Three people were arrested from the Adarsh Nagar railway station in North Delhi with Rs.4.5 lakh in fake Indian currency notes (FICN), police said Sunday. Shajahan, 43, Mahesh Prasad, 40, and Mohd. Nisar, 38, were arrested Saturday when they went to deliver the consignment to a contact. Shajahan earlier used to work as a butcher […]
Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Rajeev Shukla Sunday criticised Aam Aadmi Party leader Kumar Vishwas for targeting Rahul Gandhi, saying the AAP’s thinking was limited to the Congress vice president. The Congress MP said Gandhi has been contesting elections from Amethi constituency for years and the people there are very happy to see him […]
Marginal and highly fragile tribal communities should not be disturbed in the name of development, President Pranab Mukherjee said here Sunday. “The marginal and highly fragile tribal communities should not be disturbed in the name of development, lest they get destroyed as has happened in the past as a result of attempts to assimilate them,” […]
Legendary bhajan singer Juthika Roy, who enthralled the likes of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru with her enchanting voice, is undergoing treatment at a city hospital for age-related ailments. The 92-year-old singer is admitted to the city’s Ramakrishna Mission Seva Pratisthan. “She was admitted earlier in the month with breathing and other problems. Her condition […]
About six lakh commercial vehicles kept off the roads across Karnataka Sunday in support of about 3,000 sand transporters, agitating since Dec 22 demanding more permits, release of lorries seized by the police and end to harassment of drivers at check-posts. “The response to our three-week-long agitation has been overwhelming as movement of transport vehicles […]
BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Sunday took a potshot at the media, accusing it of being obsessed with the politics in Delhi. Lauding Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar for his “simplicity”, Modi said Parrikar would have been the apple of the eye had he been a part of Delhi’s political scene. “Imagine if Parrikar […]
Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde’s letter directing chief ministers to be cautious while dealing with criminal suspects from the minority community amounted to vote bank politics and an attack on India’s federal structure, BJP leader Narendra Modi said here Sunday. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate and Gujarat chief minister was speaking at a pre-election […]
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has taken two vows — one, that he will never leave the Congress, and the second, that he will never speak when it matters, BJP president Rajnath Singh said here Sunday. Rajnath Singh was speaking at a Bharatiya Janata Party rally on the outskirts of Panaji. Prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi […]
Hitting out at the leadership of Jammu and Kashmir’s ruling National Conference for treating Ganderbal assembly constituency as Abdullah family’s “fiefdom”, a veteran party leader Sunday said he was quitting and would contest the state polls against the party candidate. Ghulam Ahmad Saloora, who belongs to Ganderbal and has been a prominent leader of the […]
To minimise chances of high-tech cheating, the Himachal Pradesh Public Service Commission has installed mobile jammers in its examination halls in the state capital, an official said here Sunday. The jammers have been purchased after the arrest of 34 candidates, who were caught with mobile phones during the written examination of the combined graduate-level examinations […]