New Delhi: Polling began for the seventh and last phase of Lok Sabha elections, covering 59 constituencies spread over seven states and one union territory. Over 10 crore electorate will decide the fate of 918 candidates including Prime Minister Narendra Modi in this phase. Polling, which began at 0700 hrs, will continue till 1800 hrs […]
New Delhi: Alleging that the BJP was after his life, Delhi chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal Saturday claimed that he will be assassinated like former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by his personal security officer. “The BJP would get me murdered by my own PSO (Personal Security Officer) one day like Indira […]
Islamabad: A mass HIV detection programme in a Pakistani village has resulted in more than 400 children and 100 adults diagnosed with the virus following widespread social alarm that broke out after a doctor was reported for negligence, authorities said on Friday. “In Ratodero village, 15,200 people have been screened so far, out of whom […]
Mumbai: A special court here conducting trial in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, Friday directed all the seven accused, including BJP’s Bhopal Lok Sabha candidate Pragya Singh Thakur and Lt Col Prasad Purohit, to appear before it once a week. Upset over the frequent absence of the accused during the trial, NIA court judge Vinod […]
New Delhi: For Dawood Ibrahim, match-fixing was a sort of clean job’ as no force or killing were required and only a few players here and there had to be fixed’ and the money shared, says a new book on the subject. On the whole, Dawood’s entry into the fixing game was fairly easy to understand. […]
Kathmandu: An expedition organizer says two Indian climbers on Mount Kanchenjunga (KAN’-chen-joonga) have died while attempts were being made to rescue them. Pasang Sherpa of Peak Promotion in Kathmandu says one of them had scaled the world’s third tallest peak while another was on the way up but fell sick and died. The climbers identified […]
LAHORE: Pakistan on Wednesday extended its airspace ban for flights to India till May 30 as there has been no progress at the bilateral level in this respect. Foreign flights using Indian airspace are also not allowed to cross over Pakistan. Pakistan had on Feb 26 fully closed its airspace following the violation of its […]
New Delhi: BJP president Amit Shah on Wednesday exuded confidence that his party has already crossed the majority mark after sixth phase of Lok Sabha polls and took a swipe at opposition parties over their proposed meeting, saying they may meet to elect a leader of opposition. “I am fully confident that the BJP after […]
Srinagar: The United States has imposed visa sanction on three senior Pakistani interior ministry officials because of a row over repatriation of deportees. Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Tuesday told the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs that visa curbs had been applied by the US on three officials of Pakistan’s interior ministry, […]
New Delhi: The Army has sought the immediate intervention of the Defence Ministry to check rising cases of accidents involving battle tanks, artillery and air defense guns due to “poor quality” of ammunition being supplied to it by the state-run Ordnance Factory Board (OFB), official sources said. They said the Army has specifically raised the issue […]
