India

New Delhi, October 1: BJP president Nitin Gadkari on Monday slapped a criminal defamation case against Congress leader Digvijay Singh for accusing him of having business links with his party MP Ajay Sancheti who allegedly pocketed Rs 500 crore in coal block allocation. Singh had recently made statements that Sancheti was Gadkari's business partner and had earned a huge profit of around Rs 500

New Delhi, October 1: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi upped the ante on Monday asking Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with whose permission the "wasteful expenditure" of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), were being made. "Should we forgive such people who make such wasteful expenditures?" he asked. The Gujarat CM launched a barrage of criticism against UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi saying

New Delhi, October 1: Stating that the United Progressive Alliance was trying to sell the country, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee said on Monday that she might bring a no-confidence motion against the government in the next parliament session. Addressing a rally against economic reforms at Jantar Mantar here, the Trinamool Congress chief said she might bring a no-confidence motion

Mumbai, October 1: Aviation regulator DGCA will today review Kingfisher Airline's operations in the wake of mass cancellation of its flights, even as a section of the airlines Mumbai-based pilots joined in the strike by its engineers. "We will review the situation of Kingfisher Airline," Director General of Civil Aviation Arun Mishra told PTI. Mishra also said that airline's situation will also be

Jaipur, October 1: In an attempt to save itself from embarrassment, the Rajasthan government has clarified that a circular purportedly banning all state government employees from participating in any programme of the BJP, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) or any other Sangh affiliates, is fake. The circular, which appears to have been timed with a three-day RSS camp in Jaipur scheduled to take

Mumbai, October 1: A non-existing company owned by BJP Rajya Sabha MP Ajay Sancheti bagged irrigation projects worth Rs 1,350 crore in Maharashtra in 2007-08. The firm, Shakti Kumar M Sancheti Ltd, was renamed SMS Infrastructure in November 2005. Yet, Sancheti was awarded contracts by the Vidarbha Irrigation Development Corporation (VIDC) under the name of the old company. "Once the name of a

Coimbatore, October 1: It was a defining moment for Coimbatore's dalits when several of them entered the 120-year-old Mariamman temple at Kalapatti for the first time on Sunday with the support of the Tamil Nadu Untouchability Eradication Front (TNUEF) and CPM activists. Located 5km away from Coimbatore airport, the temple had been out of bounds for dalits until now. Around 2,000 families from the

New Delhi, September 30: Maintaining strong opposition to entering politics as it is “full of dirt”, Anna Hazare on Sunday claimed that he did not get answers from the Arvind Kejriwal-led group on questions raised by him on how to organise a political alternative. Mr. Hazare, who arrived in New Delhi on Sunday morning and met activists to chalk out the next course of action on an apolitical anti

New Delhi, September 30: India is considering a proposal to expand its Customs Overseas Intelligence Network across Asia for checking cross-border illegal trade and blackmoney besides gathering information on commercial frauds. A proposal in this regard is under consideration of the Ministry of External Affairs, sources said. The network, which functions under the Directorate of Revenue

Hyderabad, September 30: A confrontation between students of Osmania University and the police on Sunday morning raised tension levels in the State capital, which is all set to witness the Telangana March called by Telangana Joint Action Committee and supported by various parties and organisations to press for bifurcation of the state. Tension gripped the sunny Sunday morning in Hyderabad as