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 […]
A forum of men’s rights organisations Saturday urged all political parties to include in their manifestos the formation of a “men’s ministry” and a “men’s rights” panel to address issues concerning Indian males. The National Coalition for Men (NCM) – a forum of 50 organisations fighting for male rights across the country – launched its […]
Lucknow, Jan 11 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 […]
The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has asked the union environment ministry to immediately probe why pollution levels in the Ganga continue to rise despite thousands of crores of rupees being spent on cleaning the revered river. The move came after B.D. Tripathi, an environmental scientist in Varanasi, wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh drawing his […]
The alumni meet of the Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur (IIT-K) beginning Jan 17 may be attended by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who graduated in mechanical engineering from the institute in 1989, the alumni cell said Saturday. “This year, the 1989 batch will be celebrating its silver jubilee. We have sent a formal invitation. We […]
A policy of broader cooperation, coupled with loose coordination, to cobble up an alliance of non-Congress secular parties ahead of the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls is what the Left hopes for, CPI-M general secretary Prakash Karat said here Saturday. Karat spelt out the strategy of his Communist Party of India-Marxist, as well as of the […]