India has made a special pitch to stop deforestation from logging, crop-growing and cattle grazing at the Oslo Conference on climate and forests since this is calculated to account for upto 20 per cent of carbon dioxide presently being released into the atmosphere. Environment secretary Vijai Sharma present on Wednesday at the meet

The BJP stands divided on the caste-based census issue. Defying party line, senior BJP leader Dr Murli Manohar Joshi on Friday said he was opposed to such a demographic exercise as it would further divide the society. His views, however, were in tune with the RSS, which is also opposed to caste-based census. The RSS had,

The Congress core group met here on Friday against the backdrop of the controversial issue of a caste-based census and political developments in West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh, especially growing tension between the Congress and Trinamul Congress and reported dissension within the Andhra Congress.

Undeterred by the raps he received from the party, Union minister of state for home Ajay Maken, who is an MP from New Delhi Lok Sabha constituency, is all set to write another letter. But this time he will be writing to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, urging her to give party men a clear line on the issue of caste census.

A Delhi court on Friday framed charges against senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar and five others in a case of murder and spreading enmity between two communities in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.

India’s food inflation rate slackened in mid-May, after picking up pace for two weeks, giving the Reserve Bank more leeway to hold rates until its July review and gauge the impact of euro zone debt woes on the domestic economy.

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) net profit of Rs 3,776 crore, an increase of 71 per cent for the fourth quarter due to better realisation on crude.
For 2009-10, its net profit increased by 4 per cent at Rs 16,768 crore.

The net profit of SAIL jumped by 40 per cent for the fourth quarter due to better realisation on pick-up in demand.
The company posted a net profit of Rs 2,085 crore and sales turnover of Rs 11,955 crore during the quarter.

Within days of revoking a non-compete agreement that his group had with his younger brother Anil, Reliance Industries chairman, Mukesh Ambani, is believed to have held a long-drawn-out discussion with telecom czar and Bharti Airtel chairman, Mr Sunil Mittal.

The war between the sports ministry and the brass of the Indian Olympic Association and National Sports Federations over tenure limits has of late turned into an exchange of letters, with the latter frequently flaunting letters of support from the world governing body or their Asian counterpart.