Shimla: President Pranab Mukherjee will visit this hill town for one-and-a-half days beginning Thursday. During his stay, he will get a taste of British era heritage.
Mukherjee will stay at The Retreat, the summer holiday resort of the president, on the outskirts of Shimla, an official said.
Constructed in 1850, The Retreat was once the summer residence [...]
New Delhi: Former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala, accused in the 2000 teachers’ recruitment scam, will be released from jail on Thursday after the Delhi High Court granted him an interim bail for six weeks to undergo a heart surgery.
The 78-year-old Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) chief was asked to furnish a personal bond [...]
Washington: Sathwik Karnik, a 12-year-old son of Indian immigrants, cruised to victory Wednesday in the 2013 National Geographic Bee, nailing questions about obscure island chains, bodies of water, global trade and culture.
Sathwik, of Massachusetts, correctly named Chimborazo as the mountain in Ecuador that represents the farthest point from the Earth’s center – even farther than [...]
London: In a suspected terror attack, a person believed to be a British soldier was on Wednesday beheaded near a barrack here by two reported Islamists who were later shot and wounded by the police.
British police shot and wounded the two assailants, a senior officer said, after reports that a soldier was killed in a [...]
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New Delhi: In a shocking development, Vindoo Dara Singh, the son of late actor Dara Singh, who was arredted on Tuesday for his alleged role in spot-fixing in IPL, admitted to being in touch with a relative of Chennai Super Kings (CSK) owner.
The call details of Vindoo showed that he made several phone calls to [...]
New Delhi: Under attack from the Opposition over corruption and lack of governance and with its own allies calling for course correction, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh will on Wednesday present the fourth and last report card of the UPA-II government highlighting its achievements so far.
According to sources, after presenting the report card of the [...]
London: Mahatma Gandhi’s personal effects and documents, including his prayer beads, blood sample, leather chappals and the iconic leader’s last will and testament, went under the hammer on Tuesday fetching a whopping 300,000 pounds.
The last will and testament of Mahatma Gandhi proved to be the highlight of the auction of rare documents and items associated [...]
Mumbai/Pune: Actor Sanjay Duttwas shifted to Yerwada Jail in Pune from Mumbai’s Arthur Road jail early on Wednesday.
“Sanjay Dutt was escorted to Pune jail at about 4 am from Mumbai. There were three police vans that took him to the Pune jail,” the official said.
He was secretly shifted to the Pune jail early in the [...]
New Delhi: Comptroller and Auditor General Vinod Rai, who demits office Wednesday, will be remembered for turning the statutory body into a pugnacious watchdog of good governance and administrative integrity at a time when India is experiencing the need for greater transparency and a rebalancing of power that has tilted over the years towards the [...]
New York: Former Goldman Sachs Group Board of Director Rajat Gupta’s attorneys asked the Judge to reverse his insider-trading conviction, saying wiretap evidence used by the prosecution should not have been introduced at trial stage.
Seth Waxman, lawyer for Gupta, told the Second US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York yesterday that wiretaps played for [...]
New Delhi: Narendra Modi is attending a meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s parliamentary board, a team of 12 top leaders who make the big decisions in the party. He is its newest member.
Mr Modi, who was inducted in March this year, is the only Chief Minister on the team, a concession that was made [...]
Lahore: President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday blamed national and international forces for his Pakistan Peoples Party defeat in the May 11 polls while the party’s losing candidates held former premiers Yousuf Raza Gilani and Raja Pervez Ashraf responsible for the debacle.
In a meeting with PPP ticket-holders of Punjab province at his private residence here, [...]
London: London-based global auctioneers Mullocks is set to auction a large collection of Mahatma Gandhi’s memorabilia on Tuesday increasing pressure on the Congress-led UPA government to either purchase the items being auctioned or postpone the bidding for the time being.
The priceless items belonging to Mahatma Gandhi that will go under hammer include a copy of [...]
Washington: A powerful tornado swept through an Oklahoma City suburb on Monday, tearing down blocks of homes, two schools and leaving at least 91 people dead, including 20 children, local officials said.
The state medical examiner’s office released the latest death toll but the number was climbing rapidly, as emergency crews combed through smashed homes and [...]