New Delhi :  The RSS would like Nitin Gadkari to continue as BJP president for an unprecedented second term, but his detractors in the party, some of them frontline leaders, are not giving up just yet.  The party's senior-most leader LK Advani has proposed that Sushma Swaraj be made the next party p

Jaipur : After months of anticipation and clamour within the Congress, Rahul Gandhi has been appointed Vice President, as the party gets battle-ready for the general elections scheduled for 2014. Mr Gandhi is now officially No 2 in the Congress. His boss is his mother, Congress president Sonia Ga

NEW DELHI: Congress general secretary and party president Sonia Gandhi's son Rahul Gandhi has been elevated to the post of vice-president in the party on Saturday.Congress spokesperson Janardhan Dwivedi announced the decision by the party working committee to promote Rahul to the post. It is learn

Decks have finally been cleared for the release of 17 Indians, who were awarded death sentence for the killing of a Pakistani man in Sharjah, where a local court today wrapped up the case by ordering a compensation to two people injured in the incident. According to a lawyer handling the case, the c

New Delhi:Uncertainty prevailed over author Salman Rushdie`s visit to India next week to promote Deepa Mehta`s screen adaptation of his novel `Midnight`s Children`, with conflicting versions coming from the promotional event host and the film`s official publicists. Bookstore chain Landmark, which

Jharkhand was placed under president’s rule Friday with President Pranab Mukherjee formally signing the order, official sources said here. President’s rule was okayed after the Arjun Munda government collapsed after the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha withdrew support last month. The union cabinet Thursda

Government whip and Sangareddy MLA Thoorpu Jayaprakash Reddy has lashed out at Majlis MLA Pasha Quadri for claiming ownership of Charminar, Assembly building, Taj Mahal and Red Fort. Talking to the media here on Friday, Jagga Reddy said it was painful that Quadri was speaking as if these historic

Adilabad:Jailed MIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi suffered from stomach pain and Shifted to RIMS hospital Adilabad from Jail on friday evening. Doctors who examined him had said it was due to indigestion and nothing serious. MIM leader Akbaruddin Owaisi was Thursday produced in a court in Medak dist

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is likely to head the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) campaign committee for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. This will make him the face of the BJP's election campaign as widely expected. This will also pitch him directly against the Congress' Rahul Gandhi who too h

New Delhi: The gang-rape and murder case of a 23-year-old medical student has been committed to the fast-track court, which was inaugurated earlier this month specially to hear this case and others involving crime against women. The fast-track court, which is expected to conduct the trial on a daily

[caption id="attachment_22293" align="aligncenter" width="380"] Was the DGCA being lax in not immediately asking Air India to ground planes or are the six aircraft that Air India has safe enough to fly still? AFP[/caption] New Delhi: India’s aviation regulator DGCA was categoric until late yester

The Karnataka government has unearthed a major examination malpractice, involving over 5,000 nursing students across the state. "The Medical Education Department has unearthed a major examination malpractice in diploma nursing examination which were conducted in August last year. As many as 5,001 s

Hyderabad: The government’s move to pay salaries to the Imams and Mouzens of mosques in the State has touched off a controversy. Ulemas see it as a ploy to interfere in the functioning of Masjid, the place where Muslims congregate for ‘namaz’ five times a day. The government decision follows the

New Delhi : The Allahabad High Court has moved the Supreme Court, seeking to be heard in the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute case. Moving an application to be impleaded as a party in the bunch of appeals against the 2010 High Court verdict, the Registrar General has sought a clarificatio

NEW DELHI: The government on Thursday raised the annual cap on supply of cheap cooking gas to nine cylinders from six and gave freedom to state- run oil companies to raise price of diesel "from time to time". The new cap on cooking gas would come into effect from April 1, oil minister M Veerappa M

Massive scams, election booth rigging through muscle power, murders in broad daylight and rapes of women on streets, in complete disregard of law and almost daring it... each of these is possible continuously and blatantly only due to one reason – the paralyzed judiciary of our country. It’s not

Ministry of External Affairs - INDIA [CPV Division] Haj 2013: Advisory for Passport Applicants As decided by the Haj Committee of India (constituted under Act of Parliament No.35 of 2002), only valid passport holders (with validity at least up to 31.3.2014) can apply for Haj 2013. Therefore,

Jaipur, Jan 16 (PTI) Alleging that Muslims were being neglected in Rajasthan, filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt today said the ruling Congress government would lose the minority community's support if steps were not taken soon to address their issues. "Deliver justice to Muslims of the state otherwise the C