Monday, August 20, 2012

Assam prays for peace this Eid

Assam prays for peace this Eid


Assam prays for peace this Eid

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 02:00 AM PDT

Peace remained the central focus of Eid in Assam on Monday with thousands of people offering Namaz-e-Eid at mosques across the state, including in the troubled Kokrajhar, Chirang and Dhubri districts ...


India not yet ready for anti-graft political outfit: Hegde

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 12:24 AM PDT

Former Supreme Court judge N Santosh Hegde says a political party floated purely on the anti-corruption plank will not succeed in elections at this stage as money power and diversity play a role. Hegd...


Stop govt from wasting money on ads, says new petition in court

Posted: 20 Aug 2012 12:08 AM PDT

A galaxy of ads - colour, black-and-white, half-page and smaller - all offering homage to Rajiv Gandhi were nestled, many of them adjacent to each other, in today's newspapers. At the former prime min...


Nation remembers Rajiv Gandhi on birth anniversary

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 11:00 PM PDT

Happy with inflation, it helps farmers, says Union minister Beni Prasad Verma

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 10:44 PM PDT

Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a function in Barabanki, near Lucknow, on Sunday, the minister said he was happy with the rising prices of these food items as it will benefit farmers. "Dal, a...


North-East scare: Give us proof, we'll investigate, says Pak Interior Minister

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 08:57 PM PDT

Islamabad wants evidence from India on its assertion that morphed online photos and hate messages which created a scare among the north-eastern community last week originated from Pakistan; Interior M...


If needed, we will subject Gopal Kanda to brain mapping test: Police

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 08:41 PM PDT

Gopal Goyal Kanda is proving a tough nut to crack. Police sources say three days into his interrogation by top cops, there are no leads from him and he continues to deny any involvement in the Geetika...


Air hostess suicide: Aruna Chaddha to appear in court today

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 08:20 PM PDT

Heavy firing between Border Security Force, Pakistan Rangers at Jammu border

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 07:32 PM PDT

North-East scare: Massive security arrangements in Bangalore to ensure peaceful Eid

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 07:22 PM PDT

Eid celebrated in India with great fervour

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 07:20 PM PDT

After days of fasting, Eid-ul-Fitr, the day of feast and festivities, was celebrated by people of all religions with great fervour. Eid-ul-Fitr, which falls on the first day of the Islamic month of Sh...


Class VIII student tortured with blades, sticks

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 07:13 PM PDT

Rising extremism in Pakistan: Hindus a target?

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 01:18 PM PDT

Bustling with life till recently, the streets of Jacobabad in Pakistan's Sindh province now wear a forlorn look. The town, which is home to 90 per cent of the country's Hindu population, has witnessed...


Heavy rains trigger landslides in Himachal Pradesh; hundreds of tourists stranded

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 10:57 AM PDT

Several parts of Himachal Pradesh experienced heavy rainfall during the past 24 hours, triggering landslides at various places and disrupting vehicular traffic in the state.


Passengers pushed from train in West Bengal

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 09:52 AM PDT

Two people have died in West Bengal after being pushed out of a train headed to Guwahati from Bangalore, reports Press Trust of India. Nine other passengers were injured in the incident and all but on...


Gopal Kanda probed by Delhi Police; missing hard drives could hold the key

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 08:52 AM PDT

With former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda finally in police custody, the real task for the Delhi Police has just begun. They now have to gather enough evidence to prove that Mr Kanda instigated h...


Twitter, Facebook accounts blocked for inflammatory content

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 08:38 AM PDT

The Government has reportedly ordered 80 or more Internet pages and user-accounts on social networking sites including Facebook, Google and Twitter to be banned to avoid panic among people of the Nort...


Sonia Gandhi condemns Assam violence, mistreatment of people of North-East

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 06:47 AM PDT

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Sunday expressed her "deep pain" at the ethnic violence in Assam and condemned the subsequent mistreatment faced by people from northeast in some parts of the countr...


Moderate earthquake rocks North-East India

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 03:28 AM PDT

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