India

Dhaka, Mar 4: A homemade crude bomb of low intensity was hurled on Monday outside the Sonargaon Pan-Pacific hotel in Dhaka where President Pranab Mukherjee is staying. No one was injured in the blast which took place around 2pm, said Apoorva Hassan, the officer in-charge of Tejgaon police station. Two persons came on a motorcycle and hurled the bomb wrapped in a cap near the SAARC fountain, about

New Delhi, Mar 4: A Delhi court on Monday framed charges against Irom Sharmila Chanu, who has been on fast for about 12 years demanding repeal of controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), for allegedly attempting to commit suicide during her 'fast until death' here in 2006. Metropolitan Magistrate (MM) Akash Jain framed charges against 40-year-old Ms Chanu under section 309

Lucknow/New Delhi, Mar 4: Uttar Pradesh minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya quit Monday, a day after he was booked for the murder of a senior police officer. "Raja Bhaiya has tendered his resignation and it has been accepted. The investigation is on and law will take its own course," Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav told reporters outside parliament in the national capital

Washington, Mar 3: The prestigious Wharton school today cancelled the keynote address of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi following uproar from a section of university professors and students on the invitation. The organising committee of the prestigious annual event apologized for putting the university and the Wharton School administration in a "difficult position". It said Modi's address

New Delhi, Mar 3: Backing former Telecom Minister A. Raja’s plea to be summoned as a witness before the Joint Parliamentary Committee, the BJP on Sunday said a meeting of the panel should be called at the earliest to take a final call on summoning the “key player” in the 2G scam. Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha, who is a member of the JPC, has written to panel chairman P.C. Chako asking him to

New Delhi, Mar 3: Against the backdrop of a growing chorus for making him the BJP's prime ministerial candidate, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi today lashed out at the "commission-seeking" Congress-led UPA government which is destroying the nation like a termite and dubbed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as a "night watchman" for the Gandhi family. Modi was scheduled to speak on good

Paradip (Odisha), Mar 3: A day after three anti-Posco activists were killed while allegedly making bombs, tension gripped the proposed plant site in Jagtsinghpur district today as police recovered the bodies and materials used for making the explosives. Three persons were killed and another was critically injured in the blast when members of Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS) were making crude

Bidar Mar 4: Asaduddin Owaisi, the Member of Parliament from Hyderabad and president of All-India Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) was taken into custody by the Humnabad police on Saturday night reportedly for violation of election code of conduct. Owaisi was taken into custody at the RTO?checkpost on the National Highway 9, near Humnabad when he was coming from Basava Kalyan after attending a

New Delhi, Mar 3: Diesel price for bulk consumers like Railways has been hiked by almost a rupee per litre, while the price of cooking gas (LPG) is cut by Rs 37.50 a cylinder that consumers buy beyond their quota of subsidised bottles. Neither the retail prices of diesel sold through petrol pumps nor rates for subsidised LPG cylinders has been changed. The government had in January allowed state

Lucknow, Mar 3: In a bid to re-affirm his commitment to the Muslim cause and allay fears of having an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the backdrop of his recent statement in the Lok Sabha, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh has pulled out all stops to woo the minority community ahead of next year’s general election. While reiterating his stand on the implementation of the Sachar