A parliamentary panel Thursday recommended that a bill to amend the Prevention of Corruption Act be passed in the current parliament session itself — taking the total number of anti-corruption legislations listed for passage to seven. The Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) bill has amongst its provisions bringing the corporate sector under the Act, but with […]
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will Saturday visit Gujarat and tour the historic Bardoli region where a ‘satyagraha’ by farmers was led by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in 1928, party leaders said Thursday. Gandhi will also visit the historic Swaraj Ashram dedicated to the Bardoli Satyagraha and is a major tourist attraction. Later in the afternoon, […]
Senior separatist leaders Shabir Ahmad Shah, Muhammad Nayeem Khan and Mushtaq-ul-Islam were arrested here Friday after organising a seminar in remembrance of JKLF founder Muhammad Maqbool Bhat and parliament attack convict Afzal Guru in a hotel here, police said, As these separatist leaders came out of the hotel in city centre Lal Chowk after the […]
Hong Kong police Thursday evacuated residents from an area where a suspected World War II bomb was found by construction workers while digging an underground hotel structure. Police told Xinhua that they believe the bomb was dropped by the US armed forces when they were bombing Japanese military facilities during World War II. Police said […]
The Delhi High Court Thursday dismissed a plea seeking to bar a person who is in jail or in police custody from contesting elections, saying it would leave the door open for practice of “vendetta politics”. Giving relief to jailed legislators and parliamentarians, a division bench of Chief Justice N.V. Ramana and Justice Manmohan said […]
Parveen Amanullah, Bihar’s first woman Muslim minister who quit the cabinet two days ago, Thursday joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), saying she wanted the AAP to govern Bihar. Amanullah, who was the social welfare minister in Nitish Kumar’s cabinet, resigned from the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) and the government Tuesday. She formally quit the Bihar […]
Pakistan wants a complete halt to US drone attacks instead of a decrease in the frequency of attacks, the foreign office said Thursday. Foreign office spokesperson Tasnim Aslam said at a press briefing here that Pakistan’s stance on drone strikes was lucid, adding the strikes were unacceptable as these killed innocent people in violation of […]
India is to set up a rural technology park in the West African nation of Côte d’Ivoire, in addition to an information and communication technology park that has been inaugurated in the former French colony. This was stated by Indian Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur during her visit to Côte d’Ivoire last […]
Peace talks between the Pakistan government and the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) formally kicked off Thursday with the first phase being held at a secret location. The government negotiators include Irfan Siddiqui, adviser to the prime minister and coordinator of the committee, Rustam Shah Mohmand, a former diplomat, Rahimullah Yousufzai, senior journalist and Amir Khan, a […]
India’s economic growth is likely to accelerate 5.6 percent in 2014-15 from the projected growth of less than five percent in the current fiscal ending March, according to economic think-tank NCAER. For the current financial year the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth is expected to remain in the range of 4.7 to 4.9 percent, […]