The deputy mayor of a Bihar town was held with two call girls from a hotel room here, the police said Tuesday. Gaya Deputy Mayor Mohan Srivastava was arrested late Monday night from a posh hotel room here during a police raid. “Srivastava was caught along with two call girls in a hotel room,” a […]
The Aam Aadmi Party’s(AAP) promise to sweep away corruption from the Indian political system is a “difficult” goal to achieve, says a visiting American political scientist. Fighting corruption needs stronger legislative tools, and just by forming a government AAP is not likely to reduce corruption, said he. John Echeverri-Gent, associate professor at University of Virginia, […]
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will contest all the 80 Lok Sabha seats from Uttar Pradesh, party spokesman Sanjay Singh said. Sanjay Singh, a close associate of AAP leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, said the party was pushing for clean and honest politics and hoped that issues like casteism and communalism will be […]
More than 1,800 flights were cancelled Monday as frigid weather caused a number of problems at both Chicago O’Hare International Airport and Midway International Airport, including the freezing of equipment used to fuel the planes. Southwest Airlines suspended operations at Midway until later Monday afternoon because of the refueling problems, but other major airlines including […]
The Syrian troops Monday killed 27 rebels in the northwestern province of Idlib, as part of a series of “precise” operations by the army against rebel positions in Idlib and Aleppo provinces, media reported. Arab fighters, including Qatari, Saudi, and Tunisians, were among those killed in the town of Binnish in Idlib, Xinhua quoted the […]
At least 11 people were killed, including six Al Qaeda militants, and 15 wounded in violent attacks across Iraq Monday, police said. In Iraq’s western province of Anbar, a police force-backed Sunni tribesmen clashed with Al Qaeda militants near the provincial capital city of Ramadi, some 110 km from here, killing six militants, a provincial […]
India Tuesday successfully test-fired its nuclear-capable surface-to-surface Prithvi-II missile from a military base in Odisha, a senior defence official said. The indigenously-developed ballistic missile with a maximum range of 350 km was fired from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur-on-sea in Balasore district, about 230 km from Bhubaneswar. “The test was carried out by the […]
Rs.100 crore seems like a forgotten figure! “Dhoom:3”, the latest instalment of Bollywood’s successful action adventure franchise, has grossed Rs.501.35 crore ($83.56 million) worldwide since its release Dec 20 last year. On Monday, its production banner, Yash Raj Films (YRF), issued a statement confirming the news. “‘Dhoom:3’ continues to create history at both the Indian […]
Indian tennis player Sania Mirza’s start to the 2014 campaign came to a crashing end when she lost her women’s doubles first round clash pairing with Zimbabwean Cara Black at the Apia International Sydney here Monday. The third seeds were outplayed by Australian-Croatian wildcards Jarmila Gajdosova and Ajla Tomljanovic 3-6, 2-6 on Court No.6.
Kerala Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala, in his first meeting with police top brass, vowed to make the state a “Nirbhaya Kerala,” one where women have nothing to fear. Six new all-women police stations would be set up, he said. He said atrocities against women and children would be sternly dealt with. Chennithala was sworn in […]