News from India

New Delhi: Hailing the Railway Budget as “futuristic and growth-oriented”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said it is for the common people as it aspires for better service, speed and safety with focus on development of the country. He said the Rail Budget presented in Parliament by Railway Minister Sadananda Gowda shows where his government […]

Sparing passengers of any further fare hike, Railway Budget for 2014-15 proposes to attract private domestic and FDI in infrastructure projects and pursuing private-public partnership to boost the finances of the cash-strapped railways

New Delhi: Some ministries and departments have failed to implement Cabinet decisions in the stipulated time-frame, the Cabinet Secretariat has said. It has asked all ministries and departments to take "pro-active" steps to meet the deadlines. In a recent memorandum to all union secretaries, the Cabinet Secretariat has also pointed that the failure on part […]

Bridgetown (Barbados): Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni needs to ensure that his bowlers complete overs in stipulated time in the third Test against the West Indies as a slow rate could get him banned from playing in the opening Test against England later this month. Dhoni and his team were deemed to have bowled three […]

New Delhi: Pakistan`s attitude towards tackling terrorism has "altered", a "concrete" development that India should take note of, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao has said. "I think the prism through which they see this issue has definitely been altered," Rao told Karan Thapar on "Devil`s Advocate" programme on CNN-IBN. She was replying to a question on […]

(image) Bhubaneswar:  Santosh Mallick, Inspector, CID-Special Branch, arrested for allegedly molesting a minor on a Puri-bound train, and who escaped from police custody on Saturday, was nabbed in Bhubaneswar on Sunday. The acussed Inspector, CID-Special Branch had escaped from the police custody after getting down from the police van in front of Jharpada special jail. […]

Chennai: An Afro Asiatic lionness at the Arignar Anna Zoological Park at Vandalur near here delivered three cubs in captivity here on June 30, a zoo official said today. The newborns have increased the total number of lions in the park to 24, PRO of the zoo, Sathyamurthy, said. The nine-year-old lioness was herself born […]

London: India`s Mahesh Bhupathi and Elena Vesnina of Russia advanced to the mixed doubles final of the Wimbledon after pipping Australian Paul Hanley and Chinese Taipei`s Su-Wei Hsieh 6-2 3-6 7-5 in a gruelling three-setter that lasted close to two hours. The Indo-Russian duo committed too many unforced errors in the first set but they […]

Mumbai: Leading industrialist and Essar Group Chairman Shashi Ruia has warned of an adverse impact on FDI inflows in India if its taxation laws with various countries remain "ambiguous". "The Government (of India) is signing a spate of treaties with other countries. But all this will come to nought if the treaties are ambiguous and […]

Sanaa: Senior Yemeni officials said President Ali Abdullah Saleh has had "very limited" access to the outside world since he was flown to Saudi Arabia for medical treatment. Facing months of protests calling for his resignation, Saleh suffered serious burns and other wounds in a June 3 attack on his palace in the Yemeni capital. […]

Damascus: Syrian forces killed 28 civilians on a day of massive anti-regime rallies and in shelling of villages in the north-western province of Idlib, human rights activists said. State television meanwhile reported that President Bashar al-Assad sacked the governor of Hama, a day after half a million protesters flooded the central city demanding the ouster […]

New Delhi: BJP-led NDA on Saturday said it would attend the all-party meeting convened by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Lokpal Bill but indicated it would respond only to a draft legislation approved by the union cabinet and introduced in Parliament. While NDA allies JD(U) and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) were in favour of attending […]

Chandigarh: A day after senior BJP leader Jaswant Singh questioned the rationale behind refusing bail to A Raja and Kanimozhi, who are accused in the 2G spectrum scam, Yashwant Sinha today supported the views of his party colleague. Endorsing the opinion of Singh, he said, "Those who are in jail have a right to seek […]

New Delhi: Union Minister Farooq Abdullah on Saturday lamented that religion was being used by politicians to further their electoral interests and hoped that in future such issues would not be raked up by political parties. "No religion preaches hatred. But I am sorry to say that religion is used to further electoral politics," Abdullah […]

New Delhi: CPI(M) on Saturday accused Congress of reversing its own stand of bringing the Prime Minister under Lokpal purview, saying a parliamentary panel headed by senior party leader Pranab Mukherjee had made such a recommendation in 2001. "Since the 1989 VP Singh government, three bills were brought on Lokpal. … Also in 1996 and […]