bihaThe Bihar government has decided to dismiss 70 corrupt officers, and more will be sacked in the coming weeks, an official said Friday. Chief Secretary A.K. Sinha has given the go ahead for the dismissal of the 70, an official in the Chief Minister’s Office said. Official sources told IANS that most officers facing the […]
Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf’s medical reports were presented to a special court Friday, a media report said. The court, formed to try Musharraf for high treason, resumed its hearing Thursday, Dawn online reported. The bench comprises three high court judges and is headed by Justice Faisal Arab of the Sindh High Court. During the […]
The public-private partnership model should be adopted to ensure financial inclusion by assisting the vast population across India to open bank accounts, a United Nation Development Programme (UNDP) report released Friday said. The report, which evaluated the Madhya Pradesh model of financial inclusion, said inclusion pertaining to setting up branchless banking and banking correspondent models […]
A man killed six members of his family with a hand plough in Bulandshahr district of Uttar Pradesh over a property dispute, police said Friday. The incident took place around midnight in Pilkhana village when accused Momin attacked his father Mausam Khan, 80, his brother Shaukin Khan, 60, his brother’s wife Shanno, their two children […]
Putting the Khobragade affair behind them, the United States hopes to move forward the “broad” and “strong” strategic partnership between “the oldest and the largest democracies in the world.” The sentiment was expressed by US Deputy Secretary of State Heather Higginbottom Thursday at a reception hosted by Indian Ambassador S. Jaishankar at his residence to […]
The South African government Thursday criticised the Human Rights Watch report on the country. “Our statistics on asylum seekers and registration of refugees indicates that South Africa is fully responsive to human rights obligations,” Xinhua quoted Minister of Home Affairs Naledi Pandor as saying. “We are in the main a country that welcomes those who […]
The BJP’s vision of “high growth with a mix of social welfare schemes” is only a rephrasing of the UPA’s agenda of “liberalization with inclusive growth”, the CPI-M said Thursday. “The UPA’s efforts have only led to the consolidation of the creation of two Indias started by the (Atal Bihari) Vajpayee-led NDA government earlier,” said […]
A West Bengal court Thursday remanded 13 people to 14 days’ judicial custody in connection with the gang rape of a tribal woman in the state’s Birbhum district, police said. “All the 13 accused arrested in this connection were presented before a court which has remanded them to 14 days’ judicial custody,” a Labhpur police […]
Devyani Khobragade, the Indian diplomat at the centre of an Indo-US diplomatic spat, is to be soon reunited with her family. The 39-year-old Khobragade returned to India Jan 10, leaving behind her Indian American husband and two children. Her children and husband are to join her in India soon, according to sources. Khobragade’s Dec 12 […]
Delhi Transport Minister Saurabh Bhardwaj Wednesday defended his cabinet colleague, Law Minister Somnath Bharti, for trying to bust a sex-and-drug racket after women’s rights groups demanded action against him by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Bhardwaj told reporters that people should be asked and a survey should be done in the area to know the truth. […]