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  • Karuna defends Maran, attacks media

    Unfazed by the charges against Dayanidhi Maran that led to his exit from the union cabinet, DMK chief M Karunanidhi has said the party would stand by him and attacked the media for the developments. “Yes”, was the emphatic reply given by Karunanidhi when asked by reporters whether his party would back Maran, hours after […]

    SC bars opening of Padmanabhaswamy Temple vaults

    The Supreme Court on Friday restrained the seven-member committee from opening vaults of the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram, which according to various estimates contains wealth worth over Rs one lakh crore. A bench of justices R V Raveendran and A K Patnaik on Friday asked the petitioner Raja Marthanda Varma, erstwhile Prince of Travancore, […]

    SC seeks status report on probe into ‘cash-for-vote’ scam

    The Supreme Court has directed the Delhi Police to place before it the status report on the probe conducted by it in the “cash-for-vote” scam during the trust vote faced by the UPA govt in July 2008. Not satisfied with the Centre’s contention that an FIR has been lodged in the case and probe will […]

    MPLADS’ annual allocation raised to 5 crore rupees

    A massive hike raised to Rs five crore in the annual allocation for a scheme that enables every MP to recommend development works in their constituencies, was approved by the government on Thursday. The decision to increase the annual allocation for the Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) from Rs two crore to […]

    Dayanidhi Maran resigns

    Pushed to the wall after CBI named him in the 2G spectrum allocation case, high-profile Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran on Thursday resigned from the Union Cabinet, becoming the second DMK casualty in the scam. 44-year-old Maran met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after a Cabinet meeting and tendered his resignation following a word from DMK chief […]

    33 killed, 17 injured as train rams into a bus in UP

    At least 33 people were killed and 17 injured when a train rammed into a bus at an unmanned crossing in Etah in Uttar Pradesh in the wee hours on Thursday. The accident occurred at Kanshiramnagar at around 2 am on Thursday when the train was on its way from Mathura to Chapra in Bihar, […]

    Film maker Mani Kaul dead

    Noted film maker Mani Kaul, who was considered one of the pioneers of new Indian cinema, died in New Delhi on Wednesday after prolonged illness. Kaul, 66, is survived by two sons and as many daughters. He breathed his last at 1 AM at his home in New Delhi after he was discharged from a […]

    SC orders videography of Kerala temple treasure unearthing

    The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed videography of the ongoing unearthing of treasure trove inside chambers of the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerala. A bench of justices R V Raveendran and A K Patnaik also proposed the appointment of a curator of a museum to preserve the treasure being unearthed from the centuries-old temple in […]

    2G scam: Dayanidhi Maran comes under SC scanner

    Union Textile Min Dayanidhi Maran has come under the Supreme Court’s scanner in the 2G Spectrum allocation scam with the CBI raking up his role in “forcing” a Chennai-based telecom promoter to sell his stakes in Aircel to a Malaysian firm in 2006. The agency, which placed its 71-page fresh status report about the 2G […]

    SC slams state govts for misusing Land Acquisition Act

    The Supreme Court has slammed governments for misusing provisions of Land Acqusition Act to divest farmers of their prime agricultural land and giving it to builders. Questioning the building of hotels, malls and commercial complexes on land acquired for “public purpose”, a Bench of Justices G S Singhvi and A K Ganguly yesterday refused to […]