The government Saturday invited applications for the appointment of a chairperson and eight members in the Lokpal anti-corruption watchdog. “The government has invited applications for filling up one post of chairperson and eight posts of members in the Lokpal,” an official release said. The release said four of the eight posts are for judicial members. […]
A wave of violent attacks left at least 22 people killed and 65 wounded in the Iraqi capital city Saturday, police said. The deadliest blast occurred in the Mansour district of Baghdad, leaving six civilians killed and 12 injured, Xinhua quoted a police source as saying. Four civilians were killed and 13 wounded when a […]
A vigilante-style rounding up and alleged manhandling of some African nationals in a midnight raid involving a Delhi minister was Saturday roundly condemned by the Indian government as well as African envoys in India. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal defended the action of his cabinet minister and said his government had “nothing against foreigners”. African […]
Anish Goel, a former key Indian-American aide of President Barack Obama, has joined Washington think tank New America’s National Security Programme as a Senior South Asia Fellow. As a Senior Fellow for South Asia, Goel will write on US foreign policy in South Asia, regional dynamics, and their implications for US national security, the think […]
India-born Meera Chandrasekhar, professor of physics and astronomy and Curator’s Teaching Professor of Physics at the University of Missouri, has won Baylor University’s 2014 Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching. Chandrasekhar will receive the $250,000 award and an additional $25,000 for the physics department at the University of Missouri. She is expected to teach […]
Junior HRD Minister Shashi Tharoor’s wife Sunanda Pushkar, who died Friday night, had “injury marks” on her body and it is a “case of unnatural, sudden death”, a doctor who conducted the post-mortem said. “We can say that it is a case of unnatural sudden death. There were certain injury marks on the body but […]
African envoys will meet officials of the external affairs ministry later Saturday to allay their concerns in the wake of the alleged misbehaviour with some African nationals by supporters of a Delhi minister. The ambassadors of the African countries have been called to South Block in the evening for a meeting following concern expressed by […]
A nun has given birth to a boy in the Italian city of Rieti. The nun, originally from El Salvador, claimed she did not know that she was pregnant. She was rushed to a hospital after experiencing severe abdominal pain. An ultrasound scan revealed she was expecting a full-term baby, who was delivered by doctors […]
The Aam Aadmi Party Friday issued notice to legislator Vinod Kumar Binny for indulging in activities aimed at tarnishing the image of the party, an official said. “Yes, we have issued a show-cause notice to Binny,” an official told IANS. He said the notice states “you held a press conference at 10 a.m. on the […]
A group of young Africans found themselves in the middle of a political and media furore in Delhi with a greenhorn minister in the new state government accusing them of being part of a “prostitution and drug racket” and demanding their arrest. The women, mostly Ugandans and Nigerians, said they were assaulted by “people not […]