The latest version of Tata Motors’ sedan Manza, equipped with a range of new features, hit the roads on Sunday, an official said. Competitively priced, Tata Manza would cost from Rs 5.14 lakh for the Safire petrol range and from Rs 5.91 lakh for the Quadrajet diesel range (both prices ex-showroom,Delhi). It would be [...]
Read More... Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asked state governments to launch a crackdown on corruption and inflation, which he identified as two of the biggest challenges the country faces today. Octroi and local taxes could be waived to bring down costs of essential commodities, he suggested.
Speaking at the annual meeting of chief secretaries of states, Singh [...]
Sourav Ganguly’s hopes of playing in the Indian Premier League (IPL) have suffered a huge blow as three franchises have opposed the move to include unsold Indian players back in the IPL.
The snub comes after Kochi team who were reportedly interested in buying Ganguly wrote to the Board of Control for Cricket in India [...]
A Chetak helicopter of the Army today crashed in a residential area here killing two officers but there was no casualty on the ground.
The helicopter, which on a routine sortie had takenoff from Gandhinagar for Army Aviation Training School here,crashed after hitting a bungalow in Jachak Nagar area at 0855hours, army and police officials [...]
Former telecom minister A Raja and at least seven bureaucrats have been reportedly named in the report submitted by a former judge who investigated allotment of telecom licences for 2G spectrum. Siddhartha Behura, former secretary of the department of telecom, and seven other officials of DoT have been named in former Supreme Court judge [...]
Read More...Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan has met the family members of additional collector Yashwant Sonawane, who was murdered by oil mafia earlier this week. Chavan met Sonawane’s wife Vijaya and others at the slain officer’s house here last night. Talking to the reporters, Chavan said in future government will not tolerate such things happening [...]
Read More... Ten weeks after it launched preliminary investigations into the Adarsh Co-operative Housing Society scam, the Central Bureau of Investigation Saturday registered a formal complaint into the case.
Though details of the FIR are not immediately available, it is learnt that the report has named certain promoters of the society besides retired defence officials, bureaucrats and [...]
Good news for the beleaguered BJP government in Karnataka. A commission set up to investigate a series of attacks on churches in 2008 has said neither the government nor the police can be faulted.
“There is no basis to the apprehension of Christian petitioners that the politicians, BJP, mainstream Sangh Parivar and state government directly [...]
Prominent Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband’s new head Maulana Ghulam Mohammed Vastanvi, who had recently praised development works in Gujarat, has said that Chief Minister Narendra Modi cannot be be given a “clean chit” in the 2002 riots. “Those who were involved in Gujarat riots should be punished,” the cleric told mediapersons at the [...]
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