Cricketers Kapil Dev and Bishan Singh Bedi have pledged to donate their organs at USICON 2014, an event organised at the Airport Authority of India officers club here Friday. The event was organised by the Delhi Urological Society to create awareness about organ donation. Their slogan “Har jan ko amar banana hai” (every life should […]
Top Indian singles player Somdev Devvarman put India 2-0 up by winning his Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Group I tie against Chinese Taipei’s Ti Chen here Saturday. Devvarman’s match resumed this morning after being suspended due to bad light Friday at 6-7(4), 7-6(3), 1-6, 6-2, 7-7. The Indian took only a few minutes to finish off […]
Germany’s two-time Olympic gold medal winning hockey star Moritz Feurtse feels Indians have the skills to adapt to the European passing style of play instead of the hit-and-run Australian method. Moritz, who is here captaining holders Ranchi Rhinos in the Hockey India League (HIL), has a simple logic to his advice to the Indians: The […]
The Supreme Court Friday declined to entertain a plea by private, unaided schools of Delhi seeking putting on hold the Dec 18, 2013 nursery admission guidelines issued by Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung, and asked the schools’ associations to go back to the high court. The Forum For Promotion of Quality Education for All (FPQEA) and […]
Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, Congress’ Digvijaya Singh and former union ministers Kumari Selja and Murli Deora were among 37 candidates elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha Friday after the deadline for withdrawing nominations in the biennial elections to the upper house ended. Polling will be held Feb 7, as scheduled, for the remaining 18 seats […]
Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde Friday said there was no hurdle in formation of separate Telangana state. A day after the Andhra Pradesh assembly passed a resolution rejecting the state reorganization bill, he told reporters in the national capital that the bill will be passed during the parliament session, beginning Feb 5. “The bill will […]
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Friday stirred a fresh controversy by naming over 20 top politicians including Rahul Gandhi, Nitin Gadkari, Mayawati and Sharad Pawar as “corrupt”. Hitting back, Congress questioned his commitment to a legal process while the BJP asked him to furnish proof or apologise. Union minister Farooq Abdullah, who was also among […]
Condemning the six-eight percent power tariff hike, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Friday said the power companies should have waited for the CAG audit reports of the firms. People in Delhi will have to shell out more money for electricity consumed from Saturday as the power companies have increased power tariff. “The government is of […]
The Supreme Court Friday said that a judge should only act within the legal parameters, established judicial process and decorum and shun passions and subjectivities as his only master is “duty to truth”. “Thus, a judge should abandon his passion. He must constantly remind himself that he has a singular master ‘duty to truth’ and […]
blasAhead of hearing of the case in India’s apex court, Italy has blasted India’s handling of the case of the two Italian marines as “contradictory and disconcerting”. Italy has also said that it will work among its international partners to raise awareness of the plight of the marines who are facing trial in India for […]