Singapore teen charged for insulting late founding father Lee Kuan Yew in a...
Singapore: A Singaporean teenager arrested for posting an expletive-laden YouTube video attacking Christianity and the country’s late founding leader Lee Kuan Yew will be charged in court with “wounding” religious feelings, harassment and circulating obscene content,... read more »
AAP infighting: Who will fill the space left vacant by Yadav-Bhushan camp?
New Delhi: The churn within the Aam Aadmi Party, which resulted in the humiliating ouster of its four senior leaders, has altered the power hierarchy in the two-year-old political outfit. It was a nasty, no-holds-barred battle which saw Arvind Kejriwal stamping his command over the party through a... read more »
Babri Masjid demolition case: Supreme Court issues notice to LK Advani, Jos...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a notice to senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader LK Advani and 19 others over a petition filed by Haji Mehboob in the Babri masjid case. Top BJP leaders including Uma Bharti, Murli Manohar Joshi and Kalyan Singh are amongst those notified by the apex... read more »
Live AAP crisis: Party set for a split?
Talks between the embittered factions of the Aam Aadmi Party seemed to fall apart without any hope of salvation, Thursday night. Dissenting AAP leaders Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav wrote an open letter to party chief and their main foe Arvind Kejriwal, in which they indicted his side of... read more »
RBI surprises Street; Sensex pares gains after hitting mount 30k
NEW DELHI: The S&P BSE Sensex has pared gains after rallying as much as 431 points in trade on Wednesday, after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) slashed repo rate by 25 bps to 7.5 per... read more »
Tropical Cyclone Marcia: Central Queensland towns devastated as storm tracks across state
Cyclone Marcia is leaving a trail of destruction along central Queensland as it slowly tracks south over land. A category five system made landfall north of Yeppoon about 8:00am and hit... read more »
Democracy can help counter extremism, Obama tells summit
President Barack Obama has ended a three-day summit on tackling violent extremism, by rejecting as “an ugly lie” the notion that the West is at war with Islam. He also warned nations... read more »
Petroleum Ministry documents leak case: Delhi Police arrests two energy consultants
New Delhi: In a development that caused reverberations in political as well as corporate circles, the Delhi Police on Friday arrested two energy consultants in connection with leaking of... read more »
Reserve Bank warns banks against making “mockery” of ...
The Reserve Bank of India is getting tougher on extending unlimited credit to the country’s banks to try to ensure they push interest rate cuts through the financial system and to stop them... read more »
