Amid the raging controversy over India's E20 ethanol-blended petrol policy, the BJP on Thursday asserted that the policy was initiated by the Congress-led UPA government and formally notified through the Gazette of India in January 2013.
Union sports minister Mansukh Mandaviya and International Cricket Council (ICC) chairman Jay Shah on Thursday wished the sports media fraternity on the occasion of World Sports Journalists Day, acknowledging the role journalists play in promoting sport and bringing athletes' stories to fans around the world.
Leader of the Opposition in the Bihar Assembly, Tejashwi Yadav, has moved with his family to the government residence at 1 Polo Road, Patna.
Samajwadi Party (SP) national president Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday launched a scathing attack on the BJP by accusing it of trying to suppress the issue of alleged misappropriation of donations received for the construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya.
The Kerala High Court the other day dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) that challenged the Union government's decision to confer the Padma Bhushan award on Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana (SNDP) Yogam General Secretary Vellappally Natesan, holding that the mere pendency of criminal cases does not constitute a valid ground to invalidate a national honour conferred by the President.
The report indicates that the phone of Director of Industries Department K Gopalakrishnan was not hacked.
VB registers corruption case against Contractor, Mining Dept officials in Ferozepur
The family of Naveen Babu, Additional District Magistrate (ADM) of Kannur who died by suicide last month, is set to petition the Kerala High Court to revoke the bail granted to PP Divya, accused in connection with his death.
In a case of caste conflict, several Dalit women staged a dharna in front of a temple in Kendrapara district on Saturday after they were allegedly denied the right to perform the ritual of offering milk to the deity during the holy month of Kartik.
The perennial star campaigners, stalwarts of both parties including former Chief Ministers Ashok Gehlot and Vasundhara Raje, their contemporaries and ministerial colleagues of late Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, besides Gehlot and Raje either were not visible at all or showed up themselves only once or twice.
