Biennial elections for 55 Rajya Sabha seats, including seven from Maharashtra, will be held Feb 7, the Election Commission announced Monday. As per the schedule, the results shall be announced the same day. The elections will be held for the seats falling vacant between April 2-14 this year. Besides Maharashtra, the elections will be held […]
Pakistan’s Commerce Minister Khurram Dastagir Khan is visiting India Jan 16-18 for a SAARC business event and would meet Commerce Minister Anand Sharma for bilateral talks. Ahead of their meeting on the sidelines of the 5th South Asian Business Leaders Conclave (SBLC), the commerce secretaries of the two sides would be meeting. Pakistan had requested […]
The union law ministry can now proceed with processing of 12 names recommended by the Madras High Court for elevation as its judges as the Supreme Court Monday vacated the high court’s status quo order. A bench of Justice B.S. Chauhan and Justice J. Chelameswar, while staying the high court order, also issued notice on […]
Around 20 Hindu activists Monday disrupted a press conference of AAP leader Prashant Bhushan here, protesting against his remarks on Jammu and Kashmir. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader had come with members of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) to the Indian Women’s Press Corps (IWPC). As the conference began, a young man identifying himself […]
India and Sri Lanka are to release 20 of each other’s fishermen, marking the beginning of a reciprocal process to tide over an issue that has caused tension in bilateral ties. The gesture comes ahead of the Tamil festival of Pongal, and was announced here by the external affairs ministry spokesperson. “As a goodwill measure […]
India said Monday that it was in touch with Bangladesh over reports of attacks on Hindus during and after the general election there. External affairs ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said the government was aware of the reports of attacks on minorities in the past few days. He said the Bangladesh home ministry had ordered police […]
President Pranab Mukherjee, Vice President Hamid Ansari and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday greeted the nation ahead of Milad-un-Nabi, the birth anniversary of Prophet Mohammed. The president and vice president hoped that the Prophet’s message of selflessness and brotherhood would show the path of compassion and tolerance to everyone. Milad-un-Nabi will be celebrated Jan 14. […]
Two members of an inter-state gun smuggling racket have been arrested here and 16 sophisticated pistols recovered from them, Delhi Police said Monday. Dinesh Dabur, 25, and Sunil, 27, both residents of Khargone in Madhya Pradesh, were arrested Sunday from Sarai Kale Khan area in south Delhi and Agra in Uttar Pradesh, respectively. “Police recovered […]
Union minister Sachin Pilot was Monday appointed chief of the Congress’s Rajasthan unit, a party statement said. “Congress president Sonia Gandhi has appointed Sachin Pilot as president of the Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) with immediate effect,” the statement said. The 36-year-old Pilot is corporate affairs minister and a close associate of party vice president […]
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday said one of the biggest achievements of the UPA government was increasing the country’s power generation capacity to meet growing power needs. The prime minister said this after laying the foundation stone of a nuclear power plant in this village in Haryana’s Fatehabad district. The first phase (1,400 MW) of […]