Indian Police Service (IPS) officer V. Dinesh Reddy will be Andhra Pradesh’s new director general of police, the state government announced on Thursday.

The government would take urgent steps to distribute medicines at cheaper rates through Medical Services Corporation, Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy said on Wednesday.

A different kind of politics in Karnataka was played out in this temple town when the running battle between chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa and his arch-rival and JD(S) leader H.D. Kumaraswamy was taken to the gods on Monday.

Holding that a decree passed by an US court cannot override the consideration of welfare of a minor child, the Madras high court dismissed a petition filed by an Indian settled in US seeking custody

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Embezzlement of National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme funds almost touched the `100-crore mark in the state, forcing the government, which got a rap from the Centre, to tighten up its act.

BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi on Sunday accused the UPA of crushing voices of dissent and claimed that the present situation in the country was akin to 1975 when Emergency was imposed.

Under mounting pressure from the Opposition, Orissa chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday referred the alleged “horse-trading” in the last year’s Rajya Sabha elections to the Election Commission of India.

In a big boost to proponents of Telangana statehood, Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati backed a separate Telangana on Saturday saying that it was in tune with Dr B.R. Ambedkar’s philosophy of smaller states in the country.

The Sachar Committee report is not sacrosanct like the Quran and has to be looked at with a critical eye and not viewed as something special given to Muslims, minority affairs minister Salman Khurshid said here on Saturday.