Govt of the day pays the price for high inflation: Chidambaram
New Delhi – Apparently admitting that price rise was one of the reasons for Congress defeat in recent elections, Finance Minister P Chidambaram Wednesday said it was common knowledge that the government of the day pays the price for persistently high inflation. However, he ruled out lowering... read more »
Narayan Sai confessed to Gujarat police of having Physical relation with 8 ...
Self-styled godman Asaram’s son Narayan Sai, accused in a rape case has confessed to Gujarat police officials of having relation with eight women and also having physical relation with the Surat girl, who has accused him of raping her. Reports suggest that Sai has denied the rape allegations and... read more »
Bomb blast near Kabul airport
A car bomb went off on Wednesday near a gate used by NATO troops in the northern section of the Kabul airport, the Afghan Interior Ministry said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the pre-dawn bombing, which caused no casualties. The German military said one of its convoys returning to the... read more »
Baba Ramdev welcomes SC’s verdict on Section 377
New Delhi – Welcoming the Supreme Court’s verdict holding consensual sex between adults of the same gender an offence, yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Wednesday said homosexuality is just a bad addiction and added that yoga can cure it. “Homosexuality is not genetic. If our parents were... read more »
Govt will seek broad-based consensus on all issues: Manmohan
On a day Narendra Modi dubbed the communal violence bill as a “recipe for disaster”, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said government will try to evolve a broad-based consensus... read more »
Jhumpa Lahiri’s “The Lowland” among Time’s top 10
By Arun Kumar Washington, Dec (IANS) Pulitzer Prize winning Indian-American author Jhumpa Lahiri’s new novel, “The Lowland”, set in Kolkata of the 1960s, has been listed... read more »
‘India’s Rape Epidemic’ among Time’s top ten stories
Washington – Time magazine has listed “India’s Rape Epidemic”, about the nationwide uproar over a number of rape incidents, especially following a shocking gang rape... read more »
Shutdown brings Telangana to a halt, paralyses transport
Hyderabad – Normal life came to a standstill in Telangana Thursday as day-long shutdown to protest the centre’s reported proposal to carve out a Rayala-Telangana state evoked... read more »
Communal Violence Bill a recipe for disaster: Modi
Questioning the timing of bringing the Communal Violence Bill, Narendra Modi on Thursday wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, describing the proposed legislation as “ill-conceived, poorly... read more »
