Jammu, July 24 (IANS) Indian Army Chief General Bikram Singh will Friday pay tribute to the martyrs of 1999 Kargil war in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ladakh region. Defence sources told IANS that General Bikram Singh, who is retiring July 31, will visit the Drass area Friday and will then fly back to New Delhi. “The visit […]
Panaji, July 22 (IANS) Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar tried to hold back his smile when a legislator called him a “parallel prime minister” in the Goa assembly Tuesday. Speaking during question hour on the first day of the month-long assembly session, independent MLA Rohan Khaunte said Parrikar, known for his proximity to Prime Minister Narendra […]
Jammu, July 22 (IANS) An Indian soldier was killed Tuesday when Pakistani troops fired at Indian positions on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir, the military said. Military spokesman Col Manish Mehta told IANS here that the Pakistan Army used automatics and small-calibre weapons in Pallanwalla area of Akhnoor sector. “The firing was […]
Bhubaneswar, July 14 (IANS) Legislators from Odisha’s ruling BJD Monday disrupted the proceedings of the state assembly here demanding cancellation of the multi-purpose Polavaram irrigation project in Andhra Pradesh. Speaker Niranjan Pujari adjourned the house till 3 p.m. after members of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) disrupted the proceedings soon after the start of question hour. […]
New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) The government Monday appointed new governors for Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal and Gujarat. The governors are Ram Naik (Uttar Pradesh), Balramji Dass Tandon (Chhattisgarh), Keshari Nath Tripathi (West Bengal) and Om Prakash Kohli (Gujarat), a Rashtrapati Bhavan communique said.
New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) A Delhi Police constable was shot dead by unidentified men near his residence here Monday, police said. Shivraj was on his way to meet someone when two men attacked him and pumped a bullet into his chest near his home in Jyoti Nagar area of east Delhi around noon. The assailants […]
New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) The Lok Sabha Monday passed a bill to amend the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Act which will pave the way for appointment of former TRAI chairman Nripendra Misra as principal secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The bill replaces an ordinance brought by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government, […]
New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) Yoga guru Ramdev said Monday that he would talk to Ved Pratap Vaidik about his meeting with 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed, but defended Vaidik saying that he must have met the terrorist leader as a journalist. “I will talk to Vaidik (ji)…I am very confident that even if he has met […]
Nagpur, July 11 (IANS) Three debt-ridden farmers committed suicide even as Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented his well-received budget Thursday, a farm NGO said here Friday. The extreme step by the farmers was prompted by the failed monsoon in large parts of eastern Maharashtra, which has compelled many of them to go in for second and […]
Mumbai, July 11 (IANS) Such was the spunk and joy in Zohra Sehgal’s life that when on the sets of 1997 film “Tamanna”, she was offered tea or coffee, she asked for champagne, reveals the movie’s producer and actress Pooja Bhatt. Zohra, who died in New Delhi Thursday aged 102, was 85 back then. “Had the […]