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
Vote for BJP if you want revenge: Amit Shah at Muzaffarnagar
LUCKNOW: BJP's general secretary and prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's close aide Amit Shah triggered a fresh row when he reportedly delivered a speech calling for 'revenge' in a village near riot-hit Muzaffarnagar. Describing Amit Shah's statements and speeches as provocative, the Cong
Congress slams BJP for defending Amit Shah
NEW DELHI: Congress on Sunday slammed BJP's defence of Amit Shah's "revenge" remark as "justification of communalism", putting the provocative remark alongside revelations that Babri masjid demolition was a planned conspiracy to accuse the rival of peddling a communal agenda. "This is flagrant an
BJP divisive, Left's stock dwindling, Manmohan Singh says
KOCHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday said the Congress alone could counter the "divisive ideology" of BJP and accused the party of unleashing a misleading propaganda that UPA government had not acted tough to contain corruption and the country's development suffered in the last 10 years.
Clerics criticize Imam Bukhari's support to Congress
LUCKNOW: Shahi Imam Ahmed Bukhari's open support to the Congress for the Lok Sabha election has drawn sharp criticism from the political parties and Muslim groups in Uttar Pradesh. While Shia cleric Kalbe Jawwad on Saturday asserted that the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) slug fest
Imam Bhukari's brother opposes support to Cong
NEW DELHI: Syed Yahya Bukhari, the younger brother of Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid Syed Ahmed Bukhari, on Saturday opposed the latter's decision to support Congress and accused the party of "backstabbing" Muslims. "Whatever happened under Narendra Modi in Gujarat 10-12 years ago against Muslims is k
EC bans exit poll and opinion poll
CHENNAI: The Election Commission has prohibited the publication, broadcast and telecast of the results of exit polls between April 7 and May 12 in Tamil Nadu, where the election process will be in vogue during this period. In a notification, the EC also barred the opinion polls or poll survey dur
Modi will become PM, can't be compared to Vajpayee, Advani says
GANDHINAGAR: Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi will become the next Prime Minister of India but cannot be compared to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, senior BJP leader LK Advani said on Saturday. "Modi will become the PM of the country ... I would not compare him (Modi) to Vajpayee
Meat exports growing in Modi’s Gujarat too, says Congress
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi raked up the issue of meat export for the third day running on Thursday, accusing the Congress of promoting slaughterhouses in the country. The Congress retorted that Mr. Modi was indulging in doublespeak as Gujarat, too, expo
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