A day after news emerged of alleged illegal money transfers from the OC to a little-known UK-based company — AM Films — Organising Com-mittee chairman Suresh Kalmadi dismissed all the charges as “totally unfounded and baseless”. The OC chairman made it clear that all expenditure in regard to the Queen’s Baton Relay in

The parliamentary standing committee on human resources development has recommended a coordinated exercise by the National Council for Teacher Education and Union HRD ministry to fill the visible gaps in availability of teacher education institutions in the country.

With prolonged disruptions in the Monsoon Session of Parliament apparently weighing heavily on his mind, vice-president Hamid Ansari on Saturday disapproved of such conduct by legislators and told them that when protest becomes habitual, it loses its novelty and effect.

After bearing the ignominy of being the state with the lowest sex ratio in the entire country for decades, Punjab now claims a dramatic increase in the number of girl children compared to 798 girls per 1000 boys reported in the 2001 Census. State health and family welfare minister Lakshmi Kanta Chawla, on Saturday, quoted new,

Suspended IAS officer Arvind Joshi, who belongs to the Madhya Pradesh cadre, had invested about Rs 300 crores in shares in different companies, according to a SEBI report received by the income-tax department here. The official residence of Mr Joshi and his IAS wife Tinoo Joshi in the state capital was raided by the income-tax

Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday held a series of meetings with his Cabinet colleagues and various government functionaries and officials of the police and Central security forces to review the deteriorating law and order situation across the Valley.

An alliance of Kashmiri Sikh outfits has condemned the “excessive” use of force against the Muslim protesters “barbaric and inhumane killings” in the hands of security forces in the Valley and asked the chief minister Omar Abdullah to take moral responsibility and step down. It also called for imposition of governor’s rule in the state to end the turmoil.

Less than a month after the bomb attack on UP minister Nand Gopal Nandi, the wife of a senior BJP leader was found brutally murdered in her home in Muzaffarnagar on Saturday.

APCC chief D. Srinivas’ poll debacle in Telangana had some unthinkable ramifications as an engineering graduate took his own life on Saturday at the Osmania University campus to keep a promise made to Goddess Maisamma. P. Eshan Reddy had allegedly promised the goddess to make the ultimate sacrifice if Mr Srinivas lost the bypolls.

The Delhi BJP will stage a dharna on Parliament Street in New Delhi on the issue of alleged financial bungling in the Games projects.
Delhi BJP president Vijender Gupta and a senior leader Madan Lal Khurana said that the manner in which the preparations were going on would lower the image of the country before the Commonwealth nations that are supposed to participate in the event.