Meenakshi Mishra takes over as Principal AG, Maharashtra

Mumbai: Meenakshi Mishra a 1983 batch Officer of the Indian Audit & Accounts Service has assumed charge of Principal Accountnt General (Audit), Maharashtra. She succeeds Mala Sinha. Meenakshi Mishra has had a rich and varied professional experience...

India, Germany exchange 18 Memorandums of Understanding on Monday

Achievement for Modi's "Make-in-India" call New Delhi/ Nagpur: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Germany bearing the desired fruits, India and Germany on Monday entered into a mutual agreement to fast-track business approvals, an arrangement to make it easier...

Nobel Prize for Medicine-2015 bagged by 3 scientists from Ireland, Japan and China

• Remedies against roundworm parasites causing malaria, infections discovered
• Prizes to be conferred on them on December 10, the birth anniversary of Alfred Nobel

Efforts are underway to make India a Hindu nation: Azam Khan

New Delhi/ Nagpur: A Samajwadi Party leader, Azam Khan, who always prefers living in controversy, said, "Efforts are being put to see that India turns into a Hindu nation," and cautioned that Rajnath Singh is not the Union Home Minister...

Beef rumours leads to mob killing in Dadri: 7 of 10 accused related to BJP Leader

National: Dadri, Uttar Pradesh:  In another startling incident where a mob displayed radical behaviour, a lynch mob killed a man named Mohammad Akhlaq in a village near Delhi on Monday over rumours that he had killed a cow and eaten...

Army had plotted to topple Rajiv govt in 1987: Retd Gen

CHANDIGARH/Nagpur: Lt Gen P N Hoon, a former Army commander of the prestigious Western Command, has claimed there was a plot to topple Rajiv Gandhi's government in 1987. He has also claimed that three crack para-commando battalions including one from...

A grand celebration of Gandhi Jayanti by Gandhi Vichar Manch

Mumbai: A grand celebration of Gandhi Jayanti held on 2nd October 2015, at Nandnandan Bhawan, Sodawala Lane, Borivali (West), Mumbai. The program was organized by Gandhi Vichar Manch's President Manmohan Gupta.The Special guests were MP Gopal...

Maulavis order Muslim women not to contest Kolhapur MC poll

Kolhapur/ Nagpur: The Maulavis of Majlis-e-Shura-Ulama-e-Shahar Committee have issued diktat for Muslim community women not to be encouraged to contest elections of Kolhapur Municipal Corporation. The diktat was issued by Maulavis last week, said the media...

Did Indrani Mukerjea Attempt Suicide in Custody?

Mumbai/Nagpur: In the latest development in the Sheena Bora murder case, prime accused Indrani Mukerjea is said to have consumed some tablets in custody. She is reportedly unconscious since 2 pm and has been admitted to JJ hospital in Mumbai. According...

Indian IT firms breathe easy as ‘discriminatory’ H-1B visa fee lapses in US Congress

Washington: In a development that could be construed as a breather for Indian IT firms, the "discriminatory" $2,000 H-1B fee mostly imposed on them has now lapsed in a Republican-majority US Congress. The charges, often called outsourcing fee, had forced...

Oregon shooter Chris Harper Mercer shot Christians in the head & spared others by shooting on legs, say eye-witnesses

Oregon: The gunman, who killed nine people at an Oregon community college before dying in a firefight 26-year-old Chris Harper Mercer, was brimming with volcanic anger filled with lava of hate, officials said. Details about Mercer and the country’s latest...

Modi govt’s black money amnesty scheme a spectacular flop

The scheme

• The govt launched a scheme to bring back black money on 1 July
• Those who had parked assets abroad could declare them, and pay tax and a penalty on them
• Those who declared their assets wouldn't face prosecution