Japan Saturday announced 200 billion yen ($1.95 bn) in new loans for extension of the Delhi Metro and two other projects as visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh held talks here on boosting economic and strategic cooperation here. Both sides inked eight agreements, including on boosting tourism. Abe, who is […]
Delhi Chief Electoral Officer Vijay Dev was Saturday conferred the Election Commission of India (ECI) National Award for best electoral practices. The award was presented by President Pranab Mukherjee at a programme held at Vigyan Bhavan on the occasion of National Voters’ Day. Dedicating the award to all electoral officials in Delhi, Vijay Dev said […]
ndiIndia will flag investment opportunities across the country at the Confederation of Indian Industry’s (CII) partnership summit beginning here Monday. The industry’s 20th annual flagship event is expected to draw about 1,000 delegates from 45 countries the world over, with Bahrain in the Persian Gulf as the focus country and host Karnataka as the partner […]
BJP leader Arun Jaitley Saturday hit out at the AAP government, saying it did not carry out its responsibilities according to the constitution during its protest in the capital. Jaitley hoped Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal realises the difference between a fast at Rajghat (Mahatma Gandhi’s memorial) and giving a call to policemen to abandon their […]
At least nine people were killed and 30 injured at a wedding reception in Cambodia when a man threw a grenade into the party, authorities said Sunday. The incident took place in Kampong Thom province, 170 km north of Phnom Penh, Xinhua quoted Gen. Horm Thul, chief of the provincial military police, as saying. “While […]
Professional autonomy, non-interference and an external accountability mechanism are imperative to make policing in India more effective, experts say. At a national level seminar here Friday on police reforms, police accountability and community policing, judges, accountability commission chiefs, senior lawyers, top police officials, bureaucrats and NGO leaders advocated reforms in policing and voiced concern over […]
Six Indian think tanks figure among the top 150 global think tanks, according to the “2013 Global Go To Think Tanks Report” of Pennsylvania University’s Think Tanks and Civil Societies Programme (TTCSP). At 268, India had the fourth largest number of think tanks after the US 1828, China 426, and United Kingdom 287. The seventh […]
Indian-born American physician, scientist and writer Siddhartha Mukherjee has described the Padma Shri awarded to him on the Republic Day as “a great honour”. “It is a great honour to be recognized by India in this manner,” said Mukherjee, best known for the 2010 book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, for […]
Suspected militants triggered a bomb blast here Sunday, minutes before the start of the Republic Day Parade, police said. No one was reportedly injured. The area where the bomb went off is close to the official residence of Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh. “A powerful bomb was exploded near the deputy commissioner’s office in the […]
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal Sunday accused the central government of usurping the power of the states over the years, saying the authority of the state governments has been eroded by doing this. In his address after hoisting the national flag on the 65th Republic Day in the industrial city of Ludhiana, Badal said […]