Uttar Pradesh’s final voters lists ahead of the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls will be published Jan 31, officials said Wednesday. Chief Election Officer Umesh Sinha said the earlier deadline of Jan 10 was being postponed as poll officials were getting the voters lists checked and re-checked to ensure there is no duplication. He said that […]
India has further intensified vigil along its border with Bangladesh in view of the ongoing political turmoil and attacks on religious minorities in the neighbouring country, an official said here Wednesday. “We have asked our troopers to tighten their vigil along the India-Bangladesh border. Additional forces have been deployed in the sensitive border locations adjoining […]
One separatist guerrilla was killed late Tuesday by the army troops when guerrillas fired upon their vehicle on the Jammu-Srinagar highway in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir, authorities said Wednesday. A senior police officer said an army vehicle was fired upon at Bagpora (Awantipora) on Jammu-Srinagar national highway in Pulwama district, 35 km from […]
French is their mother tongue and they have been born and lived for four generations far away from India, but a thirst to know more about the land where their forefathers came from draws them to India regularly. Armoudom Lena, an orthodontist from Reunion Islan, is heading the Indian delegation at the 12th Pravasi Bharatiya […]
The CBI Wednesday lodged new complaints against the two companies over the alleged irregularities in coal blocks allocation, an official here said. The Central Bureau of Investigation has named Castron Technologies Ltd., BLA Industries Pvt. Ltd, the managing director of BLA Industries and some public and private officials in the first information reports (FIRs). The […]
The US has been told that commercial activities being undertaken from inside the American embassy premises in Delhi should be stopped by Jan 16, sources said. Cranking pressure on the US over the handcuffing and strip-search of its diplomat Devyani Khobragade, all US diplomatic vehicles flouting rules will also attract penalties. According to government sources, […]
The use of digital tools in political campaigning and the active participation of youth in politics are enriching India’s democracy, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Wednesday. “Recent developments point to the greater enrichment of our democracy, which is becoming more participative and interactive, with people using both traditional methods and new digital tools to mobilise […]
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday expressed his gratitude to Saudi Arabia for addressing the problems of over a million Indian workers after that country adopted a new labour policy. “…I would like to record my appreciation for the work of the (India’s) ministry of external affairs and the ministry of overseas Indian affairs as also […]
Suspected Hindu activists attacked the AAP office here Wednesday, apparently to protest a statement on Kashmir made by party leader Prashant Bhushan, police and witnesses said. The attackers, their number varying between 25 to 40, barged into the Aam Aadmi Party office at Kaushambi township, stoned it heavily shattering glass windows, broke flower pots and […]
India’s growth level this fiscal will probably remain at 5 percent as in last year, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Wednesday. “In the nine years since 2004, we averaged a healthy growth rate of 7.9 percent,” he said here while addressing the inaugural session of the 12th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, the annual gathering of people […]