Two sailors are still missing on the accident-hit INS Sindhuratna submarine, official sources said Thursday. An official said the condition of the submarine has been described as safe. “We shall attempt to open the sealed compartments where the two missing sailors are believed to be trapped and hope to rescue them,” the official, requesting anonymity, […]
It was a pleasant Thursday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded a notch above season’s average at 13.0 degrees Celsius. The Met Office forecast rain in the afternoon. “Partly cloudy sky with spells of rain in some parts of the city could be recorded,” an India Meteorological Department official said. The […]
A trooper shot dead five of his colleagues and then turned the gun on himself in north’s Kashmir Ganderbal district, sources said Thursday. An inquiry into the incident has been ordered. Police sources told IANS that an angry trooper of the Rashtriya Rifles went berserk inside the Safapora (Manasbal) camp in the district, 35 km […]
The Delhi High Court Wednesday reserved its order on a plea filed by the former AAP government to withdraw a petition against a trial court order for lodging a complaint against Sheila Dikshit for allegedly misusing government funds. Justice Sunil Gaur also reserved order on the former chief minister’s application against the decision of the […]
A benchmark index of Indian equities markets was trading flat at 59.20 points or 0.28 percent up in the pre-noon trade Wednesday. Good buying was observed in the capital goods and healthcare sectors, while selling pressure was seen in the metal sector. The 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the S&P Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), which […]
Even after losing a match in the Celebrity Cricket League (CCL), the Mumbai Heroes team was in a mood to party. They partied hard all night Feb 22. “The entire Mumbai Heroes team was in Sohail Khan’s hotel room from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. Huma Qureshi, Chitrangda Singh and Priyamani also joined them. Sounds […]
Former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Wednesday sought to justify the 1993 police action on Youth Congress workers, saying it was essential to prevent the state secretariat from being “captured”. Bhattarcharjee deposed before a commission probing the July 21, 1993, police firing on Youth Congress workers that left 13 dead. Immediately after assuming power […]
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud arrived here Wednesday on a three-day official visit during which the two countries are expected to sign an agreement on defence and enhance cooperation in hydrocarbons and security. Vice-president Hamid Ansari received Crown Prince Salman on his arrival. Crown Prince Salman’s is the highest level political […]
At least 92 unauthorised Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) and chit funds have fled Tripura after illegally collecting huge amounts of money from the people, a minister said Wednesday. “Till march last year, 117 NBFCs were working in the state. When the state government started taking action against them, 92 chit funds ran away,” Finance Minister […]
Election opinion polls conducted by media should be properly authenticated, former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said Wednesday. A day after a Hindi television news channel carried out a sting operation that indicated a political conspiracy to manipulate public opinion, Kejriwal said the sting operation aired by the channel, if assumed to be authentic, represents […]