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Finally, the axe fell on the 11 tainted MPs of cash-for-query scam-fame. In an unprecedented historical move creating a parliamentary history, the Lok Sabha on Friday adopted the motion to this effect by a voice vote, following which 10 MPs were shown..

Where there’s will, there’s a way. Among those to interpret and embrace the proverb in the most meaningful manner is Ashok Ray, a rape accused awaiting court verdict in the Tihar Jail. Ashok has cleared the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission…

It’s disclosures, disclosures and more disclosures. Every other day, Indian electronic media has been conducting sting operations, one after another – starting with Tehelka exposures, it’s down to Operation Chakravyuha, en route Operation Duryodhana…

One doesn’t know whether to curse politicking more or the system we are living in. Day in and day out, it’s politics in its uglier than ugliest incarnation that our eyes meet with. And, the so-called gentleman’s game called cricket has a quite a…

Raman Kutty, an Indian BRO driver abducted in Afghanistan on November 19 has been killed by the Taliban. We didn’t expect him to return alive once he was abducted by the Islamic terror outfit that ruled Afghanistan in a beastly from the mid-90s till…

Lalu’s reign in Bihar has finally ended. It took 15 years – just 5 years lesser than Lalu Prasad Yadav’s own prophesy that he would rule no less than 20 years – to oust him from the seat of power in Bihar. But these 15 years seemed like eternity to not…

One doesn’t know whether to sympathise with the Uttar Pradesh cadre IPS officer Devendra Kumar Panda or condemn his conduct for bringing disgrace to the office of Inspector General of Police. Sympathise, because the man seems to have lost his sanity and..

India’s top dairy co-operative Amul is now the biggest brand for vegetarian cheese as the Global Indian even now prefers desi taste over the premium Bries and Camemberts of the West.

With world-wide demands rising increasing, exports will hit a record…

Dreaded brigand Nirbhay Gujjar is shot dead by the Special Task Force after an encounter in the ravines of Etawah in Uttar Pradesh. The encounter took place in Chitapur village under Ajitmal Police Station.

Senior superintendent of police, STF,…

Following the incessant rains in Mumbai that brought large scale floods in Mumbai causing colossal loss of life and property have now brought in a deluge of another kind resulting from it.

The insurers have received large number of claims due to…