A day before the Rajya Sabha elections, the rebel candidate of the Congress Thursday withdrew from the contest. Addala Prabhakar Reddy, after a meeting with Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, announced that he is pulling out. He told reporters that he decided to withdraw as his defeat could be interpreted as the defeat of […]
The CBI inquiry in the alleged kickbacks in the deal to acquire 12 VVIP helicopters from AgustaWestland was in “advanced stage”, Defence Minister A.K. Antony said Thursday, noting that action on complaints of corruption had helped streamline the defence procurement process. Talking to mediapersons at ‘Defexpo 14’ here, Antony said that modernisation of forces was […]
The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) is welcome to join the Third Front, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) said Thursday. “NCP is welcome to join us if they want to quit the UPA,” CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury said. He was asked if the NCP would become a part of an alternate front of non-Congress, non-BJP […]
Women and girls are major drivers of development, yet in India and elsewhere, they continue to be denied opportunities to have a voice in decisions that affect their lives, and those of their families and communities, former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said Thursday. Giving the keynote address at the 14th Delhi Sustainable Development Summit […]
A parliamentary panel Thursday recommended that a bill to amend the Prevention of Corruption Act be passed in the current parliament session itself — taking the total number of anti-corruption legislations listed for passage to seven. The Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) bill has amongst its provisions bringing the corporate sector under the Act, but with […]
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will Saturday visit Gujarat and tour the historic Bardoli region where a ‘satyagraha’ by farmers was led by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in 1928, party leaders said Thursday. Gandhi will also visit the historic Swaraj Ashram dedicated to the Bardoli Satyagraha and is a major tourist attraction. Later in the afternoon, […]
Senior separatist leaders Shabir Ahmad Shah, Muhammad Nayeem Khan and Mushtaq-ul-Islam were arrested here Friday after organising a seminar in remembrance of JKLF founder Muhammad Maqbool Bhat and parliament attack convict Afzal Guru in a hotel here, police said, As these separatist leaders came out of the hotel in city centre Lal Chowk after the […]
Hong Kong police Thursday evacuated residents from an area where a suspected World War II bomb was found by construction workers while digging an underground hotel structure. Police told Xinhua that they believe the bomb was dropped by the US armed forces when they were bombing Japanese military facilities during World War II. Police said […]
The Delhi High Court Thursday dismissed a plea seeking to bar a person who is in jail or in police custody from contesting elections, saying it would leave the door open for practice of “vendetta politics”. Giving relief to jailed legislators and parliamentarians, a division bench of Chief Justice N.V. Ramana and Justice Manmohan said […]
Parveen Amanullah, Bihar’s first woman Muslim minister who quit the cabinet two days ago, Thursday joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), saying she wanted the AAP to govern Bihar. Amanullah, who was the social welfare minister in Nitish Kumar’s cabinet, resigned from the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) and the government Tuesday. She formally quit the Bihar […]