Government welcomes IBAC’s report

Government welcomes IBAC’s report

The Government welcomes IBAC’s report on its first full year of operations. The report demonstrates the valuable work being undertaken by IBAC. The report shows the importance of Victoria having an independent, broad-based anti-corruption commission with strong powers to investigate serious corruption, which the Coalition Government has established after Labor failed to do so during […]

Babies are biased?!

Babies are biased?!

Have you ever looked at the little cute babies with sparkling eyes be biased? It has been stated according to a study that, the innocent infants choose their playmates carefully and they are not immune from ‘in-group’ bias, favouring people from same ethnicity over others. The infants have been seen taking in account both the […]

“I discovered a friend and a great actor in Alia”- ArjunKapoor

“I discovered a friend and a great actor in Alia”- ArjunKapoor

Compiled bySwatiMisra With the much-hyped ArjunKapoor and Alia Bhatt starrer ‘2 STATES’ releasing this week, there is a lot of speculations going in and around this film. The North meets South love story directed by Abhishekvarman, has ArjunKapoor playing KrishMalhotra and Alia Bhatt as AnanyaSwaminathan. 2 States is a love story between two individuals from […]

Manmohan Singh: A good man let down by the party

Manmohan Singh: A good man let down by the   party

I have an abiding memory of Manmohan Singh. It goes far back to the days when he was not the prime minister, not even the finance minister, when in the early ’90s he took transformational steps to open up and liberalise a collapsing Indian economy and got his name etched in the history of global […]

A Pakistan where people want Modi as PM

A Pakistan where people want Modi as PM

 It’s true. People of this Pakistan want Narendra Modi to become prime minister of India. More than 250 residents, including over 100 voters of a village called “Pakistan” in Bihar’s Purnea district, are set to vote for the BJP to help Modi to fulfil his dream. “We want Narendra Modi to become PM,” said Hira […]

Two troopers killed in Bihar blast

Two troopers killed in Bihar blast

Patna, April 10 (IANS) Two troopers were killed Thursday in a landmine blast in Bihar where enthusiastic voters ignored a boycott call by Maoists and queued up outside polling booths in six parliamentary constituencies. The two Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers were killed in the landmine blast in Munger district when they were on way […]

Four drown as car falls into Teesta in Bengal

Four drown as car falls into Teesta in Bengal

Siliguri, April 9 (IANS) Four people drowned when the car they were travelling in fell into the Teesta river in West Bengal’s Darjeeling district Wednesday. The four, two of them women, drowned when the driver – who was among the dead – lost control of the vehicle at Sevok Kalibari in the Kurseong sub-division, 22 km […]

Meghalaya records 53 percent polling

Meghalaya records 53 percent polling

Shillong, April 9 (IANS) Meghalaya Wednesday recorded 53 percent polling till 3 p.m., as voting took place at a brisk pace with people turning out in huge numbers to elect two Lok Sabha members from the state. “Around 53 percent of the 15,67,241 electors voted till 3 p.m. in Shillong and Tura,” State Chief Electoral Officer […]

Bangabandhu was an illegal PM: BNP leader

Bangabandhu was an illegal PM: BNP leader

Dhaka, April 9 (IANS) Two weeks after making a startling claim that Ziaur Rahman was Bangladesh’s first president, senior BNP leader Tarique Rahman said Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was an “illegal” prime minister. Rahman made the comment at a function, organised by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) at the Westminster Hall in London Tuesday, bdnews24.com Wednesday […]

Man who has never missed voting wants all to vote

Man who has never missed voting wants all to vote

Kalpa (Himachal Pradesh), April 9 (IANS) Shyam Saran Negi, who at 97 has never abstained from voting since India embraced parliamentary democracy in 1951, is urging Indians to vote for candidates “who can generate jobs and provide essential services”. Negi, whose musical video appeal posted by Google India under its Pledge To Vote campaign is quite […]