Indigenisation was the thrust of official interactions on the second day of Defexpo at the Pragati Maidan here Friday as DRDO outlined the progress made in land and naval systems. Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) progress report included likely induction of Agni-V next year and nuclear submarine Arihant getting ready for sea trials in […]
Bihar Police Friday gave a clean chit to state Minorities Welfare Minister Shahid Ali Khan over his alleged connection with two agents of the Indian Mujahedeen or Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence. “Police inquiry found it was not true. Minister has no connection with two suspected IM or ISI agents,” ADGP Ravinder Kumar said at a press […]
The Aam Aami Party Delhi government Friday ordered yet a probe into one of the projects in the Commonwealth Games conducted in 2010 when the Congress was in power. The Anti-Corruption Bureau under the government will probe the alleged irregularities in the the construction of roads and flyovers in which the government allegedly incurred a […]
mamtReaping the fruits of cross-voting, Trinamool Congress gained an extra Rajya Sabha seat in West Bengal while the TRS made its debut to the upper house from Andhra Pradesh in the polls held in four states Friday. Veteran Bollywood actor Mithun Chakraborty, celebrated painter Jogen Chowdhury, former MP K.D. Singh and journalist Ahmed Hasan Imran […]
Two children were burnt to death here late Friday when their hut caught fire, police said Saturday. The incident took place near the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences where a group of snake charmers lived in hutments. An official told IANS the huts caught fire late Friday when everyone was fast asleep. […]
Malala Yousafzai, the teenaged Pakistani education activist attacked by the Taliban, is among the three candidates nominated for this year’s World Children’s Prize, also known as the Children’s Nobel. Yousafzai has been nominated “for her courageous and dangerous fight for girls’ right to education”, according to the the website of the foundation that presents the […]
A day after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that the AAP government had been told by lawyers that the Jan Lokpal bill didn’t need the central government’s nod, one of the lawyers involved in the matter Saturday said that he was not consulted about the bill. “I was not consulted on the question of […]
Cleric of Islamabad’s Lal Masjid and member of the Pakistani Taliban-nominated peace talks committee, Maulana Abdul Aziz is expected to continue his role in the peace process after he threatened to walk out Friday if he was not assured that Sharia or Islamic law will be enforced in Pakistan, media reported Saturday. Maulana Yousuf Shah, […]
Canadian Industry Minister James Moore has unveiled a new plan to develop the country’s space industry in a bid to safeguard Canada’s “sovereignty, security and prosperity”. Moore said Friday that Canada’s Space Policy Framework will serve as a guideline for the country’s strategic space activities and ensure the commercial competitiveness of its space industry in […]
The third day’s scoreboard of the first Test between India and New Zealand at Eden Park here Saturday: New Zealand first innings: 503 India first innings: Shikhar Dhawan c Williamson b Boult 0 Murali Vijay b Wagner 26 Cheteshwar Pujara c Watling b Boult 1 Virat Kohli c Fulton b Southee 4 Rohit Sharma b […]