Maoists top Army brass’ agenda
Naxal violence in central and eastern India, cyber threats, present status of arms acquisitions, doctrinal issues, counter-insurgency operations in Jammu and Kashmir and the North-east and defence pre
Low-cost housing plan at snail’s pace
The much touted Rajiv Ratan Awas Yojana (RRAY) of the Delhi government seems stuck with a little over 7,000-odd houses being constructed and the government still trying to identify the beneficiaries.
Chhattisgarh: Maoists kill 6 villagers
Maoist rebels on Sunday brutally killed six villagers, including a local sarpanch, by slitting their throats at Teregaon in Chhattisgarh’s Rajnandgaon district, suspecting them to be police informers,
Experts decontaminate Mayapuri scrap market
A team of experts from the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) and the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Barc) on Sunday started the process of decontamination of radiation hotspots in Mayapuri scrap
Buta pays visit to MP CM village
The National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) chairman Buta Singh on Saturday visited Jait — the ancestral village of Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan in Sehore district. This visit acquires
Ekta launches first mobile ‘K’ serial
The queen of the television soaps Ekta Kapoor is going into thriller mode and jumping into mobile television with two new shows made exclusively for that one gadget we can’t do without — the cellphone. Under her banner Balaji Telefilms, she plans on catering to the young on-the-go audience with the series.
Mulayam: Issue-based support to upa
Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav has said that his party would continue to extend “issue-based” support to the Congress-led coalition at the centre.
Netizens turn Na’vis online
Don’t be surprised if you log on to a social networking site and see your friends looking like one of the blue-skinned, green-eyed humanoid species of the Na’vi tribe. Call it the Avatar hangover or a fun gag to kill
Mamata yet to make up mind on UPA dinner
Trinamul Congress chief and railway minister Mamata Banerjee continues to keep the UPA on tenterhooks. And this time, it’s about her likely presence, or absence, for the UPA dinner slated to be held in the capital on May 22.
While Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is learnt to have extended an invite to the temperamental Trinamul l
Prachi’s got a cool streak
Prachi Desai is very excited about her role in Krishan Choudhery’s Main Joker opposite Rajeev Khandelwal.