Two children were burnt to death here late Friday when their hut caught fire, police said Saturday. The incident took place near the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences where a group of snake charmers lived in hutments. An official told IANS the huts caught fire late Friday when everyone was fast asleep. […]
Malala Yousafzai, the teenaged Pakistani education activist attacked by the Taliban, is among the three candidates nominated for this year’s World Children’s Prize, also known as the Children’s Nobel. Yousafzai has been nominated “for her courageous and dangerous fight for girls’ right to education”, according to the the website of the foundation that presents the […]
A day after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that the AAP government had been told by lawyers that the Jan Lokpal bill didn’t need the central government’s nod, one of the lawyers involved in the matter Saturday said that he was not consulted about the bill. “I was not consulted on the question of […]
Cleric of Islamabad’s Lal Masjid and member of the Pakistani Taliban-nominated peace talks committee, Maulana Abdul Aziz is expected to continue his role in the peace process after he threatened to walk out Friday if he was not assured that Sharia or Islamic law will be enforced in Pakistan, media reported Saturday. Maulana Yousuf Shah, […]
Canadian Industry Minister James Moore has unveiled a new plan to develop the country’s space industry in a bid to safeguard Canada’s “sovereignty, security and prosperity”. Moore said Friday that Canada’s Space Policy Framework will serve as a guideline for the country’s strategic space activities and ensure the commercial competitiveness of its space industry in […]
The third day’s scoreboard of the first Test between India and New Zealand at Eden Park here Saturday: New Zealand first innings: 503 India first innings: Shikhar Dhawan c Williamson b Boult 0 Murali Vijay b Wagner 26 Cheteshwar Pujara c Watling b Boult 1 Virat Kohli c Fulton b Southee 4 Rohit Sharma b […]
The first of 2,500 Syrians trapped by war in Syria’s old city of Homs without aid for nearly two years have been evacuated under a three-day accord allowing people out and aid in, the UN said. In a statement Friday, the UN called for immediate access to nearly 1.6 million others throughout the country who […]
A senior Obama administration official has expressed confidence that despite recent setbacks India-US strategic partnership will continue to grow whatever the outcome of India’s upcoming national elections. “For almost two decades, in both India and the United States, Presidents and Prime Ministers and political parties have come together and worked to overcome old schisms,” US […]
The “lack of governance” in Delhi led to the death of a student from Arunachal Pradesh in the national capital, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi said here Saturday. “The lack of governance in Delhi has led to Nido Tania’s death in the national capital. I condemn the Nido Tania incident in […]
Samsung’s next flagship smartphone will indeed be dubbed Galaxy S5, and will be launched at the MWC event the company has scheduled, reveals a new report, which also makes some other claims that contradict previous rumours about the phone’s specifications. Eric Pfanner of the New York Times in a report has shed some plans of […]