New Delhi: Noted entrepreneur and Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani on Thursday quit as the chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), leaving a question mark on the Centre’s biggest exercise to issue single identity card to every Indian national. It is not yet clear as to you will succeed him in the UIDAI. […]
KualaLumpur: Authorities today said a missing Malaysian plane with 239 people aboard may have changed course before losing contact, as multinational search operations were widened to hundreds of kilometres from the original radius to cover the Andaman Sea. “The RMAF does not rule out the possibility that the aircraft made turn-back before it disappeared from […]
New Delhi : Elections for the 16th Lok Sabha will be held from April 7 to May 12 spread over nine days in the highest number of polling days so far involving an electorate of 81.4 crore, the Election Commission announced on Wednesday. Counting of votes in all the 543 Lok Sabha constituencies will be […]
Srinagar: In a serious incident of fratricide, an Army jawan early on Thursday morning shot dead five of his colleagues in an army camp in Ganderbal district. The jawan then turned the gun on himself and shot himself dead, said an Army spokesman. Senior army officials have rushed to the scene of crime. The soldier […]
New Delhi : A day after Congress vice-president slammed the Tamil Nadu government’s decision to release all seven convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, the Supreme Court stayed the release of the convicts on Thursday. The apex court was hearing a review petition filed swiftly by the Central government in the morning. Attorney General […]
Tumkur: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, who launched the party’s Lok Sabha poll campaign in South India on a two-day visit to Karnataka, on Sunday addressed his first all-women rally in Tumkur a day after he addressed a rally in Belgaum where he attacked the main opposition BJP for rampant corruption and looting the state. […]
New Delhi : The Lieutenant Governor has reportedly recommended that president’s rule be imposed in the state and has asked that the Assembly be placed in suspended animation, This would mean that the BJP may still be offered the chance to form the government but it is unlikely to happen and it now remains to […]
Bardoli: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday launched a blistering attack on Narendra Modi, slamming him for his roots in RSS “whose ideology killed Mahatma Gandhi” and debunking his claims of development in Gujarat. Congress’s chief campaigner for Lok Sabha elections also accused Modi, BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate, of “empowering himself” and his disregard for […]
New Delhi : The Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) has urged Delhi Police to invoke the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 against the murderers of Nido Taniam, a student from Arunachal Pradesh, who was murdered at Lajpat Nagar market in New Delhi on Wednesday. A fight erupted between students […]
New Delhi: The Congress high command has finally decided to ask Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna to step down. According to sources Bahuguna has already sent his resignation to the party high command. The sources also reveal that the party has taken the decision after it received not very encouraging feedback on Bahuguna’s performance as […]
