Row as ’62 war report targeting Nehru is leaked
Sections of the top-secret classified Henderson Brooks Report have been leaked online by Australian journalist Neville Maxwell, sparking a huge furore as it purportedly blamed implementation of then...
View ArticleIndia supports: Putin calls PM
As Western powers raged against Russia on Tuesday as it announced Crimea’s “reunification” with it, India threw in its lot with Russian President Vladimir Putin while still attempting to walk the...
View ArticlePutin ignores West, Crimea back in Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin, defying Ukrainian protests and Western sanctions, signed a treaty on Tuesday making Crimea part of Russia but said he did not plan to seize any other regions of...
View Article2 AAP men drop out of poll race
Two AAP members on Tuesday withdrew their candidature for the Lok Sabha polls and embroiled former Delhi minister Rakhi Birla in yet another controversy. Mahender Singh, the AAP candidate for the...
View Article3rd Cong list: Azhar shifts to Tonk, Kalmadi left out
Sachin Pilot, Ashok Tanwar, Ajit Jogi and Mohammed Azharuddin are in the third list of Congress candidates for the Lok Sabha polls released here Tuesday. While the party fielded Youth Congress leader...
View ArticleDissension growing in BJP over candidates
Even before tasting power, the BJP seems to be tasting dissension. Massive infighting and protests have erupted within the BJP over candidate selection in various states, particularly Chandigarh, and...
View ArticleBJP members stage a demonstration in front of the party headquarters over...
BJP members stage a demonstration in front of the party headquarters over nomination of candidates for the upcoming Lok SabhaBJP members stage a demonstration in front of the party headquarters over...
View ArticleRLD leader Amar Singh garlands a statue of Choudhury Charan Singh
RLD leader Amar Singh garlands a statue of Choudhury Charan Singh during an election roadshow in Fatepur Sikri on Wednesday.
View ArticleMaya to focus on Muslims now?
With BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi finally opting for Varanasi, the Bahujan Samaj Party has also quietly changed its poll strategy and will now go all out to woo Muslims in the state....
View ArticleEC will let RBI issue licences for new banks
The EC, in the midst of the ongoing electoral process, is understood to have allowed the Reserve Bank of India to go ahead with issuing new bank licences. The central bank earlier this month sought the...
View ArticleIndian Ocean search to widen
Malaysia on Wednesday further widened the search area and asked India to hunt for the missing Malaysian Airlines aircraft in the southern Indian Ocean 5,000 nautical miles south and south-west of...
View ArticleKhurshid in new row, says Modi like ‘nursery kid’
In yet another controversy-generating remark, external affairs minister Salman Khurshid, who recently called BJP PM candidate Narendra Modi “impotent” for not being able to stop the post-Godhra riots,...
View ArticleFor `1,100, AAP will take you to Varanasi as rally volunteer
Pay `1,100 for a trip to Varanasi on March 25. Food is included. That is what an Aam Aadmi Party notice on the board at its Hanuman Road headquarters in central Delhi announces. The AAP has started...
View ArticleIndia backs Russia, no to sanctions
Having clearly supported Russia, its old ally, as it annexed Crimea from Ukraine, New Delhi declared it will not support “unilateral measures” like the sanctions being imposed by Western nations...
View ArticleAmarinder in Amritsar, Sharma for Varanasi?
Union minister Anand Sharma is willing to take on BJP PM candidate Narendra Modi in Varanasi while Capt. Amarinder Singh is likely to contest against BJP heavyweight and Leader of the Opposition in the...
View ArticleVadodara 2nd Modi seat; Advani not shifted, sulks
The BJP on Wednesday rejected its sulking veteran leader L.K. Advani’s desire to shift from his home turf of Gandhinagar in Narendra Modi-ruled Gujarat to Bhopal in Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s Madhya...
View ArticleCrimean self-defence forces scuffle with Ukrainian servicemen outside the...
Crimean self-defence forces scuffle with Ukrainian servicemen outside the Ukrainian Crimean self-defence forces scuffle with Ukrainian servicemen outside the Ukrainian Navy headquarters in Sevastopol,...
View Article5 convicted in two cases of gangrape in Mumbai mills
A Mumbai sessions court on Thursday convicted all the five accused in two different Shakti Mill gangrape cases of 2013. The court, however, adjourned pronouncement of sentence till Friday on the...
View ArticleKarunanidhi’s wife gets ED summons
The Enforcement Directorate has issued fresh summons to DMK supremo M. Karunan-idhi’s wife Dayalu Ammal in the 2G spectrum allocation case, in which it is probing money-laundering allegations. Ms...
View ArticleSon, not PC, to contest; Aiyar, Azad in 4th list
Union finance minister P. Chidambaram will not be contesting the Lok Sabha elections this time. The Congress party, instead, fielded his son Karthi from Sivaganga seat in Tamil Nadu. Union minister...
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