Bangalore, June 5 (IANS) Karnataka Forest and Environment Minister Ramanath Rai came under opposition fire Wednesday for demolishing a wall in his chambers in the secretariat allegedly to make his office ‘Vastu’ compliant. Rai and fellow Congress members in the assembly were taken by surprise as the issue was raised [...]

New Delhi, June 5 (IANS) The Punjab government Wednesday rejected the central government’s move to set up the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC). Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal said the annual meeting of chief ministers on internal security had been reduced by the central government to an “annual [...]

The oath of office was administered by President Asif Ali Zardari, reported Geo TV. Sharif became the first third time prime minister in the history of the country after he secured 244 votes with his rivals Pakistan Peoples Party’s Makhdoom Amin Fahim and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s Javed Hashmi bagging 42 and [...]

Lucknow, June 5 (IANS) The ruling Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh Wednesday retained the Handia assembly seat in Allahabad, defeating its nearest Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) rival by over 26,000 votes. SP candidate Prashant Kumar Singh polled 81,655 votes while BSP’s Pankaj Tripathi got 54,838 votes, election officials said. The [...]

Kolkata, June 5 (IANS) Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee Wednesday said regional parties will perform well in the 2014 general election and parried a query on whether her party would be at the forefront of any non-Congress and non-BJP coalition. “I think the regional parties would come up with a [...]

New Delhi, June 5 (IANS) The Congress-ruled Karnataka Wednesday cautioned the party-led central government against “unbridled powers” to the proposed National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC). “Some safeguards are necessary before setting up the NCTC so that it is not given unbridled powers to encroach upon states’ domain,” Karnataka Chief Minister [...]

Islamabad, June 5 (IANS) Nawaz Sharif, who was Wednesday elected Pakistan’s prime minister by the National Assembly here, vowed to resolve the country’s acute energy crisis and asked the US to stop drone strikes in the northwest tribal regions. In his maiden speech shortly after his election by parliament, 63-year-old [...]

Kolkata, June 5 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court Wednesday expressed concern over the fate of over six lakh depositors of the scam-tainted Saradha Group who have filed complaints with the West Bengal government seeking refunds. Hearing a public interest litigation seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the [...]

Gandhinagar, June 5 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wedneaday wrested two Lok Sabha and four assembly seats from the Congress in the by-elections held in Gujarat. The BJP strength in the assembly has now risen from 115 to 119 and its Lok Sabha tally from Gujarat from 15 to [...]

Islamabad, June 5 (IANS) Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, in his maiden speech shortly after his election by parliament, asked the US Wednesday to stop drone strikes in the country’s northwest tribal regions. “We respect the sovereignty of other countries and they should also reciprocate us,” Sharif told the National [...]