New Delhi, 24/9: Senior BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Saturday batted for the ‘one nation, one voter list’, saying that there is a need for paramount and path-breaking reforms in the electoral process of the country. The former minority affairs minister was addressing a conference at an event organised here to celebrate the birth…
New Delhi, 24/9: The nomination process for the Congress president election started on Saturday with senior MP Shashi Tharoor becoming the first to collect the papers from the AICC headquarters. Sources said Tharoor is likely to file nomination papers on September 30, the last date, as he plans to collect endorsements from party delegates from…
Islamabad, 24/9: In a strong response to Pakistan, India has said in the UN General Assembly that a country that claims to seek peace with its neighbours would never sponsor cross-border terrorism nor would it shelter planners of the horrific Mumbai terrorist attack, disclosing their existence only under pressure from the global community. India exercised…
New Delhi, 24/9: Former Congress leader and senior lawyer Kapil Sibal has alleged that people have been living in the fear of investigating agencies, the State, and the police. Talking about the “use of religion as a weapon”, the Rajya Sabha MP on Friday said that even though it was happening all over the world,…
Uttarakhand, 23/9: BJP leader’s son who owns a resort in Yamkeshwar block of Pauri district and his two employees were arrested on Friday allegedly for killing a 19-year-old girl who had been missing for the last few days, police said. The girl worked as a receptionist at the resort. Pulkit Arya is the son…
London, 23/9: Cambridge University benefited directly from enslavement and the slave trade, a three-year enquiry has found. While Cambridge has often celebrated its well-known abolitionists, like Thomas Clarkson and William Wilberforce, a new report shows that the institution benefitted substantially from the slave trade over many years, with a significant part of the university’s…
Jaipur,23/9: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, who has announced that he would fight the Congress presidential polls, on Friday said the debate on ‘one man-one post’ was unnecessary and that he would like to serve the people of his home state all his life. Talking to reporters here, he also said that his statements on…
Mumbai, 23/9: The Bombay High Court on Friday granted permission to the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena to hold its annual Dussehra rally at the iconic Shivaji Park ground in central Mumbai on October 5. The venue, where the Sena had been holding its Dussehra rally year after year, got embroiled in a legal battle after…
Thiruvananthapuram, 23/9: A 29-year-old autorickshaw driver has had to keep away from his home and family—all because he won the Kerala government’s Onam lottery of Rs 25 crore. Ever since this auto driver-cum-chef, who lives in Thiruvananthapuram, was announced the winner, people have been thronging his house seeking financial assistance.
New Delhi, 23/9: In a major development, former Indian Hockey team captain and Olympian and Pride of Odisha Dilip Tirkey elected as hockey India President. He was elected as president uncontested after two others who filed nomination withdraw their nomination
