Some 80 million people in northeast America were Wednesday digging their way out of a thick blanket of snow deposited by the heaviest snowfall of the season, with more than a foot falling in some places. Government offices in Washington were opening two hours late, but schools in most parts were closed, roads shut down […]
A French naval ship intercepted a hijacked Indian dhow near the Gulf of Aden and rescued its 11-member crew, an official said Wednesday. On Jan 18, French landing platform dock Siroco, flagship of the EU Naval Force Atalanta, released the Indian crew and arrested five suspected pirates holding the crew hostage, a statement from the […]
A narcotics consignment seized in Jammu and Kashmir from a truck coming from Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-administered Kashmir Jan 17 was brown sugar, forensic scientists confirmed Wednesday. After the seizure of 114 packets concealed under almonds, police arrested the truck driver and launched an investigation. “Samples of the seized contraband items were sent to the forensic […]
An Indian Air Force (IAF) Jaguar fighter jet crashed near Bikaner in Rajasthan during a routine night sortee Wednesday. Both the pilots ejected safely, an official said Wednesday. The crash occurred 45 km from Bikaner at around 8.30 p.m. “Nobody was killed on the ground. A court of enquiry has been ordered,” defence ministry spokesperson […]
President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday condoled the death of Telugu cinema icon Akkineni Nageswara Rao. “An acclaimed Telugu film actor, producer and writer, Nageswara Rao shall always be remembered for his memorable films. His singular contribution to Indian cinema was recognised through a number of awards. In his death, the film […]
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid and US Secretary of State John Kerry held bilateral talks Wednesday on the sidelines of the Geneva-II talks – meeting for the first time after the India-US spat over the handcuffing and strip-search of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade. During their meeting in Montreux, both sides discussed the Khobragade issue and […]
At the maiden meeting of the newly-constituted election committee for Uttar Pradesh, senior Congress leaders put the ball of selecting the Lok Sabha candidates in party president Sonia Gandhi’s court. Briefing reporters about the decision, general secretary in-charge of the state Madhusudan Mistry said while many names have been discussed and shortlisted, a formal announcement […]
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is likely to garner the maximum vote share in the Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh if the Lok Sabha elections are held now, according to the CNN-IBN election tracker conducted by CSDS. In Gujarat, BJP is projected to secure a 53 percent vote share, the Congress 32 percent and […]
India Wednesday said that it supports an all-inclusive Syrian-led process to chart out the future of the violence-ravaged country and stressed that it “stands fully prepared to play its part” in the Geneva II peace process in any manner required of it. External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, addressing the UN-backed Geneva II conference in Montreux, […]
India is ready to forge ahead in boosting trade ties with Pakistan, but it has to be done in an environment free from terror and violence, Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh said here Wednesday. In her valedictory address at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) 2nd Annual Conference, the foreign secretary also […]