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32 dead, several injured at Gandhi Maidan (Patna) after Dussehra celebrations

India October 4, 2014 at 2:08 pm 0 comments

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

Tharoor Accepts Modi’s Invitation to Join Swachh Bharat Campaign

India October 4, 2014 at 2:07 pm 0 comments

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

ISRO to Launch IRNSS 1C on October 10

India October 4, 2014 at 2:07 pm 0 comments

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

Millions Across India Join Cleanliness Campaign

Millions Across India Join Cleanliness Campaign

Breaking news, India, Latest headlines October 2, 2014 at 5:08 pm 0 comments

New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined millions of schoolchildren, officials and ordinary people who picked up brooms and dustpans Thursday in a countrywide campaign to clean parks, public buildings and streets. Prime Minister Narendra Modi swept the road in a poor neighborhood in New Delhi while launching the CleanRead More

Kejriwal Cleans Choked Drains Near Pm’s House

India October 2, 2014 at 5:04 pm 0 comments

New Delhi, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal Thursday helped sweepers to clean up choked drains in a small residential area near Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence in the heart of the capital. The former chief minister of Delhi chose the BR Camp, as the low income area is called, on theRead More

Sahara Chief Moved Back to Jail Cell, Office Privileges Withdrawn

India October 2, 2014 at 5:03 pm 0 comments

New Delhi, Subrata Roy, the jailed chief of India’s Sahara conglomerate, is back in a cell after living in a makeshift prison office for two months as he tried to negotiate the sale of his luxury hotels, a jail official said on Thursday. The tycoon had been allowed to useRead More

I would’ve been happy if sena-bjp alliance continued : Advani

India October 2, 2014 at 5:03 pm 0 comments

Ahmedabad, Breaking his silence over the Shiv Sena-BJP split in Maharashtra, veteran BJP leader L K Advani today said he would have been happy if the alliance had continued. “I would have been happier, if this (alliance) would not have been broken. But, this is also right that people fromRead More

Bombay HC Rejects State’s Plea to Lift Stay on Bullocks During Eid

India October 2, 2014 at 5:03 pm 0 comments

Mumbai, The Bombay High Court has rejected Maharashtra Government’s plea to lift the stay granted by a bench of the same court earlier on transporting another 12,000 bullocks to abattoir at suburban Deonar for slaughter on the occasion of Bakri-Eid falling on October 6. Around 5,000 bullocks are slaughtered atRead More

Coal Ministry seeks clarification from Law Ministry on blocks

India October 2, 2014 at 5:02 pm 0 comments

New Delhi, In light of the apex court’s observations, the Coal Ministry has sought clarifications from the Law Ministry on various issues, including whether the mines can be allotted to State PSUs and new end-use plants. The development follows the Supreme Court quashing allocation of 214 coal blocks allotted toRead More

Centre needs to get state report to declare J&K floods as national disaster : BJP

India October 2, 2014 at 5:02 pm 0 comments

Srinagar, The Jammu and Kashmir government will have to submit a report about the devastation caused by the September floods to the central government for it to consider declaring the natural calamity as a national disaster, the state unit of BJP said on Thursday. “There is a procedure. A report,Read More