India's exports contracted for the second consecutive month, year on year, going down in June by 5.45 per cent to $25 billion on account of growing economic uncertainties in the Western markets.... | Read..
Rejecting the Centre's claim that states were to be blamed for the power crisis, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday said it was not right ... | Read..
A senior leader of the CPI(M)’s Kerala unit, P Jayarajan, was arrested on Wednesday in connection with the murder of Indian Union Muslim League youth wing activist Abdu... | Read..
The Supreme Court on Wednesday acquitted three persons sentenced to varying jail terms for tampering with evidence in the infamous 1999 BMW hit-and-run case, involving former... | Read..
Uninor, the mobile telephony provider controlled by Norway’s Telenor, said on Wednesday it would auction all of its telecom business before a court-set September 7 ... | Read..
After a gap of about four years, P Chidambaram on Wednesday returned as head of the Finance Ministry amid urgency to give a boost to the sagging economy.... | Read..
The biggest power outage in history struck 600 million people in India on Tuesday as three grids collapsed one after the other around 1pm. ... | Read..
Jharkhand State Electricity Board (JSEB) managed to tap a hydel power station in Bhutan to partially overcome the crisis in capital Ranchi around 3pm, two hours after the... | Read..
P. Chidambaram today said a Delhi police team would go to Iran to question Israeli car explosion suspects but declined comment on whether Iranian Republican Guards were involved in the bombing in the capital.... | Read..
New Delhi, Dec. 17: A 23-year-old woman was raped and brutalised by a group of men inside a private luxury bus with curtains she had boarded last night in Delhi, and is now on a ventilator with her intestines and uterus ruptured. | Read»
New Delhi, Dec. 31: The protests against the December 16 gang rape appear to have unwittingly led a teenaged Delhi student to commit suicide after being arrested for lewd behaviour with a girl on a bus. | Read»
Patna, Jan. 3: A pregnant lady was found unconscious on rail tracks in Bihar this afternoon, prompting police to investigate accounts that suggested she jumped off a train after a soldier tried to rape her in the toilet of an AC coach. | Read»
Lucknow, Jan. 6: The hand-wringing over masking the identity of the Delhi rape victim turned largely academic today after two British tabloids published her name and her father led his village in demanding disclosure in India. | Read»
India is no longer a land that worships the mind. More than anything else it worships the material. Even our temples have become grounds for quid pro quo where blessing is not what people seek but just riches. We are no longer happy with homes. We want to live in monuments.... | Read»
The past fortnight has been rather unique for a Delhi that often gives the impression of being detached not merely from Bharat but from India as well. For the first time in living memory, the festive season was marked by candlelight marches rather than candlelight dinners.... | Read»
New Delhi, Jan. 1: The six December 16 gang-rape accused would habitually drink through Sundays and take out the chartered school bus at night to pick up sex workers, a senior police officer said. | Read»
Sadly, there is little to look forward to in a city where more things change more they remain the same. Calcuttans this year will continue to go through the motions of filling up shops, restaurants and, yes, hospital beds... | Read»
Calcutta, Jan. 1: Operators camping on Trinamul-associated premises in the heart of Calcutta are openly demanding money in the name of elected representatives to facilitate illegal construction, an undercover investigation by The Telegraph has established. | Read»
The Mamata Banerjee government has thrown the baby out with the bath water, withdrawing from the East-West Metro project on the grounds that it is no longer part of the UPA and therefore not responsible for any hitch. | Read»
