Senior Congress leader C K JafferSharief, who has resigned from the party, arrived here on Saturday for a meeting with party chief Sonia Gandhi but remained non-committal on the future course of action.
Sharief, a six time MP who was humbled in the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, said he could not predict the outcome of […]
From Injikudi in Thiruvarur district of Tamil Nadu comes this person with lofty ideals. “I will do my bit for the nation, and God and the country will provide me with food, clothing and shelter,” says 36-year-old D. Balaguru, who, on his second cycle expedition, is campaigning for national integration, secular harmony, humanism, AIDS awareness, […]
With the press of a remote control button, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Friday inaugurated six foot-over bridges (FOBs) with escalators and two simple ones across Delhi.
The escalators have been installed on bridges which witness high pedestrian movement and would remain operational between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. daily
Ms. Dikshit said the new FOBs would […]
Sourabh Kapoor led the way as last year’s runners-up Haryana trounced Himachal Pradesh 3-0 in the opening match of the North Zone Inter-State Badminton Championships for the Rahimatoola Cup here today.
In the opening match at the Northern Railway Badminton Hall in Karnail Singh Stadium, Kapoor, brushed aside Datul Chauhan 21-11, 21-6 in just […]
Taking a family hostage at gun-point, six young men armed with country-made pistols, knives and rods decamped with jewellery and several thousand rupees in cash at Jwala Nagar here on Friday. Two of the family members sustained head injuries during the dacoity operation.
It all happened around 2 in the morning when the dacoits, dressed in […]
The last time the Nizam’s jewels were on display, they set off a trend of local jewellers copying them now they are back again on popular demand.
Some 300 year-old pieces of jewellery are on display at the National Museum in New Delhi after a span of six years. These pieces are worth a look and […]
The UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi would inaugurate the newly converted broad gauge rail line between Rewari and Delhi Sarai Rohilla at Rewari in Haryana on October 7.
The implementation of the projects would meet the long standing demand of the people of the state, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said. The project would facilitate a […]
The mosquito-borne dengue has struck again, affecting a doctor of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi and raising the total number of cases reported so far to 87.
Fourth-year MBBS student Varun Sandhyal was admitted with dengue to the intensive care unit of AIIMS, the top public sector hospital of the […]
It has been a longstanding debate that has evoked heartfelt reactions in most people for many years. So when a recent Ernst & Young survey revealed that Delhi had pipped Mumbai to become the best city to live in, the battlelines were etched strongly.
When we at the TimesofIndia.com decided to take this battle a […]
The Delhi State Committee of Janwadi Mahila Samiti organised a demonstration at Shram Shakti Bhawan here on Thursday demanding the arrest of the culprit behind the criminal assault on a woman doctor of the Employees’ State Insurance Corporation Hospital in Paschim Vihar this past week.
The delegation was led by All-India Democratic Women’s Association vice-president […]