Underlining Pakistan’s ‘denials and evasions’ in the wake of the Mumbai attacks, India Monday said Islamabad’s lack of sufficient action against perpetrators of the 26/11 created doubt about its seriousness on seeking a meaningful dialogue with India.
Without naming Pakistan, India also warned against using terrorism as an instrument of state policy, saying those ‘elements that [...]
To provide relief to HIV positive people in the national capital, the Delhi government Thursday decided to provide them with below poverty line (BPL) cards which will give them access to subsidised ration and free bus rides.
The decision was taken in a Delhi State AIDS Council meeting chaired by Heath Minister Kiran Walia.
‘The [...]
New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) Sonia Gandhi praised contributions of all Congress prime ministers except P. V. Narasimha Rao in her speech Monday during the foundation stone-laying function of the Congress headquarters in Delhi to mark 125 years of the party’s formation.
Making no mention of Rao in her 15-minute speech, she said Rajiv Gandhi scripted [...]
New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) The vice-chancellor of one of India’s leading institutes of Sanskrit learning based here has got his fourth extension, reigniting charges that he has stayed on in the post too long.
Brushing aside a plethora of charges against him, the human resource development (HRD) ministry last month extended the tenure of Vachaspati [...]
New Delhi, Dec.16 (ANI): Bharti group Chairman and Managing Director Sunil Mittal was conferred upon Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence in Public Administration, Academics and Management for the year 2009 on Wednesday for his superior business leadership by the President Pratibha Devisingh Patil in the national capital.
Mittal, while accepting the award named [...]
Patna, Dec 11 (IANS) Here’s one place where the rural jobs scheme is scripting a green success story. Around 60,000 people in Bihar’s Tirhut division are busy looking after 12 million plants and are being paid for it.
‘More than 60,000 people, mostly the poorest of the poor, are looking after 1.2 crore plants every day [...]
New Delhi, Nov 25 (IANS) Over 100 students fell ill after taking the mid-day meal in a government school in the national capital Wednesday. All the students were out of danger, police said.
The incident took place in Sharda Sen Rajkiya Kanya Vidhyalaya in Trilokpuri in east Delhi Wednesday afternoon, a police officer said.
‘After having the [...]
New Delhi, Oct.31 (ANI): On the occasion of 25th death anniversary of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, a two-day exhibition has been organised in the national capital.
Organised by the Delhi Government at the Ramlila Ground, the [...]
New Delhi, Oct 29 (IANS) The journalism school of the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) with the Deutche Welle Akademie has launched a two-week programme to help teachers, media professionals and others hone their training skills.
The main aim of the ‘Train the trainer’ (ToT) programme is to build a base of trainers who can [...]
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 19 (IANS) Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan Monday said political leaders in Tamil Nadu, belonging to rival fronts, will finally have to yield to Kerala’s demand for a new dam at Mullaperiyar.
‘What we see today is the rival fronts’ politicians in Tamil Nadu blaming Kerala, which is only understandable and this is in [...]
New Delhi, Oct 14 (IANS) Two students of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) suffered bullet injuries during an altercation between a petrol pump guard and a man in east Delhi, police said Wednesday.
Harish, 19, and Kake, 20, were admitted to the Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital after they fell victim to firing at the petrol [...]
New Delhi, Oct.2 (ANI): Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other dignitaries paid homage at the Samadhi of the late Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri on the occasion of his 105th birth anniversary on Friday (Oct.2) here.
Sonia Gandhi, BJP leader and Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Lal Krishna Advani also paid their tributes [...]
New Delhi, Sep 22 (IANS) Three married women were murdered in the last twenty hours in different parts of the capital.
In one case, the police arrested the woman’s husband who called in the police after committing the crime. In other two incidents also, the police suspect the involvement of the husband.
Police arrested Sandeep, [...]
New Delhi, Sep 9(ANI): Days after reports of a burglary from the Rashtrapati Bhavan, thieves struck again in the Lutyen’s Delhi, when a watch belonging to late Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri was stolen by unidentified miscreants from the Lal Bahadur Shastri Memorial in national capital.
The [...]
Hyderabad, Sep 4 (ANI): The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh and Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi paid homage to former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajsekhar Reddy on Friday.
Reddy, who died in a helicopter crash along with four others on Wednesday morning, also received floral tribute from other Congress leaders, including Rahul Gandhi, Defence Minister [...]
Hyderabad, Sep.4 (ANI): The flower-bedecked gun carriage carrying the coffin of former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajsekhara Reddy has reached the Lal Bahudur Shastri Stadium and is lying in state for the general public and politicians to pay their last [...]
Hyderabad, Sep.4 (ANI): The flag-draped and flower-bedecked coffin of former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajsekhara Reddy left the Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium on Friday afternoon, hours after it was placed there for the general public and [...]
Hyderabad, Sep.4 (ANI): The flag-draped and flower-bedecked coffin of former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajsekhara Reddy left for his native village Pulivendula in Kadapa District in an Indian Air Force helicopter on Friday afternoon.
The funeral convoy arrived at Hyderabad’s Begumpet Airport from the [...]
Hyderabad, Sep.4 (ANI): The flag-draped and flower-bedecked coffin of former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajsekhara Reddy arrived in his native village Pulivendula in Kadapa District by an Indian Air Force helicopter on Friday afternoon.
The flight took off from [...]
Kurnool (Andhra Pradesh), Sep.3 (ANI): The highly charred and decomposed bodies of former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy and four others were shifted to an Indian Air Force helicopter a short while ago, and the chopper has lifted off from the [...]
Hyderabad, Sep.3 (ANI): Tens of thousands of people, from all walks of life, came out on the streets of Hyderabad on Thursday evening to mourn and pay their last respects to former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajsekhara Reddy, who died [...]
Pulivendula (Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh), Sep.4 (ANI): Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajsekhara Reddy, who tragically died in a helicopter crash on Wednesday morning, was on Friday buried with full state honours in his native village of Pulivendula in Kadapa District.
As the tricolour draped coffin carrying his body was taken to the [...]
