Starvation deaths in tea gardens of West Bengal
In a major embarrassment for Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee ahead of the next year’s Assembly elections, North Bengal tea gardens have witnessed a number of starvation deaths in the past one month or so. The last such deaths occurred on Thursday when two more workers perished allegedly on account...
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Shah's 'crackers in Pak' remark creates thunder
31 October 2015 | Faizan Ahmed -
Sena threatens to pull out
31 October 2015 | TN RAGHUNATHA -
TN's anti-liquor activist held for sedition
31 October 2015 | Kumar Chellappan -
Parties move cautiously to find winning faces
31 October 2015 | Omer Farooq -
MSY's Azamgarh tense as two SP factions clash leaving two dead
31 October 2015 | PNS -
Basit favours JuD but 'won't allow terror on Pak soil'
31 October 2015 | Kestur Vasuki -
Kerala civic polls: Focus shifts from beef to bribe
31 October 2015 | VR Jayaraj
Court nixes CBI Budaun report, summons accused Pappu
Rectifying a major error by CBI in filing a closure report against one of the accused, who allegedly involved in intimate relations with a minor Dalit girl, who along with her sister committed suicide later, a Budaun special court has trashed the final report against Pappu Yadav and summoned him...
Godhra carnage accused nabbed
Forty-five-year-old Farookh Dhantiya, one of the accused in setting Sabarmati Express train on fire close to the Godhra railway station in February 2002 was arrested by the Crime Branch officials from his home in Godhra on Friday. In the Godhra carnage occurred on February 27, 2002 as many as 58 people...
Roll out NOTA in local body polls: Guj HC to SEC
The Gujarat High Court on Friday directed the State Election Commission (SEC) to allow None of The above (NOTA) option to the voters during the elections of local self Government bodies slated to be held next month. A division Bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Jayant Patel and Justice NV Anjaria accepted the appeal...
50 school kids affected by gas in school lab
At least 50 schoolchildren were affected and taken to a hospital after a bottle of chemical fell in the school laboratory on Friday. Police said the incident occurred in a private institution, Indian School of Excellence, in Toli Chowki this morning, affecting 50 children, four of them, seriously. The students were taken to...
Kolkata beef-eaters uphold 'democracy', vie for cam bite
In what was promptly dismissed by the observers as “immature political acumen”, a hodge-podge of left and Trinamool-backed civil society members including writers, lawyers et al on Friday literally sunk their differences and held a beef-eating session at a public crossing in central Kolkata apparently ignoring the sentiments of thousands...
SC to hear plea to ban jokes showing Sikhs in poor light
The Supreme Court on Friday decided to hear a PIl seeking a complete ban on websites containing jokes like the ones on ‘Santa-Banta’ that show Sikh community in poor light. The PIl filed by a lady advocate Harvinder Choudhary passionately argued that such jokes amounted to demeaning a community as Sardars...
India hopes talks between Madhesis, Nepalese Govt bear fruit
India is hopeful that talks between Madhesis and the Nepalese Government will help ease situation in Nepal and a broad-based political solution will come out soon that is acceptable to all disaffected. “We understand that talks are going on between Government of Nepal and United Democratic Madhesi Front. We hope these talks...
