Lokpal bill will be passed with consensus, says Kamal Nath
New Delhi – Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath said Tuesday that the Congress party has discussed the Lokpal bill with the Sama! jwadi Party and is expecting to pass the legislation in the Rajya Sabha “with consensus” Tuesday. “We have discussed…(the) position on... read more »
Rahul Gandhi, Shinde decline to meet US delegation
New Delhi – Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi and union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde Tuesday declined to meet a US Congressional delegation to highlight India’s strong disapproval of the arrest and handcuffing of an Indian diplomat in New York last week. The diplomatic snub comes... read more »
Chandy holds mass contact programme in Kannur
Kannur (Kerala) – Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy Tuesday walked to a mass contact programme venue amid tight security in Kannur, a CPI-M bastion where he injured in October when stones were hurled at his convoy. The last time Oommen Chandy came here Oct 27, he had to be airlifted to the... read more »
Big B not in Ghai’s Sarabjit biopic
Mumbai – Filmmaker Subhash Ghai has clarified that megastar Amitabh Bachchan will not be a part of his upcoming biopic on Indian pri! soner Sarabjit Singh. Ghai added that he had approached Big B, but he was busy with prior commitments. The 71-year-old Bachchan was to play the role of a... read more »
Iran quits nuke talks over U.S. expanding sanctions blacklist
Johannesburg – Iran has reportedly quit nuclear talks with the world powers, accusing the U.S. of going against the spirit of the interim agreement reached last month by expanding its... read more »
Locker` malware demands ransom to restore infected files
London – A latest malware reportedly demands ransom to restore the files that the hackers have encrypted. Security company IntelCrawler discovered the malware, dubbed Locker, which... read more »
Man U’s Van Persie ruled out of action for one month after injury
Johannesburg – Manchester United received another setback on Friday when manager David Moyes revealed that striker Robin van Persie will be out for a month with a thigh injury,... read more »
New drug shows promise for `triple-negative` breast cancer patients
Washington – Researchers have found that adding the chemotherapy drug carboplatin or the angiogenesis inhibitor Avastin to standard chemotherapy drugs resulted in a sharp decline in... read more »
Zebrafish key to understanding link between calcium deficiency an...
Washington – Researchers studying zebrafish embryo skin have decoded cell messages underlying abnormal colonic cell growth of the kind that could lead to tumors and colon cancer in people... read more »
