The Congress has “clearly failed” to communicate with the people about its achievements, the party’s key advisor Sam Pitroda said Wednesday. “The Congress party clearly has failed to communicate with the people on its achievements. For eight years, we gave over eight percent average economic growth, transformed education… it was not an easy job, certainly […]
Following a sexual assault on a Danish woman, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Wednesday said he and Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung will meet Police Commissioner B.S. Bassi to analyse the cause of rapes in the capital. Kejriwal said he will also request the chief justice of India to set up more fast-track courts to ensure […]
The Supreme Court Wednesday said it would hear Jan 20 a plea by two Italian marines, accused of killing two Indian fishermen allegedly mistaking them for pirates, on the delay in their trial. The trial by a special court was otherwise to conclude in one year. The apex court bench of Chief Justice P. Sathasivam, […]
The draft of the much-touted Jan Lokpal bill, which the Delhi government announced it will introduce in the first week of February, will be ready by Friday, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said Wednesday. “The chief secretary has told me that he will submit the draft Thursday or Friday”, Kejriwal told reporters. Earlier, Chief Secretary S.K. […]
The Supreme Court Wednesday issued notice on a law graduate’s plea to put in place a permanent mechanism to attend to the complaints of sexual harassment by both sitting and former judges at all levels of judiciary, including the apex court. The notice, returnable by Feb 14, has been issued to the centre, the secretary […]
In a bid to ease tensions after a bitter month long diplomatic row over the arrest of an Indian diplomat, US Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns hosted Indian Ambassador S. Jaishankar for a “productive lunch meeting.” At Tuesday’s meeting at the State Department, Burns and Jaishankar “affirmed the importance of the US-India strategic […]
At least three people were killed and over a dozen injured in a stampede at a fair in Bihar’s Banka district, police said Wednesday. A local police official has been suspended and a probe ordered into the incident. “Preliminary inquiry suggests that the stampede was caused after either a clash between two groups or rumours […]
In the wake of the worst diplomatic spat with India over the arrest of an Indian diplomat for allegedly underpaying her nanny, the White House has come out with a strategic action plan for human trafficking “victims”. The plan does not name Devyani Khobragade, India’s then consul general in New York, but it does address […]
A 51-year-old Danish woman was robbed and raped by eight men near the New Delhi railway station, police said Wednesday. The woman, who came to India Jan 1, had gone to visit a museum Tuesday morning but lost her way to her hotel in Paharganj, a tourist hub in the heart of Delhi. Around 4 […]
A section of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s family Tuesday hit out at the West Bengal government for carrying out renovation work unilaterally at the family’s ancestral home in South 24 Parganas district’s Kodalia. “Extensive changes including destruction of the boundary wall have been carried out, as discovered by family members who visited (the house) on […]