Jaipur, March 15 (IANS) Twenty six people, including 11 women, were killed and 34 injured early Monday when a bus fell over a bridge into a river in Rajasthan’s Sawai Madhopur district, police said.
The bus was carrying about 60 students and staff of Mother India Teacher Training College, Jhalawar.
The bus was on its way back [...]
Eminent Islamic scholar Maulana Hameeduddin Aqil Husami was taken out from Panjeshah to Mecca Masjid hyderabad India. Where his namaaz-e-janaza (funeral prayer) was held on Friday. Thousands of people participated in the procession and the namaaz.
By Shilpa Raina
Mumbai, March 7 (IANS) Not lycra, not satin, it’s organic material like cotton, jute and natural dyes that prominent designers like Anupama Dayal, Sabyasachi Mukherjee, Digvijay Singh and Lecoanet-Hemant have used for their collections at the Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) here.
In short, they have gone green.
“I have stopped using fabrics like lycra or [...]
Kuala Lumpur, March 7 (IANS) Malaysian magazine Al-Islam has apologised for “unintentionally hurting the feelings of Christians, particularly Catholics” in a special report last year.
A three-paragraph apology posted on its website said the report was to investigate allegations of apostasy. It said the actions of its reporters who attended a Catholic congregation posing as Christians [...]
New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) Security forces killed 245 terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir last year, when the number of infiltration attempts by militants from Pakistan went up marginally, according to official figures.
“Attempts at infiltration from across the LoC (saw) a marginal increase during 2009,” Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Maken said, referring [...]
Kolkata, March 7 (IANS) Prisoners in West Bengal can now stay in touch with their families on telephone. But what they talk will be monitored.
“We have taken up the new system so that prisoners can at least keep in touch with their families,” Jail Minister Biswanath Chowdhury said, saying the jails will get telephone booths.
Inspector [...]
New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) India needs much better telecom and broadband connectivity not just to sustain high growth and empower citizens of this vast and diverse nation but also to break barriers of caste, religion and ethnicity, says Minister of State for IT and Communications Sachin Pilot.
“We want to make our country much more [...]
New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) The government has begun an ambitious programme to wire up the entire northeast and remote border regions with telecom, wimax and broadband connectivity and unleash an IT revolution in the region, says Minister of State for IT and Communications Sachin Pilot.
“I believe that the northeast can become a big centre [...]
Dhaka, March 7 (IANS) Bangladesh is to resume talks after five years on a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with India that it hopes will allow greater access to the Indian market.
Commerce Ministry officials are to begin the exercise Wednesday and an inter-ministerial meeting is scheduled to be held end of this month to work out [...]
Shimla, March 7 (IANS) In a step towards making Himachal Pradesh plastic-free, the state government has decided to do away with plastic liquor bottles from April 1 and promote glass ones, an official said here Sunday.
“We have decided to do away with the plastic bottles of liquor from April 1. Initially, 50 percent of the [...]
