Five Bajrang Dal activists have been held for staging protests against a European Union (EU) delegation that will visit Orissa’s Kandhamal district to interact with riot victims.
The Bajrang Dal workers were detained Tuesday evening from the airport here, police said.
The slogans began shortly after the 11-member EU delegation, which is scheduled to visit [...]
Three people died and 17 were injured when a mini bus overturned near the Inter-State Bus Terminus (ISBT) in north Delhi Wednesday, an official said.
A mini-bus plying from Wazirabad to ISBT overturned at around 8 a.m. near Majnu Ka Tila.
‘Three people, including a student, were killed and 17 passengers injured in the accident,’ Deputy [...]
The outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom’s (ULFA) demand for sovereignty or independence – now the major stumbling block for opening peace talks with the government – was not on its agenda when the outfit was formed 30 years ago in Assam.
‘When we formed the ULFA, sovereignty was not in our scheme of things, [...]
A warm day and clear skies greeted Delhiites Wednesday. The pleasant weather will continue in the coming days, the weatherman has forecast.
According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the minimum temperature Wednesday was 8.7 degrees Celsius, which is normal for this time of the year.
‘The minimum temperature is 8.7 degrees Celsius and the maximum [...]
Three people, including a student, were killed and about two dozen people were injured when a mini bus overturned near Majnu Ka Tila in north Delhi Wednesday, an official said.
The accident occurred after a tyre of the mini bus burst Wednesday morning.
‘Three people died and at least 22 people were injured in the incident. [...]
World energy dialogue, focus on technologies and innovative ideas for conservative and renewable energy will be the chief features of the Hannover Messe – one of the globe’s largest trade fairs – scheduled to be held April 19-23 at Germany’s Hannover Fair Grounds.
The fair is rated as an international gateway to world markets for [...]
So you think children these days are simply not reading as much as they did in the past? The publishing industry doesn’t seem to think so. They say the recession period saw the sale of children’s books go up and make profits.
Shantanu Duttagupta of Scholastic India Pvt Ltd said: ‘It’s a misconception that children [...]
They may be from small towns but that hasn’t stopped them from dreaming big. They have made it to the first women’s contingent of the paramilitary Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) to be deployed soon at the international border and other sensitive locations.
Patriotism and love for the uniform motivated these women to join the [...]
From ‘3 Idiots’ to ‘Teen Patti’, R. Madhavan is surely doing a different kind of cinema but he doesn’t want to experiment with the genres. The multilingual actor says he just wants to work on good scripts but rues that these are hard to come by.
‘I don’t want to experiment with genres, I just [...]
Forty-year-old Dutch feminist, writer and politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali says when she was 13, fictional detective Nancy Drew sowed the seeds of rebellion in her.
Talking of her growing up years in Mogadishu in Somalia, Ali said she ‘was influenced by English literature with Charles Dickens and fiction novel series like Nancy Drew and Barbara [...]
The Orissa High Court Tuesday asked district collectors and superintendents of police (SP) to prevent the misuse of red beacons atop official vehicles.
The high court has asked district officials to ensure that the Orissa Motor Vehicle Rules 1993 are adhered to and those who are not entitled to use red beacons must remove them [...]
An angry mob blocked a busy road here Tuesday and pelted stones at vehicles, protesting the theft and slaughter of four cows, police said.
Sharmishtha Chauhan, a resident of Sikandarpur area on Loni Road here, complained early Tuesday that her cows had been stolen overnight. Her neighbours started searching for the animals in the area [...]
Expressing resentment over alleged harassment of youth from the minority community by police on the pretext of tackling terror, a Muslim clerics’ organisation Tuesday said it would hold protests against Congress leaders, who would visit Azamgarh district.
‘We will sport black badges and will also wave black flags at the Congress leaders, including Digvijay Singh [...]
An Air India Chennai-New Delhi flight made an emergency landing late Tuesday at the Nagpur airport due to a technical failure in the hydraulic landing system, airport sources said. No one was hurt.
There were 148 passengers on board when the plane made an emergency landing at around 10.30 p.m.
The aircraft is undergoing repair and [...]
A 42-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly molesting an Australian woman tourist inside a Mathura-bound train in Uttar Pradesh, an official said Tuesday.
Shekhar Sharma, a resident of Lucknow, allegedly molested 29-year-old Australian woman in the Patna-Mathura Express in the Tundla region in Ferozabad district, some 350 km from here.
‘Acting on the complaint [...]
