Steps will be taken in a day or two by the Sri Lankan government to release 275 Indian fishermen in Sri Lankan jails, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa said Saturday. The Tamil Nadu government is also taking steps to release 179 arrested Sri Lankan fishermen so that talks between fishermen of the two nations […]
Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, who returned Friday night after being indicted by a US grand jury for alleged visa fraud, Saturday met External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid and Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh here. Khobragade arrived in Delhi by a US Airlines flight around 10 p.m. Friday. The diplomat, who has been transferred to the ministry […]
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands can become a “spring board” for India’s engagement with Southeast Asia and the Pacific region and be developed as a trading and tourist hub, President Pranab Mukherjee said here Saturday. Mukherjee also said his visit to the islands was an opportunity to pay homage to the freedom fighters who underwent […]
Hitting out at Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde’s advisory for releasing “minority youth” detained wrongfully, BJP leader Arun Jaitley Saturday said the move was “unconstitutional”. Referring to the home minister’s letter to chief ministers to review cases of terrorism against “members of minority communities,” Jaitley said: “Obviously, he has only religious minority and not linguistic minority […]
Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde Saturday expressed a wish to see his political mentor Sharad Pawar of the NCP as the prime minister of India. “I would be happy if Sharad Pawar became the PM. He is my political guru and I entered politics because of him,” Shinde, a policeman-turned-politician and former Maharashtra chief minister, […]
More than 300 people, including women and children, fell ill after eating left over food distributed as part of the funeral rites of a person in Malpura area near Agra. The affected persons began lining up at medical cetres from Thursday and many people were admitted to a hospital here Friday after they complained of […]
Lauding late litterateur Sunil Gangopadhyay, President Pranab Mukherjee said Saturday the amount of historical research that went into his writing was noteworthy. Presenting the Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Award for Excellence in Bengali literature at the Raj Bhavan here, the president said he has read many of his works and was extremely impressed with his talent. […]
The Uttar Pradesh government Saturday said that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who lives in Ghaziabad, will get ‘Z’ category security despite his refusal to accept security. A home department official said a committee comprising of Principal Secretary (Home) A.K. Gupta and Director General of Police Rizvan Ahmad Thursday okayed the new security set up […]
Youth Initiative for Peace and Harmony, a group of young people has decided to boycott Salman Khan’s upcoming movie ‘Jai Ho’ for taking part in a musical show, Saifai in Uttar Pradesh. The members of the group condemned both Salman and Madhuri Dixit for participating in the event. The group says that it was a […]
Police said Saturday they have arrested four men for the gang rape of a dancer from Mumbai on New Year Eve. The accused were arrested after police identified them with the help of CCTV footage of an ATM while withdrawing money using the debit card of the victim. The girl, who was called from Mumbai […]