Politics

After foraying on microblogging site twitter, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s Office has made its debut on popular video-sharing website Youtube. The PMO said it will now be communicating with the people “more” through videos. “PMOIndia is now also on Youtube at pmofficeindia. We will be communicating more with you through videos,” PMO sources said. The [...]

Hubli:  As a late celebration of his birthday, former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa held a rally in Hubli in the northern part of the state today. The event saw a massive turnout – close to 40,000 people came to hear their former CM. It was, however, widely seen as a show of strength by [...]

Dealing a major blow to the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government the Supreme Court on Thursday cancelled all 122 telecom licences allotted under the 2G spectrum on or after January 10, 2008. While cancelling the licences the Supreme Court ruled that 85 out of the 122 licences were outside the eligibility criteria for allocation. [...]

Court hearings today did not bring any respite for Google or Facebook, who are among the 21 companies in legal trouble over obscene material posted on their sites. Yesterday, the Delhi High Court warned that like China, India can shut down these sites. Today, the Indian government has decided to sanction the prosecution of executives [...]

Bangalore: Alarmed over leadership tussle in Karnataka’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on Wednesday began efforts for patch-up. State RSS leaders held a meeting with Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda, his predecessor BS Yeddyurappa and state BJP chief KS Eshwarappa, and several ministers as part of the bid to broker [...]

A trial court in Delhi on Thursday accepted Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy‘s plea to examine two witnesses in the 2G scam case. Swamy is demanding that Union Home Minister P Chidambaram be made a co-accused in the 2G scam case. The two witnesses are the Sports Secretary Sindhushree Khullar and Joint Secretary finance and [...]

NEW DELHI: India has urged social network companies including Facebook, Twitter and Google to remove offensive material, unleashing a storm of criticism from Internet users in the world’s largest democracy complaining of censorship. Telecoms and information technology minister Kapil Sibal met executives from Facebook, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft on Monday to ask them to screen [...]

Andhra CM Kiran Reddy wins trust vote Hyderabad: The Congress government on in Andhra Pradesh survived the no-confidence motion moved against it by the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) on Monday night. TDP party president Chandrababu Naidu had moved a similar motion against the then YS Rajasekhara Reddy’s government in 2008 and lost. This was the [...]

NEW DELHI: Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar was on Thursday slapped by a man, who had attacked former telecommunications minister Sukh Ram here four days ago. Pawar was attacked at the NDMC Centre here. The Sikh man also took out his kirpan when security guards tried to overpower him and whisk him away. It is [...]

The winter session of Parliament begins tomorrow as the session assumes importance in the context of govt’s keenness to give a push to legislative agenda and civil society’s campaign for an effective Lokpal bill A determined opposition is raring to turn the heat on the govt on a range of issues including price rise and [...]