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Bengal cabinet ratifies reservation rules in education
Bengal cabinet ratifies reservation rule...

Bengal cabinet ratifies reservation rules in education

Kolkata – The West Bengal cabinet Monday ratified the rules of the “West Bengal Higher Education Reservation in Admission Bill”, thereby paving the way for reservation to Other Backward Classes (OBC) in education. State Panchayat Minister Subrata Mukherjee said seats for general... read more »

Population, capacity should dictate size of state allocation: Jayalalithaa
Population, capacity should dictate size...

Population, capacity should dictate size of state allocation: Jayalalithaa

Chennai – Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalaltihaa Monday suggested that the 14th Finance Commission give one-third weightage each to population, fiscal discipline and fiscal capacity as a formula for distribution of resources among states. She also urged the commission to reject outright... read more »

General Pervez Musharraf can be arrested in Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC.) trial, say experts
Want to travel? Go to government, Mushar...

Want to travel? Go to government, Musharraf told

Islamabad – Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf was Monday advised by the Sindh High Court to approach the government if he desired permission to go abroad to meet his ailing mother. The court clarified that it had not put him on the country’s exit control list —... read more »

Delhi polls effect: 180 Punekars sign up as Aam Aadmis in 2 hours
Delhi polls effect: 180 Punekars sign up...

Delhi polls effect: 180 Punekars sign up as Aam Aadmis in 2 hours

After a dynamic performance that has thrown the Delhi assembly into a deadlock and forebodes a President’s Rule in the state, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is conquering the IT crowd in the city. Between 5 and 7 in the evening on Sunday, during the first meeting of new members of the party since... read more »

Frame new law if disappointed over SC gay sex verdict: BJP

Frame new law if disappointed over SC gay sex verdict: BJP

New Delhi – The Bharatiya Janata Party Thursday refrained from taking sides on the Supreme Court’s judgment on same gender sex between a! dults, saying the government should... read more »

Chandy's mass contact gets pat on back from HC

Chandy’s mass contact gets pat on back from HC

Kochi – The Kerala High Court Thursday made a complimentary observation of Chief Minister Oommen Chandy’s mass contact programme in different districts, at which the grievances... read more »

Sensex closes 245 points down; automobile stocks plunge

Sensex closes 245 points down; automobile stocks plunge

Mumbai – A key index of the Indian equities markets Thursday closed 245.80 points or 1.16 percent down, its third consecutive fall this week, as bearish sentiment was observed ahead... read more »

Ready to pass Lokpal bill without debate: BJP

Ready to pass Lokpal bill without debate: BJP

New Delhi – The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday said it was ready to pass the Lokpal bill without debate if it was presented as it was after the select committee’s... read more »

Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa confident about change at the Centre

Sri Lanka’s detention of Indian fishermen warlike act: Jaya...

Chennai – India cannot continue with the facile “do not touch” policy with Sri Lanka in the wake of its “brazen” and “warlike” mass abduction of Indian... read more »