Soren asked to prove majority by May 31
Ranchi: The BJP on Monday withdrew its support to the nearly five-month-old JMM-led government in Jharkhand reducing it to a minority, following which Chief Minister Shibu Soren was asked by the Governor to prove his majority on the floor of ...
Pune bombing suspect held
NEW DELHI: The Maharashtra anti-terrorism police are questioning a Karnataka resident they say may have been involved in February's bombing of a café in Pune, and in jihadist networks which have executed a series of urban bombings across ...
NEWS ANALYSIS Caution pays, yes, but leadership is also about taking a stand
New Delhi: Six years as Prime Minister have not taken the conservatism of the central banker out of Manmohan Singh. His answers to most questions at Monday's press conference to mark the first anniversary of his second stint in the top job ...
Black box of flight IX-812 yet to be recovered
MANGALORE: Efforts to trace the Digital Flight Data Recorder or the black box of the Air India Express flight IX-812 that crashed here on Saturday, remained inconclusive on Monday. The search that began on Sunday, continued through ...
Silda: court refuses to take cognisance of UAPA charges
KOLKATA: Citing the absence of the West Bengal government's sanction for the usage of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) as a reason, a court at Jhargram in Paschim Medinipur district on Monday refused to take cognisance of the ...
“Nepal Maoists not involved”
KATHMANDU: The Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) has condemned news reports published in India and Kathmandu about its hand in the killing of Madan Tamang, president of the Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League. Maoist spokesperson Dina ...
Karunanidhi reviews progress of work for classical Tamil meet
Coimbatore: Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on Monday presided over a meeting here to review the progress of various work being taken up in and around the city in view of the World Classical Tamil Conference to be held here from June 23 to ...
Civic body puts Neel Metal Fanalca on notice
CHENNAI: The Chennai Corporation will take over conservancy operations from private conservancy firm Neel Metal Fanalca (NMF) in Wards 128 and 129 of Kodambakkam Zone from June 4, Mayor M. Subramanian said on Monday. The civic body ...
Privacy concerns will be met: Facebook founder
Washington: In a rare show of responsiveness by a large corporation to millions of individual clients, Mark Zuckerberg, founder the Facebook website, admitted that his popular social networking tool had moved “too fast” and ...
Five months later, Brittany Murphy's husband found dead
LOS ANGELES: The husband of late actor Brittany Murphy has been found dead, authorities confirmed on Monday, five months after his wife's accidental death. British screenwriter Simon Monjack (39) was discovered unconscious at the ...
