New trends in global economy call for strengthened commitment to a new multilateralism that is more inclusive and heeds new voices of world economy, says IMF managing director Christine Lagarde. The world is more integrated economically, financially, and technologically, but it is also more fragmented in terms of power, influence, and decision-making. This could lead […]
Six Maoists were arrested and a huge quantity of explosives was recovered in Bihar’s Munger district Tuesday, police said. Acting on a tip-off, a joint team of police and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) launched a combing operation near Bhimbandh forest and arrested the Maoists and recovered the arms and ammunition, including 200 bullets, […]
A court here Tuesday sent three people, arrested in connection with the death of a student from Arunachal Pradesh, to judicial custody till Feb 18. Nido Tania, the 19-year-old student, was beaten up by shopkeepers in south Delhi’s Lajpat Nagar area following a quarrel over his appearance and clothing. He died in a hospital Jan […]
Traditionally considered weak in West Bengal, the BJP is heavily banking on its prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi — scheduled to address a rally at the Brigade Parade Grounds Wednesday — for a turnaround in the state. Coming only days after Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee launched her poll drive from the same venue, the […]
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa has urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to personally intervene and also use diplomatic channels to secure the release of Indian fishermen in Sri Lankan jails. In a letter to Manmohan Singh on Monday, the text of which was released to the media Tuesday, Jayalalithaa said the Sri Lankan Navy […]
The Delhi High Court Tuesday issued notice to the city government and Delhi Police on a bail plea of Vishal Yadav, who is serving life imprisonment for abducting and killing Nitish Katara in 2002. Vishal Yadav moved the court seeking two weeks’ bail to attend the engagement and wedding of his younger brother. He was […]
Bihar’s Social Welfare Minister Perween Amanullah, the first Muslim woman minister in the state, Tuesday resigned from the Nitish Kumar cabinet as well as the Janata Dal-United. “I have resigned from the cabinet and the JD-U and sent it (resignation letter) to the chief minister,” Amanullah told media persons here. She refused to disclose the […]
Border Security Force (BSF) troopers Tuesday morning recovered 20 kg of heroin, valued at Rs.100 crore in the international market, BSF officials said here. The seizure was made following an encounter with smugglers from the Pakistan side near border outpost Bharopal in the Amritsar sector, 30 km from here, a BSF spokesman said. The contraband […]
maTerming the attack on the 19-year-old student from Arunachal Pradesh “most condemnable”, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday said “every possible effort” would be made to punish the guilty. “The attack on Nido Tania, the student from Arunachal Pradesh, is most condemnable. While the actual cause of Nido Tania’s death will be known only after the […]
Ten people were killed and at least 35 injured when the luxury bus they were travelling in fell into a deep ditch along the Pune-Solapur Highway late Monday, officials said. A majority of the dead on the Kolhapur-Mumbai luxury bus were from Porbandar city in Gujarat. The dead include seven women, officials said. The accident […]