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

New Delhi, Nov 28 (PTI) : A Delhi court today dismissed the bail plea of two senior journalists of Zee News channel and remanded them to two-day police custody on a complaint by Congress MP Naveen Jindal's group that they tried to extort Rs.100 crore for not broadcasting news reports on coal sca

New Delhi - 25 Nov 2012: The Prime Minister headed Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC) has cleared the names of Syed Asif Ibrahim and Alok Joshi as heads of the Intelligence Bureau and the Research & Analysis Wing (RAW) respectively. Yashovardhan Azad, who was considered for the p

New Delhi - 24 Nov 2012 (PTI): Arvind Kejriwal's party was on Saturday named Aam Admi Party at a meeting of its founder members here during which the Constitution for the organization was also adopted. The meeting of around 300 founder members was held at Constitution Club during which Kejriw

MUMBAI, November 21, 2012 : Ajmal Kasab, the lone Pakistani gunman caught alive after the Mumbai terror attack, was hanged to death at the Yerawada central prison in Pune in a top-secret operation this morning, less than a week before the fourth anniversary of the carnage. 25-year-old Kasab was h

Mumbai -The BCCI working committee today failed to reach a consensus on whether to bring Mohammed Azharuddin back under the parent body's fold after the Andhra Pradesh High Court lifted life ban on former Indian captain by the cricket board. "The decision on Azharuddin's future in BCCI has been d