Patna, Feb 10 (IANS) Aiming to put pressure on Bihar Governor Keshri Nath Tripathi for inviting him to form the next government in the state, former chief minister Nitish Kumar left for New Delhi to parade the legislators supporting him in the Rashtrapati Bhavan Wednesday. Meanwhile, embattled Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi sought to play […]
New Delhi, Feb 10 (IANS) Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda Tuesday reviewed the swine flu situation in Gujarat, one of states worst affected by the disease. Gujarat has recorded 831 cases of swine flu and 88 people have succumbed to the disease. Nadda held a high-level meeting with state Health Minister Nitinbhai Patel and senior […]
New Delhi, Feb 10 (IANS) He campaigned like a local leader, handpicked his own chief ministerial candidate for Delhi and made it a personal referendum on his leadership. Yet Prime Minister Narendra Modi could not halt the AAP juggernaut in these assembly polls and in the process lost his first election since his winning streak […]
New Delhi, Feb 10 (IANS) AAP ideologue Yogendra Yadav said the party’s landslide win has shattered the “myth of invincibility” around Prime Minister Narendra Modi and opened up “political possibilities”. Speaking to NDTV news channel after the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) won 67 of the 70 seats, Yadav said Modi had turned the Delhi assembly […]
Paris, Feb 10 (IANS/EFE) Former head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, said he was unaware that the women attending the orgies he helped organise were prostitutes, when testifying Tuesday at his trial on procurement charges. Strauss-Kahn is being tried, along with 13 other individuals, by Lille’s Correctional Court on charges of “aggravated procurement” […]
Lucknow, Feb 10 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh’s ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) Tuesday congratulated the Delhi voters for rejecting the BJP and its “divisive politics” as it attacked the party and its leaders for being bent on vitiating the atmosphere despite being people on many occasions. “Delhi had shown BJP the door and expressed beyond doubt their […]
Beijing, Feb 10 (IANS) A man who killed three children in a primary school knife attack in China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region three years ago was executed Tuesday. Wu Yechang was found guilty of the triple murder and sentenced to death by the Guigang Intermediate People’s Court in January 2014, Xinhua news agency reported. The […]
London, Feb 10 (IANS) An Islamic State (IS) affiliate in Egypt has released a video purporting to show the beheading of eight Bedouin Arab men it accused of working for the Egyptian and Israeli armies, media reported Tuesday. The video, posted on the Twitter account of the jihadi group known as Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis’ late […]
Dubai, Feb 8 (IANS) A 26-year-old Indian waiter was sentenced to a one-year jail term in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for setting his ex-girlfriend’s shoe and bed on fire, media reported Sunday. The accused admitted that he got drunk before he visited his Filipina ex-girlfriend’s residence and set her shoe and bed on fire, […]
London, Feb 8 (IANS) Heir to the British throne Prince Charles has said that young people in Britain were being radicalised at an “alarming” rate, for which he partly blamed “crazy” content on the internet, a media report said Sunday. “The frightening part is that people can be so radicalised either by contact with somebody […]