After announcing the price hike on fuel prices, the government on Friday was at the receiving end from the Opposition. Demanding a roll back of the price hike, the main Opposition party, the BJP, lambasted the government for further burdening the aam aadmi. It charged the Centre of pursuing an “unjustified fuel price hike”. Prakash

In yet another attempt to control high food inflation, hovering at 16.9 per cent, the empowered group of ministers (EGOM) on food on Friday decided to release 5 million tonnes of wheat over the next 10 months under the open market sale scheme.

UP chief minister and BSP supremo Mayawati, while sensing a larger political fallout due to the likely coming together of the Congress and RLD for the 2012 UP Assembly polls, is leaning back on the strategy to make inroads into the Jat vote base to blunt the move of the rival parties.

Former Union minister and Darjeeling MP Jaswant Singh, who was reinducted in the BJP on Thursday, might be offered a post in party chief Nitin Gadkari’s team. Mr Singh, who was a member of the party’s highest body, the parliamentary board, before he was expelled from the party last year in August, is likely to be appointed as the vice-president. He was expelled for praising Pakistan founder M.A. Jinnah in his book.

Trouble brews within the Trinamul Congress over the advertisement showing Union railway minister and party chief Mamata Banerjee promoting a brand of hawai chappal in a Bengali daily. A section of Trinamul leaders now want the party to “initiate action” against the newspaper along with the footwear company. This particular section also wants the Trinamul chief to question the owner of the paper, a Trinamul Rajya Sabha MP, for publishing the advertisement “without informing her”.

The deregulation of petrol pricing announced on Friday is likely to have an impact on car sales in the short term. But diesel vehicle makers stand to benefit for the time being as a decision on diesel price deregulation is yet to be taken.

The first of Lalit Modi’s many deals around the Indian Premier League has come unstuck. On Friday, the BCCI said it would recover Rs 425 crore from the IPL’s media rights holders for the sub-continent, MSM Satellite, as part of an amended agreement which was approved by the T20 League’s Governing Council in Mumbai.

Music maestro A.R. Rahman has cancelled the North American leg of his “Jai Ho Concert: The Journey Home World Tour” after a lighting rig collapsed in Detroit before the show.

The Union HRD ministry on Thursday initiated a probe to ascertain how three unauthorised persons, claiming to represent the ministry on a fact-finding mission, visited a Kolkata-based school for probi

After announcing a cash reward of Rs 10 lakhs each on providing information leading to the arrest of Sandeep Dange and Ramchandra Kalsangra in connection with the investigation into the Mecca Masjid b