NEW DELHI: Lalu Prasad, a rabid anti-women quota voice, warned of ‘Mahabharat’ if the Centre forced the contentious law in Parliament, eking out assurance from the government that it would seek consensus to promulgate the historic law. The RJD chief led the group of naysayers at Speaker Meira Kumar’s meeting to resolve the stalemate on [...]
NEW DELHI: The Union government on Thursday decided to move Supreme Court seeking total recall of its stinging judgment taking over the probe into black money while accusing the government of probing the sensitive economic issue laggardly. Riled by the appointment of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by a retired judge of the apex [...]
NEW DELHI: As his name emerges as one of the suspects behind Wednesday’s serial blasts in Mumbai, underworld don Dawood Ibrahim lost possession over a prime property in the city, with the Delhi High Court on Thursday upholding the government’s decision to attach it. Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw dismissed a batch of petitions challenging the [...]
Talks with Pakistan will continue despite Mumbai blasts, SM Krishna said. NEW DELHI: India and Pakistan may have finally overcome the terror-talks links. Despite Wednesday’s terror attack in Mumbai, India will go ahead with the foreign minister talks with Pakistan next week. Talking to TOI, foreign secretary Nirupama Rao said, “I am convinced of the [...]
NEW DELHI: The government cannot constitute courts or tribunals as it will dent judicial independence and jeopardise protection of citizen’s rights, the Supreme Court has ruled. The power to create courts, tribunals and even quasi-judicial bodies vests exclusively with the legislature and the executive has no role in it, said a bench of Justices R [...]
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s decision to forward the resignation of Mumbai leader Gurudas Kamat from the government is a clear signal to ministers sulking after Tuesday’s reshuffle to fall in line, and get on with implementing the agenda set out by the Congress leadership. While Kamat is out, senior minister Veerappa Moily — [...]
NEW DELHI: Pradeep Kumar, the outgoing defence secretary and the next Chief Vigilance Commissioner, says corruption remains a very major challenge and would have to be dealt at all levels. Kumar will be sworn in as the CVC on Thursday, almost four months after PJ Thomas’s appointment was quashed by the Supreme Court because of [...]
NEW DELHI: Pradeep Kumar, the outgoing defence secretary and the next Chief Vigilance Commissioner, says corruption remains a very major challenge and would have to be dealt at all levels. Kumar will be sworn in as the CVC on Thursday, almost four months after PJ Thomas’s appointment was quashed by the Supreme Court because of [...]
NEW DELHI: July is a jinxed month as far as Indo-Pak engagement is concerned. The three serial terror blasts in Mumbai on Wednesday evening have cast a shadow on the forthcoming foreign ministers’ talks scheduled for July 26. India has refrained from pointing any fingers at Pakistan, having learnt from past experiences. Pakistan foreign ministry [...]
NEW DELHI: Defence minister AK Antony on Tuesday warned defence companies “not to try to corrupt our people”, saying that the government would not hesitate to take extreme steps if it detects corruption in the defence acquisition process. “I do not want to be a party to any corrupt practice and will not allow even [...]
