The Supreme Court Friday said it would hear Feb 19 a plea by counsel Ram Jethmalani seeking enforcement of the court’s July 4, 2011, order that had directed the setting up of a special investigating team headed by two former judges to monitor a probe into stashing away of black money in tax havens. A […]
New Zealand will take on the mighty Netherlands in the final of the Hockey World League Final here Saturday after the two teams notched up wins in their respective semi-finals at the Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium Friday. The Netherlands overcame reigning world champions Australia 4-3 in the last match of the day to make […]
In a strong challenge to the BJP and its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Friday said whoever tries to wipe out the party will be destroyed. “The opposition say they want to free the country of the Congress. But the people in the opposition do not understand Indian history. The […]
Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi Friday showered lavish praises on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with the party adopting a resolution hailing his “wise leadership”. Manmohan Singh, who has been leading the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government for almost 10 years, has said he will not seek another term in office. Sonia […]
The three-week-old AAP government in Delhi faced all-round criticism after its law minister mounted a vigilante-style raid on African residents here, alleging that they were running a “sex and drug ring”. The minister’s post-midnight raid was widely condemned and could cast a shadow on India’s diplomatic and economic ties with Africa. The incident also triggered […]
Sunanda Pushkar Tharoor, the wife of India’s Minister of State for Human Resources Shashi Tharoor, was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a city hotel room Friday night, stoking renewed speculation over their relationship barely 24 hours after the two declared they were “happily married” following public airing of tweets that hinted about an extra-marital […]
BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Friday took a dig at the Congress-led government, saying the 2G scam affected the growth of the information and communication technology (ICT) industry in the country. “The speed at which India was progressing in the ICT field was badly hurt by this incident. It is a challenge to recover […]
After Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Union Minister Shashi Tharoor, was found dead in a Delhi hotel Friday night, a security cover has been provided at his office and home here in Kerala. Tharoor represents the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency and his office is located a stone’s throw from the state secretariat while his home is […]
Shia LaBeouf, who headbutted a guy in a pub here, later claimed that he is just like the next guy with faults. “I’m super normal,” tmz.com quoted him as saying. LaBeouf got into an argument with the other bar patron Thursday night in the Hobgoblin pub. After the fight, LaBeouf reiterates the fight was over […]
The US has no virtually no leverage over Iran by keeping the country isolated and it is only the country’s inclusion in the global economic system that will lead to its democratisation, argued two Iranian diaspora authors settled in the West. Reza Aslan and Fariba Hatchtroudi also contended that the spark, for what is now […]