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![]() MADHAV NALAPAT | New DelhiCongress heir apparent Rahul Gandhi has been "meeting quietly in the US with groups intending to carry out protests against Prime Minister Narendra Modi" during the PM's ongoing visit to the world's b... |
Sex workers a common sight in West Delhi
Soliciting by sex workers in the residential neighbourhood of West Delhi and South West Delhi is getting common by the day as police chooses to remain a mute spectator. This correspondent himself witnessed a scantily dressed prostitute openly soliciting for customers at the busy road that connects Janakpuri Super Specialty Hospital with Dabri cros
UK’s priority is to combat people smuggling
With combating organised crime being a priority for the UK, the British mission in the Mediterranean is to go after the criminal gangs responsible for people smuggling there. The British Home Office is handling the migrant crisis, even though two British warships in the Mediterranean, HMS Enterprise and HMS Richmond are operating under MoD authorit NAVTAN KUMAR | 26th SepRaghopur, the constituency from where Tejashwi Yadav, younger son of Lalu Prasad Yadav is contesting the Bihar Assembly elections, is a picture of gov... NAVTAN KUMAR | 26th SepCHIRAG IN CHARGE Image 2nd PATNA: Lalu Yadav's succession plan is still not clear as he has fielded both his sons Tejashwi and Tejpratap, but his ex-... |
No one remembers Jagjivan Ram in poll bound Bihar
ABHINANDAN MISHRA | 26th SepThe tallest Dalit leader of India during his lifetime, Jagjivan Ram has been made irrelevant by all political parties, including the Congress in the coming Bihar Assembly elections. This is reflected in the pathetic condition of his birthplace, Chandwa, 55 km from Bihar's capital Patna. The former ... ABHINANDAN MISHRA | 26th SepPatna's dirty roads belie Nitish Kumar's claims of good governance, posters about which have flooded Bihar's capital city ahead of the Assembly electi...
Ministry will break deadlock over UGC safety guidelines
ABHIMANYU SINGH | 26th SepThe Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) is likely to intervene in the stand-off between the University Grants Commission and protesting students over the safety guidelines issued earlier in April by the autonomous body. A well-placed source in the MHRD said: "The ministry has take note of... NAVTAN KUMAR | 26th SepAcross party lines, damaads (sons-in-law) are giving sleepless nights to many political heavyweights in Bihar. While Anil Kumar Sadhu has revolted ag...
Ex-Home Secy on WHO advisory body
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 26th SepFormer home secretary and ex-governor of Manipur and Mizoram, Vinod Kumar Duggal has been appointed to the World Health Organisation's advisory group to strengthen response to outbreaks and emergencies with health and humanitarian consequences. The Advisory Group comprises of high-level experts in ...
Poor kids to be mentored by Mensa
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 26th SepAs many as 102 children from the economically weaker sections in New Delhi and Gurgaon will be mentored by Mensa, world's oldest and largest high IQ society, the organisation's president Kishore Asthana told The Sunday Guardian. Asthana, who took over as Mensa president from Nirav Sanghvi on 19 Sep... |
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After US, Rahul will holiday in London
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi will go to London for a 10-day vacation after his visit to the United States gets over. Sources claim that he will be back in India by 5 October. Coming "soon after" his two-month-long mysterious sabbatical, his sudden vanishing act has left the Congress bewildered. Party leaders are wondering about the fate of certain programmes he was supposed to finalise, including a countrywide agitation for drought-hit sugarcane farmers. Rahul was also supposed to go on a padyatra to Karnataka's cotton-growing belts.... ![]()
Stalin’s makeover
DMK leader M.K. Stalin is preparing for a makeover for the 2016 Assembly polls if a short campaign film for the party is anything to go by. Titled Mudiyattum Vidiyatum (let it end and let it dawn), Stalin is seen on a small boat. Even offscreen, Stalin has taken to walking the street in a casual T-shirt and mingling with the aam aadmi. As Saravanan, the DMK spokesperson, put it, "We want to take Tamil Nadu on a new path, so thalapathi has donned a new role. He mingles with people in this movie." The dig of course is at the aloof nature of Jayalalithaa, the current Tamil Nadu CM. Well, Stalin is donning grease paint after almost 30 years. Will this script a happy ending for his party next yea... ![]()
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Spurt in farmer suicides in Telangana
S RAMA KRISHNA | 26th SepAs many as 41 farmers committed suicide in the last one week in Telangana, forcing the TRS government to increase the compensation for the kin of the deceased four-fold from Rs 1.5 lakh to Rs 6 lakh. In the 10 districts of the state, 16 farmers committed suicide on Wednesday alone, while seven ended... Arvind Chhabra | 26th SepThe Akal Takht pardon to the Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Raheem Singh is likely to have its political implications with the Punjab Assembly ele...
Maha will issue new sedition law
Vinaya Deshpande | 26th SepThe Maharashtra government has told the Bombay High Court that it will either withdraw its guidelines on sedition or issue fresh ones, ending people's apprehension that the government was bent on crushing any voice of opposition or criticism. The government claimed that there were errors in the tran... Vinaya Deshpande | 26th SepAs nearly 4,500 Bappas walk their way to the Arabian Sea today on the final immersion day of Anant Chaturdashi, over 40,000 men and women in khaki sta...
Industry hopes for stability post polls
NAVTAN KUMAR | 26th SepIndustrialists in Bihar want the "conducive atmosphere" created in the past 10 years to continue and do not want a return to the pre-2005 situation full of "hopelessness and frustration". They feel that though there have not been big-ticket investments in the state in the past 10 years, at least "s...
Misa not unhappy with Lalu promoting sons
NAVTAN KUMAR | 26th SepLalu Prasad's daughter and Rashtriya Janata Dal's star campaigner Misa Bharti wants people to give Nitish Kumar another chance for Bihar's "economic development". She said she is preparing for the next Lok Sabha elections and will campaign for the party's candidates in the coming Assembly elections.... |
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