The private sector should be given a free hand in the education sector, BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi said Sunday. He also said that the government should set up the Indian Institute of Technology, the Indian Institute of Management and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in all states. Speaking at the 9th […]
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Sunday said the central government had been sending adequate funds to Odisha but they were not reaching the people. Addressing a public meet at Bhatapada village near Cuttack, Gandhi said: “The money we send is being stolen.” “Your money is not reaching you. It’s getting lost in between,” he said. […]
Three Left Front legislators in the West Bengal assembly joined Trinamool Congress Saturday, a day after voting for the ruling party in the Rajya Sabha polls. Ananta Deb Adhikary and Dasarath Tirkey of the Revolutionary Socialist Party and Sunil Mondal of the Forward Bloc formally pitched their lot with the Trinamool in the presence of […]
A 14-year-old girl from Manipur was forcibly grabbed by her landlord’s son, taken to a vacant room and brutally raped here, triggering protests. The rape of the teenaged Manipuri girl took place in south Delhi, which also last week witnessed an altercation over the appearance of a student from Arunachal Pradesh. Nido Tania was beaten […]
An American woman has remarried her husband after she lost all the memories of her first wedding, a media report said Saturday. Amanda Karth, 27, from Florida had tied the knot with Cody Karth 10 months ago but on her wedding nightsuffered a rare heart phenomenon called Broken Heat Syndrome, in which the heart became […]
Actress Scarlett Johansson doesn’t endorse social media or digital platforms because she wants to protect her “personal life”. Johansson has given her voice to the operating system named Samantha in the Oscar-nominated film “Her”. “All of it drives me crazy. I don’t understand this need to ‘share’. We almost exploit ourselves in order to feel […]
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Saturday said that BJP is a ‘bimar’ (ill) party with a communal mindset, the harshest criticism by the chief minister so far of his former ally. “BJP is an ill (bimar) party and its thought is rotten (soch sadi hain),” said Nitish Kumar, targeting the Bharatiya Janata Party for creating […]
The Congress Saturday accused the BJP-led government in Goa of working as a “waiter” and charged it with helping the builders of a sub-standard building which collapsed last month killing 31 people. The comments from Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) president John Fernandes came a day after a district court came down heavily on the […]
A court here Saturday issued an arrest warrant against former Jammu and Kashmir minister Shabir Ahmad Khan, accused in a sexual assault case. Doctors too demanded his arrest. A senior police official said: “We have obtained an arrest warrant from the chief judicial magistrate Srinagar against Shabir Ahmad Khan…”. Khan Friday resigned from the ministry. […]
President Pranab Mukherjee Saturday called for increased investments in higher education to enable India recover lost ground and become a world leader in education once again as it was for thousands of years. Pointing out that investments in education earn the highest returns, the president stressed the need to make it affordable as well as […]