India

New Delhi, Feb 23: Political parties can no longer make tall promises on freebies in their election manifestos as they will now have to explain the rationale of their pledges and ways and means of meeting the financial requirements. This follows an Election Commission move to create a level-playing field before elections following directions from the Supreme Court. In fresh guidelines to political

Mumbai, Feb 23: Body of a newly born baby girl was recovered from the swimming pool of Bollywood actor Mohnish Behl's bungalow. In a ghastly development, an infant's dead body has been recovered from bollywood actor Mohnish Behl's farmhouse, the body was in a highly decomposed state. The farmhouse is based 60 km away from Mumbai. The actor last visited the farm house some four months ago, sources

New Delhi, Feb 23: The Income Tax department, on directions of the Supreme Court in connection with the 2G spectrum allocation case, has found no instance of tax evasion after going through the entire range of intercepted conversations of corporate lobbyist Niira Radia. The department, according to sources, has placed a detailed report stating these facts to the apex court recently which is

Hyderabad, Feb 23: For all the hue and cry being raised over the injustice meted out to the Seemandhra region by the Centre in the State bifurcation, the State Government’s own track record appears not above board in giving impetus to the major infrastructure projects proposed in the region . One of the major complaints against the State Government was inordinate delay in clearing files or taking

Mumbai, Feb 22: The Aam Aadmi Party office in suburban Andheri was on Saturday allegedly vandalised by a group of some 20-25 persons with the party claiming that the attack was the handiwork of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). “AAP Maharashtra office attacked by NCP goons,” AAP said in a tweet. According to AAP volunteer Paritosh, the vandals entered the second floor of their office located

Arunachal Pradesh, Feb 22: Wading into a foreign policy issue for the first time, Narendra Modi on Saturday asked China to shed its "expansionist mindset", making it clear that no power on earth can snatch Arunachal Pradesh from India. "China should shed its expansionist policy and forge bilateral ties with India for peace, progress and prosperity of both the nations," the BJP's prime ministerial

Srinagar, Feb 22: A guideline to Kashmiri journalists not to wear 'pherans', a traditional Kashmiri attire, to army press briefings has triggered a row, with Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Saturday calling it "unacceptable". An invitation to the press briefing for Saturday of the commander of army's Srinagar-based 15th corps said that journalists should not come wearing 'pherans'

Jammu, Feb 22: A Pakistani prisoner was Saturday morning found hanging inside a jail here, an official said. K. Rajendra Kumar, director general prisons, told reporters here that the body of Showkat Ali, son of Barkat Ali, a resident of Pind Sail Jathan in Sialkot Pakistan, was found hanging from the iron window of a barrack toilet inside the prison Saturday morning. "Pakistani and Bangladeshi

Bhopal, Feb 22: Cheetah, which became extinct from the country about seven decades back, may find a home in India if the Centre agrees to fund WII's Rs 260 crore project for reintroducing the feline in Nauradehi wildlife sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh's Sagar district. If the project gets the nod, the spotted animal would be translocated here from Namibia in Africa. "Wildlife Institute of India (WII)

New Delhi, Feb 22: India today said it has asked Italy to provide more security to its embassy in Rome after the mission reported receiving hate mails and a live bullet in retaliation to Italian marines issue. Asserting that India takes such incidents very seriously" and it was a "matter of concern", the spokesperson in the External Affairs Ministry said, "We have sensitised our friends in Italy