DK Ravi’s death: Karnataka government in a spot as BJP seeks probe by...
MUMBAI: The Karnataka Legislature has ground to a halt over the unnatural death of IAS officer DK Ravi, with the BJP refusing to allow legislative business until the gov ernment orders a CBI probe. This has caught the Siddaramaiah government in a piquant situation because it has to get important... read more »
Arvind Kejriwal to Return to Face Infighting in AAP, As Kumar Vishwas Recie...
NEW DELHI: After 10 days in the calm of a Bengaluru health farm, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal returns this evening to the capital and much turmoil in his Aam Aadmi Party or AAP. AAP has been ravaged in Mr Kejriwal’s absence not just by internal wrangles in the top leadership but also... read more »
Disgraced Chinese general Xu Caihou dies of cancer
Beijing: The disgraced former Chinese general Xu Caihou, one of the highest-ranking officials to be netted in President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption drive, has died of bladder cancer, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Xu, who was 71, was expelled from the Communist Party in June and... read more »
Kerry says Syrian transition would have to be negotiated with Assad
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States would have to negotiate with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for a political transition in Syria and was exploring ways with other countries to pressure him into agreeing to talks. But State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said later that... read more »
RBI governor Raghuram Rajan keeps key rates unchanged; EMIs won’t go down for now
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Raghuram Rajan dashed expectations of the government, consumers and business leaders as he kept lending rates unchanged on Tuesday despite plunging... read more »
Clashes in Hong Kong as pro-democracy protests escalate
BEIJING – Clashes between Hong Kong police and protesters overnight Sunday and Monday morning marked a violent escalation for the more than two month-old pro-democracy movement in the... read more »
Imran Khan threatens to “shut down” Pakistan by December 16
Pakistan’s opposition leader Imran Khan threatened to “shut down” the entire country by December 16 if the Nawaz Sharif Government failed to initiate an impartial probe into the... read more »
Mudgal Report: Three more questions Supreme Court should ask BCCI, Srinivasan
The Board for Control of Cricket in India’s (BCCI’s) attempts to obfuscate the issues currently before the Supreme Court are not a new tactic. As lawyer Rahul Mehra detailed for... read more »
Trinamool targets Amit Shah in Parliament, to hold huge counter-r...
A day after Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah launched a scathing attack on West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on her home turf, Trinamool Congress launched a counter-attack in... read more »
