New Delhi, July 26 (IANS) BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Tuesday demanded a discussion on Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination, saying no autopsy was conducted on the body. Raising the issue in the Rajya Sabha amid protests…
Patna, July 26 (IANS) RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Tuesday said his party won’t contest the assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh and hinted he may support the ruling Samajwadi Party. “The RJD will not contest…
New Delhi, July 26 (IANS) Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Tuesday that there was no “standardised definition” for the One Rank One Pension scheme for retired defence personnel, adding that the earlier “interpretation” for…
New Delhi, July 26 (IANS) Remembering the valour and sacrifice of the armed forces on the 17th Kargil Vijay Diwas, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday said “their spirit of nation above self continue to…
New Delhi, July 26 (IANS) Jharkhand’s “ruling party” used money power and other unfair means to win the June 11 Rajya Sabha elections in the state, JMM member Sanjiv Kumar said on Tuesday in the…
New Delhi, July 26 (IANS) Rajya Sabha member Subramanian Swamy on Tuesday raised Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination in the upper house, saying no autopsy was conducted on the body. Raising the issue amid protests from the…
Karachi, July 26 (IANS) Backed by armed police guards, health workers on Tuesday began a three-day polio immunization drive in Karachi, Pakistan’s most populous city. The health workers went from house to house to administer…
Vientiane, July 26 (IANS) Japan, Australia and the US on Tuesday urged China to recognise the ruling by The Hague’s Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in favour of the Philippines over its South China Sea…
By Arul Louis Philadelphia (US), July 26 (IANS) Amid a sustained revolt by his supporters, Bernie Sanders, the unsuccessful insurgent candidate for the Democratic Party presidential nomination, struggled on Monday night to rally the fractured…
Shimla, July 26 (IANS) Successive governments in Himachal Pradesh have failed to notify and implement the Forest Rights Act (FRA) 2006 and have allowed the rights of forest dwellers to get eroded, rights campaigner Rajeshwar…
New Delhi, July 26 (IANS) In remembrance of valiant soldiers on the 17th Kargil Vijay Diwas Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said “the country will never forget the fearlessness with which they gave a…
Mumbai, July 26 (IANS) The Shiv Sena “rotted” during the 25 years of its alliance in Maharashtra with the BJP, which ended in 2014 ahead of the assembly elections, party chief Uddhav Thackeray said on…
Srinagar, July 26 (IANS) The army said on Tuesday that four guerrillas were killed and one was apprehended in a gunfight in Nowgam sector of the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir. Defence…
New Delhi, July 26 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday greeted the nation on the 17th Kargil Vijay Diwas, saying the heroic sacrifices of soldiers continue to inspire people. “On Kargil Vijay Diwas, I…
Agartala, July 26 (IANS) Taking a cue from the Delhi government, Tripura has decided to introduce the “odd-even” system from Thursday in a bid to ration petrol and diesel due to extreme shortages. “The odd-even…
New Delhi, July 26 (IANS) Thousands of autorickshaw drivers went on an indefinite strike on Tuesday in the national capital against app based taxi services, badly affecting commuters. An estimated 90,000 autorickshaws ply in Delhi,…
Nairobi, July 26 (IANS) US President Barack Obama’s half brother has said that he would vote for Republican nominee Donald Trump in the presidential election this November. Trump is “down-to-earth” and “cool”, but Barack Obama…
Mumbai, July 26 (IANS) The Shiv Sena “rotted” during the 25 years of its alliance in Maharashtra with the BJP, which ended in 2014 ahead of the assembly elections, party chief Uddhav Thackeray said on…
Philadelphia, July 26 (IANS) Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders was booed by his own delegates after calling on them to support presumptive presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on the opening day of a Democratic National Convention (DNC)…
By Archana G. Gulati As someone with first-hand experience of how babudom (bureaucracy) functions in India, I am often amused, and at times distressed, by people’s assessment of how to cure the many ills of…