New Delhi:  Social activist Anna Hazare, who led one of India’s biggest mass movements against corruption, received a Pakistani delegation at his home in Ralegan Siddhi, Maharashtra, today. The two member delegation – Justice Nasir Alam Zahid, a former judge and Karamat Ali, the Director of Pakistan Institute for Labour, Education and Research – is  [ Read More ]

New Delhi:  The Planning Commission on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that the below poverty line (BPL) population in the country is 40.74 crore and the poverty line for the urban and rural areas could be provisionally placed at Rs. 965 per capita per month (around Rs. 32 per day) and Rs. 781 per capita  [ Read More ]

New Delhi:  The CBI has said that there is no need to investigate the role of P Chidambaram in the 2G scam that was allegedly masterminded by A Raja when he was Telecom Minister in 2008. But Mr Chidambaram’s role appears to have  been questioned by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in what’s being seen as  [ Read More ]

New Delhi: Mayawati and Suresh Kalmadi are among 750 MPs who have bought confiscated arms, according to an RTI reply. In July 2002, the Finance Ministry said that confiscated weapons can be sold to sitting MPs on a first-come-first-serve basis if they confirm in writing that they do not own or possess any weapon already.  [ Read More ]

KABUL: The chairman of Afghanistan’s High Peace Council, former President Burhanuddin Rabbani, was killed in an attack on his home in Kabul on Tuesday, a senior police official said. “Rabbani has been martyred,” Mohammed Zahir, head of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Kabul Police, told Reuters. He had no further details. Rabbani was President  [ Read More ]

Kabul:Today evening bomb blast in kabul of national capital region of Afganistan in this blast Former president of Afghanistan Burhanuddin Rabbani has died.was President of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996. Burhanuddin Rabbani was the leader of Jamiat-e Islami Afghanistan (Islamic Society of Afghanistan). He also served as the political head of the United Islamic Front  [ Read More ]

Gangtok: Around 68 people have died in India, 50 of them in Sikkim, in the devastating earthquake which measured a forceful 6.8 on the Richter scale. Most of the deaths have been reported in north Sikkim. The quake hit parts of North India at around 6 pm on Sunday and was centred on the Sikkim-Nepal  [ Read More ]

Tirunelveli: Hundreds of protesters near the new Kudankulam nuclear plant in Tamil Nadu made it impossible for union minister V Narayanasamy to address them. “Shut the plant”, they yelled. The minister was quick to reassure them. “People’s safety first. Power later,” he promised, adding that the Prime Minister will decide whether to stop work on  [ Read More ]

Ahmedabad: Today in same manner as Anna did Congress leaders led by former union minister Shankersinh Vaghela ended their 74-hour fast Tuesday, saying it had highlighted how the Narendra Modi government had betrayed the trust of the people of Gujarat. Vaghela ended his fast on a pavement outside Sabarmati ashram here Tuesday by drinking lemon  [ Read More ]

Jammu: A Sushma Swaraj statement in faraway Gujarat has sparked a slugfest in picturesque Jammu and Kashmir. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti are engaged in a war of words over the BJP leader’s claim that Ms Mufti had spoken in favour of Narendra Modi at a recent meeting. Ms Swaraj, while  [ Read More ]