Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said in Kolkata on Sunday that there should be no problem in placing the Union Budget in Parliament on February 29 as scheduled despite Assembly elections then being

Sahiram Bishnoi, a key absconding accused in the 36-year-old Jodhpur’s auxiliary nurse-cum-folk singer-Bhanwari Devi’s case, on Friday surrendered before the special CBI court in Jodhpur. The court remanded Sahiram, who was carrying a cash reward of `5 lakhs on his head, in CBI custody till January 2.

A plot to assassinate top religious and political leaders by the banned Babbar Khalsa International militant outfit was thwarted by the Delhi Police special cell with the arrest of two suspected BKI members from Delhi and Punjab on Thursday.

The government finally introduced the contentious Lokpal bill in the Lok Sabha by voice vote on Thursday with its tabling preceded by some high drama outside the House. So much so that the government was forced by non-BJP parties to provide a “quota” for minorities through a “corrigendum”, which led to protests by the BJP.

With the government all set to table the controversial Lokpal Bill in the Lok Sabha on Thursday, Congress president Sonia Gandhi said Wednesday she “will fight” for its early passage in Parliament.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Sunday brought sacked Rajasthan minister Mahipal Maderna, arrested in Bhanwari Devi abduction case, to Delhi for further questioning.

Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamul Congress, upping the ante against the Congress-led coalition over the recent petrol price hike, has now demanded a UPA-2 coordination committee which would hold regular meet

Swift activation of diplomatic and military channels between India and Pakistan saved the day when an Indian Army helicopter strayed into Pakistan-occupied Kash-mir on Sunday, possibly due to bad weather. By evening, Pakistan released the four Army personnel on board the Cheetah helicopter, and they were safely back in Indian territory.

A moderate intensity earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale, with its epicentre near the Sikkim-Nepal border, shook the Northeast and large parts of northern and eastern India, including the De

Trouble was brewing in the UPA on Friday after the Trinamul Congress and the DMK, the second- and third-largest parties in the ruling coalition, joined the Opposition parties to demand a rollback of the latest increase in fuel prices, saying it would hit the common man hard.