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

UDUPI: Swami Vivekananda, already standing tall in the annals of Indian history, is about to stand taller – at about 100 feet to be precise. Coming up at Bailur village near Udupi, the statue will be the tallest monolith in India. The monument will be erected adjacent to the Sri Ramakrishna Ashrama

Hyderabad, November 17:Going by the latest report from New Delhi, the Congress high command is planning to rope in its high profile MP and former Indian cricket captain Mohammad Azharuddin to take on Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen president Asaduddin Owaisi in Hyderabad in the next Lok Sabha elections

MUMBAI, India (AP) — Bal Thackeray, a Hindu extremist leader linked to waves of mob violence against Muslims and migrant workers in India, died Saturday after an illness of several weeks. He was 86. Jalil Parkar, a doctor who treated him, said the politician had gone into cardio-respiratory arrest

GUWAHATI: The district administration of troubled Kokrajhar of Bodoland Territorial Area Districts (BTAD) of Assam imposed indefinite curfew on Thursday morning after suspected militants shot one person dead and stabbed another in two separate incidents in the district. The Army, which was called

Lashkar operative Syed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal sent money through acquaintances from Saudi Arabia to India on several occasions, the supplementary charge sheet filed in the 2006 Aurangabad arms haul case reveals. The charge sheet has, however, does not mention what the money, which acco

HYDERABAD: It was a curfew-like situation for the second consecutive day near Charminar on Monday. Though no violence was reported on Monday, police took extra precautions to prevent any possible trouble and arrested a seer who wanted to perform puja at the Bhagyalakshmi temple. Since morning, poli

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's career provides a classic example of how a kinky ideology can thwart political ambitions in a pluralistic society. Yet, when the same ideological outlook enabled him to scale the heights of political power by winning the 2002 assembly elections in Gujarat, he m