10 killed in Bangladesh train-bus collision
At least 10 people were killed and 50 injured on Friday when a train collided with a bus at a railway crossing in Bangladesh’s Jhenaidah district. A railway official said the train smashed the crowded bus, which was carrying a groom’s family and friends back from a... read more »
Gary McKinnon is warned off seeing sick father in Scotland: Fears SNP could...
Gary McKinnon has been warned not to visit his sick father in Scotland in case the Nationalist government allows a revived American bid to extradite him. The Asperger’s sufferer was saved by a Daily Mail campaign in 2012 from previous attempts to take him to the United States for trial on hacking... read more »
Public service whistleblowers ‘treated shockingly’, report find...
Whistleblowers who risk their careers to uncover wrongdoing within public services are being victimised by managers who nearly always escape sanction, a public accounts committee report will say on Friday. MPs were told that only one senior manager who has victimised a whistleblower has ever faced... read more »
Meriam Ibrahim arrives in US
A Sudanese woman who refused to recant her Christian faith in the face of a death sentence arrived on Thursday in the United States, where she was welcomed first by the mayor of Philadelphia as a “world freedom fighter” and later by cheering supporters waving US flags in New Hampshire. Meriam... read more »
Assam Chief Minister Gogoi set to be replaced next week
The Congress high command is likely to replace Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi early next week. Gogoi, who has been heading the state since 2001, will be the first Congress chief minister... read more »
Shankaracharya wages war on Sai Baba, backed by Naga sadhus
Bhopal: The controversy over the deification of Sai Baba of Shirdi threatens to spill on the streets with the Naga sadhus accepting the call of the Shankaracharya of Dwarka and Jyotir Math,... read more »
US Senator McCain calls on Modi
U.S. has high expectations about a new momentum of India’s economic growth under the new government, the senior American Senator tells the Prime Minister. The U.S. has high expectations... read more »
You’ve created a million Tapas Pals :Open letter to Mamata Banerjee
Roughly a decade back, my trip back home from college began with a fair bit of wrestling with College Street. Ducking the boy lost in his mobile phone and skirting past the elderly... read more »
Sudhir Gupta insists that Sunanda Pushkar’s postmortem repo...
The controversy over the death of ex-Union minister Shashi Tharoor’s wife Sunanda Pushar continues, after a dramatic claim by AIIMS doctor Sudhir Gupta that there was ‘pressure from... read more »
