A French museum on Thursday paid over $1 million for English writer Charlotte Brontë’s unpublished manuscript at an auction in London.

The rupee breached the `54 level to the dollar in early morning trade Thursday, going up to `54.32, a fall of 61 paise to the dollar, on heavy buying of dollars by traders, companies and FIIs. Speculators too had a field day. By late evening,

After West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stalled a decision on the National Food Security Bill, the Centre has learnt a lesson: it is likely to approach the Trinamul Congress

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday urged an all-party delegation from Kerala to create a cordial atmosphere between the state and Tamil Nadu to enable his intervention to resolve the Mullaperiyar dam dispute. Following the meeting with the Prime Minister, the 23-member delegation, led by chief minister

Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee Wednesday rejected the Opposition’s demand that the government reveal the names of those who had stashed illegal wealth abroad, saying this would violate India’s treaties with foreign nations and also “dry up our sources of information”.

“In UP, MNREGA does not work because the elephant here eats up all the money. Normally, elephants eat grass but the magic elephant in UP actually eats currency and this currency belongs to neither the UPA government nor the UP government — it belongs to you,” said Congress MP Rahul Gandhi while addressing a rally in Badaun on Wednesday.

In an effort to evolve a broader consensus on the Lokpal Bill, the UPA government is willing to place the CBI’s prosecution wing under the Lokpal’s purview.

Ms Sonia Gandhi, Ms Uma Bharti, Ms Mayawati and now Ms Mamta Banerjee.
The Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections are all set to take an interesting turn with four top women politicians jostling for their political space in the state.

The all-party meeting called by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the contentious Lokpal Bill failed to reach a consensus on Wednesday evening. Divergent views were expressed on the question of bringing the Prime Minister and lower bureaucracy (Group C and D employees) within the ambit of the anti-corruption ombudsman.

In what could be an alarming development on insurgency fronts, the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom is targeting boys from poverty-stricken communities of the state and recruiting them into the outfit.