Jammu, May 5 (IANS) A protest strike called by the Jammu Bar Association passed off peacefully Monday barring a few incidents of stone pelting in the city, officials said. Educational institutions, public transport, shops and other businesses remained closed although government offices, banks and post offices functioned normally. Some public transport, however, operated. Scores of pilgrims […]
Shimla, May 5 (IANS) The Congress Monday lodged a complaint with the Election Commission against sitting MP and BJP candidate Anurag Thakur for allegedly concealing financial details in his election affidavit and demanded that he be debarred from contesting the polls. Thakur, who is re-contesting from Hamirpur Lok Sabha constituency, has declared his details of investments […]
Hyderabad, May 5 (IANS) Shan5, a paediatric pentavalent or five-in-one vaccine developed by Hyderabad-based Shantha Biotechnics, an arm of Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of French pharmaceutical company Sanofi, has regained prequalification status from the World Health Organisation (WHO). After four years of disqualification, the vaccine, which offers protection to children from diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, Hib […]
Lucknow, May 5 (IANS) Fifteen Lok Sabha constituencies in Uttar Pradesh go to the polls Wednesday in a contest hugely vital to the Congress, which won seven of these in 2009 but is finding it difficult to retain them. The most prominent of the battlegrounds is Amethi, a Gandhi family bastion where Congress leader Rahul Gandhi […]
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) A 23-year-old girl and her two male friends were arrested for killing her father due to his repeated sexual assaults on her, police said Monday. Kulvinder Kaur alias Nikki and her friends, identified as Prince Sandhu (22) and Ashok Sharma(23), were arrested separately within a week of the murder. Kulvinder killed […]
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Campaigning ended Monday evening in 64 Lok Sabha constituencies which go to the polls Wednesday when over 85 million voters will decide the electoral fate of 897 candidates including Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi. Simultaneous assembly polls are scheduled in the Seemandhra region of Andhra Pradesh where polling will be held […]
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Tata Group chairman emeritus Ratan Tata was Monday honoured with Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE), one of the highest civilian awards of Britain. British High Commissioner James Bevan conferred the award on Ratan Tata on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II at a ceremony here. Tata […]
Amethi, May 5 (IANS) BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Monday tore into the Gandhi family, accusing them of not only being “arrogant” and “power drunk” but also of ignoring the welfare and interests of the poor. Addressing a massive gathering at Gauriganj town in Amethi Lok Sabha constituency, from where Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi […]
Mumbai, May 5 (IANS) The Shiv Sena Monday made yet another attempt to mollify the Gujarati community which had been targeted in a sharp editorial in the party mouthpiece Saamana May 1. In a signed statement here, the party’s youth wing chief Aditya Thackeray said “we seek or make no difference between us (Marathis) and the […]
Panaji, May 5 (IANS) The Congress in Goa Monday demanded the immediate recall of DGP T.N. Mohan, accusing him of acting as a “spokesperson for the drug mafia in Goa”. The director general of police’s statement Friday in which he denied the existence of a mafia dealing in narcotics in Goa, would be interpreted as a […]