A day before what turned out to be Anna Hazare’s flop show in Mumbai, his colleagues were full of hype and hubris during a television debate. It wasn’t only that they claimed overwhelming popular support for their cause – 80 per cent of the surveys confirmed this, according to them – they argued from this [...]
Smarting under the party’s failure to pass the Lokpal Bill, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Friday asserted that his party will establish Lokpal with constitutional status on the lines of the Election Commission of India. “I advocated a strong constitutional Lokpal. Make it on the lines of the Election Commission…. But they (BJP) defeated [...]
Admitting that the government was taken by surprise by Trinamool Congress’ opposition to Lokpal Bill in Rajya Sabha, Home Minister P Chidambaram today said one or two amendments could be accepted to rope in the ally’s support for passage of the legislation in Budget session. Chidambaram defended the deferment of Lokpal and Lokayukta Bill, 2011 [...]
Continuing her efforts to refurbish the BSP’s image, Chief Minister Mayawati on Friday sacked four more ministers and decided to not nominate them for the Assembly elections, saying they had neglected people’s problems and party workers, causing resentment in their constituencies. Those who were removed were Forest Minister Fateh Bahadur Singh, Technical Education Minister Sadal [...]
Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has said that the Kerala Government will take immediate steps to collect the details of Malayalis in Saudi jails and will take action to get them released. Speaking at a face-to-face programme on the second day of the Global NRK Meet 2011 here on Friday, he assured that a higher official [...]
China has reported its first human case of bird flu in 18 months, after a bus driver in the massive southern boomtown of Shenzhen tested positive for the deadly virus. The city borders Hong Kong, which has already culled thousands of chickens and ordered a suspension of live poultry imports from the mainland after three birds tested positive with the H5N1 [...]
The death toll from months of flooding in Thailand has risen above 800, although the waters have receded in many parts of the country, the government said Saturday. Late reporting of deaths from the inundations in central andnorthern provinces, along with heavy November monsoon rains in the south of the kingdom have seen fatality numbers continue to [...]
Australian police say an 8-year-old girl has died from being accidentally shot in the head with an arrow. A New South Wales state police spokesman says the girl was shot on Dec. 26 near the small town of Manilla in the state’s north. She was airlifted to a hospital in Sydney for emergency surgery but died on [...]
Iran test-fired long-range missiles on Saturday during a naval exercise in the Gulf, the semi-official Fars news agency said, following a threat by Tehran to close shipping lanes if the West imposes sanctions on its oil exports. However, another Iranian news agency also reported that Tehran’s nuclear negotiator would write to the European Union offering [...]
Eleven beggars, who were arrested in Taif on Wednesday, told the police that they were able to make more than SR50,000 in a month from begging, Al-Madinah newspaper reported Thursday quoting the committee which combats begging in the summer resort southern city. The committee comprises representatives from the security, passport and traffic police, the social [...]
