Wednesday, 8 May 2013

Bring law to make CBI independent, else we will: SC to Centre

Bring law to make CBI independent, else we will: SC to Centre

Bring law to make CBI independent, else we will: SC to Centre

The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Centre to make efforts to bring some law for ensuring the CBI's independence and to insulate it from external influence, before any such exercise is undertaken by the court. "We would like the law to be in place ...
Karnataka Election results Live: Jagadish Shettar resigns

Karnataka Election results Live: Jagadish Shettar resigns

Karnataka's chief minister put in his resignation today, as his part BJP suffered defeat in the hands of Congress on Wednesday. He had met the governor to put in his resignation. 6.34 pm: Jagadish Shettar meets Governor to put in papers. After facing defeat ...
WB: Mamata Banerjee offers sops to industrialists

WB: Mamata Banerjee offers sops to industrialists

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday assured industrialists of speedy clearance of land for industries and promised to solve issues related to infrastructure within a specific timeframe. Banerjee, who has recently taken charge of ...
Kerala Plus Two Results 2013 declared

Kerala Plus Two Results 2013 declared

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala DHSE Plus Two Results 2013 were declared by the Directorate of Higher Secondary Education (DHSE) on Wednesday (May 8). Candidates can check their Kerala Plus Two Results 2013 and Kerala VHSE Results 2013 on the ...
Happy over defeat of anti-Marathi Karnataka govt: Uddhav Thackeray

Happy over defeat of anti-Marathi Karnataka govt: Uddhav Thackeray

Shiv Sena, the alliance partner of BJP in NDA, is "happy" over the defeat of the "anti-Marathi" government in Karnataka even as it asserted that BJP will do well in upcoming Assembly elections in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. "Though nobody expected ...
Manmohan Singh

Manmohan Singh's Rajya Sabha term expires on June 14

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's term as Member of Parliament (MP) expires on June 14 with the Election Commission on Wednesday announcing the election for the two Rajya Sabha seats from Assam will be held on May 30. The election will be held to fill ...

'Border row may figure in Khurshid's Beijing talks'

`Border row may figure in Khurshid`s Beijing talks` Beijing: The border row at the Depsang Valley is expected to dominate the talks during External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid's visit on Thursday, China's state media said. State-run Global Times carried a ...
30 found dead in Himachal bus accident

30 found dead in Himachal bus accident

SHIMLA: In Himachal Pradesh bus accident, rescue teams have so far retrieved 30 bodies from the bus submerged in Beas River in Jhiri village of Mandi district along Chandigarh-Manali highway. The ill-fated private carrying passengers had plunged into ...
Report against scribes unfounded: Chandy

Report against scribes unfounded: Chandy

Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has said that the intelligence report about correspondents of three Malayalam newspapers having worked against the interests of the State in respect of inter-State water disputes with Tamil Nadu is unfounded. Expressing ...
Odisha: Train hits vehicle, six dead

Odisha: Train hits vehicle, six dead

Bhubaneswar: Six people were killed and three others injured, some of them critically, when a passenger train rammed into their vehicle in Odisha's Dhenkanal district on Wednesday, police said. The accident took place at an unmanned level crossing near ...