il India is encouraging domestic and global companies to explore potentially hydrocarbon-rich areas through stable and enabling policies towards achieving its goal of self-sufficiency in hydrocarbons by 2030, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Sunday. He was inaugurating the 11th International Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition “Petrotech-2014” at the India Exposition Mart here, organised by […]
Aam Aadmi Party member Kumar Vishwas Sunday said the Congress has failed the people of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh, and that Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi never raised the problems of his constituency in parliament even once. “Rahul Gandhi, prior to elections, turns up in Amethi seeking votes, but when the time comes to work […]
At least two toll posts were burned down and five others vandalised as the ongoing week-long anti-toll agitation took a violent turn here Sunday, officials said. Huge crowds from Kolhapur and surrounding areas trooped down to the nine toll posts, on the outskirts of the city, protesting the resumption of toll collection despite official assurance […]
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s state unit Sunday approached the National Human Rights Commission seeking a probe into the alleged gang rape and murder of a minor in West Bengal’s Madhyamgram town in North 24-Parganas district. In a letter to the commission, the BJP accused the Mamata Banerjee-led state government of “living in denial”, and urged […]
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday mourned the death of former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon and said his contribution to the promotion of India-Israel ties was lasting and would long be remembered. In a message to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister said Sharon was the first Israeli prime minister to visit India […]
Railway and bus stations in Hyderabad are packed with passengers while the road leading towards Vijayawada is choking with vehicles as lakhs are heading home to celebrate Sankranti, leaving the city roads almost deserted. Trains and buses to various destinations in Andhra Pradesh are overcrowded with people, who are in a hurry to be with […]
Coming down heavily on a trial court for not framing murder charges against the husband and in-laws of a woman killed for dowry — despite evidence to this effect, the Delhi High Court has remanded the case back to the lower court. A division bench of Justice Kailash Gambhir and Justice Indermeet Kaur rapped the […]
At almost 19 degrees Celsius below the freezing point, Leh town in the Ladakh region Sunday recorded the lowest temperature of the season in Jammu and Kashmir. The night temperatures in Kashmir also remained several notches below the freezing point. “The minimum temperature was minus 18.9 degrees Celsius in Leh town today (eary Sunday morning), […]
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday urged every young Indian, irrespective of faith and religion, to be inspired by Swami Vivekananda. “I urge every young Indian, irrespective of faith and religion, to be inspired by such a man as they build their own future,” said the Prime Minister Office on his Twitter page on the closing […]
Muslim clerics in a Bihar district have decided not to lead or offer namaz-e-janaza (funeral prayers) of drunkards. This decision was taken at a meeting Saturday evening by a group of Imams of Bihar’s Nalanda district. They earlier said they won’t conduct marriage ceremony of those who give or take dowry. “It is a historic […]