Gurgaon, April 20 (IANS) Anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare and yoga guru Baba Ramdev will jointly sit on a day’s token fast in Delhi June 3 to press for a strong Lokpal bill and to mobilise opinion against black money. Addressing a joint press conference here, Hazare and Ramdev slammed the government for being involved in  [ Read More ]

NEW DELHI: Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office, V Narayanasamy, played down chief economic advisor Kaushik Basu’s remark that reforms are unlikely before the 2014 elections, saying India is looking forward despite the economic chaos that grips the world. Narayanasamy said the UPA Government under the leadership of Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh  [ Read More ]

Lucknow, April 19 (IANS) Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Uma Bharti Thursday cautioned the state government against minority appeasement. In the state capital to be sworn in as the legislator from Charkhari, the firebrand BJP leader also asked Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav to rein in lumpen elements. The BJP leader said she would not  [ Read More ]

Islamabad, April 19 (IANS) A day after Pakistan army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani said his country favoured talks with India to demilitarize Siachen, the world’s highest battleground, Islamabad Thursday said there was no change in its stance on the disputed glacier. Foreign Office spokesperson Moazzam Ali Khan said here that Pakistan has made no  [ Read More ]

BHUBANESWAR (Reuters) – India successfully test-fired on Thursday Agni-V, a nuclear-capable missile, that can reach Beijing and Eastern Europe, thrusting the emerging Asian power into a small club of nations that can deploy nuclear weapons at such a great distance. Footage showed the rocket, with a range of more than 5,000 km (3,100 miles), blasting  [ Read More ]

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Research in Motion (RIM) on Wednesday launched in India what it called its “most affordable” BlackBerry smartphone, part of an aggressive push in one of its few growing markets. The new Curve 9220 is priced in India at 10,990 rupees, higher than the price of Curve 8520, which is RIM’s best-selling  [ Read More ]

New Delhi, April 18 (ANI): Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said the Central Government will examine and study Vodafone’s legal notice before proceeding with appropriate action over ongoing taxation row. ” That it is their prerogative, what they will do. We shall have to examine it. I just cannot respond. After all, as a legal  [ Read More ]

New Delhi, April 18 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Wednesday conducted search operations at the homes of two former army officers in Delhi and Noida and recovered key documents related to its probe into alleged irregularities in the procurement of Tatra trucks, sources said. CBI sources said searches were also being conducted at  [ Read More ]

New Delhi:  BJP’s Delhi veteran VK Malhotra is smiling. And there is little activity at the Delhi Congress headquarters. Therein lies a tale – the BJP is all set to retain its hold over Delhi’s civic body – the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD). That though is only part of the story. The Congress, though  [ Read More ]

From a distance it looks like a vehicle built for the road, albeit a slightly unusual one. But on a straight stretch of tarmac or grass this machine transforms, giving it the ability to take to the skies. The PAL-V took its maiden flight in March, and is certified for the air as well as  [ Read More ]