Jammu: Pakistani troops opened unprovoked firing on an Indian post along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, the 16th ceasefire violation by the neighbouring country within a month. “There was firing of small arms by Pakistani troops on our forward posts in Krishnagati sub-sector of Poonch district late last night,” [...]
New Delhi: After three months of internal probe, the CBI today registered five cases in connection wih the alleged scam in allocation of coal mines and conducted searches in nearly 30 places across the country. After registering five FIRs in court, CBI teams fanned out to nearly 10 cities including Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Patna, Hyderabad, [...]
Mumbai: Unfazed by strident criticism of his cousin MNS leader Raj Thackeray over his anti-Bihari remarks, Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray today sought a permit system to check influx of Bihari migrants into Mumbai. Uddhav also declared that his party would not accept Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar as NDA’s prime ministerial candidate if [...]
Searches conducted in 30 places, across 10 cities. Both Houses of Parliament adjourned over Opposition ruckus. New Delhi: The CBI today registered cases against five companies and unknown government officials as part of its probe into alleged irregularities in allocation of coal blocks and carried out searches across 10 cities. According to the CBI spokesperson, [...]
New Delhi: The government today cleared a proposal that would allow it to provide reservation for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in promotion in state jobs. The Union Cabinet, at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, approved the proposal for making provisions for quotas for SC/STs in promotions in government jobs. The Cabinet [...]
New Delhi: Welcoming the CBI raids on companies suspected to be involved in irregularities in allocation of coal blocks, BJP today said the government should take a cue from this and cancel the allocation. “We welcome the CBI raids. It is a good development. Taking a cue from this, the government should also cancel the [...]
New Delhi: The stalemate in Parliament over coal block allocations entered the tenth day today as BJP persisted with its demand for resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha were adjourned till noon after opposition triggered ruckus on the issue. Members of the DMK AIADMK, CPI and Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) [...]
Kolkata: India’s soft power remains its biggest strength in being a global leader but strict visa rules has dented the country’s image abroad, writes former union minister of state for external affairs Shashi Tharoor in his new book. “Today’s India truly enjoys soft power, and that may well be the most valuable way in which [...]
New Delhi: In order to maintain a high standard of efficiency in governance, the Centre is reviewing the performance of all-India service officers and has asked the state governments to carry out similar exercises so that non-performing officials could be retired from services. Assessment of the performance of Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Police Service [...]
Bangalore: Anna Hazare plans to convene a meeting of like-minded people by this month-end to put together a team and draw up a road-map for anti-graft crusade, former Karnataka Lokayukta Santosh Hegde said here today. Hegde, part of erstwhile Team Anna which was disbanded by the social activist recently, said Hazare told him about the [...]
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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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