Pawar quits Lok Pal Bill panel over Hazare's jibe

Under attack from social activist and anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare, Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Wednesday quit the Group of Ministers on corruption, saying he does not want to be......

Anna can't impose his Bill upon Parliament: PM

Following is the text of the statement by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the Lok Sabha Hon'ble Speaker, It is my painful duty to report to this House certain events that took place yesterday in......

Corruption a bigger threat to India than Pakistan: Anna Hazare

Activist Anna Hazare's campaign against corruption gathered steam as he received support from scores of people across India on Monday. But for Hazare this fight is nothing new. He first raised his......

'No controversy on bringing PM under Lok Pal'

Appointed the co-chairman of the much-talked about Lokpal Bill panel, former law and justice minister Shanti Bhushan speaks to rediff.com's Onkar Singh on the urgent need of ant-corruption law, why......

Mumbai-Nagpur by rail in 3 hours? Possible!

Travelling at a speed of 300 km per hour on the Mumbai-Pune-Nagpur route may not be a distant dream for train commuters as a pre-feasibility report submitted to Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok......

Bill Gates keen to partner ID card project

Microsoft, the world's largest software company, is keen to partner India in a project to issue unique identification to each citizen, its chairman Bill Gates said on Friday. "Microsoft wants to......

Budget session: 72 Bills, very little time

The government has released an ambitious list of 72 Bills to be taken up in the Budget session of Parliament beginning Thursday. However, the absence of political unanimity on most of these Bills......

Murthy sad over how UPA handled corruption issue

Infosys founder, N R Narayana Murthy, otherwise an admirer of the government, says he's unhappy at the way Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh have handled the Lok Pal Bill issue. In an interview to......

Satyameva Jayate 2 review

Satyamev Jayate 2 has a dated circa 1990s script which won't find acceptance with today's generations, observes Syed Firdaus Ashraf. I have always wondered why it is called 'Law & Order', not......

'Team Anna is 'selling' a happy ending, a mirage'

Social activist Anna Hazare has gained support from all over, including Bollywood. Celebrities like Anupam Kher, Farhan Akhtar and Hrithik Roshan have already come forward in support......