New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has issued notice to AAP legislator Surender Singh on a petition filed by BJP leader Karan Singh Tanwar for allegedly giving false information on his educational qualification in the election affidavit. Justice Hima Kohli sought response from the Delhi Cantonment legislator after Tanwar in his petition […]
Patna, May 19 (IANS) Janata Dal-United president Sharad Yadav on Tuesday said merger of six parties of Janata Parivar has been already announced, now talks are on remaining issues. “Merger of the six parties of Janata Parivar has been finalised and announced. It is a matter of fact. After that talks were going on other […]
Kolkata, May 19 (IANS) The opposition Left Front and Congress on Tuesday staged a walkout from the West Bengal assembly protesting the speaker’s refusal to allow discussion on farmers’ suicides in the state. The opposition lawmakers raised the issue of suicides by potato farmers, but Speaker Biman Banerjee refused to allow any discussion. Congress legislators […]
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Tuesday pulled up the city government for panelled lawyers not appearing in court during numerous hearings and also took a dig at the locking of the office of an IAS officer at the Delhi Secretariat. Amid the tussle over appointment of bureaucrats between Lt. Governor […]
Mumbai, May 19 (IANS) Driven by favourable impact of forex in and tariff orders, integrated power company Tata Power on Tuesday said it consolidated net profit in 2014-15 rose to Rs.168 crore against a loss of Rs.260 crore incurred in 2013-14. The net revenue, in the review period, however, fell by just over four percent […]
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi commenced his two-day visit to Seoul Monday, South Korea has offered to set up a $10-billion fund to support several of his ambitious projects, from bullet trains to smart cities, the country’s envoy to India Joon-gyu Lee has said. “My country is offering India a financial package amounting to a […]
Model-turned-actress Shikha Joshi, who reportedly committed suicide, was a “happy-go-lucky” girl who never looked “depressed” even if she did not get much work, says Ajay Bahl, who directed her in “B.A. Pass”. Shikha was found dead at her residence here on Saturday evening, the police has said. Bahl, who was shocked to hear the news, […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, addressing the Indian community in Seoul, said on Monday that the world’s perception of India has changed since his government took over a year ago and that “humanity” lay at the centre of the country’s foreign policy. Addressing a cheering 1,500-strong Indian community here, Modi said a key component of his […]
Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday assured the family of Manoj Vashishth of a fair probe into his killing by a team of Delhi Police Special Cell. Vashishth was shot in central Delhi’s Rajendra Place area on Saturday. Vashishth’s family members, including his wife Priyanka, met Rajnath Singh at his residence here on Monday, demanding […]
One moment of murderous lust by a hospital contract sweeper consigned a young woman looking forward to her impending marriage to over four decades of a vegetative half-life. But Aruna Ramchandra Shanbaug’s plight attracted attentive devotion of her sister nurses, touched millions of Indians and led to the apex court’s intervention to change the country’s […]