Expelled AIADMK leader V K Sasikala on Monday returned to Tamil Nadu to a grand reception, days after completing her four-year jail term in Bengaluru in a corruption case, amid indications of a confrontation with the ruling party which she once controlled.
The external affairs minister said that the dreaded terror outfit Islamic State had killed all the Indian nationals.
Indian Olympic Association (IOA) can still avoid an Olympic suspension by calling off its controversial December 5 election, its secretary general Randhir Singh told Reuters on Thursday.
"Patel's resignation will shake foreign and domestic trust in the RBI's autonomy and shows that a red line has been crossed."
Underneath the corruption scams plaguing the defence forces is the ubiquitous but banned defence agent or middleman representing myriad overseas vendors who eases their material into India through the corrupt and complex bureaucratic corridors of the country's civil and military establishment, writes Rahul Bedi
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief VK Sasikala has met visitors 12 times in a month at the Parappana Agrahara central jail in Bengaluru.
The dust has barely settled after General VK Singh's Supreme Court battle to be army chief for another year when another senior general is approaching the court with a petition which, if accepted, could make him the next army chief, instead of Lt Gen Dalbir Singh, the eastern army commander who is currently in line.
When asked for a clarification, he snapped, "What can I do? You run a campaign and rectify it."
The NSE Nifty settled at 10,234.65, down 225.45 points, or 2.16 per cent.
The annual Army Commanders Conference, coming in the wake of several controversies centering around Army Chief Gen VK Singh over the past fortnight, is scheduled to finalise a road map for enhancing the "technical threshold" of all personnel in the force, reports RS Chauhan
Some of the reaction to India's bombing on Pak terror camps.
Quashing reports that Sasikala was behind Jayalalithaa's death, Visagan said that it is an unjustifiable allegation.
Narendra Modi, Vilasrao Deshmukh, Pratibha Patil, Uddhav and Raj Thackeray, Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle took blessings of him.
The Indian Army chief, General VK Singh, will petition the Supreme Court on Monday against the MoD's ruling that his date of birth will not be corrected in the official record
Terming the recent leak of Army Chief General VK Singh's March 12 letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as "anti-national," Defence Minister A K Antony on Thursday said he and the defence ministry would take the strongest possible action against those responsible for the leak under Indian law.
The controversies that dogged the fag end of his career didn't take away from his distinguished military service, nor did they detract from the fact that former Army Chief General V K Singh's Singh's actions were motivated by the national interest. In the following transcript, the former general fields questions about his actions, his future plans, and much more
Given the broken balance sheet and the limited fiscal room, the government has to kick off investment: Vikas Khemani & Stephen Gallagher.
Three Congress MLAs -- Hardeep Singh Dang, Bisahulal Singh and Raghuraj Kansana -- are reportedly still untraceable.
Anna Hazare has invited Army Chief Gen V K Singh to join his team after his retirement to fight corruption.
The Assam government and the Indian Army have paid homage to the martyrs of 1894 farmers' rising at Patharughat in Darrang district of Assam, who had made supreme sacrifice while protesting against the brutalities and oppressive rule of the British in January 1894.
Army chief General V K Singh's aggressive stance over various issues in the last few months is likely to go against the interest of the army.
The Indian army will have to wait four to five years to acquire Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile Agni-5, which was successfully tested on 19 April by the Defence Research and Development Organisation. Sheela Bhatt reports
Lt Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag, whose appointment as Army chief had kicked up a row, on Thursday took over as the next head of the 1.3 million strong force succeeding Gen Bikram Singh who is retiring.
While the recently-elected Ukrainian Parliament battles strife on its eastern borders amid financial turmoils, one of nation's legislators has been creating waves around the world with her charms.
Moving swiftly after the conclusion of the Commonwealth Games, the government constituted a high-level committee headed by former Comptroller and Auditor General VK Shungloo to look into the organising and conduct of the Games.
'Your strike rate is very important when it comes to seat-sharing.'
Sukanya Verma looks at all the AKs Bachchan has worked with.
Brisk polling began on Thursday morning in 91 constituencies spread across 18 states and two union territories in the first phase of Lok Sabha elections. As people queued up across the nation to cast their vote, there were some famous faces in the lines at different polling stations. Take a look.
Here's a recap of the big events that shaped the nation over the weekend.
The farmer representatives were unanimous in seeking repeal of the 3 laws.
Rediff readers suggest interesting names for Baba Ramdev's new denim brand.
Former CWG Organising Committee top officials Lalit Bhanot and VK Verma, held for allegedly resorting to irregularities in awarding lucrative logistic provisioning contracts to a Swiss firm for the mega sporting event, was slapped with three more charges of fraud, forgery and cheating.
Sasikala's declaration of staying away from politics does not necessarily have to mean that she was retiring for good. She is only taking time to evaluate the post-poll chances of hers before digging in again, if possible, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
Indian Army Chief Gen VK Singh will undertake a five-day trip to Bangladesh starting June 19, exactly 40 years after he started imparting training to Mukti Bahini fighters in North Bengal in the run-up to the 1971 war with Pakistan. Now as chief of the world's second largest standing Army, Gen Singh will meet many of his old friends who are now influential politicians, bureaucrats and businessmen under the Awami League regime in Bangladesh
A day ahead of the crucial General Body Meeting of the Indian Olympic Association on the controversial Dow Chemicals issue, its acting president VK Malhotra, on Wednesday, demanded the company to be removed from being one of the sponsors of the 2012 London Games.
A day prior to his retirement as Army Chief, Gen VK Singh addressed the passing-out parade of the National Defence Academy, his alma mater, on Wednesday. We present an excerpt from his speech to the young cadets
Ace Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin is now in a wave of a storm for what appeared to be criticising the government of Tamil Nadu.
The Delhi Commonwealth Games corruption probe is gaining steam after the arrest of two former Organising Committee officials but an unfazed OC chairman Suresh Kalmadi on Wednesday said he would give "satisfactory answers" to the government panel investigating the matter.
Now under the custody of the Sri Lankan Army, the former LTTE weapons procurer spoke to VK Shashikumar about the mistakes the outfit made in the past and the need to bridge the gap between the Tamil and the Sinhalese races.
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