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  BJP seeks Nitish's resignation after rout in general elections

  India | May 16, 2014 21:00 IST

  Patna: A buoyant BJP today demanded Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's resignation on moral grounds following the JD(U)'s rout in the polls.Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi had taken moral responsibility and so had other Congress chief

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  PM to submit resignation to President Saturday

  India | May 16, 2014 14:55 IST

  New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will address the nation Saturday morning before going to meet President Pranab Mukherjee to submit his resignation at noon, as the BJP-led NDA looks poised to come to power.After

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  Hafeez quits as Pakistan T20 captain

  Cricket | April 03, 2014 20:53 IST

  ISLAMABAD: Mohammad Hafeez quit as captain of Pakistan's Twenty20 team on Thursday after it failed to qualify for the semifinals of the World Twenty20 in Bangladesh.   Hafeez announced the decision after meeting with the chairman

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  US envoy Nancy Powell announces resignation, to retire

  India | March 31, 2014 22:35 IST

  New Delhi: US Ambassador to India Nancy J. Powell Monday announced that she is resigning and will retire from service.In an announcement during a US Mission Town Hall meeting, Powell said that she has submitted

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  Purandeswari's resignation accepted

  India | March 12, 2014 6:54 IST

  New Delhi: The resignation of Union Minister of State for Commerce D Purandeswari was last night accepted.A Rashtrapati Bhavan communique announced the acceptance of the resignation of Purandeswari who a few days ago joined the

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  Centre treats former Navy Chief Joshi's resignation as voluntary retirement

  India | March 12, 2014 8:44 IST

  New Delhi: The Defence Ministry yesterday said the resignation of former Navy Chief Admiral D K Joshi has been treated as voluntary retirement. MoD sources said, this decision was taken in order to enable him

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  Kejriwal remains people's hero after resignation

  India | February 15, 2014 10:10 IST

  New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's resignation has only raised his stock among the common people of Delhi, the 'aam admi', who form his core support base and who believe he will come back

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  Bihar minister sticks to resignation over corruption

  India | February 06, 2014 11:18 IST

  Patna : A day after she resigned from the government, Bihar's first Muslim woman minister, Parveen Amanullah, alleged that there was rampant corruption in the state."Corruption is (raging) out of control and the grievances of

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  West Bengal Governor accepts Ashok Kumar Ganguly's resignation

  India | January 07, 2014 17:22 IST

  Kolkata: West Bengal Governor M K Narayanan has accepted the resignation of Justice Ashok Ganguly as chairman of West Bengal Human Rights Commission, highly-placed sources said today.“The Governor has accepted the resignation and has informed

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  Virbhadra rules out resignation, says ready to face probe

  Politics | January 02, 2014 23:28 IST

  Manali/Shimla: Himachal Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh today ruled out resignation in the wake of corruption charges against him by the BJP, and said he was ready to face any probe by any agency.  “Only if

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  Justice Ganguly rules out resignation from WBHRC

  India | December 10, 2013 20:28 IST

  Kolkata: Former Supreme Court judge Ashok Kumar Ganguly, who was indicted over allegations of sexually harassing a law intern, today ruled out his resignation as chief of WBHRC, as a fresh demand was made coinciding

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  Sheila Dikshit stunned as party failed to read Delhi's mood

  India | December 08, 2013 16:40 IST

  New Delhi: “Bewakoof hain na (we are idiots, right?)”, retorted Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today when asked if her party failed to read the mood of the city which it had ruled for 15 years.Dikshit,

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  NCW demands CBI chief's resignation over rape remarks

  India | November 13, 2013 14:10 IST

  New Delhi: A day after Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Director Ranjit Sinha made a controversial remark on rape, National Commission for Woman (NCW) chief Mamata Sharma said he should resign.Sinha, while speaking in support

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  Patna serial blasts: Nitish must quit, demands Paswan

  Politics | October 29, 2013 10:57 IST

  Patna:  LJP leader Ramvilas Paswan today asked Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to take moral responsibility for the serial blasts in Patna that claimed six lives and "quit on his own"."The serial blasts at Patna

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  I'm yet to quit Congress, says dissident MP Rao Inderjit

  Politics | October 08, 2013 23:11 IST

  New Delhi: Sulking Congress MP Rao Inderjit Singh, who had demanded a probe into land deals of Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra, has told the party's central leadership that he has not announced his resignation

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  Chiranjeevi resigns as minister over Telangana decision

  India | October 03, 2013 22:10 IST

  Hyderabad: Union Tourism Minister K Chiranjeevi tonight resigned from his post in protest against the Union Cabinet's approval of the formation of separate Telangana, his aide said. The actor-turned-politician has faxed his resignation to the

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  Gujarat govt rejects Vanzara's resignation

  India | September 04, 2013 23:29 IST

  Gandhinagar: The Gujarat government today said it has not accepted the resignation of fake encounter cases accused IPS officer D G Vanzara, who quit after slamming Chief Minister Narendra Modi and accusing his government of

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  16 YSR Congress MLAs send resignations to Speaker

  India | July 25, 2013 23:30 IST

  Hyderabad, Jul 25: Ahead of the Congress Working Committee expected to take a decision on Telangana issue,  16 YSR Congress party MLAs  today faxed their resignations to  AP Speaker N Manohar. YSR Congress has 17

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  Solar scam: Kerala HC slams probe, Chandy rules out resignation

  India | July 23, 2013 18:32 IST

  Kochi/Thiruvananthapuram, Jul 23: In a huge embarrassment to Congress-led UDF Government, Kerala High Court today made sharp critical observations about the probe in solar panel scam but Chief Minister Oommen Chandy ruled out his resignation

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  Abbas accepts Palestinian PM's resignation

  World | June 23, 2013 17:48 IST

  Ramallah, Jun 23: President Mahmoud Abbas accepted the resignation of his newly appointed prime minister on Sunday, a spokesman said, leaving his Palestinian Authority in disarray at a time when he is focusing on a