Six Bihar BJP MLAs are likely to resign in favour of Nitish govt, according to a TV report.The BJP MLAs today accused Nitish Kumar of betraying mandate and walked out of the House boycotting confidence vote moved by him.
BJP to sit in OppositionThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) has lowered its forecast of Russian GDP growth in 2013 from 3.4 percent to 2.5 percent, head of the IMF mission said.
A crucial piece of correspondence has gone missing from the law ministry barely two months after the Central Information Commission (CIC) directed that it be made public, Nagendar Sharma reports.
Playing along with the West Bengal government, the home ministry has reversed its stand on sending central forces for the state panchayat polls. On Tuesday, the ministry insisted the Centre could not spare additional forces, Aloke Tikku reports.
A petroleum ministry letter asking the law ministry to replace the then additional solicitor general A S Chandiok from a crucial case against Essar Steel is "untraceable".
An assistant constable was axed to death allegedly by a group of naxals in Maoist-hit Kondagaon district of Chhattishgarh, police said today.
The Supreme Court today agreed to give an urgent hearing to a PIL on the issue of US National Security Agency snooping on Internet data from India and seeking to initiate action against Internet companies for allowing the agency to access the information.
Barack Obama will Wednesday propose major cuts in US and Russian nuclear stocks, making a pitch for his own place in history in an evocative open-air speech during his first visit as president to Berlin.
The shrine of Shiva, visited by Hindu pilgrims from across the world, was only partly damaged amid the death and destruction cloudbursts, flash floods and landslides caused in various parts of Uttarakhand.
It’s raining disaster |
Uttarakhand helpline numbers: 0135-2710334, 0135-2710335, 0135-2710233
An unmarried adult couple will be considered married and can be termed husband and wife if they have sex, the Madras high court has said in a judgment with far-reaching consequences, especially for those in live-in relationships. HT reports.
A five-year-old girl was mowed down in Mumbai by a speeding car allegedly driven by a kin of senior Congress leader Gurudas Kamat, police said today.
Three bookies, arrested in the spot-fixing scandal, today alleged in a Delhi court that Delhi Police has extorted their confessions in the case by using "third degree torture and coercion".
The Kedarnath shrine was virtually submerged in mud and slush where 50 people died in the unprecedented flash floods that claimed over 131 lives in Uttarkhand and Himachal Pradesh and left over 70,000 pilgrims stranded.
Kedarnath temple stays intact |
Uttarakhand helpline numbers: 0135-2710334, 0135-2710335, 0135-2710233 The probe into alleged irregularities in coal block allocations between 2006 and 2009 reached the doorstep of the prime minister's office on Tuesday with the CBI recording the statements of two former officials.
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What’s the fuss aboutBihar chief minister Nitish Kumar today thanked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh “from the core of his heart” for calling him a secular leader and appreciating him for quitting the BJP and the NDA. Mammen Matthew reports.