Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Wednesday, criticised Union home minister P.

Britain’s deputy prime minister Nick Clegg on Wednesday promised wide-ranging political reform and restoration of civil liberties in his first official speech after joining the coalition government.

Hit by repeated and deadly Maoist attacks, an exasperated Union home ministry on Wednesday shifted the entire blame for the incidents on the state governments.
A top home ministry official on Wednesday said that the Centre can not take the initiative. It is the job of the state governments. He then added: “If the state governments ask for additional force, the Centre will definitely provide. But it is the state governments who will have to take action.”

Concerned over the news that some paintings of Kavigiru Rabindranath Tagore will be put up for auction in London, chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has urged Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to take necessary steps to bring the paintings back to India.

In a decision that will affect all electricity and CNG consumers, the government on Wednesday raised the price of natural gas sold under the administered price mechanism by more than double, to $4.20 per mmBtu.

The blast that killed five CRPF officials near Lalgarh in West Midnapore on Wednesday, was evidently triggered by a high-intensity improvised explosive device (IED).
The joint security forces later recovered similar IEDs from Kolaboni and Jitushole in Jhargram. Maoist leader Rakhal has claimed responsibility for the blast.

Apprehending that the cyclone Laila may move to West Bengal after hitting coastal Andhra Pradesh at Machilipatnam on Thursday morning, the state government has taken all precautionary arrangements. Chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has himself asked his cabinet colleague — finance minister Asim Dasgupta — to take

After 34 days of suspense, the auction for 3G spectrum is finally over with the government richer by Rs 67,718.95 crores from the proceeds of the sale. This is almost twice what the government had originally hoped to raise. The extra amount will help reduce India’s fiscal deficit to 4.9 per cent from the 5.5 per cent that was projected earlier.

If the Maoists repeated what they did in Dantewada, so did the security forces! Similar to Monday’s explosion in Dantewada in which the Naxals had planted the IED in the middle of a pitched road, the explosive even at Gwaltor on Wednesday was planted in the road. And significantly, with no lessons learnt, the patrolling party had

Even though 24 hours have passed after the Calcutta high court ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to start a murder case in computer graphics teacher Rizwanur Rehman’s mysterious death, the agency is yet to register any FIR. When asked on the delay, CBI spokesperson Harsh Bhal on Wednesday said, “We are yet to