Alarmed by the declining child sex ratio (CSR) in the country, the Prime Minister’s office (PMO) has called a meeting of the concerned Central ministries on Friday to take stock of the situation. The meeting, to be chaired by the principal secretary to the Prime Minister, Mr T.K.A.Nair, will discuss how this problem can be dealt with “on a war-footing” and the alarming trend arrested.

Tablighi Jamaat — is it a movement involved in strictly religious activities and spreading the teachings of Islam or is it one that has developed links to “Islamist terror” in recent years? If WikiLeaks is to be believed, then the over eight-decade old Tablighi Jamaat is one that has links to the now dead Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda and was

Invoking Tagore’s name may have meant yet another way of reaching out to the voters in West Bengal by Union railway minister and Trinamul Congress leader Mamata Banerjee.

Amidst high drama and pandemonium, a crucial meeting of Parliament’s public accounts committee (PAC) examining the 2G spectrum allocation scam saw the “rejection” of its draft report by a majority of its members on Thursday. The SP and the BSP supported the ruling coalition, giving it the necessary “majority” on the parliamentary panel.

A 1984 victim of the anti-Sikh riots has been branded a notorious terrorist’s wife by none other than H.S. Hanspal, a member of the National Commission for Minorities (NCM). Nirpreet Kaur, a crucial witness against former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar in an ‘84 riots case has been described thus by Mr Hanspal after a TV news channel

A 1984 victim of the anti-Sikh riots has been branded a notorious terrorist’s wife by none other than H.S. Hanspal, a member of the National Commission for Minorities (NCM). Nirpreet Kaur, a crucial witness against former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar in an ‘84 riots case has been described thus by Mr Hanspal after a TV news channel recently aired a “sting” operation in which he is seen allegedly trying to influence her to save the Congress leader.

In what may provide some measure of reassurance to those raising doubts about the safety of the proposed Jaitapur nuclear plant in Maharashtra post the Fukushima disaster, the French authorities here

British secretary of state for communities and local government Eric Pickles, who is currently in India on a three-day visit, has criticised the French for the ban that has been imposed on the wearing of the burqa or niqab (veil) in that country.

Call it happenstance, a happy coincidence or a cleverly calculated move but railway minister Mamata Banerjee's ministry has been on overdrive these last couple of weeks tom-tomming its ‘achievements'. With West Bengal headed for the Assembly polls, the railways has been busy carrying out what can perhaps be described

The Election Commission isn’t done with the recent instance of Trinamul Congress Rajya Sabha MP Kanwar Deep Singh travelling to Guwahati along with company officials who were found carrying `57 lakhs in cash just before the group boarded a private aircraft.