New Delhi, March 11 A special court here on Wednesday summoned former prime minister Manmohan Singh as accused in a coal block allocation case. Special Judge Bharat Parashar also summoned industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla, former coal secretary P.C. Parakh and three others as an accused in the case for April 8.
Protests by BJP, a ruling coalition partner in Jammu and Kashmir, and the opposition Congress continued here on Sunday against the release of separatist leader Masrat Alam by Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed’s government.Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers staged a protest here and in the border district of Poonch against Alam’s release.Protesting BJP workers demanded […]
New Delhi, March 7 The government stands to gain an additional Rs.12,600 crore on Day Three of the coal auction on Saturday, potentially swelling its kitty by nearly Rs.145,000 crore from the 19 rounds in the first tranche and the three rounds thus far in the second leg, as per the latest data. The Tara […]
Washington, March 7 The Obama administration called state bans on same-sex marriage “incompatible with the constitution”, as a brief was filed in the US Supreme Court in support of couples challenging such bans in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee, a media report said on Saturday. “The marriage bans challenged in these cases impermissibly exclude lesbian […]
Colombo, March 7 Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has said his country’s relations with India were separate from that with China and that they did not like the way the previous regime of president Mahinda Rajapaksa was trying to “play India off against China”. In an interview to Chennai-based Thanthi TV, Wickremesinghe said India […]
A principal reason for Narendra Modi being swept to power in May was disgust with Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Manmohan Singh – indecisive, short on ideas, bereft of charisma and supervising a government of scams. In a house of 543, the Congress had 209 seats. The shortfall of 63 was made up of coalition […]