Patna, In a development that each party is interpreting differently, more women voted in the first round of Bihar assembly polls on Monday. Around 57 percent of the 13.5 million electorate voted in the first of the five-phase voting in 49 of the 243 constituencies on Monday, officials said. Chief Electoral Officer Ajay V. Nayak […]
Ramallah (Palestine), A sudden congregation of hundreds of angry students at Al-Quds University near here to condemn alleged aggression of Israeli forces, led to cancellation of an event that was to be attended by President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday. The protest at the varsity at Abu Dees, some 25 km from here, was against the […]
Model and television actress Pooja Misrra has been accused of assaulting the staff of a leading store here. Police said on Monday that the Big Boss season five contestant was caught on camera roughing up the staff in Karol Bagh in west Delhi on Sunday night. “The model not only manhandled the staff but took […]
Chandigarh, Oct 12, Noted Punjab-based poet Surjit Patar was among the four litterateurs who announced on Monday that they will return their Sahitya Akademi Award to protest against the growing atmosphere of intolerance in the country. Besides Patar, the other three poets and writers who announced that they would return their awards were Jaswinder Singh, […]
Belligerent Shiv Sena activists abused and blackened the face of veteran journalist and L.K. Advani’s former aide Sudheendra Kulkarni to protest his organising the launch of former Pakistani foreign minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri’s book here on Monday but the event went on ahead amid high security. The incident created a nationwide outrage with condemnation from […]
Around 57 percent of 13.5 million electorate voted on Monday in 49 of the 243 constituencies in the first round of battle for political power in Bihar. The two main fronts soon claimed victory. It marked the start of an intense five-phase contest that will end on November 5 and whose outcome — to be […]
Clashes erupted in parts of Srinagar on Monday over an attack on a truck in Udhampur, as a shutdown called by the separatists affected life across the Kashmir Valley. Group of youths pelted stones at police and paramilitary forces in many areas of the old city Srinagar, forcing the security forces to baton-charge and lob […]
Following Friday’s attack on a Kashmir Valley-bound truck in Udhampur, the Indian Army on Sunday intensified patrolling along the Jammu-Srinagar highway to keep anti-social elements at bay. “The army has intensified patrolling on the Jammu-Srinagar highway to prevent any untoward incident,” top sources in the army told IANS here. “Immediately after the unfortunate event in […]
What do Ram, Krishna, Shayam, Shiv, Shatrughan, Arjun, Shakuni, Subhash Chandra Bose and Prahlad have in common — all are candidates contesting the Bihar assembly election. There are many candidates named after Hindu god Ram, while in many places Shayam and Krishna are contesting against Shiv. Candidates with names of other mythological icons like Arjun, […]
Raising their voice against rising “intolerance” and “suppressing freedom of expression“, four eminent Punjabi writers on Sunday announced that they were returning the Sahitya Akademi Awards conferred on them. The writers who announced giving up their literary awards included Ajmer Singh Aulakh, Atamjit Singh, Gurbachan Bhullar and Canada-based writer Waryam Sandhu. The litterateurs said that […]