Around 40 lakh Hindu devout Tuesday took a holy dip in the holy Ganga at the Sangam – the point where the Ganga, the Yamuna and the mystical Saraswati meet in Allahabad, according to official estimates. Hundreds congregated at the banks of the Sangam since day break and the bathing continued till late in the […]
Asia’s two economic giants, India and China, have been rated “unfree” and ranked 120th and 137th respectively, in the 2014 Index of Economic Freedom by US think tank Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal. “The foundations for long-term economic development continue to be fragile in the absence of effectively functioning legal frameworks,” the editors […]
Former home secretary R.K. Singh’s accusations that Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde interfered in the investigations of Delhi Police into IPL betting stoked controversy Tuesday with the BJP demanding a probe and the Congress leaders lashing out at R.K. Singh. R.K. Singh, who has joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), said Delhi Police had informed him […]
Around 10 lakh people have joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) since it launched a free membership drive four days ago, party leader Gopal Rai said here Tuesday. The new members include former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri’s grandson Adarsh Shastri. Rai told the media that while 4.5 lakh people joined the AAP after giving […]
Crores of rupees changed hands as defying the police ban, people in parts of Andhra Pradesh bet on cockfights as part of Sankranti festival. Despite the ban, cockfights were organised openly in villages in some districts, mainly in the coastal Andhra region. Powerful politicians of all hues, celebrities and businessmen, who consider the cockfights a […]
A Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) here has awarded a compensation of over Rs.41 lakh to family members of an MTNL employee, who was killed in a road accident in 2009. “I hold that petitioner (kin of the deceased) succeeded in proving that Dec 10, 2009, an accident had taken place due to the rash […]
Mumbai’s landscape, never dull, harvested a rich crop of festivals Tuesday. Its skies were dotted with kites marking Makar Sankranti, Punjabis danced around the Lohri fires, south Indians churned up Pongal dishes, north-east Indians celebrated Bhogali Bihu, and Muslims celebrated Eid Milad-un-Nabi, the birthday of Prophet Mohammed. Maharashtrian families were seen distributing the traditional sweetmeat, […]
Rahul Gandhi behaved like a “joker” during his visit in the state Monday and such a person is being projected as the prime ministerial candidate by the Congress, a CPI-M leader said here Tuesday. Communist Party of India-Marxist state leader Pinarayi Vijayan said: “His candidature as the Congress’s PM candidate is more or less finalised […]
More than 10 lakh people have enrolled as Aam Aadmi Party members till now since the party launched its free membership helpline number four days ago, senior AAP member Gopal Rai said here Tuesday. Speaking to media, he said people in large numbers have joined the party through the membership helpline number by giving a […]
Over 90 touts were arrested in the last three days near government o Add New ffices in Bihar’s twelve districts during special drive to check corrupt practices, police said Tuesday. Bihar Police chief Abhyanand said the “operation dalal” was launched against middlemen, who are part of rampant corruption in government offices in the state. Police […]