NAVTAN KUMAR | NEW DELHIThe final break between the Janata Dal (United) and the Bharatiya Janata Party is coming over the saffron party's refusal to commit to Nitish Kumar that Narendra Modi would not be made the BJP's Prime... |
Defunct cables cause outages in East Delhi
Outdated cables in East Delhi have led to massive power cuts in the area. Outages ranging from six to eight hours on an average daily have gripped the residential areas of Mayur Vihar, IP Extension, Krishna Nagar, Ghazipur, Trans-Yamuna and Shahdara. "The power supply is erratic due to both faulty cables and shortage in supply. It was in 2009 that 
Shunned by Brits, Indian’s descendant will rule U.K.
In 1809, a young Scotsman, Theodore Forbes, arrived in Surat in pursuit of wealth and adventure. He found both; the one through trading, the other through a tragic love affair. The 21-year-old East India Company employee soon met Eliza Kewark, who was described as being Armenian, and when he was posted to Yemen in 1812, Eliza accompanied him. There ABHINANDAN MISHRA | 15th JunPresent and former Intelligence Bureau (IB) officers think that the UPA government is maligning their agency in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case for po... S RAMA KRISHNA | 8th JunAt least one Congress MP from Andhra Pradesh, S. Rajaiah from Warangal, is likely to join the BJP very soon, while another Congress MP, G. Sukhender R... |
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IIT professor counters communalism with maths, science
MOHAMMED ANAS | 15th Jun
S RAMA KRISHNA | 15th JunDasari Narayana Rao, who has been charge-sheeted by the CBI in the coal blocks allocation scam, has named a senior Union Cabinet minister as having or...
Duchess Kate plans to have hypno-delivery
LAKSHMAN MENON | 15th JunQueen Victoria enjoyed the act of love but not its fruits — childbirth. Not, that is, until she gave birth to the last two of her nine children. In 1857, "Her Majesty expressed great relief from the vapour" when the physician attending the birth of her last child, Princess Beatrice, administered h... Vatsala Shrangi | 15th JunA case of sexual harassment has been lodged against the principal of Delhi University's Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma (ARSD) College. One of the female admi...
Foreign women travellers opt for female guides
Vatsala Shrangi | 15th JunAn increasing number of women travellers from abroad are looking for female tourist guides while visiting Delhi, say tour operators. However, neither does the Delhi tourism department nor the private travel companies have the required number of female tour guides. Reports of sexual assaults against ...
Nitish banks on caste calculations, Muslims
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Daughter provoked Advani’s resignation
It was daughter Pratibha who insisted that BJP patriarch L.K. Advani should resign from the top organisations of the party. Advani himself was in two minds, but Pratibha's determination carried the day; she drafted the resignation letter. Advani's long time associate Deepak Chopra carried the letter to Rajnath Singh. The BJP leadership's first reaction was stunned silence; only Arun Jaitley was of the view that the resignation should be accepted. But those in favour of mollifying Advani vastly outnumbered the hardliners.... 
Cold shoulder
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi's emissary and MP, Madhusudhan Mistry has been cold shouldered by party leaders in Andhra Pradesh. Mistry is a member of the coordination panel for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. He has been visiting the state for some time to select suitable MP candidates for next elections. Unlike in the past, no senior leaders, including MPs and ministers called on Mistry this time. The reason is that he is encouraging dissidents against sitting MPs. Even Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy and PCC president Botsa Satyanarayana have excused themselves from meeting Mistry on the pretext of the Chalo Assembly rally in Hyderabad on Friday. Mistry returned empty handed to D... 
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India may raise data mining issue with US
Kabir Taneja | 15th Jun
Sanjay Sharma | 15th JunGujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi can count as his strongest supporters several party leaders he promoted during his stint as BJP general secretary...
Dasari scripted his revival as minister
S RAMA KRISHNA | 15th Jun
ABHINANDAN MISHRA | 15th JunThree bureaucrats from Jharkhand are under the CBI's watch to find out whether in 2007 the then minister of state for coal, Dasari Narayan Rao influen...
Delhi BJP still waiting for CM candidate
NAVTAN KUMAR | 15th Jun
IAF to witness major reshuffle this month
SUMAN SHARMA | 15th JunThe Indian Air Force (IAF) is all set for a major reshuffle this month in which the Western Air Command chief, Air Marshal Arup Raha, will be made the Vice Chief of Air Staff. After this, he is tipped to take over as the Chief of Air Staff, when the incumbent, Air Chief Marshal N.A.K. Browne retires... |
