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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Friday branded the provisions of the Home Ministry’s order on National Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC) as those smacking of a tendency to abrogate power with no attendant responsibility. In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, copies of which were released to the media, she said the proposed NCTC suffers from deficiencies and accused certain Ministries [...]

Officials of the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) on Friday conducted a search on the residence of former State Minister K P P Samy at Tiruvottiyur in Chennai. The raids, which began around noon, ended around 6 pm on Friday, police sources said. A discreet inquiry was conducted by the DVAC on specific information that Samy had accumulated assets in his name and in the name of his [...]

The Centre’s ambitious plan to create a National Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC) appears to have run into rough weather with several non-Congress Chief Ministers attacking the move on the ground that it “infringes upon the powers and rights of State governments.” Nine Chief Ministers and a former Chief Minister have opposed the NCTC. A diverse group of chief ministers, including personalities [...]

The Shiv Sena-BJP combine on Friday extended its 16-year stranglehold on the country’s richest municipal corporation by another five years. It won 107 seats — and with the RPI pitching in with one — is only six short of the simple majority mark of 114 in the 227-member Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. In Pune, despite the Congress and the NCP contesting separately, the two together won 79 [...]

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh kicked off his election campaign in the ongoing Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls by launching a frontal attack on the Bahujan Samaj Party Government for not cooperating with the Congress-led UPA government in its efforts to bring the State back on the path of development and progress. Addressing an election rally in Kanpur, Manmohan Singh said the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) [...]

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday announced a solatium of Rs five lakh to the family of Ajis Pinko, a fisherman from Kanyakumari, shot dead in the high sea off Kollam in Kerala on February 15. Expressing grief and offering condolences to the family of Pinko, Jayalalithaa announced a solatium of Rs five lakh to the family from the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund, an official release [...]

PMK founder Dr S Ramadoss has alleged the AIADMK government was keeping the state literally in the dark and the people as well as industry were suffering without production due to heavy power cuts. Also, the Tamil Nadu unit of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)  urged the AIADMK government to take steps to get additional power from central pool to tide over the present power crisis in the state. Speaking [...]

Just two days after law minister Salman Khurshid regretted his ‘Muslim quota’remark, another Union minister Beni Prasad Verma belonging to UP dared the Election Commission to act against him for saying that reservation for Muslims would be increased if Congress came to power. Barely hours after the Election Commission drew curtains on its fight with law minister Salman Khurshid over the [...]

Maldives will go to the polls, possibly by year-end, to elect a new President. Till then, the national unity government will run the country. The Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP), to which the former President, Mohamed Nasheed, belongs, will be part of the government. These are the broad contours of the India-brokered deal that has been accepted by all parties to the dispute. The Maldives government [...]

Strongly denying that Switzerland is a tax haven, Swiss authorities on Thursday issued a statement saying that estimates and statistics in India about money held by Indians in Swiss banks “lack evidence and are uncorroborated”. The statement follows a comment by CBI chief A P Singh recently that Indians are the “largest depositors” in Swiss banks and have stashed $500 billion [...]