Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar Sunday launched a scathing attack on the AAP, saying those who sought to lower the prestige of the country’s Republic Day should be “driven out” by the society. Parrikar, who was addressing an inaugural function of a school here, said: “People who are thinking of degrading India’s Republic Day should […]
jpThe BJP Sunday said it agreed with President Pranab Mukherjee that anarchy cannot replace governance, and termed it significant he touched on the topic in his address to the nation on the eve of Republic Day. “I totally agree with the president. In independent India, people have faith in the system, and people know that […]
Nepal President Ram Baran Yadav Sunday called upon all political parties to form a consensual government before Feb 2 under an elected prime minister, even as the Maoists, the third largest grouping in the newly-elected Constituent Assembly, said they will remain in the opposition but will help others in drafting the constitution. The president’s call […]
Braving a freezing minus 10 degrees Celsius temperature, the Indian community in Poland celebrated India’s 65th Republic Day here with great fervour. India’s Ambassador to Poland Monika Kapil Mohta unfurled the Tricolour and read excerpts from President Pranab Mukherjee’s address to the nation. “Each one of you is also an ambassador of India in Poland […]
At least five children were killed in a bomb blast Sunday in Pakistan’s northwest tribal region, a media report said. The blast targeted a house in Baber Mela of Hangu district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, killing two children on the spot and injuring three others who were playing near the house, Xinhua reported citing local […]
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Sunday expelled rebel legislator Vinod Kumar Binny, who has been criticising the party’s Delhi government. A party statement said the decision was taken by a disciplinary committee set up after Binny went to press with complaints against the Arvind Kejriwal government. “This disciplinary committee has decided to expel Vinod Kumar […]
A group opposing the Kundankulam Nucler Power Project (KNPP) Sunday said it has decided to take its protest to a political platform and will hold talks with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). “Based on the consent of community leaders, it has been decided to hold talks with Aam Aadmi Party,” said the People’s Movement Against […]
The Sri Lankan government Sunday accused some diplomats of interfering in the country’s domestic affairs, Xinhua reported. Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa said that there is a section of the international community that wants to try and force its own agenda on Sri Lanka. The ministry of defence quoted Rajapaksa as saying that major portion of […]
Twelve people were killed and 14 wounded in separate shooting and bombing attacks across Iraq Sunday, police said. In northern Iraq, at least four people were killed and 14 wounded in the afternoon when three car bombs detonated almost simultaneously in separate neighbourhoods in Kirkuk city, some 250 km north of here, a police source […]
Expelled AAP legislator Vinod Kumar Binny will begin a hunger strike here Monday to protest against the Delhi government, who he alleges of not implementing the party’s pre-poll promises. The Aam Aadmi Party’s disciplinary committee Sunday expelled Binny for publicly making false statements against the party and its leadership. Binny will begin his protest at […]