Islamabad: Four women condemned to death by a tribal jirga or council for dancing and singing with men at a wedding in northern Pakistan have been killed, TV news channels reported on Sunday. However, senior officials refuted the news reports and described them as baseless. Interior Minister Rehman Malik ordered a judicial inquiry into the reported killing of the four women as punishment for dancing with men at a wedding...
12:40 AM, Jun 04, 2012
Islamabad: Petroleum Minister Asim Hussain on Monday said there is a potential for trade in petroleum products between India and Pakistan, which is interested in importing furnace oil and diesel from the neighbouring country. Initiation of talks in this sector will prove to be a step in the right direction, Hussain said during a meeting with an Indian delegation that is visiting Pakistan to discuss trade in petroleum products. He...
05:29 AM, May 29, 2012
Mumbai: Criticising the central government over the delay in the passage of the Lokpal Bill, BJP on Saturday said that the Bill should be passed before the Parliament session ends on Tuesday. "Four ministers from the government had met the Opposition leaders on the Lokpal Bill issue. BJP had given suggestions on it and the party is ready to support them in the Parliament. Two days are remaining for the...
01:58 AM, May 20, 2012
Mumbai: All the senior leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are likely to attend the two-day national executive meeting of the party, beginning in Mumbai on May 24. "340 leaders from the party have been sent invitation. All the leaders from BJP will be present at the meeting. We will not give any opportunity to our opponents to speak on it," BJP's national spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain said at a...
10:50 PM, May 19, 2012
New Delhi: Vice President M Hamid Ansari will bestow the prestigious 59th National Film Awards to winners here on May 3. Officials of the Information and Broadcasting ministry said that while national awards are traditionally given by the President every year but this year will see an exception since President Pratibha Patil is currently on a foreign visit. Vice President has been requested by the ministry to give awards to...
12:44 PM, Apr 30, 2012
Muktsar: Opening borders of Punjab with Pakistan for trade would provide impetus to economy of the state, and will be a "major boon" for the farmers, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Sunday said. "Punjab being a land locked state had been a victim of the wrong policies of the successive Congress government at the Centre, who have virtually ignored economic development of the state," Badal said. He was talking...
12:11 AM, Apr 09, 2012
Indore: BJP on Saturday reiterated its demand for snap polls citing the Congress-led UPA government's "failure" in securing a majority vote on the floor of Parliament on two occasions. "Congress-led UPA government has twice lost the majority on the floor of Parliament; once during Lokpal bill and second on the (Lok Sabha) Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj's amendment in which it could secure only 227 votes as against the required...
10:03 PM, Apr 07, 2012
New Delhi: In a major setback for one of Karnataka's most decorated police officers Shankar Bidari, the Karnataka High Court on Friday struck down his appointment as the state DGP. In a scathing verdict, the court described Bidari as 'worse than Saddam Hussain or Muammar Gaddafi' for alleged atrocities committed by the Special Task Force led by him during the hunt to nab smuggler Veerappan. Dismissing as "without merit and...
07:05 AM, Mar 31, 2012
New Delhi: The Election Commission has postponed to Monday the hearing in the case against Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma for violation of model code of conduct over his minorities sub-quota remarks following a request from the complainant. The Commission on Monday had granted personal hearing to Verma on February 24 to explain his minorities sub-quota remarks for which the poll body had slapped a notice on him. Sources in...
08:50 PM, Feb 23, 2012
New Delhi: It has been close to three months after the National Investigative Agency filed its chargesheet against Lashkar-e-Toiba agent David Coleman Headley; an NIA court is likely to pronounce its order on the chargesheet on Saturday. The NIA has charged Headley and 9 others including Tawahur Hussain Rana, Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and Hafiz Saeed with criminal conspiracy of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. If the chargesheet is accepted then it...
06:43 AM, Feb 18, 2012
Male: The former president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, on Friday demanded new elections and vowed mass street protests if the new government did not relent, raising the prospect of a protracted crisis on the Indian Ocean islands famed as a beach paradise. Nasheed was free despite an arrest warrant against him as diplomats including a UN envoy worked to forestall renewed violence after his removal this week, which he...
03:52 AM, Feb 11, 2012
New Delhi: Stung by Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi's criticism of its senior leaders LK Advani and Narendra Modi on the issue of corruption, BJP on Monday hit back saying he cannot see corruption at the Centre and has accepted defeat in Uttar Pradesh before the polls. "Neither the BJP nor corruption in Congress governments are visible to Rahul Gandhi. Those who are involved only with themselves and their family...
07:20 PM, Feb 06, 2012
New Delhi: Amid reports that most its senior leaders are staying away from assembly poll campaigning in Uttar Pradesh, BJP on Friday cleared the air on the issue saying its top brass will "camp" in the state for a month beginning next week. Scoffing at suggestions that party President Nitin Gadkari has been left to handle the campaign following differences on a variety of reasons, BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain said...
08:01 PM, Jan 27, 2012
New Delhi: Anna Hazare's comments that a person has no option but to slap the corrupt when he runs out of tolerance and patience has stoked a fresh controversy. Hazare's comments have come in for sharp criticism from the political class with several leaders condemning it. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Samajwadi Party and the Congress came out against Hazare's comment, saying that there are better ways to fight corruption...
12:31 PM, Jan 25, 2012
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