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March 15, 2014 8:19 AM

A US grand jury re-indicts Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade in the Visa fraud case

A US grand jury has again indicted Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade who was accused of Visa fraud and under paying her housekeeper. A US judge dropped virtually identical charges against her two days ago on the ground that she enjoyed diplomatic immunity. She has always denied any wrongdoing.Ms Kh...

March 15, 2014 8:18 AM

Notification for 99 Lok Sabha seats spread over 19 states and Union Territories including 7 in Delhi to be issued today

The notification for 99 Lok Sabha constituencies spread over 19 states and Union Territories, including all the seven seats in Delhi will be issued today. These constituencies will go to the polls on the 9th and 10th of next month. The states include Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, N...

March 14, 2014 8:54 PM

Modi hits out at Khurshid for his alleged denigrating of EC & SC

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today launched a scathing attack on External Affairs Minister Salman Khursid for denigrating the Election Commission of India and even the Supreme Court in a speech in London recently. He held Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh responsible for failing to rein in hi...

March 14, 2014 8:51 PM

AAP accuses some media houses of running sponsored news; says it will lodge complaints with EC

Aam Aadmi Party has defended party convenor Arvind Kejriwal's remarks against media. Briefing reporters in New Delhi today, party spokesman Sanjay Singh said a part of media houses is running sponsored news to favor or demean political parties.Demanding investigation into paid news and false su...

March 14, 2014 5:20 PM

SC gives green signal for CBI probe into alleged irregularities in NREGA

The Supreme Court today gave a green signal for a CBI probe into alleged misappropriation of funds under the NREGA scheme in seven districts of Uttar Pradesh.A bench headed by Chief Justice P Sathasivam dismissed a batch of petitions including that of Uttar Pradesh government challenging the Allahab...

March 14, 2014 2:13 PM

India offers B’desh $1 bn line of credit for trade, infra development

India has offered Bangladesh a fresh 1 billion US Dollar line of credit for the development of trade facilities and infrastructure.The offer was made at a meeting of the Joint Working Group on Trade that ended in Dhaka last evening. India has also offered to supply another 500 megawatts of power to ...

March 14, 2014 2:08 PM

Notification for 1st phase of Lok Sabha polls in Assam, Tripura issued

In Assam, notification for the first phase of Lok Sabha polls has been issued. Polling for five seats will be held on 7th of next month in the first phase.These constituencies are Tezpur, Kaliabor, Jorhat, Dibrugarh and Lakhimpur.With this, the process of filing nominations gets underway.Official so...

March 14, 2014 1:58 PM

3 convicted for gang-rape of nun in Odisha's Kandhamal during 2008 riots; 6 acquitted

In Odisha, three persons have been convicted while six others were acquitted by a court in Cuttack in connection with the rape of a nun in Kandhamal district during the 2008 riots.District Sessions Court Judge Gyana Ranjan Purohit held Mitua alias Santosh Patnaik guilty of rape.Two other accused per...

March 14, 2014 12:37 PM

Notifications for 1st phase of Lok Sabha polls issued in Assam, Tripura, Bihar

March 14, 2014 12:27 PM

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