New Delhi, Defence Secretary RK Mathur was Friday given the additional charge of secretary DRDO as the term of incumbent secretary Avinash Chander ends Jan 31. Mathur will hold the charge for three months “or till further orders”, the Appointments Committee of Cabinet decided Friday. The government had Jan 13Read More

New Delhi, Giving a twist to President Pranab Mukherjee’s recent remarks on Ordinances, Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu on Friday said it was aimed at the opposition parties which should “understand the advice” and let Parliament function. He maintained that the government had to resort to the “extraordinary” routeRead More

Jammu, PDP and BJP on Thursday gave hints that they could soon announce the formation of a coalition government in J&K as senior leaders of the two parties held a meeting here. “Now, I think we might not have to wait for long,” PDP spokesman Nayeem Akhtar said here when askedRead More

New Delhi, The Delhi High Court on Thursday decided to remove the PIL petitioner in the corruption case against Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh. A Bench comprising Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice RS Endlaw said since doubts had arisen over the public interest involved in the case it wasRead More

* To present Kejriwal with 5 questions every day; no manifesto, only vision document New Delhi, The BJP on Thursday decided to put its campaign for Delhi assembly polls in top gear by fielding several of its frontline leaders and targeting AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal with five questions, an exercise whichRead More

New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday accused other political parties in Delhi of trying to buy AAP volunteers ahead of the February 7 Assembly Elections. Writing on Twitter, Kejriwal said he has asked his party volunteers to accept the money being offered. However, the volunteers haveRead More

Delhi, The government has asked tax officials to apply the principle behind a tax ruling involving Vodafone Group Plc to all similar transfer pricing cases, an official letter seen by Reuters showed. The government had said on Wednesday that it would not appeal a regional court ruling in favour ofRead More

Rampur, A district court has stayed the conviction of Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, who was sentenced to one year imprisonment for violating prohibitory orders in the run-up to the 2009 Lok Sabha election, and granted him bail. District judge P K Goyal granted relief to the Minister of StateRead More

New Delhi: A day after being questioned by the Delhi Police as part of its probe into the murder of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh on Thursday said he had not spoken before as he believed that it was a matterRead More

New Delhi: After launching the ambitious ‘Make in India’ campaign, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is mulling launching another key campaign, ‘Read India’, reports said on Thursday. The campaign is most likely to be launched on February 14. As part of the project, new libraries would be opened across theRead More