Unaided private medical colleges can admit the poor and deserving students free of cost in its management quota even if that requires waving statutory regulations hindering such admissions, the Suprem

Alleging that the owner of the building that collapsed in east Delhi has links with ruling Congress leaders, Delhi BJP on Sunday said it will provide free legal aid to the victims for fighting their c

CBI will soon send letters Rogatory to the United Kingdom for questioning Ashish Patel and seeking financial details about his two firms A M Films and A M Cars for allegedly making arrangements for th

BJP President Nitin Gadkari on Sunday said he has been authorised by the party top brass to discuss the crisis in Karnataka with chief minister B S Yeddyurappa and take a decision on the issue of his

India on Friday summoned Tehran’s acting ambassador to convey its deep disappointment over supreme Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s “unpalatable” remarks on Kashmir. New Delhi also broke with tradition and abstained from voting on a UNGA resolution critical of the human rights situation in Iran. India has voted against the resolution in the past, and sought to explain its abstention in New York on Thursday by citing the remarks on Kashmir.

The government is delaying conveying its decision to the Opposition on its demand for setting up of a joint parliamentary committee to investigate the 2G spectrum allocation scandal — which has virtually paralysed the functioning of Parliament and thus put the Centre in the dock since the start of the Winter Session 10 days ago.

With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh under fire over delaying his sanction for former communications minister A. Raja’s prosecution, AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi came out in strong support of Dr Singh on Friday, saying he did not think the PM was in an “embarrassing situation”.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi both spoke out on Friday against the “cancer of corruption” in the country: while Dr Singh said rising growth levels had “increased the expectations” of people, Mrs Gandhi noted that growth was not an end in itself, and that while “our economy may increasingly be dynamic, our moral universe seems to be shrinking.”

The Central probe agencies have made it clear that they would accept nothing but the original documents related to all aspects of several contracts of the Commonwealth Games from the Organising Committee, headed by Suresh Kalmadi.

Environment minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday stated that decision in the Posco case will be taken within a couple of weeks. The fate of South Korean giant Posco’s `54,000 crores integrated steel plant in Orissa has been hanging in balance.