New Delhi The Congress today signalled distancing itself from the government on the issue of awarding the Padma Bhushan to US-based NRI hotelier Sant Singh Chatwal. Maintaining that such awards should not be given to “those with a taint”, the ruling party said it was for the government to explain the reasons for the award [...]
New Delhi, January 25 — The severity of the disease related to the H1N1 virus in India shows no signs of receding with ten more people reported having succumbed to the influenza Monday. With the new fatalities, the death toll in the country touched 1194, just six short of the 1,200 mark. Official sources reported [...]
New Delhi: India is celebrating 60 years of becoming a Republic on Tuesday with President Pratibha Patil presiding over the ceremony at Rajpath in New Delhi. President Pratibha Patil arrived along with the Chief Guest South Korean President Lee Myung Bak at Rajpath escorted by the President’s 46 bodyguards on horses. Even though the capital [...]
NEW DELHI: FOUR days after India lodged a protest with Pakistan over cease-fire violations, Pakistani troops at Kanachak sub-sector in Akhnoor ofJammu district while a group of militants were trying to infiltrate into the country. The latest cease-fire violation took place along the border came as Republic Day was celebrated across the country. The firing [...]
NEW DELHI: The group of four major emerging economies — Brazil, South Africa, India and China — on Sunday expressed their intention to communicate information on their voluntary mitigation actions to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) by January 31. This decision was taken at the second Ministerial-level meeting of the BASIC [...]
New Delhi: The Madhya Pradesh government Friday decided to donate Rs 1 crore for distribution among the members of the national women’s hockey squad. Indeed, there was more help forthcoming for Indian hockey after the chief ministers of Haryana and Assam, on a request from Union sports minister M.S. Gill, Friday pledged Rs 1 crore [...]
NEW DELHI: The government on Friday formally announced that Lt-Gen Vijay Kumar Singh, currently Eastern Army Command chief at Kolkata, will take over as the new Army chief from General Deepak Kapoor on March 31. Lt-Gen Singh’s appointment as the next chief has been a foregone conclusion for long since he will be the senior [...]
New Delhi: Former foreign secretary Shivshankar Menon was named on Thursday the new National Security Adviser (NSA), but unlike his predecessor M K Narayanan he would be looking at a leaner brief, government sources indicated. That Menon was Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s first preference was known, but a final decision on who would hold this [...]
New Delhi: New Delhi’s airspace will remain closed for an hour between 11.15 a.m. (IST) and 12.15 p.m. (IST) from January 21 to 24 and on January 26 for Republic Day celebrations, an official said on Thursday. “There will be no take-off and landing of flights during this period. Flights cannot operate within a radius [...]
India on Wednesday sought a report from its high commission in Australia after news of yet another assault on an Indian taxi driver in Melbourne. “I have just heard the news. I have sought a report from the Indian High Commission,” External Affairs Minister SM Krishna told reporters in New Delhi. He said that the [...]
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