At least eight workers died, many were injured while some are feared trapped under the debris of an under-construction building in Canacona town, 60 km from here Saturday. Police said a portion of a three-storey building, Ruby Residency located in the Chawdi ward of Canacona, collapsed. They said bodies of eight workers had been extracted […]
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy insisted that voting has to take place in the assembly on the bill for formation of separate Telangana state as this is the only way to elicit opinion of the house. The chief minister told reporters Saturday that opinion of the house mean voting and not the […]
BJP leader Arun Jaitley Saturday asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to clarify his remarks that “an important breakthrough was in sight” with Pakistan on Kashmir some years ago. He hoped the gains made by India of stemming efforts to internationalise the Kashmir problem were not squandered. He said the prime minister revealed for the first […]
The father of the Bengal girl gang-raped twice and allegedly set ablaze, Saturday demanded a CBI probe and said he would take up the matter with President Pranab Mukherjee. The family of the girl is set to meet Mukherjee Jan 7. “We are scheduled to meet the President Jan 7 and will place our demand […]
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said Saturday he would not contest the April-May Lok Sabha elections. “I am not contesting the Lok Sabha elections,” Kejriwal told mediapersons. The rresponse came after a senior leader of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Yogendra Yadav, earlier in the day said he wanted to see Kejriwal as the prime […]
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is a shining example of the success of Indian private enterprises, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Saturday. “It has carved a niche for itself in the global market for IT and IT-enabled services and has set benchmarks of excellence in the area of software development,” the prime minister said here. Manmohan […]
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Saturday refused to move into a five-bedroom government flat here following criticism and demanded a smaller house instead for his family. “I won’t shift to the five-bedroom duplex flat,” Kejriwal told the media before the start of the Aam Aadmi Party’s national executive meeting, and explained why. “I have received […]
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) announced Saturday that it would attempt to contest as many seats as possible for the Lok Sabha elections this year, and a final list of candidates would be released by Feb 15. AAP leader Prashant Bhushan said the decision was taken at the start of a two-day national executive meeting […]
Brazil has created a special force of 10,000-strong military personnel to ensure that no anti-government protests disrupt this summer’s 2014 FIFA World Cup, news website G1 reported. The special force is expected to reinforce the work of local and federal police in the 12 cities that will be hosting games in June and July, Xinhua […]
Agra recorded its coldest night at 0.1 degrees Celsius Friday, the weather officials in Lucknow said, adding the Taj city was the coldest in Uttar Pradesh. “Today (Saturday) there is a cloud cover, but last night it was cold as hell,” said insurance agent Sudhir Gupta who was returning back from the railway station. Bankey […]