New Delhi: Congress leader Digvijay Singh on Monday launched an indirect attack on the judiciary for calling the Central Bureau of Investigation a "caged parrot".

The Congress leader said such comments "belittle" national institutions.

"CBI is a parrot in a cage, a bench calls IB (Intelligence Bureau) a chicken... Now, I have put a question to the people in general - are we not belittling our institutions?" the Congress general secretary asked reporters.

The Supreme Court dubbed the CBI a "caged parrot" last week, while making observations after the investigation agency submitted an...

New Delhi: Disaster management is an area of vital national importance to India and the disaster risk reduction strategies must actively involve local communities, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Monday.

Addressing the first session of National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction here, the prime minister called for giving greater attention to arrangements for providing funds to people...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the Talwar couple's plea for calling 14 witnesses to record their statements in the trial court in the double murder case of Aarushi-Hemraj.

Dr Rajesh Talwar and his wife Nupur Talwar, accused of killing their daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj, approached the Supreme Court and challenged the order of the special CBI court which had...

Bangalore: Who is to be blamed when an IAS aspirant, who could have contributed a lot to society, puts an end to his life due to UPSC's goof? The candidate V Y Manjunath of Sriramapuram did not see a way other than putting an end to his life on realizing that authorities have turned deaf towards him.

Manjunath, 24, whose registration number appeared in the list of qualified candidates in the...

Washington: Gunmen fired shots during an informal Mother's Day afternoon parade in New Orleans in Louisiana state injuring 19 people, two of them children, according to police.

The wounded in Sunday afternoon's shooting in the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana, governed by Indian-American Bobby Jindal, included 10 men and seven women as well as a boy and a girl, both...

New Delhi: Hundreds of activists of the BJP's youth wing gathered near the 7 Race Course Road residence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here on Sunday, demanding his resignation after two union ministers quit over malfeasance and impropriety.

Burning the effigy of the prime minister near his official residence, the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha protestors managed to break through two...

New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee will be on a three-day visit to Assam and Nagaland from Monday, said an official statement here.

During his visit to India's two northeast states, Mukherjee will confer the Asom Ratna Award on writer Mamoni Raisom Goswami posthumously.

He will also present Srimanta Shankardev Award for the year 2008 to former Bollywood actor Sharmila Tagore in Guwahati...

Accra: The Indian government, through the Exim Bank of India, is assisting several African countries in building their physical and social infrastructure that is worth an estimated $260 million.

The projects include roads, water and agricultural facilities and are intended to improve the the continent's economies and lives of the people, the Exim Bank said in a report.

For example, the bank...

Kolkata: Police have unearthed property worth Rs.750 crore so far by quizzing chit fund-aided Saradha Group's arrested promoter Sudipta Sen and his top aides, an official said Saturday. Six motorcycles with red beacons and hooters allegedly used by company's officials to carry cash was also seized.

The bikes were found in a garage of Saradha Group office, police sources said.

Meanwhile, the...

New Delhi: Former railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal on Saturday said that he had done nothing wrong and welcomed investigations into the case related to his nephew accepting a bribe for getting a senior official a plum Railway Board post.

"I have given my statement on the first day itself and I have nothing to do with this incident. I have welcomed the investigation by the CBI in the...