'We don't want to lead this hellish life. Enough is enough.'
'There is just one silver lining: The fatality rate has gone down.'
'In the Uttar Pradesh election last time, there were four presiding officers who had a heart attack on the day of the poll. It is a high pressure job and we must compliment our bureaucracy,' says former Chief Election Commissioner S Y Quraishi who headed the Election Commission in the 2009 general election.
It would be a huge achievement if the new administration manages a successful transition to some sense of domestic and international normalcy in these frantic times marked by the pandemic and rise of illiberal regimes across the world, observes Shreekant Sambrani.
The president, however, implied about declaring a national emergency if the Congress did not approve a funding for the wall by February 15.
'I don't see people standing up against what is happening in Kashmir. I feel this clampdown can exist as long as the government wants it to.'
A children's movement in Bhopal takes on the might of Dow Chemicals.
The phone has the ability to store up to 6,000 songs on a 32 GB memory card.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is expected to see a 30 to 40 per cent jump in revenues from the second edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) tournament over the first edition held in India last year. Profits, however, are expected to increase marginally.
Sources say Apple is currently looking for a professional who can advise the company in dealing with the government.
The co-pilot of missing Malaysia Airlines plane made a desperate call from his mobile phone moments before the jet went off the radar with 239 people on board under mysterious circumstances on March 8.
The focus is on tapping all resources, even foreign agencies.
DEA officials to push for this at a meeting with FM Jaitley.
After National Spot Exchange Ltd (NSEL) this week suspended trading in forward contracts, the Forward Markets Commission (FMC), the commodities market regulator, on Friday sought to allay fears over the exchange defaulting on open contracts.
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