Haryana’s chief minister termed 4,443 cases of malaria being reported from Mewat district as “small incidents.” Releasing the official logo for his government’s ‘Haryana golden jubilee celebrations featuring the ‘Gita sandesh (message of the Gita)’ chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Saturday also ignored questions related to “biryani sampling” before leaving in[Read More…]
Toughening his stand on “frivolous” PILs, Chief Justice of India TS Thakur slammed various petitions this week. Stating that petitions meant for “making money and publicity” won’t be entertained at all, he said “It is high time, judiciary should teach such petitioners a lesson and a heavy cost should be[Read More…]
Eleven residents of ‘Happy Jivan Co-operative Housing Society’ in Vasai have objected to the sale of one of the flats to a Muslim family. Kantaben Patel (55) and her son Jignesh Patel (32), when wished to sell their flat to a Muslim glass merchant Vikarahmed Khan, the residents of the society passed a[Read More…]
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation on Friday served a notice to Shahid Kapoor after its insecticide team found mosquito breeding inside Shahid’s swimming pool that was apparently lying unused. A notice has been served to the actor under section 382 of the BMC Act that attracts a fine of upto Rs[Read More…]
Indian Navy Chief Admiral Sunil Lanba said on Saturday that primary investigations suggest the Scopene data leak took place at the Direction des Constructions Navales Services (DCNS) office in France and not from India’s side. Speaking at the launch of the Mormugao destroyers in Mumbai, Lanba said that a high-level[Read More…]
The Indian Navy’s indigenously built guided missile destroyer, Mormugao, was launched on Saturday with Navy chief Admiral Sunil Lanba claiming that it can hold its own against the best stealth destroyers in the world. Mormugao was built by the Mazgaon Shipyard and is the second ship which belongs to the[Read More…]
Most of us have a dream of going on a long road trip with friends riding a Harley Davidson or a cosy SUV. But Naveen Rabelli, Indian origin Australian automotive engineer wanted to make his road trip distinctively adventurous as well as wanted to spread a ‘green’ message. The 35-year-old[Read More…]
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Saturday announced construction of Amma marriage halls at 11 places in the state at an estimated cost of Rs 83 crore. According to a news report on the Times of India, these halls are aimed at providing affordable venues to people from poor[Read More…]
The Delhi high court dismissed on Friday suits by three international publishers against the sale of photocopied books and pages in Delhi University, a landmark verdict likely to have a wide-reaching impact on copyright laws in India. Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw also lifted a ban on the photocopier kiosk from[Read More…]
Mohammad Kaif, an alleged sharpshooter who has been named in the murder of Journalist Rajdeo Ranjan is making rounds of news and is triggering Twitter war between politicians. Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejaswi Yadav on Friday in a series of tweets posted photographs of Kaif and another sharpshooter Iqbal Shaikh[Read More…]
Swami Aseemanand, one of the alleged mastermind of 2007 Samjhauta Express blast case, was granted bail on Friday by a special NIA court in Haryana’s Panchkula district. He furnished two bonds, one a personal bond of ₹1 lakh and two surety bonds of ₹1 lakh each. The entire case is[Read More…]
In a shocker for the national capital, two teenage girls, aged 17 and 18 were allegedly gangraped by five youths on Wednesday evening. They were out on a walk with their boyfriends at a park in outer Delhi’s Aman Vihar area when the attackers thrashed the victims’ boyfriends before tying[Read More…]
A Swedish appeals court decided to uphold the arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on Friday, prolonging the six year long legal stand off between prosecutors and the Wikileaks founder. Assange, 45, is wanted by Swedish authorities for questioning over allegations, which he denies, that he committed rape in[Read More…]
In a nation that still has the Nehru-Gandhi hangover, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has left his own mark. While his dissenters are also more proactive than ever before, India has gotten a dynamic and vocal Prime Minister after a long time. From his frequent foreign tours and tailor-made suits carrying[Read More…]
The political storm in Kashmir intensified after Srinagar MP Tariq Hameed Karra resigned from his Lok Sabha seat and PDP party citing “a sellout.” He accused the ruling Mufti-led-PDP of “treating people much worse than Nazis” and blamed the Centre for adding “fuel to fire” in the Valley with its[Read More…]
Here is a four point four-point compromise formula of the Samajwadi Party that brokered the truce in the Yadav Pari’War’. 1) Gayatri Prasad Prajapati to be minister again, but will get different portfolio. 2) Shivpal to get back his portfolios and also be state President. 3) Akhilesh to have an important say in ticket distribution.[Read More…]
A dawn-to-dusk bandh called by several farmers and traders bodies over the raging Cauvery dispute began on Friday across Tamil Nadu amid tight security with Opposition parties, including the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), supporting it. However, normal life is not affected much. Government-run buses, government offices, government schools and banks[Read More…]
Just days ahead of the Apple iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus‘s India launch, a group of men hijacked a truck carrying a consignment of the Rs 60,000-priced flagship phones near Vasant Kunj in South Delhi by attacking the driver with chilli powder. The accused then drove the truck to[Read More…]
A St. Stephen College student recently shared a harrowing incident on Facebook Page Pinjra Tod which went viral. The girl described the incident which took place on 8th September in her PG in Lajpat Nagar where she found a drunk intruder with his ‘pants down’ in her Kitchen. She pulled[Read More…]
Cases of dengue across the country have been on the rise but one of the worst affected places has to be Kanpur. The onslaught of the vector-borne disease is being felt the most by the police department as 250 of its personnel have been tested positive. With more than 2000[Read More…]
For Delhi health minister Satyendra Jain Google is the most reliable source of information as according to him chikungunya cannot cause deaths because the search engine told him so. The minister said that four of the five supposed chikunguniya deaths in Delhi were reported from the same hospital, which seems ‘suspicious’. Jain[Read More…]
The lawyers of the Madras Bar Association, Madras High Court Advocates Association and Women Lawyers Association have expressed shock over reports that senior lawyer Nalini Chidambaram may be issued fresh summons by the Enforcement Directorate to be present at its Kolkata office in connection with fees received by her in[Read More…]
After the major embarrassment caused due to the Embraer deal, the Defence Ministry has now asked for a CBI probe into the allegations. Brazilian aviation company, Embraer was accused of hiring a UK-based agent to flow kickbacks to land the $208 million deal for three Emb-145 aircrafts. Defence Minister Manohar[Read More…]
India rejected United Nations Human Rights Council’s demand to visit the troubled valley of Kashmir on Wednesday. This move comes as a blow to India’s diplomatic counter-maneuvering, and marks a success for Pakistan’s efforts to “internationalising” the Kashmir conflict. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said he was awaiting[Read More…]
Bihar’s don-turned-politician Mohammad Shahabuddin was seen in the company of Mohammad Kaif, an alleged sharp shooter who has been named in the murder of Journalist Rajdeo Ranjan. While he was giving his assessment of chief minister Nitish Kumar’s government after stepping out of prison, Kaif was spotted by his side.[Read More…]
