Kolkata, May 11 (IANS) A section of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s family has approached the country’s apex child rights body complaining against Trinamool Congress candidate from West Bengal Jadavpur Lok Sabha constituency Sugata Bose. Sugata, a grand nephew of Netaji, has been accused “subjecting a child to potential risks” by involving him during his poll campaigns. […]
New Delhi, May 11 (IANS) Seized items worth lakhs of rupees were stolen from the Sales Tax Office here, police said Sunday. Police said officials of the Sales Tax Department at I.P. Estate in central Delhi came to know about the theft Saturday morning. A Sales Tax official told police that he entered the office at […]
Dhaka, May 11 (IANS) Exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has been diagnosed with breast tumours at a hospital in New York. Doctors found the tumours “quite big” and advised her biopsy to check on possible malignancy, bdnews24.com reported. The biopsy report is expected to come May 12. Taslima appears very worried because her mother had died […]
Kathmandu, May 11 (IANS) An Indian national, accused of killing an engineer, has been arrested in Nepal, police said Sunday. Dipankar Dutta from Kolkata, the prime suspect in the killing of hydropower engineer Laxmi Kant Mishra in July last year, was arrested by Nepal Police in the bordering town of Birgunj Saturday, police said. Nepal Police […]
It’s indeed as ridiculous and funny as it sounds, but a “yummy mummy” seems to be the in thing in Bollywood, what with Shilpa Shetty, Karisma Kapoor, Malaika Arora Khan, Lara Dutta, Twinkle Khanna and Celina Jaitly flaunting their svelte and flawless post-pregnancy figures with elan.I’d cringe if someone called my mummy “yummy”, and my […]
Speculation about the government appointing the new army chief has been current for some time, the latest hinting that Defence Minister A.K. Antony may do the unthinkable, stretch his neck out and formally anoint Lt.Gen. Dalbir Suhag early next week as polls close. This when the Election Commission is yet to formally give an opinion […]
Ancient Greek playwrights invented this literary device but the Romans gave it the name we know – deus ex machina (God from a machine) to untangle a plot which seems irrevocably stuck by lowering a god on to the stage to resolve it. But what if this service is performed by the devil, but one […]
New Delhi, May 11 (IANS) It was a pleasant Sunday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded at 23.5 degrees Celsius, two notches below the season’s average. The Met Office has forecast light rain in some areas. “The sky will be partly cloudy. Light rain and thunderstorm could occur in some areas,” said […]
Jammu, May 11 (IANS) Pakistani troops Saturday resorted to unprovoked firing at Indian positions along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir, the military said. “Pakistan Army violated the ceasefire in Nangi Tikri battalion area of Krishna Ghati sector of the LoC in Poonch district…the firing started at 10.35 p.m. yesterday (Saturday). They used […]
Nay Pyi Taw, May 11 (IANS) The 24th ASEAN leaders’ meeting started here Sunday, an event that Myanmar President U Thein Sein described as a symbol of “unity and dedication for building a better future for the region and the people”. “It also reflects the importance that we attach to our collective and coordinated endeavours to […]