Senior BJP leader Jaswant Singh Saturday demanded that Darjeeling be accorded the status of a union territory. Jaswant Singh, the MP from Darjeeling, said the residents of the district are “in no way Bengalis” and the authorities in Delhi and Kolkata must take cognisance of the fact. “It is very important for the authorities in […]
A complaint was lodged with police here Saturday against a MP from Telangana for threatening to shoot Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy’s helicopter if he visited Karimnagar district. Mala Mahanadu president Karam Shivaji lodged a complaint against Ponnam Prabhakar at S. R. Nagar police station in Hyderabad. Shivaji is also leader of […]
A day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said it will be “disastrous for the country” to have Narendra Modi at the helm, veteran BJP leader Jaswant Singh Saturday criticised him for his “uncharacteristically sharp” remarks. “The language which he employed was uncharacteristically sharp. I am saddened by it,” Jaswant Singh said on the sidelines of […]
A day after the the Uttar Pradesh government appointed eight information commissioners, the decision was challenged before the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court (HC). In a writ petition, Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Amitabh Thakur, among the 600 plus applicants for the eight posts, alleged that the selection process was arbitrary, and sought […]
Two new railway overbridges in Ghaziabad were thrown open to the public on the first day of 2014. Residents of the area, however, were left with no means of using them, as they came with no stairs! Residents voiced their concern after railway officials started constructing a wall, to close off the level crossings that […]
A 33-year-old Polish woman was raped by a cab driver who had offered her a ride while she was on her way to Delhi along with her two year-old-daughter from Mathura in Uttar Pradesh, police said Saturday. A zero First Information Report (which will be numbered later by the police station under whose jurisdiction the […]
The BJP Saturday staked claim to be recognised as the main opposition party in the Karnataka assembly following the decision of the Karnataka Janata Party led by B. S. Yeddyurappa to merge with it. Former chief minister Jagadish Shettar told reporters here that a team led by him submitted a letter to Speaker Kagodu Thimmappa […]
Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh announced here Saturday that Jharkhand would have an effective Lokayukta law by Feb 15. “Jharkhand will have its Lokayukta law by Feb 15. This will be according to the law passed by parliament,” said Ramesh after holding a coordination committee meeting of the Jharkhand government. The Lokpal and Lokayukta Bill, […]
India’s aviation regulator, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), has certified the GPS-aided, geo-augmented navigation (Gagan) system to service the aviation sector with the required navigation performance, the Indian space agency said Saturday. “The certification will enable the aircraft fitted with satellite-based augmentation system to use Gagan signal in space for en-route navigation and […]
Lashkar-e-Taiba bomb expert Abdul Karim Tunda claimed Saturday that the Delhi Police did not arrest him in India but picked him up in Nepal. Tunda gave this information to Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Amit Bansal while seeking the court’s direction to the police to furnish the details of the 16 blast cases pending against him. According […]