New Delhi: Cautioning people against forces weakening the country’s secular ethos, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday said communal harmony should not be disturbed over small, local incidents which should be dealt with sternly without any bias. She also expressed hope that the Communal Violence Bill would soon be tabled in Parliament, saying it is […]
New Delhi: The post mortem report of Sunanda Pushkar is expected to come today as the doctors at All India Institute of Medical sciences (AIIMS) ruled out the presence of alcohol in her body, reports said. However, the doctors haven’t ruled out detection of anti-depressant drug Alprazolam, an overdose of which might have led to […]
New Delhi: Two days after she took to Twitter to reveal that her marriage with Union Minister Shashi Tharoor was falling apart due to his suspected fling with a Pakistani journalist, Sunanda Pushkar was found dead at a luxury hotel in South Delhi on Friday night. Sunanda was found dead in a third floor suite […]
Mumbai:The Sena, which had earlier demanded that India retaliate strongly to the affront of her arrest, lashed out at Uttam Khobragade, saying he “erred” by bringing up the issue of caste, when asked about his daughter’s flat. “It is his mental bankruptcy,” an editorial in the party mouthpiece ‘Saamana’ said. At a recent press conference […]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday declined to entertain a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking direction to the government to regulate the prices of onions and other vegetables. ‘Stop eating onions, prices will come down,” said the apex court bench headed by Justice B.S. Chauhan. The court told the PIL petitioner that it should not […]
New Delhi: As the raising of two new infantry divisions at Lekhapani and Missamari (Assam) in 2009-2010 have added muscle to the dissuasive posture of India against China, India has now finally raised its new 17th Mountain Strike Corps against the much larger People’s Liberation Army at its temporary headquarters at Ranchi last week. Army […]
Kaushambi: In protest to AAP leader Prashant Bhushan’s statement on Kashmir, a group of people belonging to ‘Hindu Raksha Dal’ attacked the Kaushambi office of AAP this morning. The attackers, numbering around 40, barged into the Aam Aadmi Party office, stoned it heavily shattering windows, broke flower pots and abused AAP leaders, according to Dilip […]
New Delhi: Priyanka Gandhi on Tuesday joined her brother Rahul Gandhi during a meeting he was having with senior party leaders, sending a buzz in political circles. Senior leaders Ahmed Patel and Janardan Dwivedi, along with half a dozen other general secretaries, were holding a meeting with Rahul, the party vice-president at his residence here […]
Panaji : The rescue teams on Sunday continued to rummage through the debris of an under-construction five-storeyed building, which collapsed on Saturday afternoon at Canacona, 80 km from here, killing 14 onsite labourers. Police said a portion of the building, Ruby Residency, located in the Chawdi ward of Canacona, collapsed burying labourers working at the […]
New Delhi : Petrol and diesel prices will go up by 75 paise and 50 paise a litre, excluding taxes, state-run oil marketing company Indian Oil Corporation said. The prices were last hiked on December 21 following the government’s decision to raise commission paid to petrol pump dealers and firming global oil rates. Petrol will […]
