Shillong: A 5.1-magnitude quake jolted the northeastern states early Wednesday, authorities here said. The quake occurred at 12.08 a.m. The epicentre was in Assam’s Sonitpur district bordering Arunachal Pradesh, the regional seismological centre said. The tremor was felt in Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. There was no immediate report of damage or casualty. India’s [...]
New York: External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna has conveyed India’s concerns to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over the US visa fee hike and discussed a host of regional and global issues, including Afghanistan and regional cooperation in South Asia. Krishna held a 45-minute meeting with Clinton on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly [...]
New Delhi: Direct rule of the people, fighting corruption and eliminating price rise will be the focus of the political party being started by Arvind Kejriwal and other activists, a vision document for the party said. The document comes as Kejriwal, along with other colleagues of the erstwhile Team Anna, is set to announce his [...]
Sambalpur: A court in Odisha has convicted a driver for rape and murder of a seven-year-old daughter of a wage-earner, within 29 days of occurrence of the crime. District and Sessions Judge, Sambalpur, Bibhu Prasad Routray yesterday convicted Pradip Dalai of Balibhanga area under town police limits here for committing the crime on September 2. [...]
New Delhi: The country’s industry bodies have supported a proposed law to criminalise private sector bribery saying such an attempt would help in checking corruption. Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) has noted with approval the government attempt to amend the Indian Penal Code (IPC) to make corruption in private sector a [...]
United Nations: Strongly reacting to External Affairs Minister S M Krishna’s reference to Kashmir at the UN, Pakistan has claimed that Jammu and Kashmir had never been an integral part of India and said President Asif Ali Zardari’s statement on the issue was “not unwarranted”. Pakistan’s mission to the UN said it was exercising its [...]
United Nations: India has called upon all states to destroy their chemical weapon stockpiles under the Convention against Chemical Weapons (CWC) within the shortest possible time to advance the cause of disarmament. “Disarmament is a primary goal of the Convention and should remain the priority till the complete destruction of all chemical weapons,” Indian External [...]
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court today asked Deccan Chronicles Holdings Ltd to give an irrevocable and unconditional bank guarantee of Rs 100 crore to the BCCI on or before October 9 while observing that the Cricket Board has acted in haste to terminate IPL franchise Deccan Chargers. The bank guarantee would be in force for [...]
New Delhi: Days after his split with Anna Hazare, activist Arvind Kejriwal will formally join politics Tuesday with the announcement of the launch of a political party. The announcement of the new party is meant to coincide with the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, said Manish Sisodia, a leader of the India Against Corruption (IAC) [...]
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Nitin Gadkari Monday filed a defamation case against Congress leader Digvijay Singh for dragging his name into alleged irregularities in coal block allocation. Gadkari appeared in the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Sudhesh Kumar to file the case. According to the complaint, Digvijay Singh named him in the allocation of [...]
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Kubra Fatima Ask any Hyderabadi what they love about the City and they will have many things to say — food, greenery and people being the usual suspects. On the contrary, if you ask them what they hate and ‘travelling in an auto’ will be the first response. Even though going around the twin cities [...]
Expecting a Sunday feast, I went to the dining table eagerly looking forward to the best of my mother’s cooking. I lifted the lid on the big casserole and found pulao with corn. I didn’t know what to make of it. I believe my mother makes the best peas pulao. But to have corn replacing [...]
Shraddha Jahagirdar-Saxena Just a few days ago, when Mumbai Indians played the Sunrisers in Mumbai, I found myself standing on Marine Drive, outside ‘D’ road, along with my brother, waiting for our sons to amble out after the match (which to the pride of this city’s dwellers, MI won). It took several moments for the [...]
No one kills the goose that lays the golden egg
There is a ridiculous debate going on after the reports on spot-fixing emerged: should IPL be scrapped? Even if IPL were the first sporting event to be tainted by spot-fixing, it would be senseless to even suggest that it be scrapped. Since that is not the case, talking of scrapping is, pardon the coarse expression, [...]
This must be the greatest moment of crisis that Barack Obama has faced till now in his entire time at the White House. There’s the tax agency scandal, 100 emails regarding the Benghazi attacks have been released and also the scandal of the justice department hacking the phones of reports of the nation’s biggest news [...]
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