A 30-year-old man was Saturday afternoon attacked by a lioness in Gujarat’s Saurashtra region in the fifth case of attacks by big cats on humans in the Gir forests, the sole abode of the Asiatic lions. Deputy Conservator of Forests, Dhari, T. Karuppasamy, told IANS that Chandru Vala had gone to a farm in Kodiya […]
Five-time I-League champions Dempo SC will be eyeing a return to the top division with a win against Minerva Academy in a winner takes all second division match here on Saturday. Dempo have 20 points, two more than Minerva after nine matches and a draw would also be enough for promotion. They were relegated in […]
Union ministers showcased their achievements and leading names from Bollywood, including Amitabh Bachchan, espoused social causes at the “Ek Nayi Subah” event at India Gate lawns here on Saturday to mark completion two years of Narendra Modi government. A range of government initiatives including Swatchh Bharat Campaign, the Beti Badhao Beti Badhao, Pradhan Mantrai Ujjawala […]
The Congress on Saturday named former union ministers P. Chidambaram, Kapil Sibal, Jairam Ramesh, Ambika Soni and Oscar Fernandes as its candidates for the biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha. The party’s list of eight candidates from seven states also included Pradeep Tamta, Vivek Tankha and Chhaya Verma. A party release said that the names […]
The Rio Olympic Games should be postponed or moved “in the name of public health” over the Zika outbreak in Brazil, more than 100 prominent doctors and professors said in an open letter to the World Health Organisation (WHO). “We make this call despite the widespread fatalism that the Rio 2016 Games are inevitable or […]
Kolkata’s vital thoroughfare Red Road on Friday took on a green hue as thousands of ecstatic Trinamool Congress supporters — their faces smeared in the green colour of the party — chanted “Bangla Hobe Biswasera” (Bengal will be world’s best) and celebrated on the street as their beloved “Didi” took over the reins of the […]
Devoid of power, ‘citizen’ Oommen Chandy is all set to establish his earthy connections with fellow citizens. The former Kerala chief minister has also dropped hints that he would not be the leader of opposition in the state’s assembly. “From now on I will travel by bus and trains, and mingle with the people,” Chandy […]
The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) politburo will hold a two-day meeting in New Delhi from Sunday to review the outcome of the assembly elections in four states and a union territory, a party leader said here. “The two-day politburo meeting of the CPI-M would be held on Sunday and Monday in New Delhi and […]
E-commerce major Flipkart on Thursday announced it would pay Rs.1.5 lakh each to an unspecified number of campus hires, in a damage control move after deferring their appointment by six months. A few hundred pass-outs from top Indian institutions, including IITs and IIMs, were supposed to join the company in June after successfully clearing multiple […]
Seventeen of the 19 ministers sworn in in Kerala have criminal cases against them, including three with serious criminal charges, an analysis of their poll affidavits by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) shows. The newly formed cabinet of the Left Democratic Front has only two ‘young’ ministers, aged between 40 and 50 years. Fifteen […]