Kolkota : US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday met West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at the state secretariat here, with FDI in retail, the Teesta water treaty and American investment in the state expected to figure in their talks. Dressed in her customary trouser suit, Clinton reached the Writers’ Buildings – the […]
New Delhi: NDA convenor Sharad Yadav met the BJP leader and Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday in connection with her statement on Monday that the NDA opposed Congress’s Presidential nominees Pranab Mukherjee and Hamid Ansari. Yadav had reacted sharply to her comments saying that she had no right […]
Guwahati: Search operations are still on for at least 100 people who have gone missing after a packed steamer carrying over 300 passengers sank in the Brahmaputra river in Assam on Monday after being caught in a severe storm. Muddy waters, bad weather and strong currents have hampered search for survivors this morning. The Army […]
Ghaziabad : Nupur Talwar, an accused in the murder of her daughter Aarushi Talwar in 2008, has been remanded to 14-day judicial custody after a special CBI court rejected her plea for interim bail on Monday. Nupur has been sent to the Dasna Jail in Ghaziabad, where she will have to spend Monday night in […]
Mumbai: One must congratulate bad boy of 84, Balasaheb Thackeray, for his criticism of congress nominating cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, and actress Rekha, presumably as congress party members, to the 6- year term seats of Rajya Sabha. He condemned Sonia G, and her congress people for not naming Sunil Gavaskar (Mumbai) Kapil Deo (Delhi) or Karnataka’s […]
Bangalore: Nearly two weeks after he was found dead under mysterious circumstances in his hostel in Bangalore, protests are being held in the city and in New Delhi to seek justice for Manipuri student Richard Loitam. The 19-year-old, a second-semester student of the Acharya NRV School of Architecture in Bangalore North, was found dead in […]
New Delhi: Taking a serious view of child marriages in the country, the UPA government has decided to hold a national consultation on the issue with the states. A core group has been constituted by the women and child development ministry to organise the first national consultation this year to prevent child marriages, a ministry […]
Bangalore : Indian Air Force chief Air Chief Marshal N.A.K. Browne on Saturday said religious fundamentalist groups like the Taliban operating in Afghanistan may shift close to the Indian border with Pakistan, at Wagah, if the situation deteriorated after withdrawal of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and the U.S. forces from the region. “In […]
Maharashtra and Karnataka topped the list of cyber crimes registered in 2010 with 246 cases and 176 cases respectively, Communications and IT Minister Kapil Sibal said. “With the increase in the proliferation of Information Technology and related services, there is a rise in number of cyber crimes and cyber security incidents. The trend in increase […]
New Delhi : Eleven years after he was caught on camera allegedly taking bribe from fake arms dealers, a Delhi court on Friday pronounced former BJP President Bangaru Laxman guilty of accepting money for making recommendations to the Defence Ministry regarding contracts for supply of wares to the Army. Laxman was immediately taken into custody […]
