India has proposed “constructive talks” on the contentious issue of transit facility through Bangladesh to reach its north-eastern region once a new government takes office in New Delhi after the general elections.
India is particularly keen on railway connectivity between Akhaura in eastern Bangladesh and Agartala, capital of Tripura in India’s north-east, New Age newspaper said.
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More than 60 survivors and victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak began a trek to New Delhi on Wednesday to press for a clean-up of the toxic waste still surrounding the plant, activists said.
Forty more people are expected to join the 800-kilometre (500-mile) march from Bhopal in central India to the Indian capital in [...]
Parsvnath Developers Ltd said on Thursday that it made the beginning of construction of its Mall at Rohini, Delhi, christened “Parsvnath Mall”. Parsvnath would invest approximately Rs 280 crores in the project. The company performed the earth-bre aking ceremony today.
The mall is spread over an area of 7,300 sqm with a saleable area of [...]
Post the bomb blast in Maharashtra yesterday, the misfortune for Jodha Akbar continued up north in Haryana today. The film has now been removed from the Ambala district of Haryana effective Thursday.
Assorted groups had been protesting the film’s release in Haryana, which is linked to a Hindu soldier turned leader Hemu. Hemu had won 22 [...]
The first Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation (IOR-ARC) Film Festival will be held here from February 22 to March 1, in partnership with the Directorate of Film Festivals.
It was at the seventh Council of Ministers Meeting of the IOR-ARC held in March last year that India offered to host the festival.
The [...]
A special fund of Rs.45,000 crore has been demanded in the Union Budget 2008 for the all-round development of Delhi by State BJP president Harsh Vardhan in a letter to Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram.
Disclosing the contents of the letter at a press conference here on Wednesday, Dr. Vardhan said while Rs.32,000 crore has been [...]
In a shocking incident, a 40-year-old woman was allegedly raped by two Haryana Armed Police personnel and a civilian near Governor AR Kidwai’s official residence in Chandigarh in the wee hours on Thursday.
Commando Vijendra, attached to Governor’s security, and constable Dinesh were arrested on charges of raping the woman, SHO Ram Gopal, in whose jurisdiction [...]
Three Afghan siblings, including two women, were arrested from the airport for allegedly smuggling high-quality heroin, valued at about Rs ten crore in the international market.
The women had concealed five kg each of the contraband in their waist belt and this was detected during a search when they arrived in the national capital on [...]
Ashok Jain, a former councillor of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), was arrested on Wednesday for his alleged involvement in murdering a city-based builder last year, police said.
Jain was arrested from Delhi Police’s Crime Branch office in Chanakyapuri after he was being called for questioning in the case of Vijay Dhaiya’s murder at his [...]
If you were worried that the bell would go before you left work and got to the bar, raise a toast now to Gurgaon. Haryana’s new excise policy allows pubs and bars in plush hotels to stay open all night.
The decision to let the Delhi suburb, heavily populated by call centres and BPOs where [...]