Sixty-six former bureaucrats in a letter to President Ram Nath Kovind said that the 'polling body's independence, fairness, impartiality and efficiency are perceived to be compromised today'.
The lie detector test on Naved, who is in NIA custody till August 24, be carried out at 11 am on Tuesday at the Central Forensic Science Laboratory in CGO complex, after his interrogators claimed he was lying on many accounts.
The wedding season is here and people are getting married by the dozen. People are spending bucketloads of money to ensure in order to create their dream weddings. But there are some adventurous souls who are giving traditions and rituals a miss and saying 'I Do' with a twist. Here are some of the craziest and most bizarre weddings. Go ahead, take inspiration and plan one weird, out of this world marriage.
The leadership needs to put all other government business aside, control the pandemic and save human lives. Searchlights are going to be held by the world community in the weeks and months ahead as the fatality rates start shooting up and Indians die like flies, warns Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Addressing a conference of chief ministers in New Delhi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said there was credible information that Pakistan-based terrorists will carry out fresh attacks in India.
Trump ordered that they be reviewed in the next 180 days.
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United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday asked Pakistan to face up to the gravity of threat posed by nuclear weapon-armed terrorist groups in its midst, as it urged the country to join the nuclear non-proliferation process."The Al Qaeda and their extremist allies are always on the hunt for nuclear material and it doesn't take a lot to create a very damaging explosion with extraordinary political ramifications.
Until early last year, it looked like India's stock market would continue its gravity-defying rise forever.
Fitness expert Brinda Sapat shows you how to fight the effects of age and gravity on your body. Her's how to tone sag-prone areas like your breasts, bottom, thighs, chest and tummy.
The litigants and their counsels -- altogether over 50 people -- met the three-member mediation panel on the Avadh University premises in Faizabad.
The probe agency made the submission in an affidavit filed before Justice A K Pathak, who listed the matter for hearing on August 1 and extended till then the interim protection against arrest granted to Chidambaram on May 31.
Set to become the first Indian to win all the national sports awards, former All-England badminton champion Pullela Gopichand on Tuesday said being honoured as both player and coach has put a responsibility on him to take the game forward in the country.
The unprecedented global recession had forced the central banks into a fire-fighting mode, cutting interest rates and infusing liquidity into the economic system. The global markets began to find their feet. And the Indian markets were among the leaders.
The Allahabad high court on Monday denied bail to Rajesh Talwar and Nupur Talwar, who have been awarded life sentences by a Central Bureau of Investigation court for the murder of their daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj, but ordered speedy hearing on their pleas against the conviction.
Sukanya Verma takes us through the latest trend in Bollywood.
More than 53,500 people were now staying in various relief camps across the state.
The issue of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh not being a directly elected member of Parliament came to the fore again today when Leader of theOpposition L K Advani said that in a democracy the head of government should be from the Lok Sabha.
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Singh was among the many MPs who attended a breakfast meeting hosted by President Ram Nath Kovind on March 18 as well as a Parliamentary panel meeting on transport, tourism and culture attended by around 20 MPs on Wednesday. Trinamool Congress MP Derek O'Brien said in a tweet, 'This government is putting us all at risk. The PM says self-isolate yourself but Parliament is on.'
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram today dismissed reports that some chief ministers were angry with the contents of his letter to them on the steps they should take to thwart terrorism.
Jabir Moti, 51, who was arrested by Scotland Yard last year, appeared before the Westminster Magistrates' Court in London at the start of his trial.
The trial in the 26/11 Mumbai attack case is considered to be historic in nature. However the events leading up to it too are historic considering the fact that never in the history of Indian jurisprudence has a court found it so difficult to appoint an amicus curiae or a standing counsel to defend an accused.
A leading psychiatrist at Trinity College in Dublin has claimed that both Einstein and Newton displayed signs of autism spectrum disorders, including Asperger syndrome, which were the same as those associated with creative genius.
The global financial slowdown, perhaps for the first time in recent years, has forced premier B-school IIM-B to extend the placement process for the second week, which otherwise would have been completed in the first week itself. Industry sources say this is the problem with most other IIMs as there is not much of demand for the elite management graduates this year.
May told House of Commons that there was "clear evidence" the Bashar al-Assad government was behind a recent chemical weapons attack in Douma.
'Astad had the courage to plough a lonely furrow. He made a life of his own, on his own, and created a path-breaking dance style.' 'Only a few in the performing arts could do what he did.' 'A classical dancer can fall back on tradition, but Astad created something absolutely new.'
'The Delhi-Washington stalemate can end only if India's concern over trans-border terrorism is addressed.' 'The Indian security establishment expects a spike in terrorist attacks in the months ahead.' 'And there is every likelihood that India may retaliate against Pakistan at some point,' observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Tuesday
Eight crew members were rescued from a sinking ship off Beypore in Kerala on Saturday by the Coast Guard.
The incident occurred at Sindupur village under Bihar police station area. The victim has been shifted to a government hospital in Lucknow and is in a critical condition.
Today environmental trade is on the rise. The world realises that environment contributes to the growth of trade in a substantial manner. In fact, the logic or justification behind the promotion of environmental trade was that it would benefit developing countries and LDCs in establishing environmental infrastructural facilities in their own country.
Why wait for that first set of fine lines to make you sprint into action? With a little know-how and a few precautions, it is possible to delay the signs of age from showing on your face.
A Brazilian judge provided another twist to the saga of four US swimmers embroiled in a scandal at the Rio Games, suspending permission for one of the athletes, Jimmy Feigen, to leave the country - even though he had flown home hours earlier.
James Sutherland said Darren Lehmann has not resigned and will continue to coach the Australia men's team
'The outrage that followed the destruction of the Babri Masjid was an inability to see the event for what it was: The rectification of a grave historical wrong, the restitution of a hurt of a people and the countering of moral injustice,' argues Vivek Gumaste.
Hyperbole by our ministers and a few saffronised scientists not only defames Newton and Einstein, but also mocks ancient India's achievements in mathematics, medicine and natural science, says Utkarsh Mishra.
The COVID-19 tests will be started at every polling station in the containment zones of Delhi in a few days
