Ashwani Kumar's controversial career as Law Min

Six months after he made a comeback to the union council of ministers, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has said that his stint as the minister of state for HRD has turned out to be "frustrating."

Union Shipping Minister and senior Congress leader G.K. Vasan Friday said that the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) and the Leaders' Retreat in November should be shifted out of Sri Lanka. Vasan said here that the Sri Lankan government should ...

New Delhi, Mar. 21 : President Pranab Mukherjee has accepted the resignation of the five members of the Union Council of Ministers belonging to the DMK with immediate effect.

Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde will chair a meeting of the Eastern Zonal Council here today. The Eastern Zonal Council comprises West Bengal, Odisha, Jharkhand and Bihar. The Eastern Zonal Council is one of the five councils that were created with ...

Union minister Jitin Prasad on Saturday said he was in favour of establishing a centre of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) at Aligarh Muslim University.

NEW DELHI: Union Health & Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad recently informed the Rajya Sabha that medical practice in India is possible if the doctors bypass the Medical Council of India (MCI) screening test. read more

SURAT: With the Union Budget-2013-14 presented by Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram doing very little for the gems and jewellery industry, the Gems and Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) is waiting for the reform announcements in the Foreign Trade ...

The US India Business Council has submitted to Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram a wish list of reforms in the taxation sector, which the industry body argues would create a fair and transparent tax environment. In its pre-budget memorandum submitter to the Union Finance Minister, US India Business Council asked Chidambaram to ensure that any changes to India's income tax law "will not be retrospective", as well as "provide clarification" that recent changes to ...

BJP senior leader and former Union Minister Ch. Vidyasagar Rao on Sunday demanded that the Governor E. S. L. Narasimhan should quash the government order allotting the iron ore mines in Bayyaram to Visakhapatnam Steel Plant. He said the Governor ...