Govt ‘soft’ line responsible?
The silence of the trial court in its verdict on the criminal liability of Union Carbide’s chief Warren Anderson in the Bhopal gas tragedy indicated that he had succeeded in “exploiting” in his favou
Cong: Individuals in a coalition not important
With the ministers belonging to Congress allies in the ruling UPA, such as the DMK and the NCP, A.Raja and Sharad Pawar, respectively, proving to be a headache for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the C
RS: Jairam, Janardhan elected unopposed
With the date for withdrawal coming to an end on Monday evening in Andhra Pradesh, four Congress nominees, including Union minister Jairam Ramesh and former state chief minister N.
G20 toed India line on banks
The finance minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, on Monday said the country’s opposition to a global bank tax to fund bailouts and its support to prudential regulations to avert financial meltdowns in futur
Yuvraj axed, maiden call-up for Tiwary
The selectors seem to have finally run out of patience with Yuvraj Singh, axing him from the 15-man squad that will take part in the four-nation Asia Cup starting on June 15 in Sri Lanka.
Hitler ‘worship’ in some ‘elite’ Kolkata homes?
If Britain-based historian Nicholas Goodricke-Clarke is to be believed, German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler was “compared to Kalki, the last avatar of Vishnu” by an Indian spiritualist, practitioner of occult
2 arrested with fake passports
The Delhi police has arrested two Nepalese carrying fake Indian passports and claimed to have busted a network of travel agents who sent people to Afghanistan on fake passports.
It’s my second birth, says African student
The African who got injured in a road accident two months back when which two iron rods pierced his body, was discharged from AIIMS on Monday.
Court relief for harassed babu
Former director general of Doordarshan Shiv Sharma, who was ordered to pay Rs 6 lakhs for unauthorised occupation of the official accommodation, had to wait for 12 long years to get a breather from th
Cable operator killed by rivals
A 25-year-old cable operator was allegedly battered to death by three rival operators near DDA market in a southwest Delhi locality on Sunday evening.