Kolkata:West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will meet Congress president Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi Wednesday regarding the upcoming presidential polls, Trinamool Congress insiders said. Banerjee will leave for Delhi Tuesday evening, said a close aide of the chief minister. The West Bengal chief minister, who received an invite from Gandhi for the talks, will be [...]
New Delhi: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Tuesday said that he was disappointed with the industrial output data but asserted that the government was committed to kickstarting the economy and boosting investor sentiment. “I am disappointed … we shall have to take some steps which signals positivism. Some of the steps have already been taken,” Mukherjee said [...]
Washington: A day before India-US strategic dialogue here, the US has exempted India and six other nations from its tough Iran oil sanctions for significantly reducing their oil purchases from Tehran. By exempting India from the sanctions, the US has taken a contentious issue off the table from their strategic dialogue, co-chaired by Secretary of State [...]
New Delhi:After several delays, the national capital’s second automated multi-level car parking with a capacity of 1,408 vehicles, opened here Tuesday.Constructed at an estimated cost of Rs.120 crore, the parking, Capitol Point, is located at Baba Kharak Singh Marg in central Delhi. It has been designed by New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) and builders DLF [...]
Kanpur:A nine-year-old girl in Uttar Pradesh committed suicide by hanging herself after her siblings refused to let her watch her favourite television show, police said Tuesday.The tragedy took place at Hanspuram colony in Naubasta in Kanpur at the house of truck mechanic Om Prakash Gupta. Kiran, a student of Class 5, had a quarrel with [...]
Love is blind, they say, but love is also weird if the latest in this emotional sphere is of any indication.Worried parents of an 18-year-old girl from the City have found to their horror and to their relief that their daughter is not missing but has eloped with a boy one year junior to her. [...]
With its well-manicured lawns, 250 odd trees and a great joggers’ track, the park in Jubilee Hills, Road No 17,is everyresident’s dream destination when it comes to unwinding, getting a bit of exercise or simply catching up with friends There are parks, and then there are well maintained parks. They might be few in number, [...]
Cane-charging, stone-throwing, fisticuffs, suspension of polling officials marked the most spirited polling of recent times as the by-elections to 18 Assembly and 1 Lok Sabha constituencies got underway this morning. Termed as the ‘semi-final’ to the crucial 2014 general elections, the bypoll, is a do-or-die for the arraigned YSRC chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy. The [...]
On the World Day Against Child Labour, we take a reality check into the workings of a system that has done little to combat child labour in the State Padmini C and Sudeshna Koka Children are a source of joy and pride. For most of us, they are the reason of our existence. When children [...]
In the age of extreme-performance sports bikes with custom designs and high-capacity engines, there remains a small band of scooter lovers. The HCSC is one such example The Hyderabad Classic Scooter Club is a small, scooter-lovers’ club that has revived the free spirit of driving and scooters. Be it the Lambretta or the Vespa, the [...]
It’s David vs Goliath as Rajasthan take on Mumbai’s might
Kolkata: They have shown remarkable fighting spirit despite the demoralising spot-fixing scandal and the Rajasthan Royals will now look to upstage the mighty Mumbai Indians in the second qualifier here tomorrow to book, what would be, a dream final berth in the Pepsi IPL. On paper, Mumbai Indians may appear stronger but Rajasthan will be [...]
21 lawmakers back Chandigarh-born as top US judge
Washington: Ahead of an expected Senate vote on the nomination of Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan to a top US court, 21 lawmakers have penned their support for him. Srinivasan, 46, currently principal deputy solicitor general of the US last week won unanimous approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee for his nomination as [...]
It was like bereavement: Dravid on spot-fixing
New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid says dealing with the turmoil caused by the spot-fixing scandal, which has left his team’s reputation in tatters, has turned out to be as tough as handling “bereavement in some ways”. “I would not lie it was a very tough phase for us. It was a blow to [...]
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A footage is doing the rounds on TV channels where apparently two constables in UP are sorting matters out between them the hard way, raining each other with blows, not verbal, but with their lathis. One look at the video will tell you there seems to be something seriously wrong with the discipline among the [...]
So the thief is in the ship after all. The Mumbai police revelation that Gurunath Melyappan, son-in-law of BCCI Chief Srinivasan, was in constant touch with Vindoo Dhara Singh, now in police custody over betting, leaves no scope for imagination. Little wonder such brazen betting prospered over IPL. It now raises the question: was the [...]
Humorist Jaspal Bhatti, had he been alive, would have found stunning material for a flop show in the BJP’s behaviour of late. How the ‘national opposition party’ turned into a ‘notional’ party is a story worth caricaturing with potential for record viewing-rate.
Chinese president Xi Jinping is a chemical engineer. No wonder he knows the chemical formula to pursue his country’s global ambitions. If anybody in India believed Xi would extend a warm friendship to this country, he should be naive. He has been on a global Sino initiative to widen the Chinese visions of the century. [...]
“India is China’s important neighbour. (The purpose of) my current visit to India is three-fold — to increase mutual interest, intensify cooperation and to face the future,” said Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during his visit to India. To this the Indian prime minister’s response could n0t have been more fitting that “the rest of the [...]
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