Under attack from the Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi, Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Monday hit back at him asking whether education and irrigation had been made free in Gujarat like Uttar Pradesh, and charged his party with instigating riots to impede growth.

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The much-delayed $12 billion Posco steel project in Odisha is set to be operational in the next few weeks and granting of mining concession to the South Korean firm was in an advanced stage of processing, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Thursday.

The government is working to expedite clearances to $12 billion project of steel major Posco in Odisha that was awarded environment clearance last week, Commerce and Indutry Minister Anand Sharma said on Tuesday.

The Rs 56,000-crore (Rs 560 billion) Adani Group on Monday received a major blow from the Gujarat High Court, which ordered a shutdown of 12 units in Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ), located in Mundra, Kutch district, with immediate effect.

Downplaying concerns of delay, Amitabh Kant, managing director of Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (DMIC), says the project will be delivered on time.

Dozens of fans fought a savage battle on the terraces at a Brazilian championship match on Sunday, interrupting play for more than one hour and leaving at least three people reportedly hospitalised in serious condition.

India's maiden mission to Mars has traversed beyond the sphere of influence of Earth extending about 9,25,000 km in its 10-month long voyage to the red planet.

Mar Remegiose Inchananiyil, the Bishop of the Thamarassery diocese in Kozhikode, Kerala, told a public meeting that there would be another 'Jallianwala Bagh' in the foothills of the Western Ghats if the K Kasturirangan committee report is implemented. He spoke to Rediff.com's Shobha Warrier about the plight of the farmers and why he has taken up the issue.

The Mars mission is overwhelmingly irrelevant to space science and won't advance the frontiers of knowledge. It will divert attention from the real technological challenges facing the Indian space programme, and will further distort our science and technology priorities, says Praful Bidwai.

Sit back, and join us in our joy ride to our planetary neighbour! Bharat Mata ki Jai!

B D Agarwal, who is India's largest manufacturer and exporter of guar gum powder is taking the Congress by storm Rajasthan

After the mad prep for CAT, how can you make the best use of your time and energy in the days to follow.

NASA's Deep Space Networks will help India to track the Mars orbiter's journey, and will also help to track it when it will go around Mars, reports Ritu Jha from California.

While the Mars mission got wide praise, there were voices which questioned the need for spending Rs 450-500 crore on it when the country is facing hunger and poverty.

ISRO's expedition to Mars is yet another breathtaking adventure for an organisation created by Dr Vikram Sarabhai and carefully nurtured by scientists like A P J Abdul Kalam and R Aravamudan.

In a dramatic turn of events, the Ranji Trophy Group C match between Himachal Pradesh and Goa was cancelled but resumed later on Sunday after BCCI president N Srinivasan intervened to sort out a political tug of war.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Mars rover Curiosity has discovered water during its first sample analysis of the Red planet's surface.

Regardless of Phata Poster Nikhla Hero's uneven pace and indecisive disposition, Shahid Kapoor, armed with a kooky grin, gives it his best shot.

The plan to set up a human colony on Mars is a crude joke on unsuspecting and ignorant space enthusiasts, says Dinesh C Sharma.

The thing that looks terribly outdated, though, is the balance of power between those who govern and those whom they govern, says Mitali Saran

NASA's Curiosity rover has completed one year on Mars. The car-sized robotic rover successfully landed on Mars on August 6, 2012, and has achieved its main goal of revealing ancient Mars could have supported life.

Director Boopathy Pandian's Tamil film Pattathu Yaanai is an average fare, marred by a poor script and weak performances.

The war of words between the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party over the Uttarakhand floods continue, even as thousands continue to be stranded in the flood-hit state.

After L K Advani's comments appreciating the leadership of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan caused a flutter, senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader M Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday said too much is being read into the comments of the party's patriarch.

Food bill, which is dubbed as the world's largest social welfare programme, aims to give legal right over an uniform quantity of 5 kg foodgrains at a fixed price of Rs 1-3 per kg via ration shops to 67 per cent of the population.

Daily revelations about the wealth amassed by Bansal's family made it increasingly difficult for the Congress leadership to protect him, reports Anita Katyal

India just needs to exploit its natural strengths to live up to its potential, says Arun Jaitley.

A series of rape incidents, a minister going behind bars in an air hostess suicide case and sexual abuse of women and child inmates in a shelter home brought infamy to Haryana in 2012, overshadowing the glory its sports persons achieved at the London Olympics.

A city court restrained the All India Football Federation (AIFF) from preventing Mohun Bagan from participating in the I-League.

A veteran National Aeronautics and Space Administration space commander is set to make an out-of-the-world record by spending the most consecutive days in space by any American in a single mission.Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will launch aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in spring 2015 and will land in Kazakhstan in spring 2016.

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China declared a ceasefire on November 21 and kept Aksai Chin as its trophy. The sinews of the IAF were not muscular enough to retake Aksai Chin. What matters is what we have done since 1962. Air-minded, we are, but are we strong-minded? asks M P Anil Kumar.

The national trait of exploiting the inherent weakness of democracy is now mirrored within the ICAI too.

The company got possession of land in Karnataka for Rs 30,000-crore steel plant, six years after it announced grand India plans.

Battle lines have been drawn for Sunday's poll for the 68-member Himachal Pradesh assembly where political heavyweights Prem Kumar Dhumal and Virbhadra Singh are jostling for the attention of voters, for whom the issue of price rise and corruption seems to have surpassed the anti-incumbency factor.

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IndianOil targets monthly 5,000-tonne polypropylene exports

Here are glimpses into the lives of Kashmiris, who live in a place described as paradise on earth.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Curiosity rover will send daily weather reports from Mars within a week or so, as it prepares for the first drive on the Red Planet.