Kolkata, May 3 (IANS) West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Saturday said the “blow hot, blow cold” ties between the Trinamool Congress and the BJP was a tacit understanding to prevent a central agency probe into the Saradha scam. A day after BJP president Rajnath Singh assured a special economic package for Bengal if […]
Mumbai, May 3 (IANS) Engineering students from India have bagged top laurels in an aero-design contest held in the US recently, officials said here Saturday. Students from Mumbai’s M.H. Saboo Siddik College of Engineering won the first prize in the micro class and the fifth in the advanced section at the SAE Aero Design competition […]
Hyderabad, May 3 (IANS) A whopping Rs.140 crore in unaccounted cash has been seized during the ongoing assembly and Lok Sabha elections in Andhra Pradesh so far, officials said Saturday. The state accounts for more than 50 percent of the Rs.272 crore seized across the country. State Chief Electoral Officer Bhanwarlal told reporters here Saturday […]
Mumbai, May 3 (IANS) Genpact founder Pramod Bhasin and DLF director Pia Singh-promoted The Skills Academy will tie up with HDFC Bank to co-develop the content of a training course for professional bankers. The Academy plans to launch the training course titled “The Professional Banker Programme” here Sunday. The course aims at bridging the skills […]
Chennai, May 3 (IANS) DMK president M. Karunanidhi Saturday questioned Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa for not visiting the injured in the twin bomb blasts in a train here. He said he along with senior officials had visited the injured in Coimbatore blasts in 1998 when he was the chief minister. In a statement […]
Guwahati, May 3 (IANS) The Assam government Saturday decided to hand over the probe into the killing of 27 civilians in the state’s Bodo-majority districts to the NIA, as 22 people were arrested in connection with the violence. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said: “We have decided to hand over the probe to the NIA. Some […]
Amethi, May 3 (IANS) Hundreds of booklets containing offensive remarks against Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son, party vice president Rahul Gandhi, have surfaced here in the last two days. The 16-page booklet on Rahul Gandhi has the incumbent Amethi Lok Sabha member on its cover and goes on to say how he was […]
Jaipur, May 3 (IANS) The Rajasthan government is set to soon launch an air taxi service which will help connect major industrial and tourism points in the state, officials said. “As per the plan, approved by Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje before the (Lok Sabha) election code of conduct came into effect (March 5), we will […]
Hyderabad, May 3 (IANS) Over 36.76 million voters, half of them women, are eligible to cast their votes in the second phase of the Lok Sabha and assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh May 7. Chief electoral officer (CEO) Bhanwarlal told reporters here Saturday that all arrangements have been made for conducting free and fair elections […]
Guwahati/New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) The toll in the twin attacks in Assam rose to 27 Saturday. The state government decided to hand over the probe to the NIA while Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described it as a “cowardly attempt to spread fear and terror”. As many as 22 people were arrested in connection with […]