After Lingayat party chief, BJP picks Vokkaliga as leader of opposition

The BJP on Friday chose former deputy chief minister R Ashoka as the leader of opposition in the Karnataka assembly.   IMAGE: R Ashoka addresses BJP MLAs after being elected as the leader of......

DMK Starts Giving it Back To BJP

The BJP has nothing to lose after a point.For the DMK it is a difficult choice, as it would not want to give too much of space to a 'national party' lest the 'Dravidian duel' of the past decades......

K'taka portfolios: Siddaramaiah keeps finance, Shivakumar gets irrigation

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has allocated portfolios to ministers in his Cabinet, keeping the Finance department with himself while assigning the Irrigation and Bengaluru City Development......

Assam Police arrests 2,044 in crackdown against child marriage

In a massive crackdown on child marriage in Assam, the police on Friday arrested 2,044 people including Hindu and Muslim priests who conducted such weddings which, the authorities said, will be......

Battered & bruised, Planning Commission loses more of its teeth

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently extended a Rs 8,000-crore (Rs 80 billion) central support for building roads in Jammu & Kashmir, Union Cabinet's approval for the big-ticket announcement......

Over half of Plan panel staff to be farmed out

The think tank that will replace the 64-year-old Planning Commission might retain only 40 per cent of its 1,000 staff members. The rest are expected to be sent back to their parent cadres. Among......

Govt nods welfare scheme for women, children

To check rampant under-nutrition and anaemia among women and children, the government approved on Wednesday the implementation of a Rs 1000 crore (Rs 10 billion) scheme for the welfare of mother......

Street vendors, rag-pickers to get health cover

The government on Friday said it intended extending coverage of its flagship health insurance scheme for poor families to auto-rickshaw drivers, cycle rickshaw pullers, street vendors and......