Crucial Third Front meet begins in Chennai Leaders of the parties comprising the AIADMK, MDMK, TDP, Samajwadi Party (SP), Indian National Lok Dal (INLD), Kerala Congress (T), Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (JVM) and the AGP met at the Poes Garden residence of AIADMK General Secretary and Former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa here.
NDA meets to discuss presidential poll Leaders of the NDA today held a meeting on fielding Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat possibly as an independent candidate in the Presidential election
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's killer deported from US After nine years of leading fugitive life in the US, one of the killers of Bangladesh's founding father and first President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was brought to the Bangla capital today as a US court rejected his appeal to stay there....
14 convicted of killing 116 people in Bhagalpur riots Seventeen years after the massacre of 116 people belonging to the minority community during the 1989 Bhagalpur riots, a local court today convicted the 14 accused....
RTI Act to keep stock exchanges on high alert: experts The Central Information Commission's (CIS) decision to bring stock exchanges within the purview of RTI Act will keep the bourses on high alert and ensure that necessary information is made available to public in cases of manipulation by operators, feel experts...
SC seeks views of Centre, states on destruction of properties A Bench of Justices Arijit Pasayat and P P Naolekar also set up two high-powered committees to examine the impact of the existing statutory provisions on such offenders and the alleged role of the media in escalating such incidents.
Amjad Ali Khan penning autobiography "I have started working on my autobiography. It will cover my entire musical journey from the age of 12 years," said the Sarod maestro .
IGNOU to start course on retail management Amid moves to open the retail sector to foreign players in a big way, the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is all set to launch a course on retail management soon.
Rajendra Kumar Tiwari alias Dukan Ji perfoms moustache dance in Allahabad on Monday to encourage people to vote for the Taj Mahal so that it gets enlisted as one of the seven wonders of the World. PTI
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