Marginal and highly fragile tribal communities should not be disturbed in the name of development, President Pranab Mukherjee said here Sunday. “The marginal and highly fragile tribal communities should not be disturbed in the name of development, lest they get destroyed as has happened in the past as a result of attempts to assimilate them,” […]
Legendary bhajan singer Juthika Roy, who enthralled the likes of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru with her enchanting voice, is undergoing treatment at a city hospital for age-related ailments. The 92-year-old singer is admitted to the city’s Ramakrishna Mission Seva Pratisthan. “She was admitted earlier in the month with breathing and other problems. Her condition […]
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday called up Sheikh Hasina to congratulate her on being sworn in as the Bangladesh prime minister for the third time. The prime minister also sent her a message of felicitation. Manmohan Singh called her up Sunday evening to convey his good wishes and also “wished her and the people of […]
About six lakh commercial vehicles kept off the roads across Karnataka Sunday in support of about 3,000 sand transporters, agitating since Dec 22 demanding more permits, release of lorries seized by the police and end to harassment of drivers at check-posts. “The response to our three-week-long agitation has been overwhelming as movement of transport vehicles […]
BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Sunday took a potshot at the media, accusing it of being obsessed with the politics in Delhi. Lauding Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar for his “simplicity”, Modi said Parrikar would have been the apple of the eye had he been a part of Delhi’s political scene. “Imagine if Parrikar […]
Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde’s letter directing chief ministers to be cautious while dealing with criminal suspects from the minority community amounted to vote bank politics and an attack on India’s federal structure, BJP leader Narendra Modi said here Sunday. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate and Gujarat chief minister was speaking at a pre-election […]
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has taken two vows — one, that he will never leave the Congress, and the second, that he will never speak when it matters, BJP president Rajnath Singh said here Sunday. Rajnath Singh was speaking at a Bharatiya Janata Party rally on the outskirts of Panaji. Prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi […]
The bitter India-US diplomatic row over an Indian diplomat may have been defused for now, but Americans in New Delhi are not likely to get their swimming pool, hamburgers, bowling and booze back anytime soon. For reciprocity is the name of the game since the US chose to arrest, strip search and slap a criminal […]
US President Barack Obama Sunday welcomed an agreement to start implementing an interim deal on Iran’s nuclear programme from Jan 20, but vowed to veto any legislation imposing new sanctions on the Islamic republic hereafter. “Beginning January 20th, Iran will for the first time start eliminating its stockpile of higher levels of enriched uranium and […]
British government has rejected accusations of “systematic” torture of Iraqis by the British armed forces in Iraq after lawyers and public interest groups made a formal complaint to the International Criminal Court (ICC). “The Government has always been clear, and the armed forces have always been clear, that they absolutely reject allegations of systematic abuse […]