A 19-year-old fashion designing student was raped by her uncle here, police said Wednesday. The incident took place at the Gymkhana Club in central Delhi’s Chanakyapuri area Feb 13. According to the police complaint lodged Feb 19, the student said her uncle Sandeep Kohli, who lives in Lucknow and is a professional photographer, came to […]
India and Russia Wednesday agreed to conclude at an early date the general framework agreement on reactors 3 and 4 of the Kudankulam nuclear power project in Tamil Nadu, official sources said. The “general agreement” concerning the reactors was reached during the India-Russia Inter-Governmental Commission meeting chaired by External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid and Russian […]
The Congress Wednesday urged the Election Commission to ban opinion polls till the conclusion of the Lok Sabha elections. In a letter to Chief Election Commissioner V.S. Sampath, secretary of the party’s legal and human rights department K.C. Mittal demanded registration of a case into the alleged manipulation of opinion polls. He urged the poll […]
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. “Not aligning with the Congress (in the last Lok Sabha) elections was a mistake,” Lalu Prasad said in the “Ghoshnapatra” programme telecast by ABP news […]
Vivek Dhand, a 1981-batch Indian Administrative Service officer, was Wednesday appointed the new chief secretary of Chhattisgarh. He will succeed Sunil Kumar, who is retiring Friday. Dhand, who originally belongs to Chhattisgarh, is known to be an efficient administrator. Chief Minister Raman Singh Wednesday formally cleared his appointment as the next chief secretary.
A manager of a colliery of the Western Coalfields Ltd. was arrested for bribery, the CBI said Wednesday. “The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested a manager (Mines), Rajur/Bhandewada Colliery (Maharashtra), Western Coalfields Ltd., for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs.10,000 from the complainant,” a CBI statement said. Western Coalfields Ltd. is one of […]
India and Saudi Arabia Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding on defence cooperation for greater exchange of information and training. The agreement was signed on the first day of the three-day visit of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, who arrived here Wednesday afternoon. Hours after his arrival, the crown prince met […]
The Congress Wednesday received a jolt in Seemandhra, with former minister T.G. Venkatesh announcing that he was joining the Telugu Desam Party. Venkatesh was a minister in the cabinet of Kiran Kumar Reddy, who resigned last week to protest the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh. After consulting his supporters, Venkatesh said he would join the TDP. […]
Welcoming his expulsion from the CPI-M, veteran party leader and long-time West Bengal legislator Abdur Rezzak Mollah Wednesday said he was waiting for it. “It’s most welcome, I have been waiting for it,” Mollah told IANS. The decision to expel Mollah for “serious anti-party activities” was taken at a meeting of the Communist Party of […]
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will leave for Myanmar Monday to take part in the third BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation) summit that will focus on increasing connectivity and establishing an architecture of subregional economic cooperation. The prime minister will also hold bilateral meetings with the prime ministers of Bangladesh […]