Sulking Jaffer Sharief arrives in Delhi; to meet Sonia

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 […]

Bhopal gas leak survivors begin protest march to Ne ...

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 performs groundbreaking ceremony for mall ...

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 […]

‘Akbar’ evicted out of Ambala, Haryana ...

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 […]

A film festival in New Delhi

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 […]

Special fund sought for Delhi’s development

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 […]

Rape charge on 2 Haryana commandos

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 […]