Mamata calls Modi 'architect of riots', rejects his 'gyan'
Kolkata: A day after her party labelled Narendra Modi "the butcher of Gujarat,"Mamata Banerjee made a substantial contribution to the onslaught, describing the BJP's prime ministerial candidate as an "architect of riots" whose "gyan (insight) on development" is not needed in her state. "If he (Modi
‘Clinching evidence’ to arrest Modi in Ishrat case, Sibal says
AHMEDABAD: Union minister Kapil Sibal raked up alleged fake encounter of Ishrat Jahan on Monday to hit out at Narendra Modi saying the BJP's PM nominee and Amit Shah were being "shielded" despite existence of "clinching" evidence to arrest them. "I want to ask who is shielding Modi and Shah when,
Farewell to professor Masood Siddiqui of JNMC
ALIGARH April 25: A Farewell function was organized at the Department of Anesthesiology, J N Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University to felicitate Professor M Masood Hussain Siddiqui, who is retiring on 30th April. Addressing on the occasion, Professor Tariq Mansoor, Principal and CMS, said th
India likely to have below-average monsoon this year
India is likely to experience below-average monsoon rainfall in 2014, if the El Nino weather pattern affects the four-month-long rainy season, the government's weather office said on Thursday. The monsoon is vital for India as half of its farmland lacks irrigation. To cut dependence on rains, Ind
Congress's 'stop-Modi' plan includes supporting, joining non-NDA coalition
NEW DELHI: With 196 seats still to poll, Congress is far from conceding the election, but is keenly considering post-poll "stop Modi" scenarios where the party will not make its leadership of a coalition a non-negotiable condition. Congress sees its "complete flexibility" about either propping up
Congress sub-manifesto promises OBC quota for Muslims
NEW DELHI: Midway through the Lok Sabha polls, Congress has launched an aggressive minority outreach, committing itself to "finding a way forward" on quotas for backward Muslims and Scheduled Caste status to all dalit minorities. In its additional manifesto on "empowerment of minorities", Congres
LS Polls: 40% polling recorded, violence in some states
Nearly 40 per cent of the electorate cast their vote today in the first seven hours of polling in 117 constituencies in 11 states and Union Territory of Puducherry in the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections, amid stray incidents of violence which left a policeman dead in Assam and 13 others injured i
Row over St Xavier's principal's email criticising Modi's Gujarat model
Mumbai: In an email to students, the principal of the St Xavier's college in Mumbai criticised Narendra Modi's "Gujarat model" of governance and advised - "choose well!" "...all the Human Development Index indicators and the cultural polarization of the population show that Gujarat has had a terr
Muslim students served food last, says rights group
Representational Photo New Delhi: Some teachers force children from lower castes and minority religions to clean toilets and sit separately from their classmates as part of "persistent" discrimination in classrooms, a rights group said Tuesday. Human Rights Watch (HRW) said pupils from margi
Tobacco use accounts for 40 per cent of all cancers in India, says report
Every year nearly one million new cancer cases are diagnosed in India, the prevalence being 2.5 million. With mortalities of 6,00,000-7,00,000 a year, cancer causes six per cent of all adult deaths in the country. The number of deaths per year is projected to shoot up to 1.2 million by 2035, acco
Doctors find 12 gold biscuits in abdomen of 63-year-old businessman
Image Courtesy: TOI NEW DELHI: You could call him the man with a golden gut. Doctors operating on this 63-year-old businessman literally hit a goldmine, finding as many as 12 gold biscuits weighing a total of 396 grams inside his abdomen. The Chandni Chowk businessman had come to the private c
Jaya makes blistering attack on Gujarat model, calls it myth
Taking Narendra Modi head on for the first time, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today dismissed as a "myth" the Gujarat model of development and said her state was placed far better in various sectors. In a strong rebuttal to the BJP's Prime Ministerial nominee on his charge that her pa
Maoist rebels kill 13 in Chhattisgarh blasts
Suspected Maoist rebels set off two bombs in Chhattisgarh on Saturday, killing 13 people, most of them paramilitary soldiers and officials charged with holding elections in the region. The attacks, half an hour apart, were the most serious since voting to elect a new central government began last
Justice R.M. Lodha to be next Chief Justice of India
Justice Rajendra Mal Lodha has been appointed as the next Chief Justice of India and he will assume his charge on April 27. “In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (2) of Article 124 of the Constitution of India, the President is pleased to appoint Shri Justice Rajendra Mal Lodha, Judge of
Congress invokes Vajpayee's 'Rajdharma' remark to target Modi
NEW DELHI: Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee may not be in active politics nowadays, but the Congress has brought the BJP's former 'poster boy' to limelight to target the opposition party's PM candidate Narendra Modi. Reminding the BJP of its 'Rajdharma', a post on the Congress website c
Anti-Modi Congressional resolution now has 51 co-sponsors
A controversial Congressional resolution, which among other things asks the American administration to maintain its policy of not issuing visa to BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, now has more than 50 co-sponsors. Rush Holt from New Jersey and Barbara Lee from California are the two
Modi not a man of peace, says Siddaramaiah
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday said the Congress was against Narendra Modi becoming the prime minister as he was responsible for the massacre of over 2,000 people following the Godhra train burning incident. Campaigning for party candidate Lakshmi Hebbalkar at Savadatti in Belgaum Lok Sab
India's Shyam Saran Negi ready for 16th general election
A 97-year-old man, who is among India's oldest voters, says he is getting ready to cast his ballot for a 16th time in a general election. Shyam Saran Negi is a retired teacher in northern Himachal Pradesh state. He has voted in every single election since 1951-52 - when India held its first ge
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