Land law can go in 25 yrs: Jairam
A day after the Lok Sabha passed the landmark Land Acquisition Bill, Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh said on Friday that such a law should not be needed after 25 years, when private ent
4.4% GDP growth a 4-year low
India’s GDP grew at a mere 4.4 per cent in the first quarter (April-June) of the current fiscal, adding gloom to the country’s already grim economic situation.
BJP to Prez: Govt should go, call polls by end-2013
The BJP on Friday petitioned President Pranab Mukherjee to end the “prevailing uncertainty” in the country by advising the UPA government to seek a fresh mandate immediately.
Combative PM hits out at BJP for delaying reforms
Under attack over issues ranging from corruption to the severe economic crisis India now faces, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh struck back on Friday and took the Opposition to the cleaners for repeated
Cops raid brothel, rescue 4 women
Four women forced into flesh trade were rescued by the police from a brothel on G.B. Road in Central Delhi on Thursday night.
Nandita Narain elected Duta president
After winning the Delhi University Teacher’ Association (Duta) president election on Friday, the Left-affiliated Democratic Teachers’ Front (DTF) demanded rollback of the four-year undergraduate progr
Dec. 16 case: JJB order likely today
The Juvenile Justice Board is expected to pronounce its much-awaited verdict in the December 16 gangrape and murder of a paramedical student on Saturday.
Man set ablaze in Madangir, dies
Unidentified assailants killed a 30-year-old man by setting him on fire in Madangir area of Ambedkar Nagar in southeast Delhi.
One pilot can sleep in cockpit: DGCA
It’s official now.
‘HPV vaccine may have killed AP girls’
Suggesting that the controversial Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine could be “probable” cause of death of girls in Andhra Pradesh in 2010, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on alleged irregularit