Category: INDIAN NEWS

The Supreme Court Thursday asked NGO CPIL to file an affidavit in support of its documents alleging that CBI director Ranjit Sinha met people being investigated by the agency at his residence over a period of 15 months. “After going through the document, we really feel that there is a need to put them on…

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has announced in a video message the creation of an Indian branch of his militant group to “raise the flag of jihad” across South Asia, a media report said. In the 55-minute video posted online, Zawahari pledged renewed loyalty to Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar, the BBC reported Wednesday. Announcing…

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott arrives here Thursday on a two-day visit that is expected to see inking of a nuclear cooperation agreement that would enable uranium sales by Australia to India. Abbott, who is the first head of state arriving on a bilateral visit to establish contact with the new government, is to hold…

Indians are urged not to use the intials. The move is aimed to help establish the identity of Indian passport holders and will also help in saving victims of mistaken identity cases who have even landed in jails.  Indian expatriates in the UAE, who have not bothered to expand the initials of their names in…

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrapped up his five-day visit to Japan Wednesday and flew home. He is expected to arrive at New Delhi in the evening.During his visit, Japan promised to give $35 billion to India over the next five years for development projects.Modi, in his first visit outside South Asia after becoming the…

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday hard sold India to Japanese investors saying that his country offers only a red carpet and not red tape while dubbing his five-day trip to Japan that ends Wednesday as “very successful”. “I’ve come to assure you there is no red tape but only red carpet that awaits you…

Citizen control and takeover by companies is often pointed out as an Achilles’ heel in any capitalist society. People with leftist leanings, too often criticize free markets, citing market failure and greed as fundamental reasons for radical activism or resort to force. Not only does this position appear weak as an argument, but also appears…

State-run United Bank of India on Monday became the first lender to declare debt-ridden KingfisherAirlines and its promoter Vijay Mallya as wilful defaulters.  “We have declared Vijay Mallya and three other directors of Kingfisher Airlines as wilful defaulters,” United Bank of India executive director Deepak Narang said.  The Grievance Redressal Committee (GRC) of the bank has declared directors Ravi Nedungadi,…

It pays to be bitten by a pet dog in Chandigarh but the same is not applicable to victims of bites from stray dogs. At least, this is what Chandigarh’s Municipal Corporation (MC) thinks. Put on the backfoot by a latest observation of the Punjab and Haryana High Court on why it was not compensating…

Boris Johnson is favoured by more Tory voters as the successor to David Cameron than two of his main rivals, Theresa May and George Osborne, according to a new Opinium/Observer poll. The Mayor of London, who recently announced that he is aiming to stand as the MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip at the 2015 General Election, is favoured…

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited two leading Buddhist temples here Sunday and sought Japan’s help on combating sickle cell disease prevalent in tribal regions of India.Modi, who arrived in Japan  Saturday on a five-day visit of Japan, later met Kyoto Mayor Daisaku Kadokawa, who briefed him about the city that was the capital of…

To ensure punctuality and discipline amongst public servants, the Punjab government will install biometric attendance devices in all public offices in the state and in Chandigarh, a spokesman said here Sunday. “Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal has approved the installation of the biometric attendance devices in each and every public office in Punjab…

  Warmth, mutual admiration and convergent views marked the meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe Saturday as India hoped the two sides would strive to achieve in five years the unrealised potential of the past five decades.The two countries signed a partnership agreement to turn the Hindu holy city…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has led a signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Japanese PM Shinzo Abe to turn Varanasi into a ‘smart city’ with help from Kyoto . The pact is in line with Modi’s vision of building 100 ‘smart cities’ across India. Under the smart heritage cities programme, Kyoto will provide…

Four economists of Indian origin have been featured in in the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) list of 25 economists under 45 who are shaping the way one thinks about the global economy The “Generation Next” list of “economists under 45 (who) will have the most influence in the coming decades on our understanding of the…

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh is one of the few politicians in the country to perpetually wear a smile. Be it the loss in the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls when he was chief minister or the failure of the party to make a comeback at the centre in 2009, the 63-year-old former physics lecturer does…

A month after assuming office, Narendra Modi had rued the absence in his case of the customary honeymoon period for a new prime minister. Now, the by-election setbacks and signs of dissonance at the top have cast a further shadow on his first 100 days as prime minister.The sombre mood was not quite what he…

Beating expectations and showing another sign of revival, the Indian economy expanded by 5.7 percent during the first quarter of the current financial year to log the highest growth yet in nine quarters, official data showed. The gross domestic product (GDP), which is the aggregate market value of all the goods and services produced in…

Net migration to Britain has surged by 68,000 in the past year to 243,000, leaving in tatters Theresa May’s promise to reduce the figure to below 100,000 by next May’s general election. The Office of National Statistics (ONS) says two-thirds of the 68,000 increase in the 12 months to March 2014 was accounted for by…