India

Thiruvananthapuram, October 21: Members of Parliament A. Sampath and M.P. Achuthan have demanded action against the CISF personnel at the Thiruvananthapuram airport and the crew of the Air India Express flight that was diverted from Nedumbassery on Friday for illegal detention and harassment of passengers including women and children. Addressing reporters here on Saturday, they said the unsavoury

Ahmedabad, October 21: Gujarat cadre IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt has complained that the G.T. Nanavati- Akshay Mehta judicial inquiry commission, probing the 2002 train carnage and post-Godhra communal riots, is creating “impediments” in his bid to inspect some official documents. (Mr. Bhatt had alleged complicity on the part of Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the State-wide riots.) “Disappointed ”

New Delhi, October 20: Stepping up his attack against Arvind Kejriwal, Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh posed a number of questions to him raising doubts about offshore funding of his NGO and asking why he never raised issue of corruption in BJP-ruled states. A day after shooting off a letter to Kejriwal in which the Congress leader described him as a "self-serving ambitious megalomaniac

Dudu, October 20: Millions across the country may soon get benefits of various government schemes such as cooking gas subsidies and old age pension with the launch of the much-awaited Aadhaar-enabled direct cash transfer system here. Prime Minster Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi launched the much touted payment mechanism which is aimed at checking corruption and pilferage in the

New Delhi, October 20: Aviation regulator DGCA on Saturday suspended the flying licence of beleaguered Kingfisher Airlines for failing to come up with a viable plan for its financial and operational revival and resolve the impasse with its employees over payment of their salary dues. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has suspended the Scheduled Operator Permit of Kingfisher Airlines

New Delhi, October 20: A day after BJP MP Ram Jethmalani claimed that RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat is also in favour of projecting Narendra Modi as the Prime Ministerial candidate of the party in 2014, the organisation has reiterated the known position that it was for the BJP to decide on the issue. The RSS chief told television channels he has nothing to say on the subject and it was for Mr

Madurai, October 19: Controversial self-styled godman Nithyananda was on Friday sacked by the senior pontiff as his successor of a 1,500-year old Saivaite mutt here, an appointment which had attracted widespread condemnation from various quarters including Tamil Nadu Government. Nithyananda is facing criminal charges, including rape, in Karnataka where his ashram near Bangalore was recently

Ahmedabad, October 19: In the wake of a Gujarat High Court order regarding the PIL filed by suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, the state government has submitted some of the documents pertaining to the 2002 post-Godhra riots to the Nanavati Commission. “The Commission has informed me that the state government has submitted documents asked by me last evening. Officials are indexing those documents

New Delhi, October 19: Suspension of licence stares in the face of crisis-ridden Kingfisher Airline as it extended its lockout till October 23 and submitted a reply to aviation regulator DGCA's show-cause notice on the matter. Reacting to the airline's reply, official sources said the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) was consulting legal experts on what action -- suspension or

New Delhi, October 19: Expanding the ambit of its 1997 Vishaka verdict, the Supreme Court today directed all regulatory bodies like BCI and MCI, which regulate different professions, to set up a committee to deal with all cases of sexual harassment at the workplace. A three-judge bench headed by Justice R M Lodha directed regulating bodies and all the institutions affiliated to them to implement