LUCKNOW, India - Near-freezing temperatures and icy Himalayan winds have killed dozens of people in northern India over the past two weeks and forced schools to close in the capital, officials said Wednesday.
LUCKNOW, India - Near-freezing temperatures and icy Himalayan winds have killed dozens of people in northern India over the past two weeks and forced schools to close in the capital, officials said Wednesday.
NEW DELHI — The top organiser of the Delhi Commonwealth Games attended a police station in the Indian capital on Wednesday for questioning in a probe into corruption in the October event.
GHAZIABAD/NEW DELHI - A special CBI court on Monday deferred till January 7 the hearing on a closure report filed by the probe agency in the Aarushi Talwar murder case. The court also rejected a protest plea filed by the slain teenager’s parents and questioned the agency on its haste to shut the case.
NEW DELHI - The Bofors ghost is out again to haunt the Congress-led government as an Income Tax tribunal has ruled that Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi and his partner Win Chadha received a commission of over Rs.412 million in the Rs.15 billion Howitzer gun deal in 1987. The opposition BJP has demanded that the “fraud” and “cover up” be probed by a special investigation team.
CHENNAI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday stressed on attracting the young Indian diaspora through joint research projects while urging Indian scientists to “think big” and “out of the box” for scientific advancement and innovations in the country.
TRIVANDRUM - The consortium awarded the contract to build the $440-million airport at Aranmula in Pathanamthitta district of Kerala that includes the Anil Ambani Group hopes to start work soon after a clearance from the central government.
TRIVANDRUM — A senior Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader’s call for a review of the stand of his party and the government led by it in Kerala against the Genetically Modified (GM) crops has stirred a hornet’s nest.
AHMEDABAD — Human rights activists have taken exception to the Gujarat police’s move to question a television journalist in connection with the digging of mass graves of victims of 2002 riots in Panderwada village near Godhra in 2005, saying it amounted to intimidating the press.
LUCKNOW — Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Sunday suspended a legislator of her Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) accused of raping a minor girl.
HYDERABAD — Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), the political party in the forefront of the separate statehood movement for Telangana, on Sunday announced its decision to boycott the January 6 all party meeting called by Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram to discuss the justice B.N. Sri Krishna Committee report on the issue of separate statehood for Telangana.