India Monday successfully tested its long-range, nuclear-capable, surface-to-surface Agni-IV missile from a military base in Odisha, an official said. The new generation missile, with the capability to hit targets 4,000 km away, was tested for its full range from the Wheeler Island off the Odisha coast near Dhamra in Bhadrak district, about 200 km from […]
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal alongwith his cabinet colleagues Monday held a protest over alleged police inaction after they were prevented from reaching the union home ministry office at the Central Secretariat. Kejriwal, who became the chief minister last month, and his cabinet colleagues wanted to protest, as planned earlier, outside the union home ministry […]
Technology-induced agricultural growth was the way ahead for India, President Pranab Mukherjee said Sunday, calling upon agricultural institutions to develop new technologies for greater farm development. Speaking at the inauguration of a new building and a technology exhibition at the premises of the Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) here, Mukherjee called upon the entire network of […]
Taking a dig at the AAP for deciding to launch an agitation outside the home ministry from Monday, senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley said the party was more comfortable on the streets than inside the secretariat. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has demanded action against some police personnel who had a tiff with two of […]
Terror outfit Indian Mujahideen is planning to abduct Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to demand the release of its co-founder Yaseen Bhatkal, police said Sunday. “According to information from an intelligence agency, Kejriwal can be kidnapped by IM members, who are planning it in order to get co-founder Yaseen Bhatkal released,” a police officer said. […]
Union minister Shashi Tharoor Sunday wrote a letter to Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde urging him to issue instructions for expediting a probe into the death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar. Tharoor said he was “horrified to read the reckless speculation rampant” in the media. The minister of state for human resource development offered his full […]
The BJP Sunday demanded Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharti’s removal after a court directed police to file a FIR against him for allegedly entering some African women’s home. “He should be immediately removed. He is a symbol of the AAP (Aam Aadmi Party) style of governance which is racist, discriminatory, violent and anarchic,” Bharatiya Janata […]
The Calcutta School of Music, India’s oldest Western music school, celebrates its centenary in 2014. The school will showcase its rich heritage through Western Classical music recitals, non-classical and popular music renditions this year. Though the school’s core remains the Western classical music, it is also expanding into the relatively lesser-known realm of musical theatre, […]
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will field a cobbler or rickshaw puller against Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) leader Ram Vilas Paswan in the Lok Sabha election, a party leader said Sunday. “The AAP has decided to field a ‘common man’ against Paswan. The candidate may be a hard-working cobbler or rickshaw puller,” AAP convenor Somnath […]
BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Sunday said the Congress was afraid of taking on a “tea vendor” from “a backward caste” in the coming Lok Sabha election. Addressing delegates on the concluding day of a leadership meet here, Modi blamed Congress president Sonia Gandhi for not making her son and party vice president Rahul […]