Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai has once again called on the US-led coalition forces to end air strikes on residential areas and urged the US to take necessary steps for ensuring durable peace and security in the country. The president issued a statement in this regard Sunday night in the wake of the reported deaths of […]
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Monday directly attacked BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi by saying that neither can the 2002 Gujarat riots be forgotten nor people behind it be forgiven. He also ruled out his JD-U’s alliance with the Congress for the Lok Sabha polls. “One thing is certain. Neither 2002 Gujarat riots can […]
A benchmark index of Indian equities markets Monday gained 141 points or 0.67 percent as information technology (IT) and bank stocks moved up. The 30-scrip S&P Sensex of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), which opened at 21,083.53 points, closed at 21,205.05 points — up 141.43 points or 0.67 percent from its previous day’s close at […]
An eight-year-old boy died in Kerala after consuming large amount of liquor, said police. According to police, the boy was alone in his home in Kunnikode village and seeing a bottle in his parent’s cupboard, he drank it. “There was no one at home and when the parents returned in the evening yesterday (Sunday), the […]
The Supreme Court of Nepal Monday issued an interim order telling agitating doctors to immediately resume medical services across the country. A single-judge bench of Justice Prakash Wosti ordered the agitating doctors not to halt the medical services in line with the Essential Services Act. The apex court order comes at a time when the […]
The BJP Monday criticized the Delhi government’s protest against Delhi Police, saying activism cannot substitute governance. It also accused the Congress of being “mute spectators to … chaos on the streets”. Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman tweeted that “governance is about making systems work. Activism can’t be substituted for governance”. Hitting out at the […]
DMDK party leader A. Vijayakant Monday announced the sale of application forms for people aspiring to contest the Lok Sabha election in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. He said the forms can be bought from the party headquarters from Jan 23. Each form for a general constituency costs Rs.20,000, and Rs.10,000 for a reserved seat. Vijayakant […]
At least 14 people were killed and 55 wounded in a series of bomb attacks in Iraq’s capital Baghdad Monday, a police source said. Two car bombs went off in Doura district in the southern part of Baghdad Monday afternoon, killing six people and wounding 15 others, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. […]
A senior Communist Party school official in northwest China’s Shaanxi province has been dismissed from his post and expelled from the party over a sex scandal, a local anti-graft agency said Monday. The punishment came after an official investigation into Qin Guogang, vice-president of the party school of the Shaanxi committee of the Communist Party […]
Sitting undeterred under the open winter sky, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Monday said the protest would not hamper the functioning of the Delhi government in any way. Speaking exclusively to IANS, Kejriwal said: “The work and functioning of the Delhi government will not be affected due to this protest.” “We will be functioning the way […]