The Congress party Friday strongly rejected a former prime ministerial aide P.C. Alexander’s indication that the then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi had helped Warren Anderson, the CEO of Union Carbide Corp in 1984, escape from the country within days of Bhopal gas tragedy.
Alexander reportedly stated that Gandhi and then Madhya Pradesh [...]
The contentious Telangana issue appears to have come back to square one with yet another confusing statement of Union Home Minister P Chidambaram.
Chidambaam’s comment that the formation of Telangana state is not in the hands of the Centre, but it depends on the consensus to be achieved in the State, has [...]
Whenever opposition is weak, the ruling party gets horns in its head. And Congress is not immune to that phenomenon. Once upon a time, when every opposition party was weak, Congress has shown its airs and a coterie was formed to run the government.
Rajiv Gandhi for quite a long time was [...]
It is a testing time for Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu in the selection of candidates for the forthcoming Rajya Sabha elections.
The TDP will get just two seats in the RS polls, but there are more than a dozen contenders for the same. Every time, Naidu does a lot of [...]
India’s tennis sensation Sania Mirza is all set to marry Pakistan cricketer Shoaib Malik next month.
Pakistan news channel Geo TV broke the news first, which was later confirmed by family sources. “The news is confirmed. The wedding will take place in Hyderabad next month,” Sania’s father Imran Mirza told the [...]
With Telangana leaders rejecting the terms of reference of the Srikrishna panel and student groups calling for a shutdown Saturday, police went on alert in Hyderabad and nine other districts of the region.
Anticipating violent protests, police tightened security at the chief minister’s camp office, universities, the state assembly and other vital installations.
As soon as the [...]
Amid reports of students taking to the streets in protest against the possibility of 44 educational institutions losing their deemed university status, Union Minister for Human Resource Development (HRD) Kapil Sibal on Tuesday said the affected students would still get their degrees whatever be the fate of their universities.
Task force report
At a press conference here, [...]
Normal life was paralysed in Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh for the second consecutive day on Thursday due to bandh called by Telangana Joint Action Committee (JAC) to protest the police cane-charge on students in Osmania University here.
The Andhra Pradesh Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) has suspended its services in Telangana districts like Nalgonda, Medak and [...]
President Barack Obama and his Democratic Party raced to re-evaluate their health care plans and electoral strategy following their stunning loss of a Senate seat in Massachusetts long held by Edward M. Kennedy.
The embarrassing defeat to Republican Scott Brown in a Democratic stronghold was a bitter end to the president’s first year in office Wednesday, [...]
Nearly two and a half months after imposing a ban on pre-paid mobile phones in Jammu and Kashmir, the Centre on Thursday lifted its order with immediate effect but put stringent conditions on operators for verification of customers.
The decision to lift the ban was taken after the Centre finalised a “foolproof” plan to ensure proper [...]
