As many as 10,000 inmates of relief camps have returned to their homes since Monday, reducing the total number of camp inmates in the four violence-hit districts of Kokrajhar, Chirang, Dhubri and Bongaingaon to 2,92,852 on Tuesday. Of them, 2,31,308 inmates are in 175 camps for the Muslims, 61,439

Three weeks ahead of External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna's scheduled visit to Pakistan for negotiations with his counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar, highly placed Indian government sources are cautioning against hopes of a significant forward movement in the relationship between the two countries - e

Chennai - 14 Aug 2012 (PTI):Union ministerand former Maharashtra chief ministerVilasrao Deshmukh, who has been battling liver cancer in a city hospital, died here on Tuesday afternoon. He was 67.Having registered with the Tamil Nadu organ registry for a liver and a kidney, Vilasrao's case was cleare

New Delhi, Mon Aug 13: Just days after promising free cell phones to BPL families in what is widely regarded as a pre-election gimmick by the govt, Planning Commission is now reportedly considering a proposal for distributing free bicycles for class nine girl students belonging to the minority comm

New Delhi : The Prime Minister's Office, External Affairs Ministry, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha Secretariats and Central Public Works Department (CPW-D) have spent Rs 1.75 crore on 18 iftar parties over the past 10 years even though the Ministry of Finance (MoF) maintains that public funds can't be u

New Delhi : Reproaching "some megalomaniac police officers" who think they are the "law" and not its protectors, the Supreme Court on Friday slammed the Chhattisgarh Police for torturing an Ayurvedic doctor in custody 20 years ago. It also ordered the police to pay a compensation of Rs five lakh to

The government has put a word limit of 500 words for filing an application under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. Besides this, a new format has been devised for filing an appeal to the Central Information Commission under the transparency law. The government has also made it mandatory for an ap

Mumbai: Two people died at Mumbai's Azad Maidan after a protest over the ethnic violence in Assam turned violent. The police had to fire in the air and lathicharge the crowds after a section of them burnt vehicles, including media vans on Saturday evening. People started coming into Azad Maidan gro

New Delhi - 09 Aug 2012 (PTI): Yoga guruBaba Ramdevon Thursday launched a three-day fast along with his supporters demanding immediate action to enact a strong Lokpal and steps to bring back black money stashed away in foreign banks failing which he will announce his future strategy. Returning to Ra

New Delhi - 08 Aug 2012 (PTI): The issue ofAssam violencecreated turmoil in theLok Sabhaon the first day of the monsoon session today with several opposition members storming the Well.Despite SpeakerMeira Kumaradmitting an adjournment motion by BJP on the issue, members including those of BJP, Shiv

New Delhi - 07 Aug 2012: In what could turn out to be its calling card for the 2014 general elections, the government is finalizing a Rs 7,000 crore scheme to give onemobilephone to every family living below the poverty line.Sources in the PMO said the scheme-Har Hath Mein Phone-expected to be annou

New Delhi - 08 Aug 2012:UPA candidate Hamid Ansari was on Tuesday re-elected India's Vice President, defeating NDA nominee Jaswant Singh. Lok Sabha secretary general TK Vishwanathan, the returning officer for the poll, made the announcement about Ansari's re-election minutes after the counting ended

Mangalore, August 7: Busting a prostitution racket, police have nabbed six persons allegedly engaged in flesh trading at an apartment in the city on Monday evening. Interestingly, all of the arrested including men and women are said to be local leaders and activists of Bharatiya Janata Party. Two am

New Delhi - 07 Aug 2012 (PTI): UPA nomineeHamid Ansariappears set to win a second term as voting in vice-presidential elections got underway on Tuesday.Ansari has the support of UPA's allies, the Left and also other parties supporting the govt from outside.A total of 788 Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha MP

Guwahati - 06 Aug 2012: After 10 days of relative silence, violence has once again broken out in lower Assam, which was ravaged by ethnic clashes last month. Four more bodies have been recovered from the Kokrajhar and Chirang districts today, taking the toll to 63 in the ethnic clashes.Three people

New Delhi - 03 Aug 2012 (PTI): Indicating steps towards forming a political party, Team Anna today announced launching of a "movement" and putting up candidates in the 2014 elections. "This is not a party. It will be a movement from the street to Parliament. There will be no high command. People wil

New Delhi: For years, the AIIMS (All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi), India's top medical college,entrance examination has been the hunt for the best. But students from the Muslim-dominated northern region of Kerala have been cracking the code consistently for the last five years, i

New Delhi - 01 Aug 2012 (IANS): A day after the biggestblackoutin the country, affecting half of India's population, the main distribution company on Wednesday said nearly 100 percent of the demand had been restored in all five regions of the country. According to the Power System Operation Corp, a