India

New Delhi, Aug 26: The results of the by-elections in 18 Assembly constituencies in Bihar, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka, three months after the NDA swept the general elections, gave the BJP a jolt while bringing cheer to the Opposition camp. The Congress and its allies won 10 seats and the BJP and its allies the remaining eight. The Congress that won five seats on its own was cautious and

New Delhi, Aug 25: Amid reports that she may be shunted out of Kerala, governor Sheila Dikshit on Monday met home minister Rajnath Singh. She will also meet President Pranab Mukherjee in the evening, fuelling speculation that she may put in her papers. During her 15-minute meeting with the home minister, Dikshit is understood to have discussed about her continuation in the Thiruvananthapuram Raj

New Delhi, Aug 25: The Supreme Court today termed the method of allotment of coal blocks between 1993 and 2011 as illegal but stopped short of deallocating the blocks that were awarded during the UPA regime. The court will take a decision on re-allocation of mines on 1 September, 2014 and will reserve cancellation on a case-by-case basis. "All allocations were done in an illegal manner and it

New Delhi, Aug 25: Former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said he has learned that "one must never quit the chair" even as he claimed that AAP had achieved more in its 49-day rule in the national capital than the Narendra Modi government in its 100 days at the Centre. "No one in India's history worked the way we did in those 49 days. We reduced prices of electricity, water, brought

Bhopal, Aug 25: Ten pilgrims were killed and over 60 are believed to have suffered injuries in a stampede early on Monday at Kamtanath Pahad Temple, about 80 km away from Satna district headquarters, on the Madhya Pradesh-Uttar Pradesh border. Large number of devotees had gathered at the religious place on the occasion of ‘Amavasya’ and the incident during the circumambulation of the Kamtanath

Mumbai, Aug 24: Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan today resigned from the post hours after he was transferred to Mizoram by the government. "I sent my resignation today to the President of India.... It is not possible for me to go to Mizoram," Sankaranarayan said in a press conference here. "I will return to active politics," said the 82-year-old veteran Congress leader from Kerala. He was

New Delhi, Aug 24: Tax investigators pursuing instances of blackmoney stashed abroad by Indians have finally been able to circumvent the Swiss secrecy code by asking over 100 such account holders to submit on their own details of personal balances in these banks, brought under the tax net recently, for lesser penal action for evasion. The tax effect in these cases could be about Rs 50-80 crore

New Delhi, Aug 24: In fresh embarrassment to the erstwhile UPA regime, particularly to former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, former CAG Vinod Rai has claimed that coalition functionaries had deputed politicians to get him leave out names from the audit reports in the Coalgate and Commonwealth Games scams. In remarks damning the previous dispensation, he has also claimed that UPA functionaries had

Jammu, Aug 24: Pakistani troops continued to violate the ceasefire by shelling and firing upon 25 Border Out Posts (BoPs) and 19 villages along the International Border in Jammu sector throughout the night, prompting the BSF to retaliate. "Pak Rangers resorted to heavy firing of small and automatic weapons and shelling of mortars bombs on 25 BoPs and civilian areas along IB in Arnia and R S Pura

New Delhi, Aug 24: In a late night development, government transferred Maharahstra Governor K Sankaranarayanan to Mizoram for his remaining tenure, which ends in 2017. A Rashtrapati Bhawan communiqué issued on Saturday night says that the 82-year-old Mr. Sankaranarayanan has been shifted to Mizoram and Gujarat Governor O.P. Kohli has been asked to discharge his duties. Sankaranarayanan takes over