Complying with the Election Commission's order, the West Bengal government on Wednesday removed seven officials from their existing posts and replaced them with different officials as desired......
The Bharatiya Janata Party, Communist Party of India-Marxist, Communist Party of India, Samajwadi Party, Shiromani Akali Dal have decided to join forces to oppose the government's move to hike the......
Outgoing Central Bureau of Investigation Director A P Singh looks back at his tenure as the chief of the country's premier investigating agency. He spoke exclusively to rediff.com's Onkar Singh.......
The death of a 14-year-old girl on Sunday raised questions about the manner in which the Delhi police treated rape and molestations cases.The girl, who went on a drive with her male friends and two......
A Bharatiya Janata Party delegation led by senior leader L K Advani will meet President Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday to discuss the coal scam. Advani will be accompanied by Murali Manohar Joshi,......
Bhartiya Janata Party,which called a nationwide bandh to protest against government's decision to allow foreign direct investment in the retail sector, has claimed overwhelming response from 10,000......
Speaker Somnath Chatterjee rejected the Bharatiya Janata Party's demand for a joint parliamentary probe into the Spectrum deal which according to BJP spokesman Prakash Javadekar is "the mother of......
Ending the suspense, political parties on Thursday gave the go-ahead to the government to allow IIMs, IITs and other Central educational institutions to proceed with admissions for general, SC and......
On Thursday, July 20, the Union Cabinet formally approved the setting up of the Sixth Pay Commission that will determine the wages of central government employees for the next 10 years. Trade......
The Union civil aviation ministry has taken steps to ensure that the air traffic is not affected at any of the 124 airports in the country and flights land and take off unhindered, in view of the......
A former minister in the Chandrashekhar government in the early 1990s, Lokendra Singh Kalvi, 54,has a new agenda. He has now taken up the issue of the distortion of history in Ashutosh Gowarikar's......
A day after Randhir Singh withdrew his candidature for the post of Indian Olympic Association president, several of his supporters on Monday pulled out of contests for various positions ahead of......
Following sports minister Ajay Maken's public statement that arrested Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi should be replaced as its president, the Indian Olympic......
Lalit Bhanot, former secretary general of the Commonwealth Organising committee and V K Verma, the OC's former director general, will be produced before the CBI special court in Patiala house to......
Raja Randhir Singh earned a name for himself as a marksmanof international reputeafter winning India'sfirstgold medal in shootingat the1978 Asian Games in Bangkok. Itwas just another milestone in......
Abhinav Bindra, who at the Beijing Olympics earned India its first individual gold medal, says the fame that came along with his gold medal from the 10 metres Air Rifle competition at the......