The government will further liberalise the foreign direct investment (FDI) policy in the coming weeks to attract higher overseas investments, Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said Wednesday. “The government will continue its endeavour for liberalising the FDI Policy further in the coming weeks to ensure that India retains its leadership position for attracting foreign […]
A group of revellers here greeted the New Year by plunging into a swimming pool’s icy water at the stroke of the midnight to welcome 2014. This time the revellers had decided to make the New Year celebration more interesting by placing 60 ice blocks, each weighing 50kg, in the Crinoline swimming pool before taking […]
Maoists Tuesday night torched the battery room and other equipment at a mobile phone tower in Odisha’s Koraput district, police said Wednesday. A group of rebels set ablaze the battery room, and other equipment at the cell phone tower near Kalia Atala village, over 600 km from here, Inspector-in-Charge A.K. Mohapatra . The tower – […]
It was a sunny day Wednesday in Himachal Pradesh with overnight snow in Manali turning it more picturesque. The minimum temperature was 1.6 degrees Celsius in Shimla, which saw mild spells of rain. Shimla’s nearby destinations like Kufri and Narkanda experienced moderate snowfall in the past 24 hours. Keylong in Lahaul and Spiti district shivered […]
Six people were killed and six wounded when a bomb exploded at a New Year party in a remote village of Philippines’s Basilan province, security official said Wednesday. The improvised explosive device exploded Tuesday night around 9 p.m. near a parish church at Tumahubong village in Sumisip town, Xinhua reported quoting Jefferson Somera, public information […]
Actor Christian Bale says he no longer engages in bike races as his wife Sibi Blazic is not comfortable with it. The actor stopped racing bikes on the road after the birth of his daughter Emmaline eight years ago, reports contactmusic.com. “Sibi has always had a problem with Christian’s love of fast bikes. She stopped […]
Around 2,500 kg of ammonium nitrate and 300 pieces of gelatin sticks were recovered in Jharkhand’s Koderma district Tuesday, police said. Following a tip-off, police chased a pick-up van that met with an accident near Jaynagar village in Koderma district, around 170 km from the state capital Ranchi. The driver of the vehicle managed to […]
Former West Bengal minister and veteran CPI-M leader Sailen Sarkar died at a nursing home in north Bengal’s Malda town Tuesday after a brief illness, party sources said. He was 73. Sarkar was a widower and had no children. A former teacher and a five-time legislator, Sarkar was elected from English Bazar (1977, 1982, 1987) […]
After water, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Tuesday fulfilled his second major election promise of cutting power bills of residents by half. The move to provide 50 percent subsidy in power tariff, expected to benefit an estimated 2.8 million out of 3.4 million households, applicable if consumption is below 400 units per month, came a […]
A couple of days before the Andhra Pradesh assembly is to begin a debate on the bifurcation bill, a cabinet minister from Telangana region was Tuesday divested of the legislative affairs portfolio. Civil Supplies Minister D. Sridhar Babu, a supporter of a separate Telangana state, was also holding the legislative affairs portfolio. In a move […]