Ranchi, April 26 (IANS) A woman prisoner committed suicide in Jharkhand’s Gumla district Saturday, police said. According to police, Jagini Oraon committed suicide in a toilet of Gumla district hospital by hanging herself with her sari. She was admitted to the hospital a few days back after she complained of stomach pain. According to police […]
Lucknow, April 26 (IANS) Repolling will be held at five polling stations of Firozabad and Etawah Lok Sabha constituencies as the Election Commission (EC) has received complaints about booth capturing and intimidation during the election, officials said Saturday. Several complaints were sent to the poll panel about bogus voting and booth capturing during the election […]
New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) Delhiites will experience a partly cloudy Saturday with the minimum temperature recorded at 22.1 degrees Celsius, two notches below the season’s average. The Met Office has forecast light rain. “Sky would be partly cloudy…light rainfall is likely in some areas of the national capital,” said an official of the India […]
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) BJP leader Subramanian Swamy Friday urged President Pranab Mukherjee not to approve the appointment of a new army chief, arguing that its timing will “politicise” the office and “demoralise” the armed forces. “The timing of this proposed announcement will, inter alia, ensure the chief of the army staff (COAS) office […]
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal Friday accused BJP leader Narendra Modi of making false promises of cleaning the Ganga if he wins the parliamentary election from Varanasi. The claim was made by Modi in a blog post he wrote Thursday, the day he filed his nomination as a candidate from […]
Shimla/Dharamsala, April 25 (IANS) Former Himachal Pradesh chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal and his Lok Sabha member son Anurag Thakur were Friday formally charged in a trial court in Dharamsala with alleged wrongdoing in allotment of land to the state’s cricket association for constructing a residential complex for players near its stadium in Dharamsala. The […]
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) A CRPF officer was shot at and critically injured by two people, including his brother-in-law, near his house here while he was on a morning walk, police said Friday. Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Inspector Vikas Tomar, 34, who is posted in Delhi, was shot at by two motorcycle-borne people […]
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) At least eight people were injured and over a 1,000 hutments reduced to ashes after a fire broke out in a slum cluster in south Delhi’s Vasant Kunj area Friday morning, an official said. Two more incidents of fire were reported in the city but there were no casualties. The […]
Warangal (Andhra Pradesh), April 25 (IANS) Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Friday promised to develop Warangal as the second information technology hub of Telangana after Hyderabad. “Telangana’s second IT city will be Warangal,” he told an election meeting at Madikonda in Warangal district. To counter the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), which has promised to waive […]
Chandigarh, April 25 (IANS) Calling upon the people to vote out the “most corrupt government in the country’s history”, BJP leader Narendra Modi Friday said people were determined to punish the Congress party and the UPA government for bringing the country to the brink of disaster. Addressing election rallies in Pathankot, Hoshiarpur and Ludhiana cities […]