A case has been filed against a nephew of former union cabinet minister Gurudas Kamat after he allegedly drove over a five-year-old girl late on Monday night.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's advisor TKA Nair will soon be called by the CBI to record his statement in connection with coal blocks allocation scam case.

Oscar Fernandes on Tuesday took charge as Minister of Road Transport and Highways and said he will work towards getting speedy environment clearances for the projects which are stuck.

Every petroleum minister is threatened by import lobbies to derail domestic exploration efforts aimed at achieving self sufficiency, Petroleum Minister M Veerappa Moily claimed on Friday.

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Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday became the sixth Railway Minister in four years of the UPA-II government.

Sushil Kumar Modi, who ceased to be Bihar Finance Minister following the JD(U)-BJP split, on Monday resigned as Chairman of the Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers looking into the implementation of the proposed new indirect tax regime - Goods and Services Tax (GST).

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has urged that courts should be "a little more reluctant" in giving stay orders on recruitment or development process which affect delivery of services to the people.

The government of Pakistan's Punjab province has allocated millions of rupees in its Budget for fiscal 2013-14 for the largest centre of the Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD), considered a front for the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba.

Sri Lanka has rejected an Indian offer to upgrade a refinery that is built to refine only Iranian oil, a minister said on Sunday.