News from India

Karachi: Militants tried to storm the heavily-guarded Samangi airbase and airport in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan’s Balochistan province, but the attack was thwarted by security forces who killed four attackers. Four suspected militants have been killed in the exchange of fire while at least five loud explosions were heard near the airbase and airport […]

(image) London: British pop group `Girls Aloud` is set to reunite for its tenth anniversary next year, says band member Nadine Coyle. The band, which went on a hiatus in 2009 to allow its members to focus on their individual projects, was hounded with split rumours after Cheryl Cole`s solo career shot to limelight. But […]

New Delhi: Stressing on “dignity of women”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today urged parliamentarians and the corporate sector to help build separate toilets for girls in schools across the country by next year. “I want to start one work from today. There should be a toilet in all the schools of our country. A separate […]

Mumbai: Veteran actor Om Puri starrer `Khap`, which deals with the issue of honour killing, is all set to hit cinema houses on July 29. Directed by Ajay Sinha, `Khap` deals with the issue of Khap Panchayats, a system of social administration prevalent in villages of Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, adopting extreme ends to […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today gave a clarion call to all neighbouring and SAARC countries to work “shoulder-to-shoulder” to remove poverty from the region, leaving behind the world of death and killings. In his address to the country from the ramparts of the Red Fort on occasion of the 68th Independence Day, Modi […]

Mumbai: Veteran actor Om Puri, who is looking forward to his upcoming film “Khap“, that deals with the issue of honour killing, says cinema has become a business and he is not happy with the kind of roles he has been offered. "Cinema has become business minded…it has become more greedy and money-minded. I am […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched ‘Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana’ to help the poor open bank accounts which will come with the facility of a debit card and an insurance cover of Rs 1 lakh. “We want to integrate the poorest of the poor with bank accounts with Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan […]

New Delhi: Suhail Hindustani, alleged to have acted as a liaison between Amar Singh and BJP MPs who were bribed during the 2008 trust vote, on Wednesday appeared before Delhi Police for questioning and alleged that the former SP leader was behind the operation to buy lawmakers. Hindustani arrived at the Crime Branch office in […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today declared that he would like to run the country on the basis of consensus and not on majority in Parliament and called for a 10-year moratorium on caste and communal violence. Addressing the nation from the ramparts of historic Red Fort for the first time, he also asked […]

Mumbai: The Indian rupee strengthened by 3 paise to Rs 44.46 per dollar in early trade on the Interbank Foreign Exchange on Wednesday, supported by dollar weakness against the euro and other Asian currencies. The rupee ended 8 paise higher Rs 44.49/50 against the US currency in yesterday`s trade amid a rebound in equities and […]

New Delhi: Strongly disapproving of disruptions in Parliament, President Pranab Mukherjee today said the need of the hour is to restore the grandeur and glory of institutions that have sustained democracy. “I sometimes wonder: has our democracy become too noisy? Have we lost the heart of contemplation and calm thinking? Is is not the time […]

Lahore: Pakistan`s former captain, Shoaib Malik has been ruled out of contention to get a central contract from the Pakistan Cricket Board as he has still not been able to satisfy the integrity committee about an amount of 90,000 pounds in his account. Sources in the board said that Malik, Danish Kaneria, Kamran Akmal and […]

London: Former Australia captain Steve Waugh took a lie-detector test as part of his bid to help root corruption out of cricket. Waugh believes making players submit to examination by lie-detectors, or polygraphs as they are also known, could help drive cheats from the game. As a member of the world cricket committee of Marylebone […]

New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee today said intolerance and violence is a betrayal of the letter and spirit of democracy and slammed those who believe in the “poison drip of inflammatory provocation”. In his Independence Day-eve address to the nation, he referred to bigotry and noted that an increasingly turbulent international environment has sparked off […]

La Plata: Uruguay reached the Copa America final on Tuesday with a 2-0 win over Peru to book a showdown with either giant-killers Venezuela or Paraguay. Liverpool star Luis Suarez scored both goals in the second half at La Plata as the Uruguayans, who put out hosts Argentina in the quarters, kept on course for […]