BJP general secretary Pramod Mahajan was today put on 24-hour dialysis “due to poor functioning of his kidneys”, and his condition continued to be critical.
Pravin Mahajan, who shot elder brother Pramod Mahajan last Saturday — doctors today said there was no change in the BJP leader’s condition which remained critical — was his politically astute shadow at state election campaigns.
The government tonight approved two proposals that would help India groom technically superior manpower as well as brilliant scientists to get an edge over other nations.
Though an important department of his ministry has been taken back, Minority Affairs Minister A R Antulay says its will not affect the functioning of his ministry in anyway.
The IIM-A today officially announced a 12 per cent increase in the fees of its two-year post-graduate programme, from Rs 1.58 lakh to Rs 1.77 lakh per annum.
The Centre today told the Supreme Court that it was better to cancel the All India Post Graduate Medical Entrance Examination (AIPGMEE)-2006 and hold a fresh one.
Calling upon Civil Service officers to ‘‘ensure and assure equitable and sustainable growth’’, PM Manmohan Singh today said this was a challenge to bureaucrats in an ‘‘evolving market economy’’.
The Supreme Court today allowed Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) to continue with its minority status but restrained it from implementing the 50 per cent quota for Muslim students.
Under fire from Cabinet colleague Kapil Sibal and facing violent protests demonstrations by medical students in the Capital on the proposal for 27 per cent reservation for OBCs...
Former Chief Election Commissioner and MP M S Gill today called for a ‘complete and comprehensive’ investigation into the massacre of Sikhs in Chittisinghpora.
The three-member group set up by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to go into the rehabilitation of families affected by the Sardar Sarovar project held its first meeting today.
The EC on Friday slapped showcause notices on the Congress and the DMK for using as many as 228 vehicles, instead of the mandated three, for Sonia Gandhi’s joint April 25 rally in Tamil Nadu.
‘‘Any immediate sanctions against Iran need to be of a diplomatic and legal nature, rather than economic, so that Tehran has less legal maneuvering space over the nuclear issue.’’
The Delhi High Court today issued notices to the Centre and CBI to file their counter-affidavits in a PIL seeking an inquiry into allegations of kickbacks in the purchase of Scorpene submarines.
With diplomatic efforts gathering steam to put pressure on Iran over its alleged nuclear weapons programme, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today reached out to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
After being questioned for three hours by the Mahim police on Friday, actor Naveen Nischol was arrested in connection with his wife’s Geetanjali’s suicide last week
Two months after the Employment Guarantee Act was implemented, the government is mulling over whether to keep the minimum wage rate as Rs 60 uniformally for all the states.
