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Jharkhand: Soren claims BJP, AJSU support for CM
The BJP and AJSU have agreed to support the JMM under the leadership of Guruji (Soren), party Vice-President Hemlal Murmu told media persons hours after JMM legislature party elected Soren as its leader and authorised him to explore government formation. JMM has 18 MLAs, same as that of BJP, and AJSU has five members in the 81-member House. If BJPs ally Janata Dal-United with two MLAs also back JMMs bid to form government, its strength will go up to 43....
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RSS to initiate "online shakhas" to connect with n..
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"Kandahar hijack was India"s diplomatic failure"
A decade after the hijacking of an Indian Airlines plane, the chief Indian negotiator who engaged the hijackers blamed the then government for its diplomatic failure in their inability to make the United States and the United Arab Emirates use their influence to help secure a quick release of the passengers....
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Cong"s Jharkhand dilemma: Soren wants to be king n..
With the Congress and its allies winning 25 seats and emerging as the single largest alliance in Jharkhand, the party has begun exploring options of forming the next government in the state realising that they have to do business with Jharkhand Mukti Morchas Shibu Soren who now controls the levers of power in the state having won 18 seats in the assembly elections....
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Say goodbye to kerosene lamps, here"s Kiran!
Sam Goldmans mission is to bring light to millions of households who do not have access to electricity....
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Free air travel for ministers" relatives, friends
From now on, ministers will be able to take any number of companions or relatives along by air for free, with the Parliament giving nod to a bill providing for such facilities to them. The Salaries and Allowances of Ministers (Amendment) Bill was on Tuesday approved by the Rajya Sabha without discussion. It was passed by the Lok Sabha on December 18, also without discussion. The bill entitles ministers to take along any number of companions or relatives....
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Prachanda blames India for Nepal"s deepening polit..
Nepal Maoist supremo Prachanda on Tuesday blamed Indias naked interference for the lingering political crisis in Nepal, as the former rebels served an ultimatum to the embattled government to resolve the deadlock by January 24 or face an indefinite general strike....
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Nepal Maoists continue to parlayse normal life
As the Maoists paralysed normal life in Nepal for the second day in running, the government beefed up security on Monday amid warning by a top former rebel leader that they may declare a new constitution from the streets....
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India, top economic superpower by 2030: Survey
More than half of the respondents (53 per cent) of a survey commissioned by London-based independent think-tank Legatum Institute said India is likely to be the worlds most important economic power by 2030....
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"I"m proud to have won the gold for India"
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An avoidable mess over Telangana
A new state cannot be created in the ad hoc manner like the demand for Telangana was conceded, writes Seema Mustafa....
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Advani quits as opposition leader, Sushma takes ov..
Veteran Bharatiya Janata Party leader stepped down from the position of leader of opposition from Lok Sabha on Friday and handed over the reins to his successor Sushma Swaraj, who had been the partys deputy leader in Lok Sabha....
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SC taunts govt on Prez copter mishap
The recent helicopter incident in which President Pratibha Patil had a narrow escape was enough for the Supreme Court to pooh-pooh governments suggestion for airlifting victims of disasters to safety....
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Rao"s ghost may still haunt Congress
Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambarams reply last week to the debate in Parliament on the Liberhan Commissions report would largely be seen as the United Progressive Alliance governments comprehensive indictment of the role of the Bharatiya Janata Party and its leaders in the demolition of the disputed structure in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992....
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He trains India"s poorest students for the IIT
Educator Anand Kumar could not attend Cambridge University due to financial constraints. Today, he coaches deserving students for IIT-JEE....
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