At least three people were killed and over a dozen injured in a stampede at a fair in Bihar’s Banka district, police said Wednesday. A local police official has been suspended and a probe ordered into the incident. “Preliminary inquiry suggests that the stampede was caused after either a clash between two groups or rumours […]
A section of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s family Tuesday hit out at the West Bengal government for carrying out renovation work unilaterally at the family’s ancestral home in South 24 Parganas district’s Kodalia. “Extensive changes including destruction of the boundary wall have been carried out, as discovered by family members who visited (the house) on […]
Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy will officially inaugurate an additional one million sq. ft. of space at the Technopark Phase III here Wednesday, making it the country’s largest such IT facility with a built-up area of 7.2 million sq.ft. The new twin-tower campus, developed in 92 acres of land has been named Ganga and Yamuna. […]
Eight students with engineering background have scored 100 percentile in the Common Admission Test (CAT) results declared Tuesday for admission to India’s top B-schools, an official said. “The eight are all boys with an engineering background,” CAT convenor Rohit Kapoor told IANS. There are 10 who have scored 99.99 percentile, one of whom is a […]
Eight youths accused of raping a minor in Ranchi were arrested Tuesday, police said. “Eight youths, all from Banhora village and accused in Sunday’s gang rape of the minor girl, have been arrested. The medical report of the girl has confirmed the rape,” a police official told IANS. Police said one youth is yet to […]
A Goa court Wednesday will decide on Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal’s petition seeking a bail in the rape case, which had led to his arrest Nov 30, 2013. Tejpal has already spent a month and half behind bars, both in police as well as judicial custody. He has been accused of allegedly raping a junior […]
Around 40 lakh Hindu devout Tuesday took a holy dip in the holy Ganga at the Sangam – the point where the Ganga, the Yamuna and the mystical Saraswati meet in Allahabad, according to official estimates. Hundreds congregated at the banks of the Sangam since day break and the bathing continued till late in the […]
Asia’s two economic giants, India and China, have been rated “unfree” and ranked 120th and 137th respectively, in the 2014 Index of Economic Freedom by US think tank Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal. “The foundations for long-term economic development continue to be fragile in the absence of effectively functioning legal frameworks,” the editors […]
Former home secretary R.K. Singh’s accusations that Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde interfered in the investigations of Delhi Police into IPL betting stoked controversy Tuesday with the BJP demanding a probe and the Congress leaders lashing out at R.K. Singh. R.K. Singh, who has joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), said Delhi Police had informed him […]
Around 10 lakh people have joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) since it launched a free membership drive four days ago, party leader Gopal Rai said here Tuesday. The new members include former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri’s grandson Adarsh Shastri. Rai told the media that while 4.5 lakh people joined the AAP after giving […]