One separatist guerrilla was killed late Tuesday by the army troops when guerrillas fired upon their vehicle on the Jammu-Srinagar highway in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir, authorities said Wednesday. A senior police officer said an army vehicle was fired upon at Bagpora (Awantipora) on Jammu-Srinagar national highway in Pulwama district, 35 km from […]
The CBI Wednesday lodged new complaints against the two companies over the alleged irregularities in coal blocks allocation, an official here said. The Central Bureau of Investigation has named Castron Technologies Ltd., BLA Industries Pvt. Ltd, the managing director of BLA Industries and some public and private officials in the first information reports (FIRs). The […]
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday expressed his gratitude to Saudi Arabia for addressing the problems of over a million Indian workers after that country adopted a new labour policy. “…I would like to record my appreciation for the work of the (India’s) ministry of external affairs and the ministry of overseas Indian affairs as also […]
Suspected Hindu activists attacked the AAP office here Wednesday, apparently to protest a statement on Kashmir made by party leader Prashant Bhushan, police and witnesses said. The attackers, their number varying between 25 to 40, barged into the Aam Aadmi Party office at Kaushambi township, stoned it heavily shattering glass windows, broke flower pots and […]
India’s growth level this fiscal will probably remain at 5 percent as in last year, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Wednesday. “In the nine years since 2004, we averaged a healthy growth rate of 7.9 percent,” he said here while addressing the inaugural session of the 12th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, the annual gathering of people […]
Despite perceptions in some quarters outside that India is losing its momentum of growth achieved in the past decade, there is no need to worry, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Wednesday. “There is a perception in some quarters outside India that the country is losing its momentum of the past decade,” he said while addressing […]
Many Muslims in Delhi are very happy with the arrival of Arvind Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on the political scene. But Muslims, who always had a representation in the Sheila Dikshit cabinet, are disappointed that there is no Muslim in Kejriwal’s cabinet. Muslims themselves are to be blamed for this. Prior to […]
It was a cold Wednesday morning in the capital with the minimum temperature recorded three notches below average at 4.4 degrees Celsius. The Met Office has forecast light rains in the evening. “There might be light rains in the city towards the evening,” said the India Meteorological Department official. According to the Northern Railway, 40 […]
Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma Tuesday termed as “rhetoric and populist strategies” the austerity measures adopted by other politicians in the country. Asked to comment on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s endeavour to do away with “VIP culture”, Sangma said: “I would do things in my way and need not replicate the austerity measures adopted […]
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government effected a second reshuffle of bureaucrats after assuming power. Arun Goyal, who until now was principal secretary (urban development), will replace S.S. Yadav as principal secretary-cum commissioner (food and supplies). The order is dated Jan 6 (Monday) when the government reshuffled 800 officials in the Delhi Jal Board. During […]