Chandigarh professor booked for Facebook comments against IAS officer
byGurgaon: A professor working in a college in Chandigarh was booked here for derogatory remarks on social networking site Facebook against an Indian Administrative Service…
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Fissures in BJP, Congress over quota in promotions bill
byLucknow: A day before the controversial promotion quota bill reaches the Lok Sabha for debate and vote, the BJP and the Congress find themselves caught…
Shiv Sena ‘clears out’ of Shivaji park
byMumbai: Exactly a month after Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray’s death, his public cremation site from the historic Shivaji Park ground in central Mumbai was…
India lost $123 billion in black money in a decade
byWashington: The Indian economy suffered $1.6 billion in illicit financial outflows in 2010, capping-off a decade in which it experienced black money losses of $123…
Court rap secures prosecution sanction of tainted Himachal government employees
byShimla: Beating a hasty retreat before the courts, the state government cleared all names for prosecution sanction that were pending before it barring four,…
Stop interfering in Tibet, says China
byBeijing: The Chinese foreign ministry today criticised statements issued by foreign officials on Tibet, and urged those countries to stop interfering in China’s internal affairs….
US school shooting: Trigger-happy nation debates gun control
byWashington: The massacre of the innocents in a Connecticut elementary school has rekindled a debate over America’s gun control laws, but prospects of any “meaningful…
Congress CM faces people’s ire over rising prices, power cuts
byVisakhapatnam: A day after Andhra Pradesh’s ruling Congress held its state conclave to begin preparations for 2014 elections, Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy today…
Tiger killings: are new guidelines enough to stop them?
byNew Delhi: Worried over 82 tiger deaths this year in India, the highest in a decade, the environment ministry is finalising a standard operating procedure…
Companies Bill to be placed in parliament today
byKolkata: The amended Companies Bill, 2011, will be placed in parliament Monday, union Corporate Affairs Minister Sachin Pilot said here yesterday. “The bill will be…