bjpAchieving a target of more than 272 seats in this year’s Lok Sabha elections will be the focus as Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders meet for a three-day brainstorming session here, starting Friday. “This session will be very important,” party leader Sudhanshu Trivedi told reporters Thursday after a meeting of the party’s national office-bearers, which […]
Curfew continued for the third consecutive day in a village in Rajasthan after three people were killed and 11 others injured in communal clashes, police said. The clashes took place Jan 14 between members of two communities in Kotadi in Pratapgarh district, some 300 km from Jaipur. “The clashes were triggered following a verbal spat […]
Delhi Police plans to write to Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung complaining about the “interfering” behaviour of two Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) ministers in police investigation, an official said Thursday. “We will write to the Lt. Governor about ministers Somnath Bharti and Rakhi Birla who are continuously interfering in police investigation,” a senior police officer, who […]
Congress President Sonia Gandhi Friday said the 2014 Lok Sabha elections will be “a battle for India” and its secular traditions. “We assemble here as the 2014 Lok Sabha elections approach. We meet today to send a clear signal that the Congress is ready and prepared for the battle ahead,” she said in her address […]
The national capital was enveloped in dense fog Friday morning with the minimum temperature recorded at 8.2 degrees Celsius, one notch above the season’s average. “The day ahead will be partly cloudy and light rain and thunder shower are expected in the afternoon,” said an official of the India Meteorological Department. The maximum temperature is […]
India Thursday proposed to more than double SAARC sticker business visa to 500, with a view to enhance economic engagements among the South Asian countries. Addressing the inaugural session of the fifth SAARC Business Leaders Conference here, Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said India supports any proposal of easing regional visa regulations. “There should […]
Reclusive Bengali screen goddess Suchitra Sen, who had bewitched generations of filmbuffs with her grace and beauty, died at a Kolkata nursing home Friday following a massive cardiac arrest, attending doctor Subir Mondal said. The 82-year old actress, under treatment at the Belle Vue Clnic for the last 26 days following serious respiratory problems, breathed […]
DMK president M. Karunanidhi Thusday said no talks have been held yet with the DMDK for an alliance to fight the Lok Sabha election. Answering a reporter’s query on a possible alliance with the DMDK, Karunanidhi said: “Talks have not taken place. Hence, there is no question on its progress.” The DMK is keen on […]
Pakistan rejected Thursday as provocative the Indian Army chief’s remarks that Pakistan is involved in border violations and that India could not be expected to stick to rules if the neighbor was breaking them. Indian Army chief Gen. Bikram Singh said this week that “ceasefire violations” by Pakistan have been to aid infiltration of militants […]
Delhi Congress chief Arvinder Singh Lovely Thursday lashed out at the Aam Aadmi Party government over its handling of the rape case of the 51-year-old Danish woman in the capital. “Is this the same party that used to protest on the streets of Delhi? And today, the party’s chief minister is saying that he will […]