Steps will be taken in a day or two by the Sri Lankan government to release 275 Indian fishermen in Sri Lankan jails, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa said Saturday. The Tamil Nadu government is also taking steps to release 179 arrested Sri Lankan fishermen so that talks between fishermen of the two nations […]
Two Delhi Police constables have been arrested here for taking a bribe of Rs.3,000 from a cloth shopkeeper, an official said Saturday. The shopkeeper lodged a complaint with the Anti-Corruption Branch that two constables – Sandeep and Ishwar – were taking bribes of Rs.3,000 every month for allowing him to run his shop at Janakpuri […]
Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, who returned Friday night after being indicted by a US grand jury for alleged visa fraud, Saturday met External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid and Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh here. Khobragade arrived in Delhi by a US Airlines flight around 10 p.m. Friday. The diplomat, who has been transferred to the ministry […]
India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni said here Saturday that he would personally like to atone for his poor performance in South Africa during the forthcoming New Zealand tour. Dhoni was out of form in the Test series and came to bat at No.7 and managed only 87 runs in four innings. He also wants the […]
Muslim leaders Saturday condemned terrorism and sought special tribunals to handle issues of victimization of Muslim youths while investigating terrorism cases Saturday. They were speaking at a state-level convention on “Protection of Democracy” at the Azad Maidan here. Addressing the media, Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind president Maulana Syed Arshad Madni said the plight of innocent Muslim youths […]
Bengali screen goddess Suchitra Sen’s condition deteriorated Saturday afternoon, prompting medics to rush emergency measures that stabilised her, a doctor said. By the evening, the 82-year-old actress – under treatment at the Intensive Therapy Unit (ITU) of a nursing home here – was responding to non-intensive ventilation and other therapies, with her oxygen level going […]
The chairman of the Interim Election Council of Nepal, Khil Raj Regmi, Saturday evening summoned the first meeting of the Constituent Assembly Jan 22, ending a month-long row over who would call the meeting. The government decided to call the meeting 56 days after elections to the Constituent Assembly were held Nov 19. Nepal’s Constituent […]
A press conference of AAP leader Kumar Vishwas here was disrupted Saturday when a young man threw an egg at him. It was when the poet-turned-politician was spelling out his party’s priorities vis-a-vis Uttar Pradesh that the youth hurled the egg while raising slogans against the party. The young man, who identified himself as Saif […]
Raushan Ershad, a senior member of the Jatiya Party and wife of former Bangladesh president H.M. Ershad, was Saturday declared the leader of the opposition in the country’s 10th parliament. A gazette naming her as the leader of the opposition was published by the parliament secretariat, Bhim Charan Roy, additional secretary of the secretariat, told […]
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands can become a “spring board” for India’s engagement with Southeast Asia and the Pacific region and be developed as a trading and tourist hub, President Pranab Mukherjee said here Saturday. Mukherjee also said his visit to the islands was an opportunity to pay homage to the freedom fighters who underwent […]