Calling himself a thorough optimist, Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Sunday said the word “disappointment” is not in his dictionary. He was speaking as the chief guest at the foundation day celebrations of yoga guru Ramdev’s Bharat Swabhiman Trust in New Delhi’s Talkatora Stadium. “The word disappointment is not there in my […]
The national capital experienced the season’s worst fog Sunday evening with the maximum temperature settling one notch below average at 19.3 degrees Celsius. Similar weather is expected Monday, the Met office said. A met department official said: “Delhi experienced season’s worst fog Sunday evening after 8.30 p.m. The maximum visibility at Safdarjung was 600 metres […]
The BJP Sunday stressed the need for rationalisation of taxation in India and promised reforms in this sector when it comes to power. “People here live and die under the burden of taxes,” Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) leader Arun Jaitley said at a programme organised by yoga guru Baba Ramdev’s Bharat Swabhiman Trust. “When we […]
Two Indian women, who were injured in a road accident that claimed three lives, are still battling for life in a hospital in Oman. Three people were killed and six others were injured in the tragic accident Thursday near Samad Al Shams in Ibra, the second largest city in the Ash Sharqiyah region of Oman […]
The state power monopoly in Nepal has extended load-shedding hours from the earlier nine hours a day to 12 hours beginning Sunday. The Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA), that had increased power cuts to nine hours a day in mid-December, announced last Friday further extension to 12 hours a day for domestic consumers. It is not […]
Voters preferred to stay indoors amid violence that left five people dead in the Bangladesh parliamentary elections Sunday. Polling was suspended at 136 centres due to attacks by anti-poll protestors, the Daily Star reported. Thin attendance was recorded at polling centres in Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet, Rajshahi, Munsiganj, Kushtia and Jessore. An election official and four […]
Forget McDonald’s or your neighbourhood fast food joint. For best French fries, plan a trip for a drive-thru on the largest planet in our solar system! Sounds fancy but for future space travellers, scientists have answered where in the solar system can they find the best French fries – on Jupiter. Scientists reached a European […]
China has investigated as many as 36,907 officials suspected of corruption from January to November in 2013, a report said Sunday. The officials were allegedly involved in 27,236 cases, 21,848 of these being major and important, reported Xinhua citing a statement from the Supreme People’s Procuratorate. Major and important cases accounted for 80.2 percent of […]
A gun battle between security forces and Taliban in Afghanistan’s Ghazni province left 15 militants including a key commander dead Sunday, a local official said. “A group of armed Taliban rebels raided a police checkpoint in Jangul area of Abband district late Saturday night triggering a fierce gun battle which lasted until Sunday morning during […]
After Secretary of State John Kerry and Ambassador Nancy Powell, it was the turn of a celebrated school choir from the US to express regret at the ugly turn of events that led to the humiliation of an Indian diplomat, an incident that caused a major downturn in Indo-US ties at the end of last […]