As tension simmers between India and Pakistan after the Uri attack, an NDTV journalist was on Monday asked to leave a press briefing of the Pakistan Foreign Secretary in New York. As reported by NDTV, the journalist Namrata Brar was asked to leave the room at the Roosevelt Hotel where[Read More…]
Mudassar Yusuf, a student at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has been expelled for posting an objectionable comment on Facebook after the Uri terror attack which left 18 soldiers dead. The vice-chancellor of the university took the decision to expel the student after personally probing the matter. He termed his post as[Read More…]
Brahamdagh Bugti, Baloch leader who has been living in self-imposed exile in Switzerland has applied for asylum in India. “We want that the Indian Government should open the doors for Baloch people and provide them access, including myself,” said Bugti. He added that India’s intervention is important for the cause[Read More…]
Former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Raghuram Rajan has resumed his role as “Distinguished Service Professor of Finance” at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and will teach international corporate finance there in the winter of 2017. Giving details of Rajan’s course schedule for 2016-17, Chicago Booth[Read More…]
Two civilians were killed and five others injured in police open firing in Banderdubi and Deochurchang areas of Nagaon district neat Kaziranga National Park in an eviction drive carried out by Assam government. The police opened fire on protesters who were demanding compensation before they move out from areas. The[Read More…]
Taking a sly dig on Vijay Mallya, the Bombay High Court on Monday observed that the businessman aptly named his company ‘Kingfisher’, as like the bird of the same name he too flew away without bothering about boundaries. The remark was made by a division bench of Justices SC Dharmadhikari[Read More…]
In a tragic incident, at least 35 passengers were killed when a bus fell into a roadside pond in Bihar’s Madhubani district. The accident took place at Basaitha chowk under Bennipatti police station in Madhubani, about 50 km from the district headquarters. Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Benipatti Nirmala Kumari[Read More…]
In a humanitarian gesture, seven people got a new lease of life after the family a 25-year-old man, declared brain-dead after an accident, donated his vital organs. Vishnu G Krishnan, a welder and lone breadwinner of his family, was declared brain-dead on Monday after his motorcycle collided with another bike[Read More…]
The biggest initial public offering (IPO) in nearly six years of ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, began on Monday, with investors bidding for 4.08 lakh shares within the first 10 minutes of the bidding process. As reported by ET, the issue has 0.30% subscription against the issue size of 13.23 crore shares[Read More…]
Facing allegations of sexual allegations, AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan on Monday went to the Jamia Nagar police station to get himself arrested but police refused to apprehend him. “We will not arrest him now. Whatever he is doing is of his own accord. We will go by our investigation,” a[Read More…]
Two successful breaches one at the Line of Control (LoC) at Uri and second the perimeter of the Army base that saw the fencing wire being cut, resulted in the Uri attack. Agencies are probing the two-point breach that helped suspected Jaish-e-Mohammad fidayeen access heavily-guarded camp and execute one of the deadliest[Read More…]
Lt Governor Najeeb Jung visited several hospitals across the city on Sunday. Stressing on “special attention” to the elderly, he took stock of their preparedness in dealing with the rising number of chikungunya and dengue cases in the national capital. His inspection comes a day after the ruling AAP government[Read More…]
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…]
