Govt to hone Prasar for propaganda war
An inter-ministerial group is likely to be constituted soon to guide the country’s national broadcaster, Prasar Bharati, to take on propaganda emanating from its neighbouring countries. Several...
View ArticlePawar signals pre-poll Cong tieup
The NCP has decided to go for a pre-poll alliance with the Congress in Maharashtra for the coming general election. Party president Sharad Pawar has even asked party leaders to take the Congress along...
View ArticleIncursion: Secret report blames ITBP
A classified report prepared by the Cabinet Secretariat on the recent Chinese incursion in Ladakh’s Daulat Beg Oldi sector has squarely blamed the Union ministry of home affairs for the lapse. This,...
View ArticleIndia team to seek report on Sarabjit
The brutal attack on Sarabjit Singh, an Indian on death row in a Pakistani jail, has taken place at a time when an Indian delegation is present in Pakistan to review conditions of Indian prisoners in...
View ArticlePM defends law minister
Union law and justice minister Ashwani Kumar found strong support on Saturday with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh rejecting the demand for Mr Kumar’s resignation over alleged interference in the...
View ArticleCrackdown on Ponzis begins
The crisis continued to deepen for the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal with the Union government moving ahead with a crackdown by multiple agencies on chit fund companies indulging in Ponzi...
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Braveheart
BraveheartPresident Pranab Mukherjee presents the Kirti Chakra to Major Anup Joseph during the defence investiture ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Saturday. Twelve defence personnel were...
View ArticleGovt to hone Prasar for propaganda war
An inter-ministerial group is likely to be constituted soon to guide the country’s national broadcaster, Prasar Bharati, to take on propaganda emanating from its neighbouring countries. Several...
View ArticlePawar signals pre-poll Cong tieup
The NCP has decided to go for a pre-poll alliance with the Congress in Maharashtra for the coming general election. Party president Sharad Pawar has even asked party leaders to take the Congress along...
View ArticleIncursion: Secret report blames ITBP
A classified report prepared by the Cabinet Secretariat on the recent Chinese incursion in Ladakh’s Daulat Beg Oldi sector has squarely blamed the Union ministry of home affairs for the lapse. This,...
View ArticleWitty Obama pokes fun at his critics, and himself too
Washington, April 28: US President Barack Obama poked fun at the media, his critics and himself Saturday at the annual White House Correspondents’ Assoc-iation dinner, a star-filled event where...
View ArticleAssam cops to seek Saradha chief’s custody
The Assam police wants to take arrested Saradha Group chief Sudipta Sen for investigations in cases against him in that state. Assam DGP Jayanta Narayan Choudhury told this newspaper Sunday his...
View ArticleNo file or record points to PM or FM: Chacko
Justifying the clean chit given to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and finance minister P. Chidambaram in the draft JPC report on 2G spectrum allocations, the panel’s chairman, Mr P.C. Chacko, said...
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Sarabjit’s chances slim, warn doctors
Pakistani doctors treating Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh, now lying in deep coma in a Lahore hospital, warned Sunday that he may die unless he is moved abroad for better treatment, sources...
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Checkmate?
Checkmate?India’s world champion Viswanathan Anand and Russia’s Vladimir Kramnik play during a round 6 game of the Alekhine Memorial chess tournament in St. Petersburg on Sunday. The tournament is a...
View ArticleGovt achieves breakthrough in stalemate in Parliament
The government today achieved a breakthrough in the logjam in Parliament with the opposition agreeing to allow financial business to be taken up tomorrow. The stalemate ended after a meeting of floor...
View ArticlePak officials dismiss report about sending Sarabjit abroad
Pakistani officials today dismissed a report that a medical board was considering a proposal to send abroad Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh - comatose in a Lahore hospital after a brutal...
View ArticleCong-BJP propaganda war to intensify
Propaganda war between the Congress and the BJP would intensify further after the Sonia Gandhi-led party constituted a six member team to puncture the propaganda of the main Opposition ahead of the...
View ArticlePM attacks BJP rule in K’taka
In an all-round attack on the BJP government in Karnataka, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday accused it of “misgovernance” and “corruption” and said the minorities were feeling insecure under its...
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PM meets A-G over Coalgate
At a time when the Parliament is stuck in a logjam and Opposition is gunning for the Prime Minister’s resignation, it is learnt that Manmohan Singh met attorney general (AG) G.E. Vahanvati over the...
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