Telangana state will be born on June 2
New Delhi: Telangana, the country’s 29th state, will be born on June 2 and start functioning from that day. A Home Ministry spokesperson said tonight that the Foundation Day of the new state will be June 2 when Telangana will come into existence and start functioning as a separate state. The central government has already issued […]
Bhagat Singh’s house and school in Pakistan gets Rs. 80 million for restoration
Lahore: Legendary freedom fighter Bhagat Singh’s ancestral house, school and his village in Punjab Province in Pakistan will be restored under a Rs. 80-million project. “We have allocated Rs. 80 million for restoration of the house and school of Independence war hero Bhagat Singh. The amount will also be spent for the uplift of Singh’s village where clean drinking water […]
Telangana Bill in Parliament tomorrow, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy may resign
New Delhi: With only five days left of the last Parliament session before national elections due by May, a desperate government is now reportedly working out how to push the controversial Telangana Bill through the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, without a discussion if it has to. It will be a tricky manoeuvre because the main opposition […]
Autopsy of Arunachal Pradesh Student Confirms Assault Caused Death, Uncle Says
NEW DELHI — The final autopsy report of Nido Tania, the 18-year-old from Arunachal Pradesh who died after an altercation with shopkeepers in south Delhi, confirmed that injuries suffered during an assault caused his death, Mr. Tania’s uncle said Monday. Mr. Tania was found dead in his Delhi home on Jan. 30, a day after […]
Uttar Pradesh Festival Honors Unsung Feminists from Region’s Past
LUCKNOW, Uttar Pradesh — Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh, was buzzing with activity in recent days as Sanatkada, a well-known nonprofit in the city for women has been hosting its annual handicrafts festival, where vendors from across India come to sell their goods. Aside from shopping, the festival, which began in 2010, offers musical […]
Strike on London Underground Disrupts Commute
LONDON — A strike on the London Underground crippled much of the transport network on Wednesday, disrupting the plans of millions of travelers and forcing commuters to cram into overcrowded buses and trains or walk or cycle to work. The 48-hour strike, which began Tuesday evening, was called by two unions to protest plans to […]
Cyberabad’s Swagger Returns as Native Son Takes Top Spot at Microsoft
HYDERABAD, Andhra Pradesh — Not since March 24, 2000, when President Clinton addressed a gathering of technology entrepreneurs here, has the Hyderabad software industry’s swagger been more pronounced, now that Satya Nadella, a Hyderabad native, has been named the chief executive of Microsoft. “It is an exciting and proud moment for all of us,” said Aditya Marri, a […]
Karl Slym, Tata Motors MD, ‘committed suicide’ after argument with wife: Thai police
BANGKOK: Karl Slym, Tata Motors managing director, apparently committed suicide after arguing with his wife and reading a note written by her that referred to “domestic problems”, the Thai Police said on Tuesday. In a fresh twist to Slym’s death in mysterious circumstances, police said the three-page handwritten note found in the hotel room from which the 51-year-old executive plunged […]
How Rahul Gandhi Did in His First TV Interview
NEW DELHI — It was a highly anticipated TV event on Monday night: Rahul Gandhi, the leader of the Congress Party’s election campaign, sat down with Arnab Goswami of Times Now, the most aggressive journalist on an English-language television network in India, for the politician’s first formal TV interview. That Mr. Gandhi chose Mr. Goswami for his first […]
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II down to her last million; palaces crumbling
London: Queen Elizabeth II’s household finances are at a “historic low” with just 1 million pounds left in reserve, even as the royal palaces were “crumbling” and in urgent need of repair. A report by the Commons public accounts committee found that the Queen’s advisers were failing to control her finances and her courtiers have been […]
Rahul’s game-plan: Do whatever it takes, win 2019
BANGALORE: The nation may be eagerly awaiting the course of the NaMo versus RaGa battle and its outcome in the April-May Lok Sabha elections. But AICC vice-president Rahul Gandhi seems to have his eyes set on the 2019 chapter. Seeking to build a new, youthful brigade in the next five years, the AICC vice-president has reportedly laid out a […]
Sunanda Tharoor’s death: police ordered to investigate cause of poisoning
New Delhi: The Delhi Police has been ordered to determine whether the death ofSunanda Pushkar Tharoor was accidental, a suicide, or murder. The inquiry into the death of Mrs Pushkar, the wife of union minister Shashi Tharoor, was ordered today by a Delhi magistrate, based on the autopsy that said the 52-year-old died of poisoning. Doctors at […]
Ranbaxy Says F.D.A. Lists Possible Violations at Punjab Drug Plant
MUMBAI — Ranbaxy Laboratories, India’s largest drug maker, said Monday that the United States Food and Drug Administration had raised concerns about possible violations in manufacturing practices at a plant in the northern state of Punjab. Ranbaxy said in a statement to the Bombay Stock Exchange that after a recent F.D.A. inspection of the generic […]
In UK and India, the controversy over Operation Bluestar
New Delhi: Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley today asked the government to respond to allegations that the British government secretly helped Indira Gandhi plan Operation Bluestar or the storming of the Golden Temple in 1984. (Explain foreign hand in planning Operation Bluestar, says Arun Jaitley) Over 1,000 people were killed after troops entered Sikhism’s holiest shrine […]
Devyani Khobragade row: expelled US diplomat, wife made offensive remarks about India
New Delhi: Wayne May, the US diplomat expelled last week by New Delhi in tit-for-tat action over the Devyani Khobragade row, and his wife Alicia Muller, also an embassy official, made deeply offensive comments about India, its people and culture on Facebook during their stay here. In a photograph posted online, they said their pet dog Paco looks […]
Uday Kiran to be cremated on Tuesday
Hyderabad: Telugu actor Uday Kiran, who committed suicide, will be cremated on Tuesday. His body has been kept at the Andhra Pradesh Film Chamber of Commerce for the public to pay their last respects. Uday, 33, hanged himself to death from the ceiling in his flat on Sunday. “Since this (Tuesday) morning Uday’s body has been kept […]
Ram Setu case: New government advocate to represent Centre
New Delhi: The Ram Setu case in the Supreme Court will have a new advocate to represent the Centre. Additional Solicitor General Paras Kuhad will now represent the Centre in the case after the recusal of Senior Advocate Rajeev Dhavan. Mr Kuhad will be the third advocate to represent the government in the case. Solicitor General […]
Cold wave continues in Kashmir; Leh is coldest recorded place
Srinagar: The mercury continues to be in a free fall in Kashmir and Ladakh divisions as Leh was the coldest recorded place at minus 17.4 degrees Celsius in the state. Last night Leh recorded a plunge of almost 10 degrees from the previous night’s minus 7.9 degrees Celsius, an official of the MET Department said here. […]
The Man Who Forgot He Was Prime Minister
By Vaibhav Vats NEW DELHI — In political life, perhaps there is no public reaction more denigrating than ridicule. Criticism is part of the terrain, but ridicule entails a deeper kind of humiliation, where the right to even be heard seriously has been taken away. Ridicule was what greeted Manmohan Singh when, on Friday, he […]
Once an Agitator, Now in Charge of Delhi’s Government
NEW DELHI — On Saturday morning, Arvind Kejriwal, the leader of the Aam Aadmi Party, took the subway from his house in Ghaziabad, a suburb bordering Delhi, to Barakhamba Road in central Delhi. This was an unusual way to travel for someone about to be inaugurated as the city’s chief minister. But Mr. Kejriwal, the […]
