A gale of change has started sweeping across India. It has brought palpable hope. Millions, pushed beyond the periphery and treated with indifference by the Congress, BJP and smaller look-alike parties, are rejoicing. That slight-looking man, Arvind Kejriwal, the like of which has not appeared on the Indian political scene for a long time, has […]
With the launch of the Doha edition of the Malayala Manorama, Malayalam papers outnumber other dailies in the Gulf nation of Qatar. The launch of the Kerala-headquartered century-old vernacular daily Wednesday has taken the number of Malayalam newspapers published in Qatar to five, The Peninsula reported Thursday. The other Malayalam dailies that already have Doha […]
Malaysian Minister for Natural Resources and Environment G Palanivel, who is president of the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC), is to be chief guest at the Jan 7-9 Pravasi Bharatiya Divas in New Delhi. This was announced by Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi here Thursday. The PBD is the world’s largest annual gathering of people […]
India and Saudi Arabia Thursday inked a “landmark” agreement for protection of the rights of domestic Indian workers in the kingdom as visiting Saudi Arabian Labour Minister Adel bin Mohammed Fakeih said a committee of senior officials from both sides would be set up to look into any possible future difficulties. The Agreement on Labour […]
A protest by the BJP youth wing outside the Congress party office here Thursday set off a pitched battle between activists of both parties. Police used water cannons to disperse the violent crowd. The BJP youth wing members blockaded the office of the Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee and accused Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi and […]
Abdul Latif bin Rashid Al-Zayani, Secretary-General of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC), has condemned the Syrian regime for using brutal methods to continue killing its people. Al-Zayani, it was reported Thursday, said that the regime’s forces were killing people and destroying Syrian cities, regardless of both humanitarian and ethical […]
The union cabinet Thursday cleared the home ministry’s proposal for a presidential reference to the Supreme Court for a probe into allegations of sexual harassment against Justice (retd) A.K. Ganguly. “Proposal of the home ministry on Justice Ganguly has been approved,” Finance Minister P. Chidambaram told reporters here. The allegations were levelled by a law […]
The Maharashtra cabinet Thursday partially accepted the report on the probe into the Adarsh Housing Society scam after rejecting it a fortnight ago. The opposition cried foul and threatened to move court. Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan told media persons that the government will initiate action against 25 members who were “ineligible” and also prosecute those […]
A Chinese helicopter Thursday transferred all 52 passengers aboard a stranded Russian ship to a safer place near an Australian rescue ship, 10 days after the MV Akademik Shokalskiy got stuck in ice in the Antarctic sea. The passengers, as well as luggage, scientific instruments and equipment, were flown to a safer place near the […]
The government Thursday announced conversion of its preferential shares in three public sector banks – Indian Bank, UCO Bank and Vijaya Bank — into equity shares, in order to make more funds available to these lenders. The union cabinet headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh approved the proposal of conversion of “Perpetual Non-Cumulative Preference Shares […]