Uttar Pradesh Government said that more than 400 villages got struck by floods causing huge loss of lives and property here on Thursday. Most of the rivers have crossed the red mark like Sharda, Ghagra, Rapti and Budhi. To be more precise, Prati and Kuano have gone well over red mark, while sharda is above [...]
If I were to give credit to anyone after the two day acrimonious debate, it is not to any speaker but it is to the Speaker of the house. In recent times, I don’t recall any other speaker, in recent times, handling the house in a more efficient, involved and sincere manner. He made sure [...]
The Sardar did it again! coming out as a winner, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh won a vote of confidence in Lok Sabha with a very comfortable margin, giving a blow to his opposition who were dumbstruck with the outcome. On Tuesday, Prime Minister expressed his confidence of the parliament in the council of Ministers, carrying [...]
The BSP supremo, Ms Mayawati, is considered the most potential future candidate for Prime Minister by the third front parties like Telangana Rashtra Samiti and Telugu Desam. There has been amazing developments in the past few weeks which gave Mayawati a stance to ousted the current Prime Minister over the Indo-Us Nuclear deal that sparked [...]
In the toughest times as Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh sure knows how to keep his hopes alive. As he reached the parliament house to meet his United progressive Alliance (UPA) government which faces huge pressure to seek confidence vote at a special session in Lok Sabha, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh showed the victory symbol. He [...]
It is surprising though, but cotton prices settled down for good after undergoing a huge change of general assumptive selling in commodities on Thursday when the Dollar showed a dive for second continuous day. Cotton rebounded with triple digit gains on Tuesday after starting under pressure this week and hence taking four days in a [...]
Following are the latest facts and figures about the massive 8.0-magnitude earthquake that rocked southwest China’s Sichuan Province on May 12: – The death toll from the quake rose to 65,080 nationwide as of Monday noon, while 360,058 people were injured and 23,150 people were missing. – Rescuers saved and evacuated 666,331 people to safe [...]
The lack of any pertinent economic data put the US stock market in the driver’s seat as the greenback was sold in the NY session here on July 9th 2008. Stocks plunged with the S&P 500 down -2.3% as financials stocks took it on the chin on heightened credit market worries. The dip occured even [...]
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.—A 44-year-old man has admitted he stole nearly $25,000 in five bank robberies this year in New York, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Frank Surico of Poughkeepsie entered guilty pleas to six counts of bank robbery in Federal District Court in White Plains Tuesday. The Connecticut bank heists included a January robbery in Brookfield and [...]
