President Pratibha Devisingh Patil with Union Minister for Communication and IT Kapil Sibal and and Union Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde releasing commemorative postage stamp on completion of birth centenary of Karmyayogi MB Appasaheb Kadadi at Rashtrapati Bhavn on Thursday. (PTI)
New Delhi/Mumbai, May 17 (IANS) The Air India crisis entered its 10th day Thursday as the impasse between agitating pilots and the management continued and the carrier’s losses mounted to Rs.188 crore. “We are currently operating under the contingency plan, in which we are operating a bare minimum number of international operations by clubbing flights [...]
Mumbai: The last rites of child artist Taruni Sachdev, who died in a plane crash in Nepal, were performed here Wednesday evening. Her body was brought to Mumbai from Kathmandu through cargo along with her mother’s body at 3 p.m. The funeral took place at Santa Cruz (West) cremation ground at 5.30 p.m. Her mother [...]
New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha was on Thursday deadlocked for 35 minutes on the issue of alleged persecution of minority Hindus in Pakistan with the Opposition BJP demanding discussion on the issue on a priority basis and Government not agreeable. The House was adjourned three times for 35 minutes in all–ten minutes (first adjournment), again [...]
New Delhi: Lok Sabha members were in for a pleasant surprise Thursday when Home Minister P. Chidambaram, who is fluent in Tamil and English, spoke a sentence in Bhojpuri, earning praise from Speaker Meira Kumar. Chidambaram was replying to a calling attention motion on the need to give Bhojpuri the status of an official language. [...]
Dalhousie/Shimla: The 40-year-old chapter of academic excellence being run by Dalhousie Public School (DPS) may be slammed shut, with a one-man commission of the Himachal Pradesh government recommending vesting of the entire school land located in picturesque Dalhousie, about 350 km from Shimla. The commission, headed by Justice D.P. Sood, former judge of the Himachal [...]
New Delhi: Former telecommunications minister A. Raja attended parliament Wednesday, a day after he was released from Tihar Jail after getting bail in the 2G spectrum case. The DMK MP reached the Lok Sabha post noon after question hour was over. As cameras clicked away, Raja, who walked out of prison Tuesday evening after 15 [...]
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