New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday reiterated India’s commitment for building a peaceful Afghanistan when Afghanistan’s Chief Executive Officer and Head of the Council of Ministers Abdullah Abdullah called on him here. “The prime minister expressed deep gratitude towards the government and the national security forces of Afghanistan for their bravery and sacrifice […]
Raigad (Maharashtra), At least 14 collegians from Pune — a teacher and students including 10 girls, who were part of a group of 130 on a picnic — drowned on Monday in the Arabian Sea at Murud beach in Maharashtra’s Raigad district, around 150 km south of Mumbai, police said. The toll is expected to […]
New Delhi, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday supported striking sanitation employees of Delhi’s three main civic bodies seeking salaries as AAP leaders cleared garbage from across the capital. “I support (the) demand of protesting MCD (Municipal Corporation of Delhi) employees that they should get their full salaries,” the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader tweeted. […]
Guwahati, Sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan and Udyan Sagar aka DJ Nucleya brought down the curtain on the three-day Rongali — Destination, Culture, Harmony — a festival of Assam here. The third day started on a powerful note with Nishant Hagjer passionately playing the drums. After his energetic performance, Amjad Ali Khan took the stage […]
Patna, A woman, allegedly kidnapped by ruling Congress legislator Sidharth Kumar Singh, on Friday appeared before police along with his driver Pankaj Kumar Sharma whom she claimed to have married. She denied being kidnapped, police said. “Nidhi along with Pankaj reached the residence of Patna’s Senior Superintendent of Police Manu Maharaj to inform him that […]
Jammu/Srinagar, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti is unlikely to stake claim to power in Jammu and Kashmir in absence of concrete assurances from the BJP on the agenda of alliance between the two parties and her misgivings over their relationship, party sources said on Friday. “It is not the question of whether she gets sworn in […]
New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the foreign direct investment (FDI) to India has increased by 39 percent in the last 18 months even while falling globally. “The FDI to India increased by 39 percent in the last 18 months, when global FDI has fallen,” Modi said in his address at The […]
New Delhi, Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday announced the names of the first 20 cities which will be developed into smart cities in 2016. These are: Bhubaneswar (Odisha), Pune (Maharashtra), Jaipur (Rajasthan), Surat (Gujarat), Kochi (Kerala), Ahmedabad (Gujarat), Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh), Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh), Sholapur (Maharashtra), Davangere (Karnataka), Indore (Madhya Pradesh), New […]
New Delhi, Indira Gandhi knew her life was at risk when she decided to go for militarily storm the Golden Temple, President Pranab Mukherjee reveals in the second part of his memoirs released on Thursday. “The Turbulent Years, 1980-1996” (Rupa) says that “criminals, smugglers and anti-social elements” had joined the Khalistan movement and recalls that […]
New Delhi, Striking employees of Delhi’s three civic bodies on Thursday continued their agitation over non-payment of salaries, with sanitation workers dumping garbage outside Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s office, even as Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal sought fresh election to the three Municipal Corporations of Delhi. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader, who is undergoing […]