Mumbai/New Delhi, A suspected explosive device onboard a stand-by Air India VVIP aircraft has turned out to be a plastic wrapper, an airline official said in New Delhi on Saturday. After a thorough screening of the aircraft, the object “was found to be a plastic wrapper”, the official said. TheRead More

Patna, Facing flak for the stampede at Gandhi maidan that left 33 dead and 29 injured, Patna district administration today denied lapses and said the tragedy “seems to be result of suffocation” due to the huge gathering of people for Dusshera celebrations. “People appear to have died due to suffocation,”Read More

New Delhi, In a security scare, the Air India crew on Friday night found a defused grenade in the business class of an Air India jumbo aircraft, which was kept as an emergency standby for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent US visit. The grenade was found on board the BoeingRead More

New Delhi: Congress chairperson Sonia Gandhi expressed “shock and grief” over the stampede in Patna in which 32 people died during Dussehra event. “Dismayed at the unfortunate incident, Gandhi expressed the hope that the injured are being adequately attended to and conveyed her condolences to the families of those whoRead More

Thiruvananthapuram, It’s a 50×1.5 metre canvas that took Melbourne-based, Kerala-origin Sedunath Prabhakar 18 months and AUS$7,000 to create as a tribute to 50 Australian greats, both living and dead, thereby bringing alive the country’s history. It is set to be unveiled next month. “Through my 50 portraits, I wanted toRead More

Patna, At least 32 persons, mostly women and children, were reported killed and several injured in a stampede at Patna’s Gandhi Maidan in Bihar on Friday evening during the celebration of Dussehra. Bihar Home Secretary Amir Subhani said, “32 people are killed and several other are injured in stampede atRead More

Thiruvananthapuram, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has accepted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s invitation to join the ambitious Swachh Bharat campaign but wanted it to be a sustained programme instead of being “tokenism”. After keeping silent all day even after other invitees like Sachin Tendulkar and Priyanka Chopra accepted the PM’s challenge,Read More

Chennai -: ISRO will launch the third of seven series of satellites to put in place India’s own navigation system on par with US’ Global Positioning System (GPS) from the spaceport of Sriharikota on October 10. The launch has been scheduled at 1.56 AM on October 10, ISRO said today.Read More

* SAD leader Maheshinder Grewal says Partap Bajwa raising protest to deflect attention from his own failures* Chandigarh, The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today supported the SAD-BJP government’s move to increase VAT on diesel, cold drinks and cigarettes to mobilise funds for development. In a statement here, SAD general secretaryRead More

Chandigarh, The Punjab Congress President, Mr. Partap Singh Bajwa, today demanded immediate dismissal of the Parkash Singh Badal government on the logic that the Chief Minister had turned senile and did not know what he was speaking and as such, he had no right to continue even for a dayRead More