Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi here on Friday slammed the leaders of civil society groups Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev for creating an impression that they are the only ones in this country who are concerned over corruption.

The Congress party, feeling the heat on the issue of corruption, is gearing up to launch a counteroffensive against the BJP and the Sangh Parivar for “denigrating democratic institutions”. It has decided to hold public meetings on this issue across the country before the Monsoon Session of Parliament begins next month.

In an election-bound state like Uttar Pradesh, Baba Ramdev is fast turning into a tool for politics.
Parties that are making a bid for secular politics are gunning for the yoga guru while those who claim to be rooting for “nationalism” are supporting him. Some are playing it safe while others are caught in a vortex of confusion.

The DMK on Friday decided to stay put in the UPA, chickening out after its leaders made blamed the Congress for its 2G spectrum woes and dropped hints that a parting of ways was a distinct possibility. As a face-saving exercise,

The government on Friday expressed disappointment at Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Rana’s acquittal by a US court on charges of plotting the Mumbai carnage. Sources said the government will soon take a decision on filing a chargesheet against Rana and Pakistani-American Lashkar-e-Tayeeba (LeT) operative David Coleman Headley in an Indian court.

Accusing the Congress-led UPA government of adopting a “cheap tactic” by diverting people’s attention from the “burning issue” of corruption, the RSS on Friday said the government has launched a “vicious campaign” against it with regard to Baba Ramdev’s anti-corruption campaign. Meanwhile, the BJP demanded that the

In a significant development, a fervent appeal was made on Friday from the pulpit of Srinagar’s Grand Mosque to Kashmiri pandits, who fled the Valley following the outbreak of separatist violence more than two decades ago, to return home and “live here with their Muslim brethren without any fear”.

The CBI has arrested six people, including three engineers working with the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), in connection with alleged irregularities committed in awarding Commonwealth Games related street-lighting upgradation contract (worth `34 crore) to a private firm. According to sources, the CBI, which had registered an FIR

In their second major attack on security personnel in Chhattisgarh in the past 24 hours, Maoists killed 10 policemen by blowing up their anti-landmine vehicle at Gitam under Katekalyan police station in the insurgency-hit Dantewada district early on Friday morning, the police said.

Encouraged by the response of its in-house products at Mother Dairy and other outlets, Tihar Jail (TJ) authorities are planning to start sale of their items at stores of Kendriya Bhandar in the capital.