The Trinamool Congress MPs were on Thursday detained from near the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) here as they tried to march towards it to protest the arrest of their fellow MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay on Tuesday. No less than 32 Trinamool members of Parliament took out a march towards the PMO on Raisina Hill. They were, however, stopped midway by the Specia...
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's former Principal Secretary on Thursday said he had sought voluntary retirement after alleging harassment by the CBI. Rajendra Kumar alleged that the Central Bureau of Investigation was pressurizing him to implicate the Chief Minister in the alleged wrongdoing he (Kumar) is accused of. The CBI denied the al...
India has broken "UN limits" on development of nuclear weapons, a leading Chinese daily said, and demanded that Pakistan should get the same nuclear privileges. The Global Times also warned that China will not stick "rigidly to nuclear rules" if Western countries accept India as a nuclear country "and are indifferent to the nuclear race be...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday praised Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for organising a mega "Prakash Utsav" here, marking the 350th birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh. He also hailed Nitish Kumar's decision of imposing prohibition in the state and urged all political parties and people to back his move. "Nitish K...
Sri Lanka on Thursday arrested 10 Indian fishermen for poaching in its waters. The arrested fishermen and their trawlers were taken to a naval base where they were handed over to local authorities in Jaffna town, Xinhua news agency reported. Earlier this week, Sri Lanka urged India to end bottom trawling in order to resolve a long standing fishing dispute...
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday said the world needs to tell India "enough is enough" vis-a-vis its policy towards Jammu and Kashmir. Sharif was addressing an International Parliamentary Seminar on Kashmir here. "Seventy years of brutal repression and Kashmiri struggle in the face of that oppression have shown cries of freedom cannot be stif...
A special court in Bangladesh on Thursday adjourned the hearing of two graft cases against former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia. Judge Abu Ahmed Jamadar of the Special Judge Court-3 passed the order in the presence of Khaleda Zia, who also is the chairperson of her Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), in the courtroom in Dhaka, Xinhua news agency rep...
In its ongoing investigation in the Rs 3,767 crore VVIP chopper scam, the CBI is focusing on the roles of several top political leaders, sources revealed on Thursday. The CBI sources said that the leaders include former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress President Sonia Gandhi and her aide Ahmed Patel. They came under the agency's...
Ranchi, Jan 5 (IANS) Maoist guerrillas killed two men they had abductded overnight in Jharkhand, police said on Thursday. Sanjay Singh and Vijay Singh were kidnapped from Patehl village, around 160 km from here, on Wednesday night. Their bullet-ridden bodies were recovered on Thursday morning....
The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Thursday released its first list of 100 candidates for the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls. The list includes 34 Muslims. Polling to pick a new 403-member assembly will be held between February 11 and March 8. The BSP list includes Nawab Qazim Ali Khan from Rampur, Ali Yusuf Ali from Chamaruwa, Mohammad Islam Khan from Gunnaur...
