'But India, increasingly, is not that far behind, which is a story I never expected to tell.'
In a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange, Maytas Infra said a meeting of the board of directors of the company will be held on Thursday to appoint Vaish and Jain as directors of the company in accordance with the order of the Company Law Board. Former ICAI president Ved Jain and noted tax lawyer O P Vaish were named as new board members of Maytas Infra following CLB directing the government to appoint four nominee directors, including a chairman, on the company's board.
'No COVID-19 positive person will be allowed when the bhoomi pujan happens on August 5 in Prime Minister Modi's presence.'
Ved Marwah, former commissioner of police Delhi and former National Security Gurads chief, felt the Jaipur blasts was not the end of the problem. "With the election year round the corner this is bound to go up. Our neighbours will to continue to play mischief and is not going to give it up. My gut feeling is that we have to sort out this problem within the country and not with Pakistan. Once we do that, these attacks would disappear automatically," Marwah told rediff.com.
The Indian police is governed by the archaic, colonial-era Police Act of 1861, which has no place in a democracy. It was created to make the police subservient to its masters and, consequently, antagonistic to the masses, states Veenu Sandhu.
This is the first ever incident of fratricide in the Kashmir police department.
A 3-judge bench would hear the plea, that has questioned
The body of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi will be brought to his ancestral home in Allahabad on Saturday.
Given the controversy over Uttar Pradesh's population control moves, Hemant Shivsaran/Rediff.com digs deep to find out how many children BJP MLAs in UP have.
'He couldn't hold himself from chanting 'Siyavar Ramchandra ki Jai'.'
Sonia Gandhi is still to reach a decision on the matter.
When the temple issue predominated BJP's discourse, its victory margins have been narrow.
Twenty-nine people were killed and 40 injured when a truck fell from a bridge into a drain at Piparia near Hoshangabad on Wednesday, police said.
'A poorly conceived reboot that's overlong, overdramatic and overdone, Love Aaj Kal simply cannot differentiate between pyaar and parody,' says Sukanya Verma.
''And topping it all, parties were playing politics with the issue, least concerned about solving the problem. In fact, they were using them to further their own ends," Marwah claimed.
Historically, Indian stocks trade at earnings multiple of 17-18 times. At current prices, the earnings multiple for the Sensex is 26 times.
The Indian High Commission in Pakistan was not aware of journalist Ved Pratap Vaidik's meeting with Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed and there was no question of facilitating it, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Thursday.
Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh has questioned the Bharatiya Janata Party's stand on Kashmir, in the backdrop of the recent meeting between journalist Ved Pratap Vaidik and Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed.
The fire appears to have started from the Roof Mounted Packaged Unit (RMPU- the railway terminology for an air-conditioning unit in a coach).
EC officials said the counting of votes for the Lok Sabha elections will begin at 8 am on Thursday and results are expected only by late evening.
'At the Asian Games I had a dream, to stand on the podium and have the tri-colour hoisted.' 'I missed one thing in Jakarta -- the national anthem being played.' 'I hope to make it happen at the Olympics by winning gold.'
They were arrested on Thursday after a first information report was registered, police said.
Brigadier M P Bajwa (retd), commander of the troops that captured Tiger Hill, tells Rediff.com's Archana Masih how a band of young soldiers won the Kargil War's most famous battle with their blood and grit.
Donations to NGOs and charitable institutes are likely to be exempted from fringe benefit tax, a leading member of chartered accountants body ICAI said on Saturday.\n
The Jharkhand governor was given the additional charge of Bihar following the resignation of M Rama Jois on October 28.
The urban development ministry has issued reminders to six former ministers to vacate their official residences in New Delhi, failing which eviction proceedings would be initiated against them.
Moti Ram Yadav, a property dealer, told Additional Sessions Judge Sunil Gaur he did not know the accused Sri Bhagwan or Satya Prakash.
Power Minister O P Jindal has been identified as one of the victims of the crash.
Divestment Minister Arun Shourie will now handle the key Communication and Information Technology ministries too.
'Yogiji insisted to Venkaiah Naiduji that he needs two more strong arms to rule Uttar Pradesh.'
Jagtar Singh Hawara, Jagtar Singh Tara and Paramjit Singh are the three main accused in the assassination of the Punjab chief minister in 1995.
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