Oil minister to attend cabinet meet amid gas price hike speculation
Oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan will attend a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, a government source said, amid speculation that India could raise gas prices from July 1. Pradhan is not a member of the cabinet committee, but can attend the meeting as a special invitee. The earliest possible date to... read more »
Pakistan: Gunmen open fire on plane at Peshawar airport, one dead
Bannu: Gunmen opened fire on a passenger jet as it landed in Pakistan’s troubled northwest, killing a woman passenger and wounding two crew in an attack staged as the military wages an anti-militant offensive. The Pakistan International Airlines flight, landing in Peshawar from Riyadh in... read more »
More than 60 women, girls abducted in Nigeria: local official
Suspected Boko Haram militants have abducted more than 60 women and young girls in restive northeast Nigeria, a local official and a vigilante leader said today. The group was kidnapped in the last week during a Boko Haram attack on Kummabza village in the Damboa district of Borno state, which... read more »
DU crisis: A course that has gone awry
The VC’s resignation further deepens uncertainty over the admission process that involves the fate of over 2.7 lakh students Delhi University Vice Chancellor Dinesh Singh resigned on Tuesday apparently in protest against the UGC’s direction to dump the controversial Four-Year Undergraduate... read more »
Setback for Ashok Chavan, SC says EC can disqualify candidate for paid news
In a verdict that will have serious implications on curbing paid news, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the Election Commission was authorised to disqualify a person on account on... read more »
Recovery of bodies from South Korean ferry suspended
SEOUL: The operation to recover bodies from the ferry that sank off South Korea last month has been suspended due to heavy seas, a spokesman said on Saturday, amid concern that many of the... read more »
Assam violence: 12 arrested after another 9 bodies recovered; death toll rises to 32
Nine more bodies have been found in the Baksa district of Assam, after the last count of 22 given by the officials on Friday night. The police have arrested 12 people in Baksa and another 8... read more »
Modi is lying, was never friends with him, Ahmed Patel says
NEW DELHI: The controversy over Narendra Modi’s interview to Doordarshan intensified on Friday with Sonia Gandhi’s political aide Ahmed Patel refuting the BJP’s PM... read more »
Chennai blast: Jaya gets territorial, won’t let centre join probe...
In an inexplicable move, Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa has refused to let the National Investigation Agency (NIA) teams from the Centre as well as other Central agencies participate in the... read more »
