The government feels that the consideration and passing of the Women’s Reservation Bill is no child’s play.

NCP MLA Dilip Wagh, accused of raping a girl in Nashik district, was detained in Mumbai, a police officer said.

In a surprising political development, the BJP has elected former chief minister Vasundhra Raje as leader for the Assembly at the party office on Saturday in presence of two Central observers Venkaiah

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday said the “nine-day hostage crisis” in Orissa was a “well-enacted, and planned drama” by the ruling BJD to deflect innumerable corruption charges levelled against

The Punjab police investigators are preparing to fly out to Britain to question suspects believed to have carried out the assassination of Rulda Singh, who was president of the Rashtriya Sikh Sangat,

A city court on Saturday remanded the chairman-cum-managing director (CMD) of the National Aluminium Company (Nalco), A.K.

Former communications minister Arun Shourie on Friday said A. Raja, arrested over the 2G spectrum scam, should turn “approver” and spill the beans about the beneficiaries of this scam.

The Economic Survey 2010-11, tabled in Parliament on Friday by Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, is upbeat and sees the economy touching a growth rate of nine per cent in 2011-12.

Railway minister Mamata Banerjee announced 56 new express trains in the Railway Budget 2011-12. Apart from these express trains, several other new trains, such as nine Duranto trains, two double-decker AC trains and three Shatabdi trains — were also announced .

The Indian Railways may not be riding the gravy train given its own precarious financial position, but the people of West Bengal certainly were as Ms Mamata Banerjee presented her third and perhaps last Railway Budget in Parliament on Friday.