“It is people’s victory!” Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal declared Tuesday as he called off an unprecedented street protest demanding action against allegedly errant policemen. After Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung announced that he was sending on leave two of the five policemen against whom Kejriwal wanted action, the chief minister said: “People of Delhi have […]
Back in Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow after cutting short a 13-day five-nation “study tour”, leader of the 19-member contingent Mohd. Azam Khan Tuesday lashed out at the media for the negative coverage it gave to their trip. Addressing reporters, the urban development minister alleged a media house had launched a witch hunt against them after […]
An Indian soldier was Tuesday injured on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district when he accidentally stepped on unexploded explosive material, a defence spokesman said. “Naik Khubi Ram accidentally stepped on an unexploded explosive in the Krishna Ghati sector of the LoC while on patrol duty in the area. He […]
Describing Sarat Chandra Bose, elder brother of the legendary Subhas Chandra Bose, as a true national hero, international historian Leonard A. Gordon Tuesday said contemporary India needs to revisit his ideals of separation of religion from politics. “Overshadowed by his own younger brother (Subhas) and neglected by history, Sarat was a true national hero who […]
The Bihar cabinet Tuesday formally approved a proposal for a government job for the father of a 16-year-old girl who was gang-raped and set ablaze in West Bengal, as also rehabilitation of her family in the state, officials said. “The state government has decided to provide a job to her father and to rehabilitate the […]
India Tuesday evening summoned the acting high commissioner of Pakistan over the stoppage of cross-border trade and bus services by Pakistan in the wake of the arrest of a Pakistani truck driver for alleged drug trafficking. Mansoor Ahmad was summoned Tuesday evening to the Ministry of External Affairs in connection with the recent stoppage of […]
Delhi’s activist-turned-Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal called off a dramatic 33-hour street protest Tuesday evening after Lt Governor Najeeb Jung intervened to defuse a major crisis for the central government ahead of Republic Day, acting partially on the AAP’s demand for action against five policemen. “It is people’s victory,” Kejriwal declared and said he and his […]
The Delhi High Court Wednesday will hear an PIL against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal alleging he had “suppressed the actual figures of property owned by him”. The PIL filed by NGO Maulik Bharat Trust said that in an affidavit filed before the Election Commission (EC), Kejriwal had not disclosed the actual amount of his […]
Asking what has happened to the media, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Tuesday accused a section of it of promoting the BJP and the Congress. “What has happened to the media? I am not saying that all media people are bad. But there are some who are promoting the politics of BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) […]
The Congress Tuesday expanded its panel of spokespersons to strengthen the party’s media reach ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. Union ministers P. Chidambaram and Salman Khurshid were named senior spokespersons while minister Shashi Tharoor was appointed spokesperson. The names were cleared by both party president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi. The party […]