India

Srinagar, Sep 7: A year after floods devastated parts of Kashmir, the victims of the natural calamity feel that governments at the Centre and in the state have done "precious little" for rehabilitating them. "We are talking one year down the line and all we have got peanuts in the name of relief and rehabilitation," 75-year-old Ghulam Mohammad Bhat said. Bhat's three-storey house in Jawahar Nagar

New Delhi, Sep 7: Union minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore on Sunday said that country's enemies like Dawood Ibrahim and LeT chief Hafiz Saeed should not believe that India is not "thinking" anything about them. "We always remain ready to neutralise our enemy," Rathore said when asked what the government was doing about Ibrahim, the main accused in 1993 Mumbai blasts, and Saeed, who is wanted in

Washington, Sep 6: Rising sea levels along the US coastlines have threatened NASA's launch sites and facilities -- including Kennedy Space Center in Florida -- of being submersed under the water in near future. Nearly half to two-thirds of NASA's infrastructure and assets stand within 16 feet of sea level. With at least $32 billion in laboratories, launch pads, airfields, testing facilities, data

New Delhi, Sep 6: Former military personnel ended an indefinitie hunger strike on Sunday but said they would continue their protests over the one rank one pension (OROP) scheme till the government resolved the sticking points such as the period for revising pensions and the composition of a review panel, among other issues. The move came on the day Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that military

New Delhi, Sep 6: Congress leader Digvijaya Singh and his alleged girlfriend, TV journalist Amrita Rai got hitched last month, according to media reports. Confirming about their marriage, Amrita posted the following message on her Facebook page: "I would like to share with my friends that I and Digvijaya Singh have married in a solemn ceremony, as per the Hindu rites. We have also later registered

Gurgaon, Sep 6: Patients visiting the two government hospitals in Gurgaon on Saturday were in for a rude surprise, after they found that two of the three mobile ICUs had been sent to Faridabad for the Prime Minister's rally on Sunday. Patients said they were forced to wait for hours for ambulances, and eventually had to hire or borrow cars to reach the hospitals. A team of six doctors, including

Jammu, Sep 5: An Army soldier, who was killed in a gunfight with militants in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district earlier this week attained martyrdom after killing 10 guerrillas in 11 days, a military official said on Saturday. “Lance Naik Mohan Nath Goswami, a Special Forces Commando of the Indian Army has created a unique history of valour and dedication to duty by eliminating 10 terrorists in

Pune, Sep 5: Home Minister Rajnath Singh today rejected the opposition charges that the RSS was running the government and said he and Prime Minister Narendra Modi are 'Sayamsevaks' of the saffron fountainhead and no one should have any problem in it. "I want to clarify everyone that I am a RSS 'Sayamsevak' (worker), the Prime Minister is a RSS 'Sayamsevak and no one should have any problem in it

New Delhi, Sep 5: The government has decided to implement the One Rank One Pension (OROP) scheme for veterans, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said here on Saturday. The pension would be refixed every five years and the scheme will be with effect from July 1, 2014. But the ex-servicemen said they were not "fully satisfied" with the government's decision. Maj Gen (retd) Satbir Singh, spearheading

Mumbai, Sep 5: All accused in the Sheena Bora murder case --Indrani Mukerjea, Sanjeev Khanna and Shyam Rai-- whose police custody ends today will be produced in a court here this afternoon. Police is likely to seek extension of their custody today. Till now, 12 days have been exhausted out of the permissible 14-days of police custody. Digital superimposition of the profile of Sheena Bora has