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 […]
A 25-year-old Indian woman in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) tried to commit suicide by consuming Dettol last month, a court heard. The woman, a dancer identified by the initials of her name RP, however, was not present in the Dubai Court of Misdemeanours Monday to answer the charges that she tried to commit suicide […]
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 […]
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) members Tuesday protested outside BJP leader Arun Jaitley’s house following which BJP workers held a counter protest against the party. While the supporters of the Aam Aadmi Party accused Jaitley of trying to topple the AAP government in Delhi, Jaitley said the AAP does not know about governance and was more […]
BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee will address rallies in Tripura this month to launch their parties’ campaign for the Lok Sabha polls in the northeast, party leaders said Sunday. “Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi would address an election rally in Agartala Feb 22 to kick off his campaign […]
Visually-impaired students turned navigators Sunday for a car rally here to create awareness among people that the blind can also use their skills despite their disability. The drivers were completely unaware of the 50-km route and were dependent on their visually-impaired navigators to help them with directions on the Braille road map. Over 50 cars […]
Nepal is inching towards a majority-based government after the Nepali Congress (NC) failed to garner enough support from other political parties to form a consensus-based government Sunday. A last ditch effort to form a consensus-based government with support of all 29 political parties in the house ended Sunday after the Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist […]
Expressing disillusion with the Aam Aadmi Party’s functioning of late, founder member Madhu Bhaduri has dissociated herself from the political outfit. “I have removed myself from the party. The party does not treat women as human beings,” Bhaduri, a former ambassador to Portugal, told IANS. She was indirectly referring to the midnight incident in south […]