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When Congress leaders had forced unwilling Kejriwal to form his government in Delhi, he said the Congress will have to repent its decision to allow him to become CM. It is clear now what he meant by saying it. In an unprecedented move, he has ordered institution of a case against present and former Petroleum Ministers as also Mukesh Ambani to manipulate and hike the gas prices. Petroleum Minister Veerappa Moily has reacted nervously by talking of the role of experts in deciding the prices and clearing himself from the charge. Industry has also reacted nervously on the decision.

New Delhi: With an eye on forthcoming polls, the Government did not resort to any hike in fare and freight rates in the four-month interim Budget for the Railways. With gross traffic receipts pegged at Rs 160,775 crore in 2014-15, the Railway Minister Mallikarjun Kharge announced some new schemes like 17 premium trains, 38 express trains, 10 passenger trains, 4 Mainline Electric Multiple Unit (MEMU) and 3 Diesel Electric Multiple Unit (DEMU) here on Wednesday.

New Delhi: India has hailed the decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to revoke the 14-month old ban on the Indian Olympics body

New Delhi: The President of Indian Pranab Mukherjee regretted that since 50 years after the establishment of Central Vigilence Commission (CVC) corruption in public life continue like 'a cancer that erodes our democracy and weakens the foundations of our state.'

Ever since Ahmedabad magistrate BJ Ganatra rejected Zakia Jafri’s petition in late December and held that Chief Minister Narendra Modi was not part of the “larger conspiracy” behind the butchery of nearly 2,000 Muslims in Gujarat in 2002, the Sangh Parivar has run a raucous campaign of triumphalist celebration, and tried to turn the tables on the Congress by blaming it for the 1984 killings of Sikhs in Delhi after Indira Gandhi’s assassination.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Leader of the Opposition, V. S. Achuthanandan is at at again. For the umpteenth time, the CPI(M) stalwart has thumbed his nose at the state CPI(M) leadership, igniting in the process a fresh controversy.

As the Aam Admi Party (AAP) continues to apply street-level tactics of activism to governance in both word and deed – calling Delhi’s Lt.Gov a Congress agent and threatening to go to “any extent” to enact its version of the Lokpal law – the Congress must be watching with bated breath to see how long the fledgling party’s roller-coaster ride will last.

New Delhi: While the BCCI chief Narayanaswami Srinvasan is facing the burnt of the allegation of his son-in-law involved in betting on games, his brother and the newly elected President of Indian Olympic Association (IOA) N.Ramachandran has assured that he would take up the case on priority basis about India's return to the Olympic fold after a 14-month suspension.

BHOPAL: Factional infighting and lack of coordination may adversely impact the Congress' preparations for the Lok Sabha polls in Madhya Pradesh. The party is divided vertically from the top to the bottom. There are factions even at the grassroots level and lack of coordination among the top leaders of the party is very visible.

Both the Supreme Court and Delhi’s Aam Aadmi party government may or may not be fully aware of how a combined impact of the power sector deregulation and nexus between electricity whole-sellers and retailers (discoms) led to the worst ever power crisis in North America, involving the State of California, in 2000 and 2001. The big black-out threat posed by Reliance discoms in Delhi, following cash-strapped NTPC’s warning that it would cut off power supply to the private retail distributors belonging to the Anil Ambani-led Reliance group if it did not settle large payment dues against the bulk purchase of electricity from the public sector power producer, is somewhat reminiscent of the artificially manipulated power crisis by the supplier-distributor nexus in California, just 14 years ago.