The Union government will notify the final award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal, announced in 2007, by the end of the month, Chairman of the Cauvery Monitoring Committee (CMC) and Water Resources Secretary D.V. Singh told the committee members here on Friday. This was as per the orders of th

Aligarh - 8 Dec 2012: Miss Shilpi Gupta of the Residential Coaching Academy at the Aligarh Muslim University has topped the All India Geological Survey of India Examination – 2012. She stood fourth in the Hydrologist Category and ranked second in Geologist category. Prof. Mirza Asmer Beg, Directo

NEW DELHI, December 7, 2012 :The ordeal is over for the United Progressive Alliance government which on Friday won the vote on the policy on FDI in multi-brand retail sector in the Rajya Sabha with generous help yet again from the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Samajwadi Party. Just before the Oppos

New Delhi, Dec 7 (PTI) Government today won the approval of Parliament to its controversial decision of allowing FDI in multi-brand retail with a motion against it being defeated convincingly in Rajya Sabha, as BSP voted in favour of UPA.

New Delhi: The Bahujan Samaj Party's 15 Rajya Sabha MPs will vote in favour of the government's decision to allow Foreign Direct Investment in multi-brand retail. This could help the government scrape through by a whisker and win tomorrow's vote in the Upper House, where it is in a minority. The

New Delhi: The Supreme Court today upheld the election of Pranab Mukherjee as the President of India and dismissed former Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader PA Sangma's petition against him. The verdict was delivered by a five-judge constitution bench and went 3:2 in favour of Mr Mukherjee.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today directed Karnataka to release 10,000 cusecs of water from Cauvery River to Tamil Nadu. The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Cauvery monitoring committee to meet on Thursday to decide the water requirement of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. The court had earlier

FDI in multi-brand retail on Wednesday got the approval of the Lok Sabha as the Opposition motion seeking immediate withdrawal of the decision was rejected convincingly as the BSP and the SP staged a walkout. The Opposition motion got 218 votes in favour and 253 against with 471 members participa

Former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa says he is disappointed with the BJP leadership and will have no further discussions with anyone. He also says he is not going to destabilise the Karnataka government but at least 50-60 legislators will join him in his new party. Highlights of an exc

Mohali: It was a promise delivered floor by floor. In just 48 hours, an entrepreneur has constructed a 10-floor building in Mohali, a suburban town in Punjab. The red and grey facade building, Instacon, stood tall on an industrial plot in Mohali, 10 kilometres from Chandigarh today, two days afte

New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS): The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), which is executing the "Aadhaar" scheme pan-India, Friday launched a new facility to enable people update their demographic profile by post or by way of an online application. The authority said in a statement that upda

Gandhinagar: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders LK Advani and Sushma Swaraj will be in Gujarat today to campaign for the assembly elections that are less than two weeks away. Mrs Swaraj will address a rally in Vadodara. Mr Advani is scheduled to campaign in the state over the next two da

Former Prime Minister of India, Inder Kumar Gujral, the head of unsteady coalition government in 1990s, died at the age of 92 following brief illness on 30 November 2012. I.K. Gujral last breathed in a private hospital at 3.27 P.M following multiple organ failure. After lung infection, he was admi

NEW DELHI: Government is considering raising cap on supply of subsidised LPG cylinders and a decision will be taken in the "next few days", petroleum and natural gas minister M Veerappa Moily said in the Lok Sabha on Friday. "We are considering it (giving more than six subsidised cylinders) and n

NEW DELHI - The Supreme Court on directed the Maharashtra government to explain the circumstances under which its police arrested two girls from Palghar in Thane district for posting comments on Facebook on the November 18, 2012 shutdown for Bal Thackeray’s funeral. “The Maharashtra government is

Bangalore- BS Yeddyurappa was in tears this morning as he prepared to formally quit the BJP, his party of 40 years. The 70-year-old former Karnataka Chief Minister is now at Bangalore's Freedom Park, from where he will dramatically walk a kilometre to the state assembly and hand in his resignation a

A 10-storey building, set to come up in just 48 hours! A businessman in Chandigarh claims it is possible, and he will prove it. Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal is set to lay the foundation stone of the 10-storey building, INSTACON, Thursday. The brain behind the project, bus

(AFP) / 29 November 2012 India is set to amend its hate speech laws following a public outcry over two women arrested for posting comments on Facebook after the death of hardline politician Bal Thackeray. The new guidelines by the communications and information technology ministry will make it h