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Ranchi: A large number of people living around Govindpur Road railway station in predominently tribal Khunti district have submitted a signed memorandum to the Divisional Manager of South Eastern Railway demanding a morning train from Hatia /Ranchi station to Rourkela and beyond.

BHOPAL: It might have been highly embarrassing moment for RSS Chief Dr. Mohan Bhagwat that during his presence in Madhya Pradesh MP cops busted a ISI spy ring operating in the state which is ruled by RSS blue eyed boy Shivraj Singh Chouhan.

It is a pity that despite being one of the fastest growing civil aviation markets in the world for almost two decades, India made no serious effort to manufacture a civilian aircraft. The only civil aircraft initiative taken in the early 90s by late Prime Minister Narasimha Rao was, ironically, given up during Rao’s protégé Manohan Singh’s regime in 2009.

LUCKNOW: During last two phase polling, Samajwadi Party and Congress appears to be emerging as frontrunner in a multi-corner contest for crucial assembly polls for Uttar Pradesh assembly.

The ongoing drama in Tamil Nadu has once again confirmed the fallacy of bourgeois democracy. The split in ruling party of the state and the manipulation for grabbing the top slot in the administration is nothing new. The Tamil Nadu episode has an added feature. The ruling party at the Centre, Bharatiya Janata Party, too has got involved in the dirty game. Though its leaders at the state level are projecting as if it has nothing to do with either of the warring faction of AIADMK, it is playing its cards safely.

When voting for the second phase was going on, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was reminding the voters that in March 1984, Congress had tried to kill Mulayam Singh Yadav. Along with playing with words by preparing their acronym, going into the past has become a favourite style of Modi’s speech and he is making use of both. Now bringing an event of 1984 into political discourse only suggests that SP-Congress alliance has unnerved BJP and its supremo Narendra Modi.

The Supreme Court judgment given on January 11 in the Sahara-Birla papers case dismissing application submitted by the activist lawyer Prashant Bhushan pleading for investigation into large scale payments made to the political leaders including the Prime Minister, has created fresh furore in the legal circles. Leading Supreme Court lawyer Dushyant Dave, former President of the Supreme Court Bar Association, has observed in an article in a leading website that the judgment smacks of bias and it deserves to be recalled by the Supreme Court exercising, if necessary suo moto powers. Then alone, the apex court can reaffirm its commitment to democracy and rule of law.

A tech-start up for the benefit of users worldwide such as Uber, literally meant upstart, to deliver a sharing economy that had left a profoundly disruptive impact to the existing business model that was following business-as-usual approach is now in the thick of news in India. The ongoing strike by thousands of Uber and Ola drivers in Delhi and Haryana demanding better pay had dislocated the ride-hailing services that had all but decimated traditional taxi and auto rickshaw operators with their relatively inexpensive fares for far too long.

The BSP leader Mayawati’s stakes in the UP assembly elections are higher than those of any other contender.

NEW DELHI: The Communist Party of India (CPI) has demanded that I view of the Supreme Court verdict against Ms. Sasikala, the Tamil Nadu governor should order a floor test in the assembly to prove majority of the contenders.