India

New Delhi, July 11: Home minister P Chidambaram, who may take charge of the finance ministry before Parliament's monsoon session begins early next month, on Tuesday indicated that the government has lined up measures to boost revenue collection and control unnecessary expenditure. "I think the prime minister-cum-finance minister is contemplating a number of measures to tighten revenue collection

Kolkata, July 11: Alliance partners Congress and Trinamool Congress on Tuesday continued to spar over Union Home Minister P Chidambaram's sharp indictment of the continuing political clashes in West Bengal. While state Congress chief Pradip Bhattacharya endorsed Chidamabaram's critical comments and challenged Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to prove the veracity of the counter data presented by her

New Delhi, July 11: After his comments in an interview to national daily Indian Express, saying the Congress party was "directionless" and Rahul Gandhi is only playing a "cameo role" triggered a controversy, law minister Salman Khurshid on Tuesday clarified saying his comments had been "misinterpreted and misconstrued". Khurshid disowned the remark made about the party being "directionless" but

New Delhi, July 10: The government has bought thousands of letters, papers and photographs which shed light on the life of Mahatma Gandhi, days before they were to be auctioned at Sotheby's in London, a government official said on Monday. India paid around 60 million rupees or $1.1 million for the papers, which cover Gandhi's time in South Africa, his return to India and his contentious

New Delhi, July 10: The humble navel has been an onscreen scorcher in many Bollywood and south Indian movies but now, the belly button is all set to don a more responsible role - the scarless route to treat common abdominal conditions like appendix, gall bladder stones and the weight loss bariatric surgery. Surgeons in Delhi will for the first time in Asia Pacific use what is called a 'spider

Mumbai, July 9: The Bombay high court on Monday acquitted five accused in the 2002 Best Bakery riots case for want of evidence but upheld the conviction of four others sentenced to life term by the trial court. A division bench comprising Justices V M Kanade and P D Kode, who had on July 3 reserved the judgement on the appeals filed by the accused against the trial court verdict, upheld the life

New Delhi, July 9: Seeking to rubbish the Time Magazine report on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the UPA government, Home Minister P Chidambaram on Monday said that it was "just a magazine". "It is just a magazine... The BJP's comments (on the PM and the government) are distasteful," he said. Time Magazine, in its latest issue, had dubbed the Indian PM 'The Underachiever', criticising him for

Hyderabad, July 9: They may have handed over blank papers but they have still qualified for admission into professional degree courses in Andhra Pradesh. Unbelievable but true, say officials. Twenty-two of 78 students who scored zero in the entrance test this year will get admission in engineering and agriculture courses as they belong to Scheduled Caste (SC) or Scheduled Tribe (ST) communities

New Delhi, July 9: Congress has propped up Vice-President Hamid Ansari's name for a second term with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh beginning the exercise to solicit support for his candidature. Singh discussed Ansari's name with former Prime Minister and JD-S leader HD Deve Gowda on Saturday. JD-S supported Ansari's candidature. "Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called our leader H D Deve Gowda on

New Delhi, July 9: An Air India plane made an emergency landing at Nawabshah airport in Sindh in Pakistan on Monday at 3:30 am. The flight, Airbus 319, was on it's way from Abu Dhabi to New Delhi. Local media reports say all 130 passengers on board the Air India flight were still inside the plane, but were safe. The flight was forced to land due to a suspected hydraulic failure. A relief plane