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New Delhi, June 12: The Centre today placed before the Supreme Court the "relevant" material and documents on the basis of which it carved out 4.5 per cent sub-quota for minorities in the central educational institutions such as IITs. Additional Solicitor General Gourab Banerji mentioned the issue and placed the documents before a bench comprising justices K S Radhakrishnan and J S Khehar, which

Washington, Jun 12: External Affairs Minister S M Krishna arrived here to hold the third Strategic Dialogue with his counterpart Hillary Clinton, during which the two sides are expected to discuss a wide range of bilateral and regional issues. Krishna, who would co-chair the meeting with Clinton on June 13, is leading a high-powered delegation. During the meet the two leaders are expected to

New Delhi, June 12: In an unprecedented broadside at the UPA-II government's style of functioning, global rating agency Standard and Poor's (S&P) on Monday pointed to the operational roles of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and “unelected” Manmohan Singh as Prime Minister for the current economic impasse and threatened to downgrade India's sovereign credit rating to ‘speculative' from the lowest

Hyderabad, June 12: A crucial day for Jagan Mohan Reddy and the Congress in Andhra Pradesh. By-polls to the Nellore Lok Sabha seat and 18 Legislative assembly constituencies is underway on Tuesday. The ruling Congress, the opposition TDP and Jagan's YSR Congress party will be slugging it out for these seats. Polling has commenced at 8 am. The assembly seats including one in Telangana fell vacant

New Delhi, June 11: Veeravalli Sundaram Sampath has taken charge as the new Chief Election Commissioner today, after former chief SY Quraishi's six-year tenure ended yesterday. Mr Sampath officially assumed office this morning at the Election Commission headquarters in Delhi. After taking charge as the new CEC, Mr Sampath said, "The commission will strive for early implementation of electoral

New Delhi, June 11: VRS Natarajan, who is the head of the government-run defence unit BEML, has been suspended, based on a recommendation by the CBI. Mr Natarajan has recently spawned a series of controversies. BEML supplies what are known as Tatra trucks to the Army. The CBI is investigating whether the defence public sector unit violated guidelines in buying and supplying the trucks to the Army

Rajkot, June 11: Chief minister Narendra Modi came to Rajkot on Sunday, what is essentially his bete noire Keshubhai Patel's home turf, but chose to make no mention of the dissidents. Even as Sanjay Joshi's supporters were shouting slogans against him outside the venue of the Gujarat BJP's two-day executive meeting, he took aim at the UPA in Delhi. "Congress has little chance of survival," he told

New Delhi, June 11: Rich overseas entities, investing in Indian markets through 'participatory notes' (P-notes/PNs), are estimated to have pulled out over Rs 1 lakh crore (about USD 20 billion) in less than three months on fears of getting caught in the government's taxation net and its black money trail. As a result, the quantum of money invested through these PNs has hit its rock-bottom levels

Khargram, June 11: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday said all the money kept by Indians abroad is not black money and noted that India has signed treaties with 37 countries to know the details of such illegal wealth. "Not all money kept abroad is black money ... It might have been deposited by businessmen or business houses. The process will take time to know the exact amount," he told a

New Delhi, Jun 11: The ongoing war of words between Team Anna and the government reached a new low on Sunday with one of the team members comparing the prime minister to the blind king in Mahabharata and a Union minister questioning the integrity of Anna Hazare’s followers. Launching a scathing attack on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, a key member of Team Anna, Kiran Bedi, on Sunday sought to