Mumbai, May 17 (IANS) Capt. C.P. Krishnan Nair, a war veteran and founder of the Leela Group of luxury hotels and resorts, passed away Saturday morning after a brief illness, family sources said. He breathed his last around 3.30 am at the Hinduja Hospital here. Nair, 92, is survived by his wife Leela and sons, Vivek, […]
Thiruvananthapuram, May 17 (IANS) The Left parties in Kerala failed to cash in sufficiently on the anti-Congress sentiment and won only eight of the 20 seats in the southern state. While the Left Democratic Front (LDF) did double its 2009 tally of four seats, its leadership now feels they could have done better if during the […]
Kolkata, May 17 (IANS) With Bharatiya Janata Party’s Narendra Modi poised to become India’s next prime minister, monks of Ramakrishna Mission feel the ardent devotee of Swami Vivekananda could bring his teachings of religious harmony to the masses and harness youth power to power growth. According to sources at the Belur Math, the global headquarters of […]
Lucknow, May 17 (IANS) BSP supremo Mayawati Saturday blamed the Congress for her party’s rout in Uttar Pradesh in the Lok Sabha polls. She said supporting the Congress-led UPA was suicidal and her party paid the price for it. The Bahujan Samaj Party’s state tally was reduced to zero in the just-concluded general elections. She blamed […]
New Delhi, May 17 (IANS) Narendra Modi is man of the moment. If his agenda and vision led to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s triumph at the hustings, his influence is looming large over the nation’s fashion scene too and yielding rich dividends for designers. In the highly volatile fashion world, where style statements change with changing […]
Dharamsala, May 17 (IANS) Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama Saturday congratulated BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi for his party’s decisive victory in the Lok Sabha election. The Nobel Peace Laureate in a letter to Modi said India was the world’s largest democratic nation and the most stable in South Asia with a tradition of […]
Mumbai, May 17 (IANS) Lawyers in Mumbai Saturday welcomed the Supreme Court judgment acquitting all six convicts, including two on the death row, in the 2002 Akshardham temple terror attack in Gandhinagar. Lawyer Gulzar Aazmi of the Jamiat Ulama-E-Maharashtra (JUeM) (AM) said: “The prosecution failed to establish the guilt by the accused beyond reasonable doubt and […]
New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) Delhi experienced a pleasant Friday with the maximum temperature recorded at 36.7 degrees Celsius, three notches below the season’s average. The Met Department has forecast a clear and sunny Saturday. “The sky will remain clear and the day will be warm,” said an official of the India Meteorological Department (IMD). The […]
New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son and party vice president Rahul Gandhi Friday took responsibility for the party’s worst drubbing in the national election, but did not give credit to Narendra Modi for the BJP victory. Making a short statement to the media – without entertaining any questions – at […]
Agra, May 16 (IANS) In the tidal tsunami generated by the Modi wave, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidates Friday trounced their rivals in Agra, Fatehpur Sikri, Mathura, Hathras and Aligarh by decisive margins. Only Firozabad saw Samajwadi Party candidate Akshay Yadav emerging victorious, defeating last-minute defector to the BJP fold, S.P. Singh Baghel. In Agra, […]