"I take responsibility"
KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Saturday said if the responsibility for the police firing at Nandigram was to be fixed on someone, it was he who had to take the blame. "I am deeply distressed. If any ...
BJP selection almost over in Uttar Pradesh
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party has more or less completed candidates selection for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls with the release of its second and third lists. It has also announced its candidates for two Lok Sabha byelections in the ...
Fuel tank of fighter aircraft recovered
KRISHNAGIRI(TAMIL NADU): The fuel tank of a Jaguar fighter aircraft, which fell off at the Moramadagu forest near here on a routine training sortie on Friday, was recovered by police and forest officials on Saturday. According to sources, the ...
BrahMos production to be trebled
KOCHI: India is going to treble the production of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile. "We plan to increase the production of the missile system by 300 per cent in the next two years," A. Sivathanu Pillai, chief executive officer and ...
New U.P. Chief Secretary to review poll arrangements
LUCKNOW: The new Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary, Shambhu Nath, will be touring different parts of the State to review the arrangements for the forthcoming Assembly elections. Mr. Nath told reporters on Saturday that his tour programme was being ...
"New Cr.P.C. in the offing"
NEW DELHI: Union Law Minister H.R. Bhardwaj on Saturday said the Centre was contemplating simplifying the Criminal Procedure Code (Cr.P.C.) to ensure speedy trial and quick dispensation of criminal justice. Speaking at the national seminar on ...
Award for Amartya Sen
CHENNAI: The Bangkok-based United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) will present its first ever award for Lifetime Achievement to Nobel laureate Amartya Sen. The award is being conferred as part of the UN ...
Sonia attends sufi singer's concert
NEW DELHI: It was a musical night out for the family of Congress president Sonia Gandhi here on Saturday. Ms. Gandhi and her kin enjoyed a performance by famous Pakistani sufi singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan. Ms. Gandhi's mother Paola Maino, ...
