The parliamentary standing committee examining the Lokpal Bill on Wednesday adopted its report on the proposed anti-corruption ombudsman law. It has 16 dissent notes, including last-minute ones by three Congress members, who favour inclusion of Group C employees within its purview.

The government on Wednesday formally announced it had put in abeyance the decision to allow 51 per cent foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail. This paved the way for Parliament to resume normal business after a nine-day logjam.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union minister for communications & information technology Kapil Sibal during the inaugural ceremony of India Telecom 2011 “m-Powering India” at DRDO Bhavan in New De

The CBI, probing the Bhanwari Devi case, on Wednesday conducted a detailed psychological analysis test on former Rajasthan minister Mahipal Maderna. The psychological analysis test, sources said, lasted for more than three hours.

With the all-party meeting on retail FDI scheduled for Wednesday morning, all eyes are fixed on its outcome as this will determine the fate of the ongoing Winter Session of Parliament. Two weeks have already been lost due to the

The interrogation of the two arrested Indian Mujahideen operatives, who fired gunshots at the Taiwanese tourists and planted a bomb in a stolen car at Jama Masjid before the Commonwealth Games, has revealed that they had initially

In growing tension between social networking websites and the government, communications minister Kapil Sibal said Tuesday his ministry will issue guidelines to ensure that obscene and defamatory material on religious figures and national leaders are not uploaded on such websites.

Shias take part in a Muharram procession in New Delhi on Tuesday. — Biplab Banerjee

The draft Lokpal Bill, to be tabled in Parliament Friday, has left the issue of inclusion of the Prime Minister to be decided by MPs on the floors of the two Houses of Parliament after the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel and Law and Justice examined three broad views that emerged on the subject.

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