New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) In a rare moment of bonhomie between the treasury and opposition benches in parliament, union External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday earned praise from the opposition members in the Lok Sabha. "I want to thank Sushma Swaraj ji. She is doing an exceptionally good job to save our people abroad," Aam ...
Irom Sharmila, who has been on fasts unto death since November 4, 2000, to demand the repeal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958, has rejected state Social Welfare Minister Akoijam Mirabai's appeal to call off her hunger strike. Also the Congress government in Manipur is in a damage control mode as Mirabai embarrassed it with her...
Dhaka, March 9 (IANS) A pilot was killed and two crew members were missing as a cargo plane crashed into the Bay of Bengal off the coast of Bangladesh's Cox's Bazaar district on Wednesday. The Jessore-bound aircraft crashed into the sea around 9.30 a.m., bdnews24.com quoted a beach town airport authority as saying. The accident occurred a...
India and the US have agreed to deepen their already close collaboration against Pakistan-based terror groups Lashkar-e-Taeba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), blamed for terrorist attacks in India, and other terrorist threats. Visiting Indian Foreign Secretary Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and US National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice agreed to do s...
The 15-year-old girl, who was raped and then burnt alive on the terrace of her house, died here on Wednesday in a city hospital, authorities said....
The Supreme Court Tuesday issued notice to the central government on a PIL seeking the larger pictorial warning on the packaging of tobacco products and promulgation and implementation of the plain packaging rules for cigarette and other tobacco products....
The CBI on Tuesday registered a case against five Syndicate Bank officials, a CA, three private people and others on charges of causing a loss of Rs.1,000 crore to the bank by discounting of fake cheques and bills against fake insurance policies and overdraft limits against non-existent policies....
Notwithstanding union HRD Minister Smriti Irani's denial about the involvement of any vehicle from her cavalcade in an accident in Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh, opposition leaders on Tuesday demanded registration of a case against her and compensation to the bereaved family....
Taking a dig at the UPA constituent parties, specially the Congress which leads it, regarding various issues, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday said corruption was one issue which did not figure against the Narendra Modi government....
Coinciding with International Women's Day, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday officially kicked-off her Trinamool Congress' election campaign for the 2016 Assembly polls with a mammoth rally of its women leaders and supporters....
