India

New Delhi, Sep 25: Ahead of elections, the government on Wednesday announced constitution of the Seventh Pay Commission, which will go into the salaries, allowances and pensions of about 80 lakh of its employees and pensioners. "Prime Minister Manmohan Singh approved the constitution of the 7th Pay Commission. Its recommendations are likely to be implemented with effect from January 1, 2016"

New Delhi, Sep 25: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday opposed an ordinance that negates a Supreme Court order disqualifying MPs and MLAs if convicted in a criminal case. Government opted for the ordinance route Tuesday, after a bill for the same could not be passed in the monsoon session of parliament. Leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj tweeted: "Union Cabinet has approved

New Delhi, Sep 25: BSNL and MTNL customers soon can look forward to get free roaming service across the country. “Both firms are jointly working to offer free roaming service to their mobile customers across the country where the consumer need not pay any fees,” BSNL Chairman and Managing Director R K Upadhyay said here on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters after signing an MoU with MTNL to share

New Delhi, Sep 25: The Union Cabinet on Tuesday decided to promulgate an ordinance to negate a Supreme Court order which sought to disqualify an MP or an MLA/MLC convicted for crimes with jail term of two years or more. An immediate beneficiary of this ordinance could be Congress MP Rasheed Masood who was convicted by a CBI court in a corruption case. The court is set to pronounce the quantum of

New Delhi, Sep 24: Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde today asked former Army chief V K Singh to name Jammu and Kashmir politicians who were allegedly paid money by the Army for "stability", saying if details are given the government was ready to probe. "V K Singh should name politicians. He should reveal the names (of those to whom money was allegedly paid). If details are given, we can investigate

Lucknow, Sep 24: Former Uttarakhand chief minister Narain Dutt Tiwari, who was recently in the limelight over a paternity row, seems to have retained his colourful ways. Tiwari was also chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. In 1986–1987, he served in prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's cabinet as minister for external Affairs. He was serving as governor of Andhra Pradesh from 2007 until 2009, when he was

New Delhi, Sep 24: Under attack over reports that attempts were made to topple the Jammu and Kashmir government during his tenure as Army Chief, retired Gen V K Singh claimed that "certain ministers" in the state are given money by the army for "stability" and that this has been going on since Independence. Singh, who is in the eye of the storm over the charges, told TV channels that the

Cairo, Sep 23: An administrative court in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, has banned all activities of the Muslim Brotherhood as a non-governmental organization, judicial sources say. The court ruling includes seizure of Brotherhood funds, assets and headquarters. "The court bans the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood organization and its non-governmental organization and all the activities that it

Hyderabad, Sep 23: YSR Congress leader Jagan Mohan Reddy has been granted bail 16 months after he was arrested on corruption charges. Jagan was arrested by the CBI on May 27 last year on charges of assets beyond his known sources of income. The central agency has so far filed 10 charge sheets against Jagan and others in the case and five of these were filed this month itself. The case relates to

Ahmedabad, Sep 23: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today questionned Gujarat Minister of State for Law Pradeepsinh Jadeja in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case, sources in the Central agency said here. The CBI had also sent a notice to state Advocate General Kamal Trivedi, asking him to appear before it, sources added. Jadeja was questioned in Gandhinagar about an alleged meeting held