Indian Mujahideen operative Asadullah Akhtar alias Haddi has said he joined the terror outfit to protect the rights of Muslims and his aim was to die for a cause. In his confession before a magistrate in Miyapur, Andhra Pradesh, the aide of Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal admitted his role in various blasts, including the […]
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud arrived here Wednesday on a three-day official visit as India has actively begun engaging with major players in the Gulf region. “We have so much on stake from the point of view of population (Indian expatriates in the region), remittances and energy security,” Anil Wadhwa, secretary, […]
Human Resource Development Minister M.M. Pallam Raju Wednesday highlighted the need for a national school leadership curriculum that has the capability to transform each school on a rights-based approach. “Academic findings indicate that the most critical part of any schooling system which impacts learning is the school leadership. We thus need a national school leadership […]
RJD chief Lalu Prasad said Wednesday that not aligning with the Congress in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections was a “mistake” and Nitish Kumar was not a factor in Bihar in the coming elections. “Not aligning with the Congress (in the last Lok Sabha) elections was a mistake,” Lalu Prasad said in the “Ghoshnapatra” programme […]
Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung Wednesday informed the Delhi High Court that the city government has decided to scrap the five additional points to be given to children of parents who come under the inter-state transfer category in nursery admissions. Advocate Raju Ramachandran, appearing for Jung, informed Justice Manmohan that a survey was carried out in […]
The government has for the first time invited bids for the auction of captive coal blocks, the coal ministry said Wednesday. “The government has initiated auction of coal blocks by inviting applications for the first time for allocating coal blocks through competitive bidding for specified end-uses,” the ministry said here in a statement. It will […]
The CPI-M Wednesday expelled veteran leader and former West Bengal minister Abdur Rezzak Mollah for “serious anti-party activities” and “belittling the party’s image in public”. A nonchalant Mollah said he was waiting for the decision. The decision to show the door to the popular peasant leader, who has been a legislator for 42 years without […]
Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (MSIL) Wednesday said that if the contract manufacturing agreement between itself and Suzuki Motor Gujarat expires and in case not extended by mutual consent, the assets of the Gujarat subsidiary would be transferred to MSIL at a fair value to be determined by independent valuation. MSIL clarified in a statement that […]
The city Wednesday reverberated with slogans of “Jai Telangana” as TRS chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao arrived from Delhi to a hero’s welcome by his supporters celebrating the formation of Telangana state. Thousands of Telangana Rashra Samithi (TRS) activists poured out into the streets to welcome Rao with slogans, dances, display of Telangana culture, bursting of […]
Trade across the Line of Control (LoC) between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad which resumed Wednesday after 40 days hit another roadblock when 22 trucks from India came back without unloading their goods, officials said. Traders from India said they were forced to recall their trucks without unloading goods at Chakote near Muzaffarabad, over uncalled for security […]