The West Bengal Commission for Women Thursday ordered a probe into the gang rape of a tribal woman allegedly at the behest of a kangaroo court. Taking suo motu cognizance of the horrific incident ghat has raised the heckles across the state, it demanded harshest punishment for the perpetrators. The 20-year-old woman was allegedly raped […]
Arogyaswami Joseph Paulraj, a 69-year-old India-born professor at Stanford University, has won the prestigious Marconi Prize 2014 for his pioneering work on developing wireless technology to transmit and receive data at high speeds. “Paulraj’s contributions to wireless technology and the resulting benefit to humankind are indisputable. Every WiFi (wireless fidelity) router and 4G phone uses […]
The Indian Coast Guard Wednesday launched an awareness campaign to sensitise the fishing community in West Bengal and Odisha to integrate them into the coastal security mechanism. Aiming to use the community as additional “eyes and ears” for vigil across the coast line, West Bengal Governor M.K. Narayanan flagged off a coastal security awareness and […]
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Kumar Vishwas Wednesday apologised for his comments on nurses while over 100 people staged a protest outside the party office in the national capital. He also earned the ire of the the National Commission for Women (NCW), which also asked for an apology. Vishwas tendered an apology, saying it was […]
Some 80 million people in northeast America were Wednesday digging their way out of a thick blanket of snow deposited by the heaviest snowfall of the season, with more than a foot falling in some places. Government offices in Washington were opening two hours late, but schools in most parts were closed, roads shut down […]
A narcotics consignment seized in Jammu and Kashmir from a truck coming from Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-administered Kashmir Jan 17 was brown sugar, forensic scientists confirmed Wednesday. After the seizure of 114 packets concealed under almonds, police arrested the truck driver and launched an investigation. “Samples of the seized contraband items were sent to the forensic […]
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid and US Secretary of State John Kerry held bilateral talks Wednesday on the sidelines of the Geneva-II talks – meeting for the first time after the India-US spat over the handcuffing and strip-search of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade. During their meeting in Montreux, both sides discussed the Khobragade issue and […]
India is ready to forge ahead in boosting trade ties with Pakistan, but it has to be done in an environment free from terror and violence, Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh said here Wednesday. In her valedictory address at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) 2nd Annual Conference, the foreign secretary also […]
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal developed acute bronchitis and fever leading to congestion in his lungs during his over 30-hour sit-in under the open sky in the national capital that ended Tuesday night. He underwent treatment at a hospital here Wednesday and has been advised bed rest, doctors said. Kejriwal’s developed bronchitis while staying out […]
A Ugandan woman who along with four other women from Africa was allegedly rounded up by Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharti and AAP cadres during a midnight raid last week has identified him after seeing video footage from news channels and newspaper clippings, police said Wednesday. Women’s groups have demanded action against Bharti for his […]