Two children were burnt to death here late Friday when their hut caught fire, police said Saturday. The incident took place near the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences where a group of snake charmers lived in hutments. An official told IANS the huts caught fire late Friday when everyone was fast asleep. […]
The wife of a slain Marxist leader in Kerala Friday ended her hunger strike after Chief Minister Oommen Chandy promised a CBI probe into the conspiracy behind her husband’s murder. K.K. Rema, wife of the late T.P. Chandrasekheran, launched her protest Monday in front of the secretariat to urge the Kerala government to go in […]
As parliament continued to be disrupted over the Telangana issue, the government Friday asked all political parties to settle the matter as it was something which had already been promised. “Let us see. This (Telangana) is something, which is already promised,” Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde told media outside parliament when asked whether the union cabinet […]
In a victory for working journalists and newspaper employees, Supreme Court Friday upheld the validity of the Majithia wage board, saying that its recommendation are based on genuine consideration. It also junks newspaper organisations’ challenge to the constitutional validity of the working journalists and newspaper employees act. An apex court bench headed by Chief Justice […]
Fresh snowfall on the strategic Srinagar-Jammu highway Friday forced authorities to close the highway for vehicular traffic. A senior traffic department official said fresh snowfall occurred in Banihal and Patnitop sectors of the over 300-km long Srinagar-Jammu highway during the night. “Two feet deep snow had accumulated on the road near the Jawahar Tunnel and […]
More than 900 candidates who applied for contesting the 80 Lok Sabha seats from Uttar Pradesh on Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) tickets would be selected through interviews that begin Friday. While most seats in the state have multiple candidates, the race for the Lucknow constituency is one of the most keen, with as many as […]
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi’s road show in Jharkhand has been cancelled due to security reasons, a party spokesman said Friday. The Gandhi scion is visiting Ranchi Friday and was expected to undertake a road show from Hazaribagh to Ranchi. But Rahul will now go to Hazaribagh by helicopter. He will be airlifted from Hazaribagh […]
Supreme Court Friday issued notice to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on a petition challenging a Delhi High Court order in a defamation case against him. The Supreme Court also stayed the operation of the high court order that had permitted Kejriwal to approach the lower court for his discharge in the defamation suit filed […]
Both houses of parliament were adjourned till noon Friday over the creation of a Telangana state and other issues. Members from Andhra Pradesh, who are against the separation, raised slogans and disrupted the proceedings in both houses, forcing their adjournment.
The Lok Sabha was Thursday adjourned for the day after members from Andhra Pradesh protested over the formation of Telangana. As the house reassembled at 12 noon, members from Andhra Pradesh raised slogans, following which the Speaker Meira Kumar adjourned the house. The house was earlier adjourned till 12 noon following protests by members over […]