THRISSUR: Chief minister Oommen Chandy said the Mullaperiyar issue was not created by Kerala deliberately. It was raised after a series of earthquakes near the dam site created a fear psychosis among people. He was speaking at a mass contact programme in Thrissur on Thursday. He said, "Kerala is not against giving water to Tamil Nadu. Kerala ...Read More

New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived in Moscow on Thursday on a three-day visit to Russia during which he will work on further expanding bilateral cooperation and consolidating coordination on regional and global issues. Singh arrived at the Sheremetyevo International Airport and was received by Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister AM Vadakin. The PM will be attending the 12th annual India-Russia summit which ...Read More

AHMEDABAD: Suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt sparked yet another controversy with another dig at chief minister Narendra Modi. Bhatt on Thursday sought his joint cross-examination along with Modi and former-DGP R B Sreekumar before the Nanavati Commission in connection with the alleged undermining of judicial proceedings related to 2002 riots. In a letter to the two-member judicial panel, Bhatt ...Read More

CHANDIGARH: Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday reserved its verdict on the petition challenging the Punjab government's transport policy allegedly manipulated for personal profits by the state chief minister and his family. The order is expected to be pronounced on Thursday. The matter had reached before the high court through a petition filed by Barrister Himmat Singh Shergill contending that the state chief Minister Parkash ...Read More

The cabinet's delay in clearing the Food Security Bill, which is close to her heart, seems to have angered the usually restrained UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi. Sonia is learnt to have taken up the issue with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, upset at both the PM and some UPA allies over the stalled Bill. As word spread that two UPA allies, the Nationalist ...Read More

NEW DELHI: The government on Wednesday accepted senior BJP leader L K Advani's demand and assured Parliament that it would bring a white paper on the black money issue while rejecting the opposition's insistence that names of those who have accounts in the Geneva branch of HSBC be revealed. Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee declared in the House that none of the present ...Read More

Calling for adoption of super critical and ultra-super critical technologies for power generation, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said India should improve the energy consumption pattern in order to achieve the 12th Plan (2012-17) growth target of nine per cent. “Since we are largely dependent on fossil fuels, any improvement in the energy efficiency of our thermal power generation plants will ...Read More

New Delhi: The Bombay High Court is likely to pronounce its order on the bail application of naval officer Emile Jerome in Neeraj Grover murder case. Earlier on Wednesday, observing that there was circumstantial evidence against Emile Jerome, convicted in the Neeraj Grover murder case, the Bombay High Court said it was not inclined to grant him bail. "We are not inclined to ...Read More

MUMBAI: India is stepping up efforts to require Facebook Inc, Google Inc and other internet portals to remove content that may offend religious groups or incite political violence in the world's second-most populous nation. The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology will meet today with internet and social-media companies, bloggers and other content producers to discuss ways to minimize postings that ...Read More

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is all set to file a status report on the Bhanwari Devi case in the Rajasthan High Court on Thursday. Sources say the report is likely to state that Bhanwari Devi's husband Amar Chand was involved in her abduction. Sources say the CBI has found a witness in Amar Chand's driver in the Bhanwari ...Read More