The Supreme Court on Tuesday imposed a staggering Rs 10 lakh fine on the Maharashtra government on a complaint that the then chief minister Vilasrao Deskmukh- influenced police against registering an

In an embarrassment to former CJI K.G. Balakrishnan, Supreme Court Judge H.L. Gokhale on Tuesday contradicted his claim that he was not aware that it was former Union telecom minister A.Raja, who had tried to influence a Madras high court judge in a criminal case.

The Indian Army’s Pune-based Southern Command has ordered a court of inquiry into the allotment of a flat in the Adarsh Housing Society to its serving senior officer Maj. Gen. R.K.

At a time when a considerable hue and cry is being raised over a notional loss of `1,76,000 crores in the alleged 2G telecom scam, government data suggests that the nation has already lost a substanti

Wary of any controversy, the civil aviation ministry has decided to wait for a new generation of “non-intrusive” body scanners — which will be tested at airports across the United States from January

The controversy over AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh’s revelation that Mumbai ATS chief Hemant Karkare told him hours before the 26/11 terror strike (in which he was killed) that he feared for h

India summoned a senior American diplomat to convey strong concern over the frisking of India’s ambassador to the US, Ms Meera Shankar, at a Mississippi airport on December 4.

A parliamentary standing committee has pulled up the finance ministry for failing to set up a study group to undertake a review of desirability of tax exemptions to the special economic zones (SEZs).

A report of the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) has revealed that access to institutional credit to the common man, both in rural and urban areas, for constructing a house is a distant dream with

In an important ruling on “judicious” application of the reservation policy in promotion to the government employees, the Supreme Court has held the SC, ST and OBC officials could not be allowed to en