Vatican Radio’s English shortwave (SW) broadcast for Asia has come to an end, with its last transmission going out Friday evening, after nearly 60 years of service. However this does not mean it has disappeared altogether. What ultimately closed on March 24 as Vatican Radio’s English Service for Asia, is however very much alive online […]
New Delhi: Today March 30, will have countless fans flocking to the Regal Theatre in Connaught Place. Raj Kapoor’s classics “Mera Naam Joker” and “Sangam” will be the last two movies to be screened at the iconic Regal theatre as it brings the curtains down after an eight-decade-long golden run. Situated in Connaught Place area […]
Hyderabad, Mar 26: Two staff nurses of state-run Gandhi Hospital were today suspended after allegations that they administered expired injections to some children undergoing treatment there. However, the hospital and health officials have denied the allegations. The parents of around 10 children, who were admitted to hospital yesterday for various ailments alleged that their kids […]
New Delhi, Mar 26: It’s a curios case and probably the first time that a man facing an allegation of ‘rape’ has been absolved, and charged with ‘having unnatural sex! A pilot with a private airline will face trial for allegedly having unnatural sex with a former air hostess of the carrier, the Delhi High […]
New Delhi, Mar 24: Questioning the failures of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh in implementing the witness protection schemes till now, the Supreme Court today asked them to give security to the witnesses in rape cases against Asaram. “It’s high time now, why are you not implementing the witness protection scheme. The witnesses in criminal cases […]
New Delhi: Delhi Police conducted raids and rescued six women from a gang involved in human trafficking, a DCW official said. It appears that women trafficked from villages were imprisoned, raped to ‘produce babies’. (march 23) The raids were conducted last night after two women employee of a Nihal Vihar-located placement agency approached the Delhi Commission […]
New Delhi: Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad punched and hit a 60-year-old Air India Duty Manager with his slippers nearly 20 times and tore his shirt at IGI airport here today (March 23) just because he could not travel business class in an all-economy flight. Meanwhile, the Delhi Police is seeking legal opinion on whether an […]
New Delhi, Mar 23: Amidst reports of slaughterhouse owners being threatened, some more ‘anti- beef ‘vigilantism, and members of minority communities facing inconvenience and harassment under the new UP government, Rajnath Singh has responded with a bland statement. The BJP does not discriminate on the basis of caste, creed or religion, Home Minister Rajnath Singh […]
New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government has drawn a veil of secrecy on corporate donations to political parties, so much for all the ‘transparency talk’. Finance minister Arun Jaitley slipped in a surprising amendment to the Companies Act, 2013, through a last-minute change in the Finance Bill, 2017, which removes the cap that barred a […]
New Delhi: The Election Commission tonight issued an interim order freezing the ‘two leaves’ election symbol of AIADMK, saying both the rival camps cannot use the party symbol as well as its name for the prestigious R K Nagar assembly bypoll, says PTI. After a day-long hearing here, the Commission said since there is little […]
United Nations : India has ranked a lowly 131 among the 188 countries surveyed for human development, a new UN report has said, bracketing the third-largest Asian economy alongside its South Asian neighbours like Pakistan, Bhutan and Nepal. India has made no improvement in its ranking over the previous year, despite the Human Development Report […]
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court issued notices to the state government and others on a PIL against alleged commercialization of a Christian cemetery in Valsad. (March 22) A division bench of Chief Justice R Subhash Reddy and Justice V M Pancholi issued notices to the government, Valsad Collector and First District Church of the Brethren (FDCB). […]
