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HYDERABAD: The Godavari River Management Board (GRMB) on Tuesday sought the Centre’s intervention to resolve ownership dispute over the Sileru hydro electric project located in mandals that were recently transferred from Telangana to Andhra Pradesh. The GRMB headed by MS Agarwal held a meeting with principal secretaries of Telangana and AP irrigation departments at Jalasoudha […]

NEW DELHI: Even as right-wing groups protest against the screening of Aamir Khan-starrer ‘PK’, the information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry said it cannot act on a film once it has been cleared by the Censor Board. Speaking on the issue, minister of state for I&B Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, however, added that state governments could act

HYDERABAD: In a setback to the AP Government, the Hyderabad high court on Tuesday suspended the order of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) regime nullifying all existing temple administration committees in the state. Putting a full stop to the practice of changing temple committees each time there is a change in the political regime at

MUMBAI: In a major victory for BJP president Amit Shah, a special CBI court in Mumbai on Tuesday held that there was no legal evidence against him in the Sohrabuddin Shaikh fake encounter case of 2005 and discharged him as an accused. “There is substance in the contention of Shah’s counsel S V Raju that

AGRA: Leaders of the Dhangars – a caste of herders from Agra and nearby regions who were recognized in 1950 as Scheduled Caste – held a mahapanchayat in Agra on Sunday and declared that if they were not given SC certificates in a month’s time, they would convert en masse to Christianity. Senior leaders of

NEW DELHI: The suspension of detention order for 26/11 mastermind Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi by Islamabad High Court on Monday sparked another round of outrage in India with New Delhi telling Pakistan that it was refusing to learn even from the recent barbaric killing of children in Peshawar. Foreign secretary Sujatha Singh summoned Pakistani high commissioner

NEW DELHI: Congress has slammed the BJP government for approving the ordinance to amend the Land Acquisition Act within a week of the end of the winter session of Parliament. The party said that changes in provisions in the law will have to stand scrutiny of Parliament during the budget session. “If you want to

NEW DELHI: We all are familiar with syringes. Since childhood, we have seen doctors, health assistants and nurses using it to inject vital medicinal liquid into our bodies for faster recovery. So much so that, doctors who prefer injections to tablets are popular in rural areas. Rural folk think that the injection of medicine into

NEW DELHI: The CBI courted a string of controversies in 2014, including those surrounding its chief Ranjit Sinha and the Supreme Court’s reprimands over closure reports in coal scam cases and flip-flops in 2G probe, as it tried to keep its reputation as the nation’s premier investigating agency. The case of the mysteriopus death of

NEW DELHI: From scams in coal, cricket to CBI, the Supreme Court’s orders and observations in dealing with these cases in 2014 dealt a heavy blow to the credibility of the Manmohan Singh-led UPA government indirectly helping the Narendra Modi-led BJP to stage a stunning victory in the general elections. In maintaining the supremacy of