New Delhi: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has hit out at the Centre for not helping the state in the Italian abduction issue. He said that the central government did not do anything to end the hostage crisis.

Jaipur, Mar 21: Spiritual guru Shri Shri Ravi Shanker on Tuesday said that government schools are factory of Naxalism and hence they should be privatized.

New Delhi: Planning Commission on Monday further reduced poverty line to Rs 28.65 per capita daily consumption in cities and Rs 22.42 in rural areas, scaling down India's poverty ratio to 29.8 per cent in 2009-10, the estimates which are likely to raise the hackles of civil society.

New Delhi: Naxal leader Sabyasachi Panda has reportedly issued a fresh audio tape regarding the abducted Italian nationals and set Tuesday evening as the new deadline for the state government to respond.

New Delhi: Notwithstanding her pin-pricks to the government over various issues, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today said she was committed to the UPA and would remain with it unless it is humiliated or “they throw us out”.

NEW DELHI: With Tamil Nadu CM J Jayalalithaa giving the nod for the Kudankulam nuclear power plants, Russia said that it was going to send its scientists to the site on Tuesday to start commissioning work for the first unit of the reactors. Russian officials in India said that Moscow stood vindicated by Jayalalithaa's decision to back the reactors that couldn't be commissioned last year because of sudden protests by locals.

New Delhi, Mar 19 : Telugu superstar Chiranjeevi and Congress spokesperson Renuka Choudhary were among nine nominated by the party on Sunday  for biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha while the BJP named two more candidates from Gujarat apart from Arun Jaitley.

New Delhi: The two Italians taken hostage by Maoists in Kandhamal, Odisha, are scared but safe, according to one of the two Indians released. The Maoists have set a deadline of Sunday evening for 13 demands to be met including an end to anti-Naxal operaitons.

Bangalore: Ruling BJP in Karnataka today plunged into a crisis with former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa intensifying his power struggle by claiming support of over half of party MLAs and demanded that the central leadership convene a legislature party meet within 48 hours.

NEW DELHI: A decision on the fate of Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi is unlikely before Monday.

An indication to this effect came tonight after the Congress top brass including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and party chief Sonia Gandhi deliberated deeply on the strategy ahead in the backdrop of the Trivedi issue and the Uttarakhand crisis.