Coming up for Narendra Modi, roadshows, rallies and Ganga aarti at Varanasi
New Delhi – Narendra Modi, the man widely expected to be India’s next prime minister, will divide his time over the next few days between Delhi and the two constituencies from where he is running for parliament – Vadodara in Gujarat and Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. When results for... read more »
History will be kind to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
History will be kind to Manmohan Singh. It will remember him as the finance minister who launched India’s economic reforms in 1991, and the Prime Minister who presided over 8.5% GDP growth for most of a decade. It will also remember him as a Sikh who was nominated for Prime Ministership by a... read more »
Turkey mining disaster: death toll rises to 274
The death toll in the coal mine explosion and fire in western Turkey — the worst mine disaster to have occurred in the country — has increased to 274 on Wednesday. Anti-government protests broke out in the mining town of Soma, as well as Istanbul and the capital, Ankara, with Prime Minister... read more »
New Indian Mujahideen module suspected to be behind Chennai blasts
South Indian Mujahideen (SIM), a hitherto unknown separate module of the Indian Mujahideen, is now suspected to be behind the twin blasts on the Bangalore-Guwahati Express at Chennai Central on May 1, according to investigators. Although initially the Indian Mujahideen was thought to be directly... read more »
Airlines in fare war again, seats cheaper by up to 75%
Low-cost carrier SpiceJet on Monday triggered a third round of fare war by cutting ticket prices by a massive 75 per cent, a move which was soon followed by its rivals GoAir and... read more »
Should India allow ‘living will’ for right to die? Constitution bench to decid...
New Delhi – A five-judge Constitution bench will decide whether a “living will”, allowing people to choose death if they are terminally ill or may go into a vegetative... read more »
Meant social media, not journalism: Sushil Kumar Shinde after shocker on ‘crushing m...
Solapur – Last evening, Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde served a shocker when he threatened to “crush” what he called “elements in the electronic media... read more »
Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav’s visit to Aligarh Muslim University ...
Aligarh – Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav was forced to call off his visit to the Aligarh Muslim University today after widespread protests on the campus by the... read more »
Commentary: How to get a job at Google
Mountain View, Calif. – Last June, in an interview with Adam Bryant of The New York Times, Laszlo Bock, the senior vice president of people operations for Google – i.e., the guy in... read more »
