Jun 17 2009
Officials in Indonesia say they hold little hope for the miners still buried underground after a gas explosion in a coal mine in West Sumatra. At least 17 people are now said to have died in the explosion, with 23 others feared dead below ground. The...
Jun 15 2009
Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja, arrested for allegedly raping his domestic help at his residence, was remanded to police custody till June 18 by a local court. Ahuja, arrested early this morning, was produced before a magistrate’s court in suburban...
Jun 13 2009
India has agreed to pull its troops out of inhabited areas of Kashmir for the first time in almost 20 years, one of its boldest moves yet to resolve the issue at the core of its dispute with neighbouring Pakistan. It has also agreed to review a hugely...
Jun 5 2009
UPA government on Thursday adopted an ambitious target of making India slum-free in five years with President Pratibha Patil announcing the launch of a special housing scheme for urban poor and slum-dwellers. Aiming to “create a slum free...
May 25 2009
Expressing distress at the killing of a Sikh sect leader in Vienna, government on Monday said it was in touch with Austrian authorities to ensure that those guilty of violence in the gurdwara there were brought to book and asked the people of Punjab to...
May 23 2009
India’s ‘Fourth Front’ fell flat on its face in the current Lok Sabha elections. The combine of Lalu, Paswan and Mulayam, which had boasted that the Congress could not come to power without its support, on May 16 found itself in a shambles,...
May 23 2009
P Chidambaram, the Harvard educated lawyer has earned the reputation of being a good economic administrator capped by his image as a tough taskmaster during his short stint as home minister. For Palaniappan Chidambaram, it is a long journey from a...
May 22 2009
The Indian Premier League (IPL) has withdrawn accreditation for a number of journalists for the finals of the series that will be played at the Wanderers here this weekend, citing oversubscription. “If you have not been explicitly notified that...
May 22 2009
The BJP sees positives even in defeat. Even as the Third and Fourth fronts are making a beeline to 10 Janpath with their support to UPA, senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley on Thursday maintained this development has paved way for the saffron party to occupy...
May 21 2009
The buzz about Montek being Manmohan Singh’s first choice for finance may not reflect an unyielding determination, but it is representative of the growing excitement over ministry-making. Already, there is quiet lobbying in the party for plum...