The chairman of the Interim Election Council of Nepal, Khil Raj Regmi, Saturday evening summoned the first meeting of the Constituent Assembly Jan 22, ending a month-long row over who would call the meeting. The government decided to call the meeting 56 days after elections to the Constituent Assembly were held Nov 19. Nepal’s Constituent […]
A press conference of AAP leader Kumar Vishwas here was disrupted Saturday when a young man threw an egg at him. It was when the poet-turned-politician was spelling out his party’s priorities vis-a-vis Uttar Pradesh that the youth hurled the egg while raising slogans against the party. The young man, who identified himself as Saif […]
Raushan Ershad, a senior member of the Jatiya Party and wife of former Bangladesh president H.M. Ershad, was Saturday declared the leader of the opposition in the country’s 10th parliament. A gazette naming her as the leader of the opposition was published by the parliament secretariat, Bhim Charan Roy, additional secretary of the secretariat, told […]
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands can become a “spring board” for India’s engagement with Southeast Asia and the Pacific region and be developed as a trading and tourist hub, President Pranab Mukherjee said here Saturday. Mukherjee also said his visit to the islands was an opportunity to pay homage to the freedom fighters who underwent […]
Hitting out at Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde’s advisory for releasing “minority youth” detained wrongfully, BJP leader Arun Jaitley Saturday said the move was “unconstitutional”. Referring to the home minister’s letter to chief ministers to review cases of terrorism against “members of minority communities,” Jaitley said: “Obviously, he has only religious minority and not linguistic minority […]
A forum of men’s rights organisations Saturday urged all political parties to include in their manifestos the formation of a “men’s ministry” and a “men’s rights” panel to address issues concerning Indian males. The National Coalition for Men (NCM) – a forum of 50 organisations fighting for male rights across the country – launched its […]
Lucknow, Jan 11 A press conference of AAP leader Kumar Vishwas here was disrupted Saturday when a young man threw an egg at him. It was when the poet-turned-politician was spelling out his party’s priorities vis-a-vis Uttar Pradesh that the youth hurled the egg while raising slogans against the party. The young man, who identified […]
Sydney – The competition to be named People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India’s Hottest Vegetarian Celebrity of 2013 was fierce. Early leaders Jacqueline Fernandez and Shahid Kapoor as well as Amitabh Bachchan, R Madhavan, Kareena Kapoor and Vidya Balan put up a real fight. But now, after thousands of votes were cast […]
The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has asked the union environment ministry to immediately probe why pollution levels in the Ganga continue to rise despite thousands of crores of rupees being spent on cleaning the revered river. The move came after B.D. Tripathi, an environmental scientist in Varanasi, wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh drawing his […]
Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde Saturday expressed a wish to see his political mentor Sharad Pawar of the NCP as the prime minister of India. “I would be happy if Sharad Pawar became the PM. He is my political guru and I entered politics because of him,” Shinde, a policeman-turned-politician and former Maharashtra chief minister, […]