The deputy mayor of a Bihar town was held with two call girls from a hotel room here, the police said Tuesday. Gaya Deputy Mayor Mohan Srivastava was arrested late Monday night from a posh hotel room here during a police raid. “Srivastava was caught along with two call girls in a hotel room,” a […]
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will contest all the 80 Lok Sabha seats from Uttar Pradesh, party spokesman Sanjay Singh said. Sanjay Singh, a close associate of AAP leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, said the party was pushing for clean and honest politics and hoped that issues like casteism and communalism will be […]
India Tuesday successfully test-fired its nuclear-capable surface-to-surface Prithvi-II missile from a military base in Odisha, a senior defence official said. The indigenously-developed ballistic missile with a maximum range of 350 km was fired from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur-on-sea in Balasore district, about 230 km from Bhubaneswar. “The test was carried out by the […]
Kerala Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala, in his first meeting with police top brass, vowed to make the state a “Nirbhaya Kerala,” one where women have nothing to fear. Six new all-women police stations would be set up, he said. He said atrocities against women and children would be sternly dealt with. Chennithala was sworn in […]
Under heavy opposition fire on his government’s move to withdraw cases against Muslim leaders for their alleged role in the Muzaffarnagar riots, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav Monday said a final decision would be taken only after a threadbare scrutiny of the cases. He told reporters that for now his government had only sought […]
A key ally of Japan’s ruling coalition Monday announced support to the India-Japan nuclear cooperation talks, saying they should be “accelerated”. Natsuo Yamaguchi, chief of Japan’s New Komeito Party, a junior partner of the Liberal Democratic Party-led ruling coalition, said here that there should be a “flexible approach” to the issue of nuclear cooperation. “We […]
Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung Monday suggested cancellation of licences of those power companies not willing to cooperate with the audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India. “A CAG audit of the electricity companies in the national capital from the time of privatisation shall be carried out. Government is willing to even consider […]
A court here Monday issued fresh warrants against nine men, including Pakistani-American David Coleman Headley who is currently in a US jail, for involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack. District Judge at Patiala House Court I.S. Mehta issued the non-bailable warrants against Headley and eight other Pakistanis, including Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Hussain Rana. The court […]
The Supreme Court Monday directed the central government to set up the national environment regulator with its offices in all the states to oversee the implementation of the various projects having environmental implications. The apex court green bench headed by Justice A.K. Patnaik said the environment regulator should be set up by March 31 this […]
A woman teacher was suspended in Odisha for calling a minor girl a witch and sending her back from the school, an official said Monday. The incident occurred Jan 2 at a government boarding school in Keonjhar district’s Telkoi village, about 250 km from here, when a seven-year-old Class 1 student came to school after […]