New rules favour supply teachers

  MISSISSAUGA A controversial regulation on hiring teachers  has been amended by the Education Ministry. The Peel District School Board ...

UPA’s ‘India Story’ to go online, hit theatres

NEW DELHI The UPA government plans to take its new publicity campaign, “The Story of India”, to targeted audiences across ...

Fast-track courts will be constituted for jailed Muslim youths: Shinde

NEW DELHI Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has announced that fast-track courts will be constituted to look into terror ...

Courts should fuel growth, not impede: Kapil Sibal

NEW DELHI The courts should help fuel growth, not impede it, Law Minister Kapil Sibal has counselled the judiciary. “Legal ...

Scrutinising all major appointments in the railway ministry: CBI Director

NEW DELHI CBI Director Ranjit Sinha said on Monday that his agency was scrutinising files related to all major appointments ...

Collegium system of judges’ appointment ‘opaque’, says Sibal

NEW DELHI Union Law Minister Kapil Sibal on Monday said that the present collegium system of appointment of judges is ...

Sanaullah’s death will further strain Indo-Pak relations

NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD The death of Sanaullah Haq, the Pakistani prisoner who was attacked in a Jammu jail by a fellow ...

Controversy over use of airport by Gupta family’s wedding guests

JOHANNESBURG A senior South African diplomat has been suspended over use of a military airport by wealthy Indian supporters of ...

Centre in touch with Pakistan over Sarabjit Singh: Sushilkumar Shinde

PUNE Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Sunday said that the ministry of home affairs and ministry of external affairs ...

Pakistan court releases list of scribes on secret government payroll

ISLAMABAD Pakistan‘s apex court has released a list of journalists who were allegedly paid by the information ministry through its ...

Russia bans 18 Americans after similar US move

MOSCOW Russia is banning 18 Americans from entering the country in response to Washington imposing sanctions on 18 Russians for ...

Liyaqat Shah’s arrest sounds death knell for J&K surrender policy

SRINAGAR Over 1,000 ex-militants stranded in Pakistan had applied to return home under Jammu & Kashmir##Q##s surrender policy till last ...

Japan deploys anti-North Korean missiles in Tokyo

TOKYO Japan has deployed Patriot missiles in its capital as it readies to defend the 30 million people who live ...

Government in a spot over Italian marines case

NEW DELHI The government on Wednesday seemed to be struggling over how to deal with the Italian marines accused of ...

Vijender gives in to pressure, provides blood and urine samples

NEW DELHI Olympic hero Vijender Singh, who finds himself at the centre of a drug scandal, today made himself available ...

Pakistan says it asked Indian diplomats to monitor prisoner Chamel Singh’s autopsy

ISLAMABAD Pakistan on Monday offered bizarre explanation over the alleged torture and killing of Indian prisoner Chamel Singh in a ...

PM voices ‘distress’ after Indians killed by French troops

NEW DELHI India##Q##s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has told of his “deep distress” at the killing of two Indians by ...

Khurshid says will respond after reading Italy’s letter on marines

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM External affairs minister Salman Khurshid on Tuesday said that he will respond only after he reads the letter send ...

FDI norms do not make a distinction between existing and new airlines: Anand Sharma

NEW DELHI Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma has said foreign direct investment (FDI) norms for the aviation sector do ...

NKorea denounces and totally rejects sanctions, says will boost its nuclear deterrent

SEOUL North Korea has said today that UN sanctions would only make its nuclear and missile programmes stronger, with the ...

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