In a bid to further consolidate his position in politically volatile Meghalaya, chief minister Mukul Sangma has given four MLAs the perks and facilities enjoyed by him.
The MLAs are former chief ministers D.D. Lapang and Donkupar Roy, Pradesh Congress chief Friday Lyngdoh and senior legislator H.S. Lyngdoh, who also heads the Hill State People’s Democratic Party, an ally of the ruling Congress.

RBI is likely to extend the special liquidity facility beyond July 2 to ease unusually tight credit conditions caused by increased cash outflow in 3G and Broadband Wireless Access Spectrum licenses payments and advanced tax outgo, experts said on Friday.

German scientists claim to have measured the shortest-ever time interval by discovering the tiniest duration an electron takes to leave the atom.

The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Friday granted conditional bail to two accused persons in the Satyam Computers multi-crore accounting scam.
A CBI counsel said that S. Gopalakrishnan, the Pricewaterhouse (PWC) auditor who signed the company’s financial reports, and Prabhakara Gupta (accused 10), a former internal auditor, were granted bail.

Indian chefs in Birmingham are up in arms after a survey adjudged London suburb of Bromley as the “curry capital” of Britain but failed to list any Birmingham restaurant in the top 10.

A powerful US Senator has said that he personally cautioned against setting a date for withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan but asserted that US President Barack Obama is committed to the draw down o

Defending champion Saina Nehwal overcame an opening game deficit to reach the semifinal of the Indonesian Open badminton tournament and stay on course for back-to-back Super Series title here on Friday. Saina won 17-21, 21-11, 21-16.

The nurse, who accidentally became famous after an iconic World War II photograph captured her being kissed by an US sailor in Times Square, has died at the age of 91.

In a defiant stance, Sri Lanka on Thursday said it will not allow a UN panel to enter the country to investigate alleged human rights abuses during the last stages of the country’s civil war, which co

Nearly three decades after the world famous Jaffna library was burnt, a Sri Lankan minister has apologised for the incident which destroyed around 97,000 books and manuscripts, including many on Tamil