Hitting out at Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde’s advisory for releasing “minority youth” detained wrongfully, BJP leader Arun Jaitley Saturday said the move was “unconstitutional”. Referring to the home minister’s letter to chief ministers to review cases of terrorism against “members of minority communities,” Jaitley said: “Obviously, he has only religious minority and not linguistic minority […]
Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde Saturday expressed a wish to see his political mentor Sharad Pawar of the NCP as the prime minister of India. “I would be happy if Sharad Pawar became the PM. He is my political guru and I entered politics because of him,” Shinde, a policeman-turned-politician and former Maharashtra chief minister, […]
More than 300 people, including women and children, fell ill after eating left over food distributed as part of the funeral rites of a person in Malpura area near Agra. The affected persons began lining up at medical cetres from Thursday and many people were admitted to a hospital here Friday after they complained of […]
Lauding late litterateur Sunil Gangopadhyay, President Pranab Mukherjee said Saturday the amount of historical research that went into his writing was noteworthy. Presenting the Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Award for Excellence in Bengali literature at the Raj Bhavan here, the president said he has read many of his works and was extremely impressed with his talent. […]
The Uttar Pradesh government Saturday said that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who lives in Ghaziabad, will get ‘Z’ category security despite his refusal to accept security. A home department official said a committee comprising of Principal Secretary (Home) A.K. Gupta and Director General of Police Rizvan Ahmad Thursday okayed the new security set up […]
Youth Initiative for Peace and Harmony, a group of young people has decided to boycott Salman Khan’s upcoming movie ‘Jai Ho’ for taking part in a musical show, Saifai in Uttar Pradesh. The members of the group condemned both Salman and Madhuri Dixit for participating in the event. The group says that it was a […]
Police said Saturday they have arrested four men for the gang rape of a dancer from Mumbai on New Year Eve. The accused were arrested after police identified them with the help of CCTV footage of an ATM while withdrawing money using the debit card of the victim. The girl, who was called from Mumbai […]
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his ministers are holding a ‘janata darbar’ at the secretariat here Saturday to address the public grievances. The one-and-a-half-hour session began at 9.30 a.m. and will continue till 11.30 a.m. The chief minister said his entire cabinet will sit outside the Delhi Secretariat every week Saturday and “hear grievances […]
A court here Friday asked the Special Cell of Delhi Police to appear before it to furnish details on a plea of Lashkar-e-Taiba bomb expert Abdul Karim Tunda. The court was hearing Tunda’s petition seeking court’s direction to the police to furnish details of the remaining pending cases against him. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Amit Bansal […]
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Friday said declaration of candidates for the Lok Sabha polls will be as per a “new process” which will take into account the “voice of the people” and work with a formal structure. “For the first time, we are working on a deadline, getting voices of people into the party […]