India-Myanmar-Thailand superhighway set to open in November
Fancy a road trip to Thailand? It is now possible after a section of the Indo-Thailand highway, Myawaddy-Thinggan Kawkareik, of the Asian Superhighway opens in November this year. The highway begins in Manipur. According to the media reports, the first stretch...
Indian man injured by police officer testifies against him
Wheelchair-bound Sureshbhai Patel, 58, told District Court in Huntsville that he had been out for a morning walk in the neighbourhood when police approached. He was helped to the stand by a translator, ABC-affiliated television station reported. Opening arguments began yesterday...
Janta Parivar splits, Samajwadi Party to fight Bihar election alone
Samajwadi Party general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav today said that his party will fight the Bihar election alone as they felt humiliated with the 5 seat offer given to them to contest the election. Ram Gopal Yadav said he had not...
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat is the real boss of Indian government: Congress
NewDelhi/Nagpur: Congress leader Manish Tewari on Thursday called Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat the real boss of the Government of India. Narendra Modi may be the Prime Minister of India, but the real boss is Mohan Bhagwat, said Tewari. Targetting...
Sunny Leone’s condom ad will increase rape cases, destroy sensibility
NewDelhi/Nagpur: When it comes to giving bizarre and outlandish statements, the politicians give each other a tough fight. Recently speaking at a public rally in Ghazipur district of Uttar Pradesh, Left leader Atul Kumar Anjan made a shocking and irresponsible...
OROP breakthrough? May accept revision of pension once in two years, say defence veterans
NewDelhi/Nagpur: The agitating ex-servicemen and the government appeared to have ironed out some major differences over the contentious issue of one rank one pension with the defence veterans saying on Wednesday night that they may accept revision of pension once...
Former Jammu & Kashmir CM Farooq Abdullah applies for LPG subsidy, faces criticism
Jammu & Kashmir: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah is in the midst of a controversy in the wake of his recent application for LPG subsidy, which was criticised by his rivals. Abdullah, the president of main opposition National...
First conviction in 2010 CWG scam: 4-year jail term awarded to five
New Delhi: Four Municipal Corporation of Delhi employees and one other member of a private company have been sentenced to 4 years in prison by Delhi High Court. On Tuesday they were convicted by a Special CBI Court in a case...
RSS favours immediate implementation of OROP
New Delhi: The RSS favours the early implementation of the One Rank One Pension. At a three day coordination meeting between the BJP and the RSS commencing today, various issues have come up for discussion. One of the key points...
Indrani confesses her involvement in Sheena-murder!
Mumbai/ Nagpur: In a sensational twist in Seena murder case, the prime accused Indrani Mukherjea is reported to have confessed her involvement in the case. Having claimed that Sheena is in America, Indrani now confesses that Sheena has been murdered...
Shutters of shops down, banks closed as 15 crore trade union members hold one-day strike
Nagpur: Nearly 15 crore workers from 10 central trade unions are on a one-day nationwide protest on Wednesday against changes by the government in labour laws. The strike has adversely affected the essential services across the country. Train services of South...
Maharashtra Cabinet to decide to bring out ordinance
Mumbai/Nagpur: After the announcements in public and also in the state assembly by the state government, the state Cabinet on Tuesday decided to bring out an ordinance to include sand as well as essential commodities and foodgrain mafias in the...
Ragging forces Hyderabad engineering student end life
Hyderabad: The dreaded menace of ragging claimed one more life when a first year student of CMR Engineering College in Hyderabad was found dead this morning on the railway tracks in Kazipet, Warangal district. A note has reportedly been left...
Tendulkar in euphoria says, ‘Virat Kohli, well done, keep it up!’
Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar joined a host of former stars in congratulating the Indian cricket team for a historic victory as the Virat Kohli-led side clinched the three-match series 2-1 against Sri Lanka to win a Test rubber in the...
Curfew in Manipur as Churachandpur Protests Intensify, Six Dead
Churachandpur: Indefinite curfew has been declared in the whole of Manipur after three more people died in the protests over the three new state laws flared up again this morning. Altogether, six persons have died in the protests and eight...
Albeit Skype chat was used to finish Sheena, murder has its own tongue
Mumbai/ Nagpur: Mumbai police arrested Indrani Mukherjea and he ex-husband Sanjeev Khanna for the alleged murder of Sheena Bora. Deceased Sheena was daughter of Indrani, present wife of ex-chief of Star India Network, Peter Mukherjea. About a week fater their...
AAP MLA protests against Delhi government
Delhi: Sangam Vihar MLA Pankaj Pushkar on Tuesday protested against the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Government in Delhi for neglecting the demands of the people of his constituency on dengue deaths. Sangam Vihar Colony is being humiliated as people are dying...
India beat Sri Lanka by 117 runs, win series 2-1
Colombo: The match updates of fifth day of the third test match between India and Sri Lanka played in Colombo. India is in the drivers seat, and just need 4 more wickets to win to seal the series. If India manage...
Economic growth slows to 7 per cent in first quarter
Mumbai/Nagpur: India’s gross domestic product is estimated to have grown at 7 per cent in the first quarter of the fiscal, indicating that a full recovery in the economy is still some quarters away. “GDP at constant (2011-12) prices in first...
Sheena murder accused Sanjeev Khanna was live-in relationship with this woman
Nagpur: In a new twist to raging Sheena Bora murder mystery, it has come to the fore that one of the accused Sanjeev Khanna, the ex-husband of prime accused Indrani Mukerjea, was in live-in relationship with a woman named Rinu....
Karnataka govt to hand over MM Kalburgi murder case probe to the CBI
Bengaluru: The Karnataka government on Monday decided to hand over to CBI the probe into the murder of noted Kannada progressive thinker and scholar MM Kalburgi even as his body was laid to rest with full state honours. The state Cabinet...
