The BJP Sunday demanded Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharti’s removal after a court directed police to file a FIR against him for allegedly entering some African women’s home. “He should be immediately removed. He is a symbol of the AAP (Aam Aadmi Party) style of governance which is racist, discriminatory, violent and anarchic,” Bharatiya Janata […]
The Calcutta School of Music, India’s oldest Western music school, celebrates its centenary in 2014. The school will showcase its rich heritage through Western Classical music recitals, non-classical and popular music renditions this year. Though the school’s core remains the Western classical music, it is also expanding into the relatively lesser-known realm of musical theatre, […]
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will field a cobbler or rickshaw puller against Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) leader Ram Vilas Paswan in the Lok Sabha election, a party leader said Sunday. “The AAP has decided to field a ‘common man’ against Paswan. The candidate may be a hard-working cobbler or rickshaw puller,” AAP convenor Somnath […]
BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Sunday said the Congress was afraid of taking on a “tea vendor” from “a backward caste” in the coming Lok Sabha election. Addressing delegates on the concluding day of a leadership meet here, Modi blamed Congress president Sonia Gandhi for not making her son and party vice president Rahul […]
A day after Jammu and Kashmir officials detained a Pakistani truck with 100 kg of brown sugar, Pakistan-administered Kashmir authorities Saturday detained 27 Indian drivers and their vehicles who had gone to Muzaffarabad with goods, officials said. All the trucks had gone with goods across the Line of Control (LoC) Friday, officials said here. This […]
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday expressed his “shock and deep sadness” to junior HRD minister Shashi Tharoor over the demise of his wife, Sunanda Pushkar, saying “we are with you in this hour of grief”. In his condolence message to Tharoor, Manmohan Singh prayed for strength to Tharoor to tide over the difficult time. “It […]
Around 36 lakh children in Chhattisgarh would be immunised against polio in a statewide campaign beginning Sunday, state immunisation officer Subhash Pandey said here Saturday. While the first phase of the drive for children below the age of five would be held Sunday, the second phase would be conducted Feb 23. Apart from other staff, […]
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Saturday met chief ministers, state unit presidents and AICC state members, asking them to strongly take up issues affecting people. He also got feedback regarding the party’s preparations for the Lok Sabha elections. The meeting, held a day after the All India Congress Committee (AICC) met here, was also attended […]
Trinamool Congress has nominated Bollywood actor Mithun Chakraborty as one of the five Rajya Sabha members to be elected from West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said here Saturday. “In our state, five Rajya Sabha members will be elected this time. One of these seats will be given to Mithun Chakraborty from All India Trinamool […]
President Pranab Mukherjee Saturday launched the pulse polio immunisation programme for 2014, administering pulse polio drops to six small children. Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, who was also present at the function at Rashtrapti Bhavan, pointed out that in this round of the polio campaign, more than 17 crore children will be vaccinated, an […]