The 16-year-old girl, who died after being raped twice by a gang and then set ablaze, was pregnant, according to police who sent the foetus for forensic test to determine its age and parentage. The West Bengal government continued to come under attack from the opposition and civil society for the “shameful incident”. Chief Secretary […]
A public interest litigation was Thursday filed in the Delhi High Court seeking directions to the CBI to register a case of cheating and corruption against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for misleading citizens by making “false promises in election manifesto”. The case is likely to come for hearing Jan 8 before a bench headed by […]
Andhra Pradesh minister D. Sridhar Babu, who hails from Telangana, Thursday resigned to protest the move of Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy divesting him of the legislative affairs portfolio. Despite advice by All India Congress Committee (AICC) secretary R.C. Kunthia not to quit, Sridhar Babu, who held the civil supplies portfolio, Thursday night sent […]
Karnataka BJP leaders late Thursday met former leader B.S. Yeddyurappa here and formally asked him to return to the party, over a year after he quit to head the Karnataka Janata Party. State Bharatiya Janata Party president Pralhad Joshi, Bangalore South MP H.N. Ananth Kumar, former chief minister Jagadish Shettar and former state unit chief […]
A gale of change has started sweeping across India. It has brought palpable hope. Millions, pushed beyond the periphery and treated with indifference by the Congress, BJP and smaller look-alike parties, are rejoicing. That slight-looking man, Arvind Kejriwal, the like of which has not appeared on the Indian political scene for a long time, has […]
With the launch of the Doha edition of the Malayala Manorama, Malayalam papers outnumber other dailies in the Gulf nation of Qatar. The launch of the Kerala-headquartered century-old vernacular daily Wednesday has taken the number of Malayalam newspapers published in Qatar to five, The Peninsula reported Thursday. The other Malayalam dailies that already have Doha […]
A protest by the BJP youth wing outside the Congress party office here Thursday set off a pitched battle between activists of both parties. Police used water cannons to disperse the violent crowd. The BJP youth wing members blockaded the office of the Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee and accused Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi and […]
The union cabinet Thursday cleared the home ministry’s proposal for a presidential reference to the Supreme Court for a probe into allegations of sexual harassment against Justice (retd) A.K. Ganguly. “Proposal of the home ministry on Justice Ganguly has been approved,” Finance Minister P. Chidambaram told reporters here. The allegations were levelled by a law […]
The Maharashtra cabinet Thursday partially accepted the report on the probe into the Adarsh Housing Society scam after rejecting it a fortnight ago. The opposition cried foul and threatened to move court. Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan told media persons that the government will initiate action against 25 members who were “ineligible” and also prosecute those […]
The government Thursday announced conversion of its preferential shares in three public sector banks – Indian Bank, UCO Bank and Vijaya Bank — into equity shares, in order to make more funds available to these lenders. The union cabinet headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh approved the proposal of conversion of “Perpetual Non-Cumulative Preference Shares […]