Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday spoke with the chief ministers of Tamil Nadu and West Bengal and asked them to oppose the powers to be vested in the proposed National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC). Mr Patnaik discussed with J Jayalalithaa and Mamata Banerjee and drew their attention to the powers the central government has planned to vest with the NCTC. Mr Patnaik has ...Read More

Union Law and Justice Minister and Congress leader Salman Khurshid, who challenged the Election Commission's authority to censure him for his remarks on a sub-quota for the minorities, has backtracked and regretted his statement. Sources said the Election Commission was yet to take a decision on his letter. “I treat this matter as unfortunate and regret the statement. I bow to the wisdom of the Election ...Read More

Mumbai: Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Monday asserted that his party was "indestructible" and the Congress could not finish it off even if it had "seven more lives". "Even if you are reborn seven times, you will fail to destroy the Shiv Sena," Thackeray said, referring to Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan's recent statements that after the ensuing municipal corporation elections, the Shiv Sena would ...Read More

Bangalore: Senior BJP leader and Karnataka higher education minister VS Acharya collapsed while attending a function and died in Bangalore on Tuesday. Acharya, 71, was soon after rushed to a hospital, officials said. He is survived by wife, four sons and a daughter. He was not keeping well for some time. "He (Acharya) is no more with us", Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda, said as he ...Read More

ucknow: Polling for the third phase of UP Assembly elections for 56 seats in 10 districts would be held on Wednesday that will decide the fate of three cabinet minister, a minister of state, 29 sitting MLAs and 14 former ministers. More than 1.75 crore voters are expected to cast their votes to seal the fate of 1018 candidates in the polling to be held in ...Read More

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said there was a need for a “critical” study of the existing regulatory framework to find out whether they were coming in the way of development and growth of employment and industry without really contributing to labour welfare. “Though our government remains committed to protecting the interests of our workers, we must periodically take a critical look whether our regulatory ...Read More

Kamal Chauhan , a disgruntled Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh worker arrested by the National Investigation Agency, had planted bombs on board Samjhauta Express in 2007 after undergoing training in arms and explosives in Haryana and Madhya Pradesh, the India's premier investigation agency claimed on Tuesday. Chauhan was taken to Panchkula court which on Tuesday granted NIA his custody till February 24 for questioning him on his alleged ...Read More

New Delhi: Delhi will witness one of the biggest coordinated mockdrills on Wednesday through which preparedness of various agencies will be checked by creating simulated situations across the city involving schools, colleges, metro network, malls, markets, hospitals and road transport. A number of metro stations will be closed for up to half-an-hour and road traffic will be converted in many areas of Central, South and North ...Read More

New Delhi: Indian investigators probing the bomb attack on an Israeli diplomat in Delhi have woken up to the use of ‘sticky bombs’ – a very unconventional weapon hence very dangerous. It has never been used in India and hence suggests the hand of a foreign agency. Known as ‘Obwah Lasica’ in the Arab world, the small and furtive sticky bomb has emerged as a device ...Read More

Pune: Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan once again came down on the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and blamed it for opposing good projects just for the sake of it and creating hurdles in development. He was addressing a public rally in Gokhalenagar on Monday. Stating that the Congress had to face opposition from the NCP while sharing power with it at the ...Read More