Will raising the marriageable age for women to 21 improve gender outcomes?National health survey indicates the urgent need for lowering maternal and infant mortality rates, as well as for promoting responsible and...
24 Dec, 2021, 11.25 PM IST
Govt's approach towards farmers' protest adversarial, confrontionist, say 75 ex-civil servantsThe letter signed by 75 former civil servants, including Najeeb Jung, Julio Riberio and Aruna Roy, who are part of the Constitutional Condu...
05 Feb, 2021, 09.13 PM IST
Bihar BJP cracks down on rebels, expels 9 leaders including those contesting on LJP ticketsOne of the expelled BJP leader is Rameshwar Chaurasiya, who had represented Nokha as a BJP MLA a number of times. His seat has fallen into ...
13 Oct, 2020, 09.37 AM IST
Jaya Jaitly sentenced to 4-year jail term in defence corruption case, HC suspends punishmentJaya Jaitley and two others were held guilty of corruption in a 2000-01 case related to a purported defence deal, the lawyer said. They wer...
30 Jul, 2020, 10.09 PM IST
Court awards 4-year jail to ex-Samata Party chief Jaya Jaitley, 2 others in defence corruption caseThe court, in a proceeding held in camera, also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh each on all three convicts and directed them to surrender befor...
30 Jul, 2020, 04.04 PM IST
Vishwas versus Vikas in Lalu citadel; Saran slugfest too close to callRJD-Congress was behind the NDA by 10-12% votes five years back, so any vote transfer between the other block could prove fatal.
06 May, 2019, 08.01 AM IST
Sonia Gandhi wrote to Chidambaram to resolve Tehelka issueShe called the treatment to Tehelka financiers by revenue enforcement agencies 'unjust and unfair' and reportedly asked Chidambaram to reso...
07 Nov, 2017, 11.27 AM IST
Countdown begins for Bihar polls after BJP announces seat-sharing deal, grand alliance unveils governance charterBJP president Amit Shah along with leaders of alliance partners announced the seat-sharing arrangement where BJP will contest 160 of 243 as...
15 Sep, 2015, 06.21 AM IST
Senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi flays Nitish Kumar for aligning with RJD, CongressKumar must explain to the people of Bihar about the compulsion that made him align with the RJD and Congress, he told reporters here.
11 Nov, 2014, 05.08 PM IST
Coming together of Lalu Prasad ,Nitish Kumar will only end in zero: Upendra KushwahaDescribing the coming together of Nitish and Lalu as "unprincipled and opportunist", Upendra Kushwaha said handshake of both would result i...
21 Jun, 2014, 07.39 PM IST
RJD's alliance with Congress will continue in Bihar: Lalu Prasad YadavThe RJD president earlier in the day presided over a marathon review meeting with party nominees in the recently-held general elections and...
05 Jun, 2014, 05.59 PM IST
Lok Sabha elections 2014: It's seat by seat fight for Narendra Modi, as 64 seats go to polls on WednesdayOf 64 seats going to polls today, Narendra Modi's eyes are set mainly on 31 seats in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh.
07 May, 2014, 08.55 AM IST
Narendra Modi attacks Nitish Kumar; mocks Bihar CM's belief of being 'best' for PM postMocking at the Third Front Modi said, "Third Front rises when poll bugle is sounded. Third Front parties have either supported Congress or ...
10 Mar, 2014, 06.27 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee's TMC trying to make national ambitions a realityMamata has chalked out plans that includes opening up units in all 70 Assembly seats of Delhi, seat-sharing deal with Asom Gana Parishad an...
10 Mar, 2014, 11.04 AM IST
CBI closes Barak missile systems purchase case, says no evidence against accusedIn its closure report filed in a Delhi court two days ago, CBI claimed it did not find any substantial evidence to prove that bribes were p...
11 Dec, 2013, 11.32 AM IST
Samata Manch to rally against Congress' misrule, 'misuse of secularism'Samata Manch, an anti-Congress political organisation launched on Wednesday by associates of George Fernandes, has decided to organise rall...
24 Oct, 2013, 06.13 AM IST