Complimenting the Centre for not accepting Karnataka governor H.R. Bhardwaj’s recommendation on imposing President’s Rule in the state, chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa on Monday said he would continue to demand the recall of the “partisan” governor. Mr Yeddyurappa also thanked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, home minister P.

Hitting at environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh for saying Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are not world-class, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday said India can have such institutions only when it has world-class ministers.

The BJP-led Madhya Pradesh government continues to stick to a 1997 order which discriminates between the general category government officers and staff on the one side and those belonging to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and other backward communities on the other when it comes to holding an officer accountable after departmental inquiry.

The Congress in Uttar Pradesh is searching for an OBC leader who will help the party make a dent in the Samajwadi Party’s OBC votebank.

A Canadian-origin pilot of a private air charter company, who was to fly BJP chief Nitin Gadkari to Mumbai, was arrested here on Tuesday for allegedly trying to enter the airport with a cartridge in his baggage.

Once again, the girls outshone boys in the Class 12 Central Board of Secondary Education results declared on Monday. The results were declared across the country on Monday except Patna region, with the total pass percentage standing at 81.71 per cent, an increase of 1.84 per cent over last year. Result for Patna region will be declared on May 27.

With party veteran Vasant Sathe pitching for Priyanka Gandhi’s active political participation, the Congress on Monday maintained that it was for her to decide whether to enter active politics.

Senior IAS officer Ajit Kumar Seth, known as a meticulous bureaucrat who plays by the rules, was today appointed as the next Cabinet Secretary.

After having lost the leadership in farmers’ agitation, Samajwadi Party on Monday claimed that the aggressive campaign of the Congress has rather helped the ruling BSP in UP.

The reconstituted Parliamentary Accounts Committee (PAC) headed by senior BJP leader M.M. Joshi on Monday saw Congress members seeking to corner Dr Joshi on the 2G spectrum issue and the NDA members counselling restraint.