Rights groups here Thursday held a protest against the Uttar Pradesh government’s forcible eviction of victims of the Muzaffaranagar riots from relief camps where they had sought shelter. “The Uttar Pradesh government has crossed all limits of callous governance and cynical political calculation by ordering the eviction of riot-hit people from the relief camps,” Manisha […]
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the people of her country to vote in Sunday’s parliamentary elections without being complacent about “impending victory”. She also said her opponent, BNP leader Khaleda Zia, would have to face trial for the pre-election violence if the Awami League returned to power after the elections. She also directed […]
Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf was Thursday moved to a hospital ahead of his appearance at a special court where he is being tried for treason. The former army strongman was taken to the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology in Rawalpindi “after suddenly developing a medical complication while en route to the special court”, Dawn […]
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said his party was not afraid of facing a trust vote in the Delhi assembly Thursday to determine whether or not his government enjoys majority support. “We are not afraid of the trust vote, we are not here (to enjoy) power,” a smiling Kejriwal told the media. “It does not matter […]
At least 27 passengers were killed and 18 injured when a state transport bus fell into a 400 feet deep ravine in the Malshej Ghats here Thursday morning, police said. The accident occurred around 10.30 a.m. when the Thane-Ahmednagar bus belonging to Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) went off the road and plunged into […]
Chile took its seat at the United Nations Security Council(UNSC) as a non-permanent member of the international body till Dec 31, 2015. It marked the fifth time the South American nation has been invited to sit on the council and help uphold the UN’s “principles of non-intervention and respect for international treaties”, Chile’s foreign ministry […]
The aliens didn’t know it was going to pour! But we did. Hold your breath. For the first time, astronomers have provided weather forecast for an alien planet. Using Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers from Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago have characterised the atmosphere of a super-earth class planet orbiting another […]
India’s supercomputer PARAM Yuva II, developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), has been ranked first in India, ninth in the Asia Pacific Region and 44th in the world among the most power efficient computer systems as per the Green500 List announced at the Supercomputing Conference (SC 2013) in Denver, Colorado, in […]
At least 83 athletes will represent the Czech Republic competing at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, which is to start Feb 7, said spokesman for the Czech Olympic Committee (COV) Alexander Kliment. “This is slightly fewer than we expected. But the curling team did not unfortunately succeed in qualification,” Kliment said. The list of athletes […]
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a set of health reforms which allow millions of Americans to get health insurance cover for the first time, came into effect Wednesday, BBC reported. The Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, makes it compulsory for people to have health cover – either provided for by their […]