India

New Delhi, November 19: The Rajya Sabha Select Committee on Monday adopted draft report on the Lokpal Bill. The select committee has also taken care of the differences over federal rights of states on appointment of Lokayukta. According to TV reports, the panel has sought that the prime minister be brought under the purview of Lokpal barring departments like Intelligence, Atomic Energy which are

Bangalore, November 19: Most private medical colleges in Karnataka ‘buy’ patients. This startling revelation has been made by state medical education minister SA Ramadas himself. In fact, the ‘buying’ of patients was one of the major issues discussed at a conference of health and medical education ministers held in Delhi on November 1 and 2. As per an observation made by Ramadas, most medical

Hyderabad, November 19: Niloufer, the daughter of Mukarram Jah, the eighth Nizam of Hyderabad, said on Sunday that she will go to court if she is denied her rightful share in ancestral property. Estimates suggest that she is taking claim on property worth Rs 2,000 crore. Niloufer, who recently turned 21 and is in Hyderabad with her mother, Manolya Onur, the Nizam's third ex-wife, said she has not

Chennai, November 19: Union minister for environment Jayanthi Natarajan on Sunday said the Congress would return to power in 2014 and party general secretary Rahul Gandhi would become Prime Minister. While many ministers and senior Congress leaders have expressed their desire to see Rahul Gandhi at the helm, this is the first time that a Union minister has declared he would be PM if the Congress

Mumbai, November 19: The maximum city is expected to be back at work on Monday with the Shiv Sena ruling out a bandh in the city after the death of party supremo Bal Thackeray. The traders' associations in the city, however, are considering to observe the day as 'Shradhanjali Day'. Bal Thackeray, the torchbearer of Hindutva politics, was cremated at Shivaji Park on Sunday evening with full state

Mumbai, November 18: He was considered a right-wing Hindu leader -- but Shiv Sena patriarch Bal Thackeray, who died Saturday, had full faith in a Muslim doctor, who was treating him for the last four years. One might never to able to solve the mystery as to why Thackeray trusted his family's health on Jalil Parkar, but the meticulous chest physician ensured that the trust was never broken. In 2009

Mumbai, November 18: The mortal remains of Bal Thackeray, a Hindutva mascot and flagbearer of Marathi pride, were consigned to flames as lakhs of mourners joined the Shiv Sena founder’s grieving family to bid him a tearful farewell, with the city observing a virtual shutdown. In a spontaneous outpouring of grief, a sea of humanity, unprecedented in recent memory, descended on the streets leading

Mumbai, November 18: The final journey of Shiv Sena patriarch Bal Thackeray began with his body being taken out for funeral procession from his residence in suburban Bandra on Sunday morning amid presence of thousands of grief-stricken Shiv Sainiks, who have come from across Maharashtra. People were also seen showering flowers on their beloved leader, who breathed his last on Saturday, after

Mumbai, November 18: The mantle to head Shiv Sena was handed over by party patriarch Bal Thackeray to his son Uddhav much before he became bed-ridden; but the inner strains and stresses in the party continued with senior party workers trying to bring Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) back into the fold. Soon after the announcement of Thackeray’s demise, Shiv Sena top leaders

Papasanipalli (A.P.), November 18: “People are more powerful than governments,” said Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Turning anxiously to her translator, the Nobel laureate added: “Please explain this to them.” These were Ms. Suu Kyi’s words to workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme with whom she interacted at Govindapuram village, standing on