Over 200 petitions demand clean air in Delhi
New Delhi, Nov 3 (IANS) As the national capital continues to choke on hazardous air, more than 200 online petitioners have urged the Prime Minister to intervene and chalk out a solution for clean air…
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Global Citizen event faces political heat in Maharashtra
Mumbai, Nov 3 (IANS) The opposition Congress-NCP on Thursday attacked the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance for waiver of entertainment tax and rentals to the Global Citizen India’s upcoming mega-event in which British rock band Coldplay is…
Bengal Muslim groups oppose doing away with triple talaq
Kolkata, Nov 3 (IANS) A forum of Muslim organisations in West Bengal on Thursday opposed any interference by the government in matters of religious practices, including the triple talaq, saying it was a subject governed…
Coldplay concert faces political heat in Maharashtra
Mumbai, Nov 3 (IANS) The opposition Congress-NCP on Thursday attacked the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance for waiver of entertainment tax and rentals to the British rock band Coldplay’s much-hyped concert scheduled for November 19 here. The…
Nobel laureates to meet in Delhi to discuss child issues: Satyarthi
New Delhi, Nov 3 (IANS) Nobel laureates and globally known leaders will meet here next month to discuss why children suffer the most in conflicts though they don’t cause them, Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash…
2 Chinese tourists visited Arunachal on wrong documents
Guwahati, Nov 3 (IANS) In a case of administrative goof-up, two Chinese nationals visited some of the “strategically important” locations in Arunachal Pradesh on Protected Area Permit (PAP) issued instead of the Restricted Area Permit…
China bans auction of stolen antiques
Beijing, Nov 3 (IANS) The Chinese government has approved a regulation that bans auctioning of cultural relics that were stolen or smuggled, officials said on Thursday. This new regulation, laid down by the State Administration…
OROP suicide: Rahul Gandhi reaches ex-soldier’s village for cremation
Bhiwani (Haryana), Nov 3 (IANS) Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi has arrived in the ex-soldier Subedar Ram Kishan Grewal’s native Bamla village to attend the cremation to be held later on Thursday. The former soldier’s…
OROP suicide: Ex-soldier’s body reaches village
Bhiwani (Haryana), Nov 3 (IANS) The body of former soldier, Subedar Ram Kishan Grewal was brought to his village here on Thursday morning after it was handed over to his family members in New Delhi….
‘US more backward than India in leadership roles for women’
New York, Nov 3 (IANS) The US is “more backward” than India when it comes to leadership role for women, according to H R Shah, the CEO of TV Asia, the largest South Asian TV…
Humans arrived in Australia 10,000 years earlier than thought
Canberra, Nov 3 (IANS) Archaeologists in central Australia have discovered that humans arrived in the region 10,000 years earlier than previously thought. Researchers excavating a rock shelter site in Flinders Ranges, 550 km north of…
Rubber bullets fired at pipeline project protesters
Washington, Nov 3 (IANS) Police in the US shot rubber bullets and used pepper spray on a gathering of people who were demonstrating against a controversial oil pipeline project. The demonstrators — who call themselves…
Shattered family rues politics over ex-serviceman Grewal’s death
Bhiwani (Haryana), Nov 2 (IANS) Shattered by his suicide, the family of ex-army man Subedar Ram Kishan Grewal is ruing the politics being played over the death of the army veteran. In Grewal’s Bamla village,…
Soldier’s suicide over OROP unfortunate: Hazare
Ralegan Siddhi, Nov 2 (IANS) Social activist Anna Hazare on Wednesday termed the suicide of an ex-armyman demanding implementation of ‘One Rank One Pension (OROP)’ in Delhi as very unfortunate, and hoped that the government…
Railway police teams to guard home-bound Bihari workers
Patna, Nov 2 (IANS) Given a high possibility of home-bound Bihar migrant workers, travelling ahead of ‘Chhath’, being drugged and robbed, the Government Railway Police (GRP) have deployed special teams at Delhi, Kanpur and Mughalsarai…
Akhilesh’s ‘Rath Yatra’ from Thursday, may spell chaos
By Mohit Dubey Lucknow, Nov 2 (IANS) If Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s presence in Gurugram, Haryana, on Tuesday brought the city to a standstill and several MNCs declared the day off, Uttar Prdesh Chief Minister…
Pakistan gang rape survivor Mukhtaran Mai walks the ramp
Islamabad, Nov 2 (IANS) Mukhtaran Mai, the gang rape survivor of Pakistan who works towards bettering the lives of women in her village, walked the ramp for a fashion week in Karachi. Designer Rozina Munib…
3 killed in Delhi residential building fire
New Delhi, Nov 2 (IANS) Three persons, including a minor, were killed and 12 others injured on Wednesday in a blaze that engulfed a residential building here, police said. “The four-storey building in Shahdara caught…
25,000 abandon homes in J&K as shelling from Pakistan escalates
By Sheikh Qayoom Jammu, Nov 2 (IANS) Tens of thousands of border villagers in Jammu and Kashmir have been forced out of their homes to take shelter in makeshift accommodations after shelling from across the…
OROP protester commits suicide in Delhi park
New Delhi, Nov 2 (IANS) An ex-army man who was part of the protest to demand One Rank One Pension for the armed forces committed suicide by consuming poison on Tuesday evening in a park…