Seven masked men robbed Rs.25 lakh from a dry fruit merchant’s shop in broad daylight Monday and stabbed an employee who resisted them, police said. The daring incident, which got over in 20 minutes, took place around 4 p.m. in Khari Bawli in Old Delhi. “The masked men entered Suresh Chandra Mittal’s shop and grabbed […]
With Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade back in India and a US diplomat sent back to America in a reciprocal gesture, India and the US look all set to resume business as usual. In fact, both sides are holding an event in the very place where it all started – New York. On Tuesday, the consulate […]
The Shiv Sena will observe “Pratigya Divas” (Pledge Day) on Jan 23, its founder-patriarch Bal Thackeray’s birth anniversary, at a mass rally in the Maharashtra capital, the party president said Monday. Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray said this year he has appealed to all party workers to join the mega-rally at Somaiya Ground in central […]
The Kalapakavadi family was informed Monday around 2 p.m. that Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi would be over for lunch. “I asked my wife Susheela to see that a Syrian Christian lunch be ready in 45 minutes. She and the others set about getting the meal ready,” said Kalapakavadi. Gandhi was on a day’s visit […]
Customs officials in Goa have been unable to carry out anti-narcotics raids in the last two years because no one is coming forward with information on drug deals, state Customs Commissioner V.P.C. Rao said Monday. Goa is one of the top narco-tourism destinations in the country. Narcotics activity reaches its peak among tourists and locals […]
Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh Sunday inaugurated the third phase of the mega eye camp in Jharkhand’s Maoist-hit areas at Giriwar High School of Palamu district. The eye camp initiative is a special one initiated by Jairam Ramesh, to bring better eye care facilities to rural people living in Maoist-hit areas. This camp is […]
The owner of Fortis Memorial Research Institute and six doctors were booked for cheating and other charges after a man moved a court alleging that the hospital had not conducted tests on his daughter properly. Fortis Sunday said it would comment after studying the police complaint. Owner Malvinder Mohan Singh and doctors Sanjeev K. Choudhary, […]
The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) has asked the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) and a cooking gas dealer to pay compensation of Rs.2 lakh to the kin of a couple, who died after an LPG gas cylinder exploded. NCDRC presiding member K.S. Chaudhari and member B.C. Gupta, in a order delivered last week, directed […]
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday called up Sheikh Hasina to congratulate her on being sworn in as the Bangladesh prime minister for the third time. The prime minister also sent her a message of felicitation. Manmohan Singh called her up Sunday evening to convey his good wishes and also “wished her and the people of […]
The bitter India-US diplomatic row over an Indian diplomat may have been defused for now, but Americans in New Delhi are not likely to get their swimming pool, hamburgers, bowling and booze back anytime soon. For reciprocity is the name of the game since the US chose to arrest, strip search and slap a criminal […]