Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday took the battle to the opposition camp and asked the party to ”stand up and fight aggressively” and accused Bharatiya Janata Party of making “political bread and butter” by holding Parliament to ransom by ”blackmail”, a combative. .. | Read..
Maruti Suzuki on Tuesday said it is committed to operations in Haryana and will not cut back any planned investment in the state, although the Manesar plant would function un... | Read..
The Union environment ministry has raised concerns over the proposed power plant on Nayachar island, casting a cloud on the Rs 8,600-crore investment proposal .... | Read..
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today issued a forceful rebuttal to the findings of the CAG on coal allocations, asserting that successive governments since 1993 had not tr... | Read..
With America’s presidential election less than 10 weeks away, issues of faith and divinity, the bedrock of the Republican Party, are ironically cutting the ground from ... | Read..
A 29-year-old Salt Lake homemaker diagnosed with dengue died in hospital last evening, the second victim of confirmed dengue in a city feared to have at least 276 people ... | Read..
A low-pressure trough hovering over Odisha and Chhattisgarh resulted in moderate rainfall in several pockets of Jharkhand since last night. The surprise showers, however,... | Read..
The state agriculture minister’s purported love life is a humdinger of a story guaranteed to keep audiences glued to the tale, twists and U-turns all welcome.... | 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»
