India

New Delhi, Oct 17: Former top bureaucrats have come out in support of ex-Coal Secretary P C Parakh, who has been named by CBI in the coal blocks allocation scam, warning that harassment of honest officers will erode Government's credibility and stop senior officers from taking decisions. "Parakh, as I have known him, is an honest, competent officer. While I do not wish to comment on the CBI

Shahdol (Madhya Pradesh), Oct 17: Congress President Sonia Gandhi with Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Kumari Selja leaves Parliament House to All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi for treatment. Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi said Thursday that his mother Sonia Gandhi was breathless when she was rushed from parliament to hospital two months ago. But although she

New Delhi, Oct 17: Indian opposition hardliner Narendra Modi has boosted his party's chances of winning looming general elections since being named as its prime ministerial candidate last month, an opinion poll showed on Thursday. The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would win 162 seats in the lower house of parliament if election results reflected the survey, well ahead of the

London, Oct 17: 30 million people are enslaved worldwide, trafficked into brothels, forced into manual labour, victims of debt bondage or even born into servitude, a global index on modern slavery showed on Thursday. Almost half are in India, where slavery ranges from bonded labour in quarries and kilns to commercial sex exploitation, although the scourge exists in all 162 countries surveyed by

Gadchiroli, Oct 17: Three police jawans were killed in a naxal attack near Gyarabatti area of Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra in the wee hours on Thursday, police said. “Three jawans have been killed in the naxal attack on a police patrolling party in Kurkheda taluka of Gadricholi,” a police official said. “There are no immediate reports of injuries to others from the patrolling party,” he said

New Delhi, Oct 16: CBI has recovered Rs 25 crore "unaccounted cash" during its searches here at the office of Hindalco Industries, which has been booked by the agency for alleged corruption in coal block allocation. A Hindalco spokesperson, however, said he had no information of any such cash recovery. CBI sources said soon after registering FIR against former Coal Secretary P C Parakh, Aditya

Ahmedabad, Oct 16: Senior BJP leader L K Advani on Wednesday said, "I will be happy if Narendra Modi becomes Prime Minister," indicating that hostilities with the Gujarat CM had been put to rest. The BJP patriarch and the party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi were seen together at a civic body function here, days after a bitter episode when the former opposed the elevation of Modi

New Delhi, Oct 16: Crime Branch will conduct further investigation into the death of a 24-year-old NRI student Anmol Sarna under mysterious circumstances following an alleged drug party with friends, Delhi Police has informed a court here. The police informed Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Lokesh Kumar Sharma about the development when they produced Surender Bali (40) and Naresh Mishra (60), who

New Delhi, Oct 16: The opposition today targeted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh saying escape responsibility in coal scam. Latching on to comments by former Coal Secretary P C Parakh, the opposition today targeted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, saying he cannot escape responsibility in the controversial allocations as held the charge of the Coal Ministry at that time. BJP and Left parties demanded

Melbourne, Oct 16: Aadhaar project is an example of using modern technology to leapfrog for future development and transformation of a country, UIDAI chairman Nandan Nilekani has said. "Aadhaar project is one such example of using modern technology to leapfrog," Nilekani told a packed audience while giving an oration titled 'India's transformation: The role of Information Technology' here last