Eight Punjab cabinet ministers and a senior bureaucrat were found to be "absent" from office during a surprise check on Tuesday by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal.
The Modi PMO is like none other: It is staffed by people who are so low profile that the only dominant personality is the Prime Minister's.
The order is is contrary to the Central Information Commission's directive bringing six national parties under the transparency law.
SC sought reply from Centre and Haryana over the boy's father's plea seeking CBI probe.
India on Friday lodged a strong protest over the release of Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi, a prime accused in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, saying the "negative development" reinforced the perception that Pakistan has a dual policy on dealing with terrorists.
The Prime Minister's Office has clarified that the total sanctioned strength of the PMO has been around 525 in the period 2011-14. As against this, the actual strength of the PMO in the years 2011, 2012 and 2013 was in the range of 407 to 411. The number has now declined to 385.
This time, Bajrang Dal 'activists' object to lady students traveling on a study trip.
The killer heat wave brought the nationwide toll to 2,338 even as some places like Delhi got respite on Monday.
Shashank Manohar, who took over as the 36th president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), is known for his integrity and regains control of the country's richest sporting body at a time when cricket's image has been tarnished by the spot-fixing scandal and intense factionalism.
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In another major shakeup of the state's bureaucracy in four days, the Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday transferred 36 Indian Administrative Services officers including district magistrates after a review of the law and order situation by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav.
The prime minister had violated the model code of conduct by holding a 'roadshow' after voting in the Gujarat assembly polls, Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala alleged.
Lt Governor Najeeb Jung, who is now administering Delhi after President's rule was imposed, on Tuesday made it clear that none of the decisions and initiatives taken by the Aam Aadmi Party government will be scrapped, including the 50 per cent subsidy on power tariff.
The ABVP members did not allow the AISA march to proceed and allegedly locked the students and teachers inside Ramjas College.
The Centre on Friday sought a report from the Punjab government on the botched surgeries at a non-profit organisation-sponsored camp where at least 60 people lost their eyesight even as the state ordered a high-level probe into the incident in Gurdaspur.
The MeT department has warned of rain or thunderstorm at isolated places in the state in the next two days.
Record sugar output has also yielded molasses production way beyond market demand and plant capacity of state distilleries and country made liquor units
The Supreme Court-instituted three-member committee probing the Indian Premier League spot-fixing scandal will speak with banned pacer Shantakumaran Sreesanth, Rajasthan Royals co-owner Raj Kundra and others, including commentator Harsha Bhogle, when it meets for three days in Mumbai, from November 16.
Demonetisation was aimed at removing black money and corruption, but undisclosed income keeps being unearthed from various parts of the country.
The Lalit Modi faction remains confident of a thumping victory in the Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) elections which were in Jaipur on Thursday but they will have to wait till January 6 for the results.
Former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi received a shot in the arm on Wednesday after a Supreme Court-appointed observer cleared his nomination to contest for the post of president in Thursday's Rajasthan Cricket Association elections in Jaipur.
Two suspected operatives of Al Qaeda have been arrested in New Delhi and Odisha and Delhi Police on Wednesday claimed to have busted a module of the terror group's Indian sub-continent wing operating out of the country.
A tussle between the Delhi government and the Lt Governor has left bureaucrats vulnerable to sudden transfers.
A combative Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, furious over the CBI raid at the Delhi Secretariat, has alleged that the day-long action by the probe agency was to look for an inquiry committee file relating to Delhi District Cricket Association that "traps" Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
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Arvind Kumar Sharma, a 1988-batch IAS officer and one of the many joint secretaries in PMO, definitely wields some power.
The incident took place when thousands of followers of religious leader Jai Gurudev were on their way to Domri village on the banks of Ganga to take part in the two-day camp, police said.
Indian roads continue to be among the most dangerous in the world. Few people are even aware that the Good Samaritan Law exists. Getting a licence to drive is still far too easy.
Doctor who conducted the post-mortem says the child died of excessive bleeding.
Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday demanded slapping of murder case against the transferred civil and police officers following the October 3 stampede that claimed 33 lives, while the Bihar government said the main opposition party was trying to politicising the incident.
The official has been suspended over laxity in supervising an examination centre.
Setting a new bench mark in transparency in politics, the Central Information Commission has held that political parties are answerable under the Right to Information Act.
For the first time ever, the BJP's headquarters for a Lok Sabha election is outside New Delhi. Meet the folks behind Narendra Modi's campaign for prime minister.
'While it is very easy to blame the chief minister, the bureaucracy should be held accountable. Chief ministers come every five years but bureaucracy is a permanent setup. The bureaucracy is trained for handling such situations with alacrity.'
The BCCI challenged the Rajasthan Sports Act 2005 allowing the former Indian Premier League commissioner to contest the RCA presidential elections on December 19 despite being banned for life by the Board.
The DDCA probe panel chief has informed the Centre that he was under "pressure" for naming some individuals, including a "VIP", in his report on the cricket body's affairs.
Twelve persons have died and around 100 were hospitalised on Monday after consuming illicit liquor on the outskirts of Lucknow city.
He, however, did not name these 'influential and wealthy people'.
In the wake of forthcoming assembly polls in Haryana, retired bureaucrats and police officers are in the fray to test political waters in the 'jat' heartland which goes to polls on October 15.
At least seven persons killed in flood and landslides triggered by incessant rain in South West Garo Hills district of Meghalaya where about one lakh people from over 200 villages have been rendered homeless so far even as the authorities have been caught off guard in the face of disaster.
'The SIT did not follow up with the CD of the phone call recordings that could have helped it find who were leading the mobs and where the calls of people involved in the rioting originated from and terminated.'
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