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New Delhi: The Government of India has decided to set up Wakf Development Corporation to fund the State Wakf Boards to develop their properties for commercial use.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: There is a palpable sense of relief in the camp of Kerala CPI(M) led by State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan over the latest High Court verdict in the SNC Lavalin case.

When double-face and hypocrisy become tools of political functioning and governance, it leads to serious consequences for the polity. Punjab’s ruling Akali leadership finds itself caught in the cobweb of two such cases. One is its stand on building of memorials. The second is its praise and active support to those who have been charged with organising massacre of minorities and practicing communal politics.

For improving Indo-Bangladesh relations, the commissioning of the first unit at the 726 Megawatt gas-based power plant at Palatana, Tripura recently could not be better timed.

New Delhi: The US has cautioned Iran not to “miscalculate” its position and also that of the UN and other relevant international agencies. It urged India to take advantage of the new regime and convince Iran on the need for global peace and security.

New Delhi: A committee has been set up to review the existing DAVP norms for releasing government advertisement to different newspapers and periodicals informed the Minister of Information and Broadcasting Manish Tewari here on Sunday.

It is now understandable. I mean the myth of Ganga coming down to earth (martalok) from her heavenly world (swargalok). The munis and rishis or people who had given the story of Ganga’s earthly appearance would probably have seen some natural phenomenon like the cloudburst over Uttarakhand last week.

LUCKNOW: Bahujan Samaj Party is desperately wooing the powerful Brahmin community in the name of social engineering to win maximum seats in Lok Sabha in 2014 polls.

The growing irrelevance of G-8 in a world so vastly different from the ‘cold war’ days of mid-1970s - when it was launched, on France’s initiative, as a group of leading economic powers to co-ordinate essentially global economic policies - was in ample evidence at its latest Summit in Northern Ireland (June 17-18).

BJP leaders may not believe it but Narendra Modi is fast losing his popular appeal. Look at Modi who had won Gujarat assembly election for third time in succession, routing the Congress and his opponents like Keshubhai Patel. His popularity at that time soared highest ever and now it is going down equally sharply. According to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, “the Modi wave was just a bubble fuelled by corporate money”.