Budding singer Aditya Jassi, who was once a part of the music show ‘Fame X’, says reality shows are not the key to Bollywood. He feels hard work and luck are more important.
‘There is no shortcut to success. A reality show alone cannot guarantee you songs in films. Luck plays a very important role [...]
A 42-year-old woman was Tuesday murdered in her house in northwest Delhi. Police said burglary could have been the motive behind the killing.
Mamata Thakur was found dead with her throat slit in her apartment in Rohini Sector 9. Her husband Praveen Thakur, a broker, and three children were all out of their Friends Apartments [...]
The indefinite shutdown called by the Maoist-backed People’s Committee against Police Atrocities (PCAPA) in three West Bengal districts received mixed response on the first day Tuesday.
‘Life has been hit in some particular pockets in Bankura, Purulia and West Midnapore districts,’ state Inspector General of Police (Law and Order) Surajit Kar Purakayastha told IANS.
According to [...]
In another gotra (clan) row, Khanda village panchayat (council) in this Haryana district Tuesday directed a newly-wed couple to stay away from the village periphery as they were not permitted to marry as per village customs.
The panchayat observed that no boy of Khangwal gotra, who lives in Khanda village, can marry a girl of [...]
The Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) Tuesday decided to hold fresh entrance examination to post-graduate medical courses after student groups alleged irregularities and a probe committee confirmed some shortcomings.
Following the students’ complaints about the entrance test to the MD/MS/MDS courses held Jan 24, Vice-Chancellor P.K. Abdul Azis set up a a three-member enquiry committee to [...]
Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh said Tuesday he would go ahead with his visit to Uttar Pradesh’s Azamgarh town Wednesday, despite objections by some political parties and groups, to probe allegations that some local youth had been picked up by police without reason.
‘People have told me that some innocent youth had been picked up [...]
The arrested editor of the Bengali edition of the banned Maoist magazine People’s March, Swapan Dasgupta, a blood cancer patient, died in a state-run hospital Tuesday, sparking allegations that the authorities had hastened his death through neglect and lack of proper treatment.
A senior official of the SSKM hospital said a post-mortem and forensic examination [...]
Human failure, lack of observance of safety guidelines, defunct devices and faulty safety audits seemed to be some of the reasons for the fire at the Indian Oil Corp terminal in Jaipur in October last year, an independent inquiry committee has found out.
‘The basic or root cause is an absence of site specific, written [...]
There are many filmmakers who are keen to sign Amitabh Bachchan for their projects, but the megastar is impressed with none other than Vishal Bhardwaj and says they may work together in future.
‘What a range of subjects he (Vishal) puts forth with innocent ease of reference. His exuberance for ‘Paa’ and the desire on [...]
India’s NTPC Ltd, one of Asia’s largest power generation companies, plans to hire 6,000 people over the next five years, a senior company official said here Tuesday.
‘For the past four years we have been hiring around 1,200 people every year. This trend will continue for the next five years,’ R.C. Shrivastav, director (Human Resources), [...]
The indigenously developed Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas would be a reality at last and will soon join the Indian Air Force (IAF), Defence Minister A.K. Antony said here Tuesday.
‘I can declare that LCA is going to be a reality, at last. I can tell you with confidence that by December 2010, the initial [...]
A mountaineer died Tuesday after he slipped and fell from the Ayodhya hill in West Bengal’s Purulia district while on a trekking mission, police said.
Amitava Sen, who was trekking along with two others, fell 100 feet down into a gorge, an official said.
‘He is dead. He slipped and the rope bound to his waist [...]
Three students from Bangalore, Kolkata and Mumbai are set to receive the 2010 Manmohan Singh scholarship to fund their undergraduate studies at the University of Cambridge.
For 2010, the scholarship will be given to Neal Duggal from Mallya Aditi International School, Bangalore, Jesika Haria from Dhirubhai Ambani International School, Mumbai, and Rudrajit Banerjee from The [...]
A 32-year-old man was Tuesday arrested in Orissa for sending a threat e-mail to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, police said.
Pratap Chandra Behera, resident of Astaranga village in Puri district, some 60 km from here, was arrested after he admitted that he had some differences with his cousin Prakash and committed the crime to teach [...]
A man was arrested in the national capital for making threatening calls to former union minister Arif Mohammed Khan, police said Tuesday.
Arif Mohammed Khan filed a complaint Jan 26 after he received several threatening calls.
‘Based on electronic surveillance, we arrested Imtiaz, a labourer. He made calls under the influence of alcohol,’ said Deputy [...]
