission has formally begun its probe. There are four other members in the [...]

New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) The CBI’s revelation that it had shared the coal scam report with the law minister and an official of the PMO proved the government’s interference with the agency’s work, the BJP asserted Friday and called on the prime minister to explain. “Government has really been [...]

Chennai, April 26 (IANS) Great Eastern Energy Corporation Ltd.’s (GEEC) coal-bed methane exploration project in Tamil Nadu’s Mannargudi hit a political roadblock Friday with MDMK’s general secretary Vaiko voicing fears it would turn the area into a desert. “It is shocking to hear 667 square km of land has been [...]

Thiruvananthapuram, April 26 (IANS) The intelligence wing of Kerala Police claimed Friday that it had spotted a Malayalee who has been spying for the Tamil Nadu government on inter-state water issues. The man reportedly works with the Tamil Nadu government and has been passing on to his employers the contents [...]