President Pranab Mukherjee Sunday greeted the nation ahead of the festivals of Lohri, Makar Sankranti and Pongal. In his message, he said: “On the joyous occasion of Lohri, Makar Sankranti and Pongal, I convey my greetings and best wishes to all citizens of India and wish them prosperity and happiness.” “May the celebrations reinforce the […]
Sheikh Hasina was Sunday sworn-in the prime minister of Bangladesh for the third time along with her 48 cabinet members, who include 29 ministers, 17 state ministers and two deputy ministers. President Abdul Hamid administered the oath of office of the prime minister to Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina and to the new members of […]
The new domestic natural gas pricing, to be applicable from April 2014, is likely to be in the range of $7-8 per million metric British thermal unit (mmbtu), Petroleum Secretary Vivek Rae said Sunday. “It would be a weighted average of international prices between January to December 2013. We would come out with the exact […]
Four rebels of the A’chik National Volunteers Council-B (ANVC-B) faction were killed Saturday night in a gunfight with security forces in Meghalaya after a bomb attack at a petrol pump, police said. The gunfight at Dobasipara area took place after suspected ANVC-B rebels lobbed a crude bomb at a petrol pump in Hawakhana area in […]
Trudging up miles of rugged, snow-covered inhospitable terrain of the trans-Himalayas just to administer two drops of polio to tiny tots in the interiors of Himachal Pradesh is, to put it mildly, a mountainous task. Health officials say their staff will have to traverse at least three days on foot from the road-head to the […]
Wars between India and Pakistan did not solve any problem in the past nor would any conflict do so in future, said Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Saturday, adding prosperity of people in the two nations depends only on peace. Abdullah expressed satisfaction that routine life have resumed in Indian villages, particularly in […]
Two Delhi Police constables have been arrested here for taking a bribe of Rs.3,000 from a cloth shopkeeper, an official said Saturday. The shopkeeper lodged a complaint with the Anti-Corruption Branch that two constables – Sandeep and Ishwar – were taking bribes of Rs.3,000 every month for allowing him to run his shop at Janakpuri […]
Muslim leaders Saturday condemned terrorism and sought special tribunals to handle issues of victimization of Muslim youths while investigating terrorism cases Saturday. They were speaking at a state-level convention on “Protection of Democracy” at the Azad Maidan here. Addressing the media, Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind president Maulana Syed Arshad Madni said the plight of innocent Muslim youths […]
Bengali screen goddess Suchitra Sen’s condition deteriorated Saturday afternoon, prompting medics to rush emergency measures that stabilised her, a doctor said. By the evening, the 82-year-old actress – under treatment at the Intensive Therapy Unit (ITU) of a nursing home here – was responding to non-intensive ventilation and other therapies, with her oxygen level going […]
A press conference of AAP leader Kumar Vishwas here was disrupted Saturday when a young man threw an egg at him. It was when the poet-turned-politician was spelling out his party’s priorities vis-a-vis Uttar Pradesh that the youth hurled the egg while raising slogans against the party. The young man, who identified himself as Saif […]