Initially he wanted to be the Deng Xiaoping (who was instrumental in China’s economic reconstruction following the Great Leap Forward in the early 60s) of Bengal but Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee ended up as the Mikhail Gorbachev of the Marxist party. Buddhadeb’s similarity to Gorbachev was evident when he like the former ideologue of

The CBI, probing alleged irregularities committed in awarding contracts related to the CWG, is likely to file chargesheet related to the result update system of the games on May 25. This will be CBI’s first chargesheet related to the agency’ probe into the CWG cases.

After doctors declared their 17-year-old daughter Harshita brain dead and told them that not even a miracle can save her, Asha and Mahender Bharech decided to donate her organs so that she could live through people who benefit from her organs.

Heads have begun rolling in Uttar Pradesh following the “mishandling” of Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s visit to Greater Noida on May 11.
The CM, on Saturday, transferred ADG NCR Gurbachan Lal and SSP Greater Noida S.N. Singh and replaced them with K.L. Meena and Jyoti Narain respectively. Though

Two children accidentally hit by bullets at a birthday party in the Muradnagar, Ghaziabad. Lalit, 5, and Pawan, 9, were rushed to a hospital and later shifted to a hospital in Meerut. The incident occurred when a man who was cleaning his licensed gun accidentally fired a shot.

With focus now shifting to Uttar Pradesh, where Assembly polls are due in 2012, the Congress is literally taking the battle to the home turf of chief minister Mayawati.
All-India Congress Committee general secretary Digvijay Singh on Saturday told reporters that plans are afoot for a party rally at village Badalpur, native place of the BSP

The superspeciality hospitals at Janakpuri and Tahirpur may take more time for being thrown open to public as no private agency is coming forward as the amount in bid is high.

Though it might have come a bit too late but the Supreme Court in its order on food security for poor on Saturday lavished praise on the outgoing DMK-led government in Tamil Nadu for running the best public distribution system in the country. A bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari not only praised the Tamil Nadu government but asked the Centre to emulate the system evolved by it and make the same applicable in other states.

Airlines are liable to compensate its passengers for delay caused due to bad weather even though there may be no deficiency of service on their part, a Delhi District Consumer Court has said, while directing Oman Aviation Services to pay `25,000 to a lawyer and his wife, who had to wait at the Delhi airport for 10 hours in December 2005 as their flight was delayed due to fog and low visibility.

The Special CBI court on Saturday rejected the plea of a DMK supporter from Tamil Nadu that the bail application of party MP Kanimozhi be either referred to the Delhi high court or to the Supreme Court.