She had always remained in the background, smiling graciously at invited guests from her wheelchair during events held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. First Lady Suvra Mukherjee, President Pranab Mukherjee’s wife of 58 years, died here on Tuesday, it was announced. The first lady was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the Army’s Research And […]
A school here that called itself Delhi Public School (DPS) and which was not affiliated to the Delhi Public School (DPS) Society of Delhi has been ordered shut, officials said on Tuesday. The Haryana education department passed the order after realising that two units of the so-called DPS had no permission to function. These were […]
Delhi Police have taken over the Lodhi Road crematorium in preparation for Wednesday morning’s last rites of President Pranab Mukherjee’s wife Suvra Mukherjee, that is likely to see a host of VVIPs, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina attending. Suvra Mukherjee, who was ailing for some time, passed away on […]
An eight-member delegation led by Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan spent close to Rs.3 crore ($465,000/$58,000 per head) on a five-day US trip in February, which included giving expensive gifts to investors, the reply to an RTI querry has revealed. The reply, received from the Madhya Pradesh Trade and Investment Facilitation Corporation Limited […]
The 2014 Manipuri feature “Pallepfam” will kick off the second edition of “Fragrances from the North East”, a three-day festival of cinema from the northeast, here from August 21 to 23. Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Rathore will inaugurate the festival on August 21, according to an official statement from the Manipur […]
Bihar has the second-highest economic growth among poor states. It has India’s third-highest level of poverty. Unemployment in Bihar is the highest among the poorest states. Ninety-eight percent families in rural Bihar do not have access to toilets in their homes, the highest rate among poor states. The eastern state of Bihar – India’s third-most […]
An August 22, 1945, Tokyo Radio broadcast announced the ‘death’ of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in an air crash in Formosa (now Taiwan) on August 18, 1945, en route to Japan. But the crash theory has been rejected by scores of Netaji’s followers and admirers and claims of the revolutionary leader resurfacing continue to intrigue […]
At a recent international conference organised by the Assilah Forum Foundation in the eponymous picture postcard-pretty town in northern Morocco, speakers highlighted the importance of India as a key player in the American “rebalance” in the Asia-Pacific, especially with the worrying rise of China, politically, militarily and economically. At a lecture in New Delhi to […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday addressed the nation even as an overcast sky threatened to open up and play spoilsport. However, the rain held up long enough to allow the event to get over, but Delhi was swamped with steady showers later. No Swacch Bharat here In what could be seen as contradictory to […]
Nearly 100 children fell ill on Saturday after consuming sweets distributed by a village head in Bihar’s Darbhanga district to celebrate Independence Day, police said. The incident took place in Ranipur village in Darbhanga, about 200 km from here. “The village mukhiya distributed sweets to mark Independence Day. But soon after consuming it, many children […]