While few months back, Ranbir and Katrina’s holiday pictures had gone viral everywhere, now it’s time for Uday Chopra and Nargis Fakhri’s picture. Both the actors were spotted holidaying in Maldives. Like Kat, Nargis was also seen in a bikini. This is the second time when a couple’s private photos have been revealed and a […]
Excise and taxation employees, including two senior officers, were booked, police said Saturday. Umed Singh, an assistant excise and taxation officer and Inspector Bir Singh, with other employees, were booked for negligence. “The accused were booked on the complaint filed by deputy excise and taxation officer Aruna Singh,” police officer Arvind Kumar told IANS. The […]
A day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said it will be “disastrous for the country” to have Narendra Modi at the helm, veteran BJP leader Jaswant Singh Saturday criticised him for his “uncharacteristically sharp” remarks. “The language which he employed was uncharacteristically sharp. I am saddened by it,” Jaswant Singh said on the sidelines of […]
Around 70 polling centres were burnt across Bangladesh Saturday as the country braces itself to hold the 10th parliamentary polls Sunday. Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad said a few polling centres, which have been burnt, might be shifted at the last moment, but they would not be set up very far from their earlier […]
A day after the the Uttar Pradesh government appointed eight information commissioners, the decision was challenged before the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court (HC). In a writ petition, Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Amitabh Thakur, among the 600 plus applicants for the eight posts, alleged that the selection process was arbitrary, and sought […]
Two new railway overbridges in Ghaziabad were thrown open to the public on the first day of 2014. Residents of the area, however, were left with no means of using them, as they came with no stairs! Residents voiced their concern after railway officials started constructing a wall, to close off the level crossings that […]
A 33-year-old Polish woman was raped by a cab driver who had offered her a ride while she was on her way to Delhi along with her two year-old-daughter from Mathura in Uttar Pradesh, police said Saturday. A zero First Information Report (which will be numbered later by the police station under whose jurisdiction the […]
The direct talks set for Saturday between the warring sides of South Sudan have been delayed in absence of an agenda, the East African bloc IGAD said. According to sources of the Inter Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), the rival sides met Friday, but failed to agree on an agenda for direct talks to put […]
The BJP Saturday staked claim to be recognised as the main opposition party in the Karnataka assembly following the decision of the Karnataka Janata Party led by B. S. Yeddyurappa to merge with it. Former chief minister Jagadish Shettar told reporters here that a team led by him submitted a letter to Speaker Kagodu Thimmappa […]
Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh announced here Saturday that Jharkhand would have an effective Lokayukta law by Feb 15. “Jharkhand will have its Lokayukta law by Feb 15. This will be according to the law passed by parliament,” said Ramesh after holding a coordination committee meeting of the Jharkhand government. The Lokpal and Lokayukta Bill, […]