94% moms willing to share baby items with poor
Sharing their baby’s old and unused items with the less-privileged is on top of today’s urban new mothers’ minds, a recently concluded multi-city survey has claimed. According to the survey conducted...
View Article‘Sanction 15,000 homes under Rajiv Awas Yojana’
The Thane city unit of Congress has urged the Union government to sanction 15,000 dwelling units under the Rajiv Awas Yojana for the city on priority basis. Thane Congress chief Balkrishna Purnekar...
View ArticleTrains turn into death traps
Going by the statistics provided by the Government Railway Police (GRP) between January and March, more people have fallen out of trains and died in 2013 as compared to the previous year. According to...
View ArticleSon reports gold, cash missing
Shyamal (24), son of 58-year-old Sangeeta Sawant, who was found murdered at her Bhandup residence, recorded his statement with the police on Monday. He reported that 17 tola gold worth `5.75 lakh along...
View ArticleSarabjit’s condition deteriorates, says Pak doctors
Doctors treating Indian death row convict Sarbajit Singh, comatose in a hospital here in Pakistan after a brutal assault, today said his condition has deteriorated though he had not been declared brain...
View ArticleCoalgate case: Why was court kept in the dark: SC
In a big embarrassment to the government in the Coalgate case, the Supreme Court today termed as “very disturbing” the CBI affidavit on sharing its report with the law minister and others and slammed...
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No plans to cancel China visit: Khurshid
External affairs minister Salman Khurshid today said that as of now there was no plans to cancel his visit to Beijing in wake of Chinese incursion in Ladakh. He, however, appeared to keep his options...
View ArticlePak court bans Musharraf from polls for life
A Pakistani court on Tuesday imposed a lifetime ban on former military ruler Pervez Musharraf contesting elections, saying he had violated the Constitution twice, in 1999 and 2007, which disqualified...
View ArticleSarabjit sinking, but docs hold out hope
Sarabjit Singh, the Indian on death row in Pakistan, is much closer to death than previously thought and some say he might even be brain dead.“He is not dead but he is closer to death than life. He is...
View ArticleSajjan Kumar acquitted in ’84 riot case
A Delhi court on Tuesday acquitted Congress leader Sajjan Kumar of all charges against him in one of three 1984 anti-Sikh riot cases. Immediately after the verdict, a man named Karnail Singh Peer...
View ArticleRaval quits as ASG, A-G may follow
Additional solicitor-general Harin Raval resigned from his position on Tuesday, a day after creating a political storm and accusing Attorney-General G.E. Vahanvati of trying to interfere in the CBI’s...
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1.21 bn Indians, female growth rate beats male
Census 2011 has pegged India’s total population at 1.21 billion, 17.7 per cent more than the last decade. According to the final census data released by Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde on...
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Weddings, cultural events in Maya parks
Lucknow: The parks and memorials built by former UP chief minister Mayawati will soon turn into venues for marriages and cultural events. The Akhilesh Yadav government has finally decided to let out...
View ArticleCoalgate: SC slams CBI, govt caught in storm
The Congress-led UPA government faced its worst ever political crisis after the Supreme Court on Tuesday ripped apart the CBI for showing the Coalgate investigation report to the government before...
View ArticleSarabjit Singh slips into non-reversible coma
Indian national Sarabjit Singh, severely injured in a brutal assault last week, has slipped into a “non-reversible” coma and doctors in a hospital here are struggling to save his life, official sources...
View ArticleAcquittal of Sajjan Kumar: Protesters storm Metro station
Scores of protesters today stormed a Metro station in west Delhi and blocked services for sometime this afternoon to protest the acquittal of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in one of the anti-Sikh riots...
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Army Chief briefs Cabinet on Chinese incursion
Army Chief Gen Bikram Singh today briefed the Cabinet on the incursion issue in Ladakh, where Chinese troops have put up tents 19 km inside Indian territory, and steps taken by the force to resolve the...
View ArticleUPA mulls ordinance for food bill
As the logjam in Parliament is expected to continue further with escalated rift between the government and the Opposition, the Centre is now mooting the idea of bringing an ordinance to implement the...
View ArticleSushma faces Cong attack
Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj is under attack from the Congress a day after she alleged that UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi “instigated” her party MPs to create disturbances during her speech. While...
View Article‘Sushma won’t talk about K’taka graft’
Mandya (Karnataka), May 1: Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday hit back at BJP leader Sushma Swaraj, who had attacked his mother and Congress president Sonia Gandhi, saying the saffron party leader does not talk...
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