The Supreme Court on Monday set up a special investigation team (SIT) led by two retired judges to probe the black money issue and criticised the government in the matter. Jeevan Reddy and MB Shah, who are retired Supreme Court judges, will head the SIT. The Supreme Court has been monitoring the gov

Ahmedabad: The State government is maintaining stoic silence after its counsel at the GT Nanavati-Akshay Mehta Commission S B Vakil told media persons on Wednesday that crucial intelligence records of 2002 communal riots had been destroyed by the government in 2007. Senior government officials re

NEW DELHI: An all-party meet on Lokpal on Sunday agreed that a "strong and effective" bill should be brought in the monsoon session of Parliament with consensus on maintaining the supremacy of Parliament and established procedures. However, there were differences on various provisions of the propo

Chennai: In a heart throbbing incident, a 13-year-old boy was shot dead, allegedly by Army personnel while trying to trespass into an Army compound here on Sunday, according to a news report by a private television news channel. Dilshan has been immediately rushed to a government hospital nearb

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The legend ofEl Doradowas definitely not set on theSree Padmanabhaswamy temple. But the seven-member panel, which is drawing up a list of assets at the famed shrine here, had a feel of the lost city of gold as they set foot in one of the two secret vaults located inside the spraw

New Delhi: Social activist Anna Hazare and other representatives of the civil society will meet Congress President Sonia Gandhi here on Saturday to seek her support on the Jan Lokpal Bill. The civil society activists will meet the UPA chairperson at her 10, Janpath residence at around 4.30 pm. I

Munger (Bihar), July 2 (PTI) In a pre-dawn strike, Maoists posing as CRFP personnel attacked a village in the district today, leaving six villagers dead.The heavily-armed rebels attacked Kareili village around 5 AM and shot dead the villagers including some tribals.While five villagers were killed o

NEW DELHI: Kim Davy, the main accused in the Purulia arms drop case, will not be extradited to India for now. A five-member Constitutional bench of the Danish high court has rejected Davy's extradition plea in connection with the Purulia arms drop case. The Danish government had allowed the ex

Bhopal: The pain and misery of the survivors of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy, the world's worst industrial disaster, sees no end and has been transferred to their progenies. They continue to suffer, writhe in pain and agony in the face of governments' apathy while counting days as to when their

Agra - 29 June 2011 : Yakub Habeebuddin Tucy, who claims to be the last descendent of the Mughal family, has demanded the country's highest civilian award - the Bharat Ratna - for Bahadur Shah Zafar. Tucy, who arrived here from Hyderabad for the Urs of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, said he had been

New Delhi - 29 June 2011: Prime MinisterManmohan Singhhas said he has no objection to Rahul Gandhi succeeding him as PM but said no such discussions were currently taking place within the ruling party.In his interaction with the editors on Wednesday, Manmohan Singh said he had no hesitation in bring

New Delhi - 29 June 2011: Amid speculation that a major Cabinet reshuffle is expected in the first fortnight of July, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday met few ministers as part of her consultation process on the issue. Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad was the first to meet Gandhi.

Mangalore - 28 June 2011: In a shocking incident, a young woman and her seven year old daughter were found brutally murdered this afternoon at Panjimogaru near Kavoor locality of the city.Razia (32) and Zia Fathima (7), the victims, are believed to have been alone at home when the crime took place.

New Delhi: In a knee-jerk reaction, some Muslim leaders have termed as "blasphemous" the Chennai statement of Union Minister for Minority Affairs Salman Khurshid wherein he reportedly said that Sachar Committee report is not Holy Quran that it should be accepted blindly. Several Muslim leaders an

New Delhi: In an important development, marking a radical shift in the UPA government's approach, from pre-Sachar to post-Sachar period, the Union Minister of Minorities Affairs Salman Khursheed has questioned, both the credibility of the Sachar report and blind acceptance of its recommendations

Mumbai - 27 June 2011: A fortnight after senior crime journalist Jyotirmoy Dey was shot dead,Mumbaipolice on Monday cracked the case claiming that underworld donChhota Rajanwas behind the murder, even as they remained tight-lipped about the motive."The murder was planned by Rohit Thangappan alias Sa

Bangalore - 27 June 2011: Fifteen people were killed on Monday when their tempo collided with a passenger bus on the Bangalore-Pune highway near Karnataka'sTumkur town."The tragic mishap occurred when the overcrowded tempo collided head-on with a state-run passenger bus while attempting to overtake

Bangalore - 27 June 2011: Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa offered prayers at the temple of Lord Manjunatha here but did not undergo a "truth testification" before the deity, a challenge he had thrown to JDS leader HD Kumaraswamy but later retracted. Yeddyurappa had said that he dropped