AAP PAC to decide fate of dissident leaders Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhu...
The Political Affairs Committee (PAC) of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is meeting today to decide the fate of rebel leaders Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan and their supporters. According to reports, the PAC is expected to refer the cases of Yadav and Bhushan to the AAP disciplinary committee of... read more »
Barack Obama drops objection to letting Congress vote on Iran deal; Israel ...
Obama dropped his opposition on Tuesday to a bill giving Congress a voice on a nuclear deal with Iran, after members of his Democratic Party negotiated changes to the bill that had won strong support from both parties. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Obama, who had said he would veto the... read more »
2G scam: Raja misled former PM Manmohan Singh, says CBI
New Delhi: In its final arguments in the 2G spectrum allocation case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday told the Special Court that ex-telecom minister A Raja had misled then PM Manmohan Singh on policy matters pertaining to 2G spectrum allocation. The CBI also said 2G spectrum... read more »
PM Modi writes in German daily, says India should be an engine for worldwid...
India should be an engine for worldwide growth on the strengths of its democracy and a fresh push to revitalise the country’s economy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday. Since India’s voters gave the first clear majority mandate to the BJP in three decades, the NDA government has put... read more »
AirAsia flight data recorder retrieved near jet’s wrecked wing, second black box loc...
Indonesian navy divers on Monday retrieved the black box flight data recorder from an AirAsia airliner that crashed two weeks ago, killing all 162 people on board, a government official... read more »
British cleric sentenced to life in prison on terror charges
A 56-year old British cleric has been sentenced to life in prison by a court here after being convicted of 11 terror-related charges, including providing material support to Al Qaeda and... read more »
17 fresh FIRs filed in coal scam under money laundering law
NEW DELHI: Enforcement Directorate (ED) has registered 17 fresh criminal cases against firms from various parts of the country in connection with coal blocks allocation scam. This is in... read more »
Sunanda murder case: Pushkar’s son, friends may be questioned soon by Delhi Police
After police found nothing conclusively new in the statement Shashi Tharoor’s help, Narayan Singh, gave them, they are drawing up a list of persons Sunanda Pushkar was in touch with in... read more »
Militant group Boko Haram killed around 2000 people in an attack ...
A small city on the northern border of Nigeria witnessed an Islamic extremist attack by the jihadist group Boko Haram on January 9, 2015. The attack killed as many as 2000 people. The attack is said... read more »
