Nikhil Kumar sworn in as Kerala governor

A day after the resignation of two Cabinet ministers - Law Minister Ashwani Kumar and Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal - the government carried on reallocation of portfolios for the time being, projecting it was business as usual. But Bharatiya ...

New Delhi, May 12 (TruthDive): Following the resignation of Union ministers Ashwani Kumar and Pawan Bansal, the ruling government is likely to hand over the portfolios to its two trustworthy members, in which Telecom Minister kapil Sibal will be ...

Bansal's exit came at a time when some good investment and policy decisions were expected. When Pawar Kumar Bansal skipped Thursday’s Cabinet meeting, officials in Rail Bhawan rebuffed speculation he was on way out. “He is unwell,” was the official comment. However, by 6.30 pm Friday, news broke the railway minister had resigned. While Bansal’s exit may be the first admission of corruption in government appointments, for the Railways, it came at a time when some good ...

Regimes of four previous railway ministers may come under the scanner. The Central Bureau of Investigation is planning to inspect all high-level appointments to the railway board in the past four years, which may bring more skeletons tumbling out of ...

Pawan Kumar Bansal has always maintained a low profile despite being a top politician and those who have worked with him say he is "very courteous and fair". An otherwise clean image of the railway minister, however, landed in a soup on Saturday after the ...

New Delhi: The drug scandal surrounding Vijender Singh Tuesday took a new twist with one of his fellow pugilists Dinesh Kumar disputing the claims of Punjab Police even as the Sports Ministry explored ways to subject the star boxer to a heroin test ...

Bangalore: JDS Karnataka unit President and former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy and his wife Anita, contesting the May 5 Assembly elections, have together declared assets worth Rs 123 crore. With assets of Rs 150.58 crore, the list of rich ...

New Delhi: Most Chief Ministers today chose to miss a high-level conference, convened to thrash out challenging issues on public order and policing, with only seven state leaders attending it.The conference of Chief Ministers, convened by the Home ...

The High Court of Himachal Pradesh has also enhanced the fine on the four accused, Navin Kumar Verma, Ajay Verma, Abhinav Verma and Mukul Sharma, from Rs 10,000 to Rs 1,00,000 each.