Several Indians living in Australia have condemned the attack last month on an Indian student in that country but described the assault as one of several such stray incidents there. Kushagra Bhatnagar, a financial analyst based at Greenslopes in the Australian state of Queensland and who was here to attend the 12th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas […]
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday ahead of the party’s core group meeting. The meeting lasted for nearly 30 minutes and was followed by the Congress’s core group meet. According to party sources, anti-graft bills were on top of the agenda. Some of the important anti-corruption bills pending with parliament […]
Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh Friday denied that he said there will be no voting on Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Bill, 2013, in the state assembly. He told reporters in the national capital that if he was summoned by the state assembly for alleged breach of privilege, he was ready to appear before the assembly and […]
Singer-model Alesha Dixon has hinted that she might name her next perfume after her three-month-old daughter, Azura Sienna. The 35-year-old, who gave birth to Azura in October, 2013, believes the little one’s name is “mystical”, reports contactmusic.com. “I think Azura would have made a really good name for a perfume. It sounds quite mystical doesn’t […]
British model Daisy Lowe prefers not to wear high heels on usual days because they make her tower over her friends. The 24-year-old loves shopping for footwear, but she has to resist the urge to splurge on high heels because she is naturally tall, reports contactmusic.com. “I can’t resist a good pair of heels, but […]
Infosys reported net profit of Rs.2,875 crore for third quarter (Oct-Dec) of this fiscal (2013-14), posting 21.4 percent year-on-year (YoY) growth. In a regulatory filing to stock exchanges Friday, the IT bellwether said consolidated revenue for the quarter under review (Q3), increased 25 percent YoY to Rs.13,026 crore as per the Indian accounting standard. Under […]
Claiming that Delhi Police created a case against his clients to prove a statement by Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi as correct, the defence counsel of two Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) suspects Thursday sent a letter to the home minister, asking for the transfer of the case to the NIA. Md. Shahid and Md. Rashid were arrested […]
Power distribution companies in the capital will be penalised if their reasons for unscheduled power cuts are found unsatisfactory, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said Thursday. He said this in reply to a letter sent by Delhi Congress chief Arvinder Singh Lovely, who warned the chief minister of agitation if long-hour power cuts continue in various […]
South Korean President Park Geun-hye, the country’s first woman president, is paying a state visit to India Jan 15-18. President Park, who is coming to India on the invitation of President Pranab Mukherjee, will hold delegation level talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and discuss bilateral, regional and global issues, a statement said. The visit […]
The government Thursday approved a proposal to increase the number of MBBS seats in the country by 10,000 by upgrading existing state and central government medical colleges. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the health ministry’s proposal related to the centrally-sponsored scheme for upgradation of existing state government/central government medical colleges to increase the […]