A 32-year-old man has been arrested for his involvement in the molestation of two Manipuri women in the capital, police said Sunday. The incident occurred before Republic Day but came to light after the death of Nido Tania, a 19-year-old student from Arunachal Pradesh. Delhi Police arrested Prem Chand, a resident of Kotla Mubarakpur area […]
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda was Sunday slapped by a youth while he was going for a rally in the state’s industrial city of Panipat. The youth, Kamal Mukhija, was arrested by the police and booked for breaching the security of the chief minister. A video grab of the incident, taken by an unidentified […]
Policies of the next central government take primacy, not who becomes the prime minister, said CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury Sunday. “It is not important who will become the next prime minister. What is important for the country is, what will be the policies of the dispensation that takes over at the centre after the upcoming […]
avySpecial envoy of the Italian government Staffan de Mistura, who arrived here Sunday to be in the Supreme Court during the hearing Monday in the case of the two Italian marines, said his presence was aimed to convey the “determination of Italy to solve the case”. De Mistura has been following from the beginning the […]
Andhra Pradesh State Reorganisation Bill 2013, which seeks to carve out a separate Telangana state, was Monday sent to the Centre along with the report on the debate in the legislature and also resolutions passed in both the houses rejecting the bill. The documents including the views expressed by the legislators, their suggestions and amendments […]
The mutual funds industry, though promising higher returns to investors faces a trust deficit from the masses, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram has said. “People still place enormous trust in the public sector banks, but the same level of trust is missing when it comes to mutual funds,” Chidambaram said here late Sunday night while speaking […]
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday said that the country should increase its annual expenditure on science and technology. “We must increase our annual expenditure on science and technology to at least 2 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP),” Manmohan Singh in his inaugural address at the 101st Indian Science Congress here. “To do science, […]
Wholesalers of fruits and vegetables began an indefinite strike here Monday to protest against the government decision to withdraw their six percent commissions from the farmers. “Earlier we used to procure six percent commission from the growers. But now the Delhi government has stopped this and wants us to take the commission from the buyers,” […]
Three school students embarked on a “mission” to get-rich-quick by hunting down Dawood Ibrahim and handing over the underworld don to authorities. The sheepish students are now back home after they ran out of money. The class nine students of St Michael High School in this Bihar capital went missing last week and only returned […]
For all those wannabe drummers or in a mood to start a band, trying vegetables instead of traditional guitar-bass-drums line-up can be a novel idea. Not impressed? Well, listen to designer Yuri Suzuki – the sound artist behind the Disney audio system that lets you transfer audio messages through your finger – and just plug […]