New Delhi, Nov.22 (ANI): Senior officials of the Central Excise, Customs and Service Tax Department (Delhi unit) staged a mass protest at the Jantar-Mantar here on Sunday, demanding better pay scale ...

Geneva, Nov.22 (ANI): In July 2005 and in the months and years that followed, the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, was feted as the visionary architect and driving force of the ...

Chandigarh, Nov 20 (IANS) Chandigarh's oldest boys school has sought the intervention of the National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions against the union territory administration for "interfering" in the school's internal matters. ...

Mumbai, Nov 18 (ANI):Kavita Karkare, the wife of former Maharashtra Anti Terror Squad (ATS) chief Hemant Karkare on Wednesday questioned the state government on why her husband and two other senior officials ...

News Delhi, Nov 17 (IANS) Expressing dissatisfaction with the Ghaziabad police's investigation in the mysterious death of a girl who had married against her family's wishes, the Delhi High Court Tuesday asked ...

Chandigarh, Nov 16 (IANS) A special team of the National Commission for Minorities, which visited Punjab and this union territory Monday, pulled up the state government for its failure to work for ...

Kochi, Nov 15 (IANS) A senior intelligence official in Kerala Sunday confirmed that Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) suspect Tahawwur Hussain Rana visited Kochi last November and stayed in the city for two days. The top ...

Panaji, Nov 14 (IANS) The entire Goa Police top brass was treated to a belly dance performed by a scantily clad Russian dance troupe at a newly inaugurated police station in the ...

London, Nov.13 (ANI): Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is set to give evidence in public to the Iraq war inquiry in the run-up to the next election, it was announced ...

Agartala, Nov 13 (IANS) There was tension along the India-Bangladesh border in southern Tripura after Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) troopers threatened to open fire if labourers did not stop repair work on an ...

New Delhi, Nov 11 (IANS) South African Foreign Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane will arrive Thursday for a three-day visit - the first trip by a South African official to India after the formation ...

By Arun Kumar Washington, Nov 11 (IANS) Investigators have found that Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan had "more unexplained connections to people being tracked by the FBI" than just radical cleric Anwar ...

London, Nov.11 (ANI): Iran has denounced Oxford University for establishing a scholarship in honor of Neda Soltan, the student killed during street protests in Tehran over the alleged rigging of the June ...

Hyderabad, Nov 10 (IANS) The Andhra Pradesh government Tuesday ordered a probe into the alleged irregularities by the Obulapuram Mining Corporation (OMC) owned by Karnataka Tourism Minister G. Janardhana Reddy. Chief Minister ...

Chennai, Nov 8 (IANS) Tamil Nadu will see more showers in the next few days, the weatherman said Sunday as incessent rains threw normal life out of gear and claimed 15 lives. Speaking ...

Chandigarh, Nov 8 (IANS) Telecom company Idea Cellular has been booked for not keeping records of customers using its GPRS service after a woman accused an unidentified client of creating an objectionable ...

Chennai, Nov 7(ANI): The ban to play cricket at Chennai's Marina beach has come as a big setback to ardent cricket lovers, who now have no alternate location to enjoy the game. ...

Chandigarh, Nov 7 (IANS) A traffic jam on the busy Ambala-Chandigarh highway Saturday held up a minister of state in Haryana from reaching the Raj Bhawan to take oath of office. Sukhbir Kataria, ...

Lucknow, Nov 7 (IANS) In highly ill-reputed Uttar Pradesh, four senior officials have voluntarily declared their assets. Spearheading the campaign was additional cabinet secretary Vijay Shankar Pandey, better known as the crusader who ...

New Delhi, Nov 6 (ANI): Defence Minister AK Antony will be leaving for Japan on Saturday on an official visit at the invitation of his Japanese counterpart Toshimi Kitazawa to review ...

Sydney, Nov 5(ANI): Australian Defence Minister John Faulkner has hinted that Australia is unlikely to send more troops to the combined NATO and International Security Assistance forces in Afghanistan, despite US General ...

Gandhinagar, Nov 5 (IANS) Gujarat's principal health secretary is down with swine flu and is among several top officials to be quarantined even as Chief Minister Narendra Modi has recovered from ...

Peshawar, Nov.4 (ANI): A former Pakistan Member of the National Assembly (MNA), Javed Ibrahim Paracha, who is known for having a good contact with the Taliban leadership, has said that the ...

Islamabad, Nov 4 (IANS) Financing terrorism would become a criminal offence in Pakistan as the Anti-Money Laundering Bill has been approved, a media report said. The National Assembly Standing Committee on Finance Tuesday ...

Chennai, Nov 3 (IANS) The Communist Party of India-Marxist's (CPI-M) Tamil Nadu unit Tuesday demanded the state government take disciplinary action against the four police officials indicted by by the Madras High ...

Mohali (Punjab), Oct 31 (IANS) At least 1,600 police personnel would be deployed and around 90 closed circuit cameras installed during the fourth one-day international (ODI) between India and Australia at ...

Chandigarh, Oct 30 (IANS) The Chandigarh administration Friday ordered an audit of the funds received and expenditure incurred by all government schools in the union territory after suspending the principal and four ...

Mumbai, Oct 30 (IANS) Shares of the Indian Oil Corp scrip fell over 7.5 percent Friday on the Bombay Stock Exchange as a fire in a major oil products depot on the ...

New Delhi, Oct 30 (ANI): The 43rd Session of the Standing Labour Committee, an important organ of the Tripartite Consultative Machinery in the Ministry of Labour and Employment, will be held here ...

Chennai, Oct 29 (IANS) A two-member Madras High Court bench Thursday recommended disciplinary action against four senior Chennai police officials in connection with the Feb 19 advocates-police clash and ordered the state ...