Mississauga, Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion says she’ll miss being the mayor of Canada’s sixth largest city. The longtime mayor made the comments to reporters in a break during the city’s last full council meeting before the municipal election. “I think I’m certainly going to miss it,” McCallion said. “Over 36Read More

New York, Politicians, dignitaries and victims` relatives were gathering in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania on Thursday to commemorate the nearly 3,000 people killed in al Qaeda`s attack on the United States 13 years ago on Sept. 11. In what has become an annual ritual, the names of the victimsRead More

Pretoria, South Africa, The trial in the case of the Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius abruptly adjourned Thursday with one charge of unlawful homicide against him still pending. The judge, Thokozile Matilda Masipa, had earlier cleared Mr. Pistorius of the gravest murder charges against him. Then, after a lunch break, JudgeRead More

Lucknow, In a major embarrassment for the Samajwadi Party government led by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, a local court on Thursday returned the chargesheet filed yesterday by the Uttar Pradesh Police against BJP national president Amit Shah for an alleged hate speech he made in April ahead of the nationalRead More

New Delhi, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday threw indications that the Narendra Modi government is willing to engaging Pakistan in a meaningful dialogue if it responds positively. Speaking to reporters, the Home Minister said, “If Pakistan wants then talks can be held again.” “We want better relations withRead More

New Delhi, Former CAG Vinod Rai has come out with a stinging criticism of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh saying integrity is not just financial but intellectual and professional too and claimed that Congress leaders had sought to apply pressure on him to keen the PM’s name out of auditRead More

New Delhi/London,As British MPs’ plan to hold a debate on the “political and humanitarian situation in Kashmir”, the Indian government has expressed its anger. India has construed the move as an attempt to criticise India’s role in Kashmir, even put a question mark on its sovereignty over the region. Ironically,Read More

New Delhi, Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani Thursday stressed the need for a new education policy which would also address academic merit. “The country now needs a new education policy in which a discussion on academic merit – which course should be taught in which way – will alsoRead More

New Delhi, If Swami Vivekananda’s message of universal brotherhood been followed by the world, history would not have witnessed “dastardly acts” like 9/11 in the US, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday. “Had we followed Swami ji’s message, history would never have witnessed such dastardly acts as we sawRead More

New Delhi, The government is looking at the proposal for extending excise duty concessions to the automobile sector beyond December, a move that would provide further relief to auto makers. “We have already discussed the proposal (to extend excise duties beyond December) that the incentives provided (to the auto sector)Read More