Cairo, Dec 2 (IANS) Security forces broke into Al-Azhar Girls University in Nasr City, eastern Cairo following a protest rally staged by alleged Muslim Brotherhood-linked students. A group of students Tuesday staged an on-campus protest against former president Hosni Mubarak’s acquittal verdict and raised anti-police slogans, state-run MENA news agency reported citing a security source. […]
Chennai, Dec 2 (IANS) Banking transactions were hit in the five southern states and the union territories of Puducherry and Lakshadweep Tuesday with around 150,000 bank staff striking work demanding early conclusion of wage revision, said a union leader. “Around 150,000 employees struck work across the five southern states and Puducherry Tuesday demanding early wage […]
Kochi, Dec 2 (IANS) The Kochi-Muziris Biennale in Kerala has become a major topic for this year’s prestigious Chevening Clore Leadership Programme for professionals in the art world. Kochi will host the works of nearly 95 artists from about 30 countries at the second edition of the 108-day Biennale which will begin Dec 12. Students […]
New Delhi, Dec 2 (IANS) An organ donated is better than an organ consigned to flames or buried after death, Delhi Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung said Tuesday while making a public appeal for a generous organ donation. Jung was speaking at the inauguration of one-day organ transplant conference in the capital where he launched e-reporting […]
New Delhi, Dec 2 (IANS) The Aam Admi Party (AAP) would file a criminal case against the BJP for levelling baseless allegations against its source of funding, party chief Arvind Kejriwal said Tuesday “Media has widely covered arbitrary and baseless allegations by BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) against our funding. We are filing criminal defamation against […]
Guwahati, Dec 2 (IANS) A major students’ organisation in Assam Tuesday launched a state-wide protest opposing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement to go ahead with the land swap deal with Bangladesh. Addressing a rally of Bharatiya Janata Party workers here recently, Modi sought the consent of the people of Assam for the land swap deal, […]
New Delhi, Dec 2 (IANS) The government’s Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) for corporate frauds has probed 17 companies till date during the current fiscal, Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Arun Jaitley said Tuesday. The SFIO investigated 20 companies in 2011-12 and 22 firms each in 2012-13 and 2013-14 for alleged corporate frauds, Jaitley told […]
Attorney General Brad Hazzard and Minister for Police and Emergency Services Stuart Ayres today welcomed a new report that shows a major decline in youth crime rates over the last decade. Figures released by the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) today reveal the number of teenagers and young adults arrested for robbery, […]
Moscow, Dec 1 (IANS/TASS) Russians increasingly feel that the world is heading back to the dreaded Cold War period, the results of a public opinion poll suggested Monday. Three out of 10 Russians have said that a cold war between Russia and the West might lie ahead, according to the poll results. A quarter of […]
New Delhi, Dec 1 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi Monday expressed shock and deep anguish at the gruesome killing of CRPF personnel in a Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh and demanded that the government look at all aspects of the incident. She extended her condolences to the family of the “martyrs” and hoped that the injured […]