Lucknow:Former Allahabad High Court judge M.A. Khan committed suicide early Thursday by jumping from his fourth-floor flat in the posh Gomtinagar area of Lucknow. Police said Khan was depressed, and leapt out from his fourth-floor flat around 3 in the morning. The former judge lived with his wife Shamshul Jahan, who told the police that [...]
New Delhi: The Trinamool Congress Thursday said there will be a contest if the Congress goes ahead with its proposed names for the presidential candidate, including Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee. “Today, I can visualise a contest if Congress go ahead with those names, either Pranab Babu or Hamid Ansari. Trinamool Congress, Mamata Banerjee our chief and [...]
New Delhi: Donations made by the President of India out of public funds do not pertain to his or her personal information, the Delhi High Court Thursday said, and ordered details on disbursement of presidential funds between 2004-11 to be made public. The court dismissed a petition by the president’s secretariat challenging the Central Information Commission [...]
Rourkela (Odisha):Arrest of two hardcore Maoists, accused in several murder cases, has exposed the ultras’ plot to attack security camps in certain districts of Western Odisha, the police said.Bishram alias Sudhir Bhuiyan, 24 and Habil Horo, 23 belonging to the West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand, were arrested from Saranda forest bordering Odisha and Jhardkhand in the small [...]
New Delhi:Adding woes to sluggish economy,India’s exports declined by 4.16 per cent to USD 25.68 billion in May due to unabated slump in global demand and slowdown in domestic industrial growth.Imports dropped by a sharper pace of 7.36 per cent to USD 41.9 billion, signalling weakening of the economy especially with regard to fresh investments [...]
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has been claiming that they are prepared for the monsoons but a short trip to the core areas of the City reveals the reality. Hyderabadis are eagerly waiting for the monsoon to hit the City and bring some respite from the scorching heat but with rains comes many other [...]
The curriculum vitae of Nagin Babi aka T Krishna Devi may not be very impressive but she does a flourishing business and despite the cops’ renewed efforts to book sorcerers, continued with her activity. She is alleged to own 20 houses in the City and has a sizeable investment in real estate. When the police [...]
Around 80 per cent polling in the just-held bypolls is the highest ever recorded in the recent times. This has set off a debate on who will win in the case of heavy voter turnout. Traditional wisdom says the extra votes that come over and above the usual voting percentage benefit the ‘rebels’ or the [...]
The highly controversial Polavaram project did not deter voters from turning out in large numbers. Some 83 per cent voting shows that the CPI-ML’s efforts to dissuade voters from polling had very limited success. Only Geddapalli, Kunkala gram panchayats had responded to the CPI ML call. The protest saw over 1,500 voters boycotting the bypolls. [...]
Begumpet road is plagued with the problem of construction and repair works. The denizens are worried that apart from the traffic and pollution, the onset of monsoons will add to the road’s already growing problems Too much of anything is bad, so is the case with development, especially, when the work is left half [...]
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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 [...]
Adopt and restore a lake is new mantra
It’s interesting that the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has invited interested individuals, voluntary and corporate organisations to adopt lakes in and around the city in order to protect and preserve water bodies. Last week, HMDA Commissioner Neerabh Kumar Prasad said 176 lakes in the jurisdiction of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and another [...]
About Traditional Russian values
Russia has decided to review its adoption pact that it has with France after the latter legalised gay marriage. This is in the wake of the statement of the Russian president Vladmir Putin which he made last month that Russia could change its adoption agreements with the countries which allowed gay marriage that goes against [...]
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