India

New Delhi, August 6: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) patriarch L?K?Advani has said that the idea of a non-Congress and non-BJP candidate for the highest job, who has support of the two principal parties was “feasible”. Noting that such a development has taken place in the past, the BJP patriarch, however, cautioned that it would not be a stable one. “As the Prime Ministership of Charan Singh

New Delhi, August 6: More than three months after the release of an explosive book on the 1995 abduction of six western backpackers by militants in Kashmir, neither the Army nor the Centre has responded to the authors' allegations that the government did not rescue the hostages despite having intelligence on the movement of the captors. TOI's attempts over a period of two weeks to get a reaction

New Delhi, August 5: Priyanka Gandhi may be heading for an active role in politics and is said to be set to take charge of her mother and Congress President Sonia Gandhi's Rae Bareli Parliamentary constituency. There was no official word on the issue but AICC office bearers including party general secretaries insisted today that Priyanka has always interacted with the people of the constituency in

Dehradun, August 5: As many as 40 people, including 19 labourers at a project, are missing after flash floods and cloud bursts ravaged Uttarakhand. The government Sunday asked the ITBP, police and army for help. Twelve people have already died in the calamity, said officials. The government asked the army, Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and state police to search for the 19 labourers who went

Mumbai, August 5: Union agriculture minister and NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday blasted state home minister R R Patil for his "inept handling of the law and order situation, particularly the serial blasts in Pune". Pointing out that Pune and certain cities in the state were on the terrorists' hitlist, Pawar said, "It appears our intelligence gathering network is poor. This situation is

New Delhi, August 5: BJP has assured BIhar CM Nitish Kumar that it would decide on its prime ministerial candidate in consultation with NDA allies. Party chief Nitin Gadkari gave this assurance to Kumar when he recently sought a guarantee from the saffron partner that the BJP would not project Gujarat CM Narendra Modi in the 2014 parliamentary polls. According to sources, Kumar sought the specific

Gandhinagar, August 4: Keshubhai Patel, who ushered in BJP rule in Gujarat in the 90s and has revolted against Chief Minister Narendra Modi, today resigned from the party and announced plans to launch a new outfit which he claims would be the "real BJP". Addressing a press conference, the 83-year-old former chief minister announced his decision along with the resignation of Kanshiram Rana, a

Madurai, August 4: The police in Madurai have reportedly defused a bomb sent in a parcel. According to a senior police officer, last night an unidentified man had left a parcel at a jewellery shop that was to be delivered to another person in the city. This morning the police were alerted when the parcel was found to contain a bomb that was connected to a timer device, following which it was

New Delhi, August 4: A day after Team Anna announced its political debut, some dejected Anna Hazare supporters at Navsari in Surat burnt posters of Anna and India Against Corruption. The supporters are against the team's decision to form a political party. The supporters had been sitting with Anna in protest for the past 10 days. The decision has got mixed reactions from Anna's supporters. Some

New Delhi, August 4: Tired of pesky text messages? Forwarding it to a designated number is all it will take to initiate action against the telemarketer, according to a proposal by the telecom regulator on Friday, which included a hefty penalty on unregistered telemarketers as well. In a consultation paper, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has suggested that unregistered