‘New Delhi to resume transit talks with Dhaka after polls’

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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Trainee chef at Taj, youth from Faridabad died on d ...

Little did Faridabad-based Dev Singh Gosain realise that when his son Gautam’s number flashed on his cellphone at 2.30 am on Thursday, it would be the last conversation between them.
A couple of hours later Gautam Gosain, 25, a trainee with the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai, was hit by bullets in his abdomen from one [...]

LS polls: BSP to go it alone in Haryana

The Haryana unit of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has reiterated to go it alone in the coming Lok Sabha elections.
Talking to mediapersons at Gohana town, 35 km from here on Sunday, Parkash Bharati, President of the state unit of the party categorically said that the BSP would have no truck with any party and [...]

Haryana forms boards to free farmers from moneylend ...

The Haryana government will set up land conciliation boards in various districts of the state to free farmers from the clutches of private moneylenders.”All the farmers who have deposited double or more than the principal amount are eligible to apply for loan concession to the district level board. Such borrowers who are still not free [...]

Delhi goes to polls under shadow of Mumbai terror

Even as the terror drama in India’s financial capital came to an end on Saturday after a 59-hour standoff between the security forces and militants, polling began in 69 assembly constituencies of Delhi.
The polling booths opened at 8 am but few people ventured out of their homes to cast their votes with the images of [...]

Haryana SIT to call Pak eyewitness in Samjhauta bla ...

Security agencies and officials involved in the investigations of Samjhauta Express blast have started coordinating efforts to trace out the man who could hold crucial evidence in the attack and may even provide a thread to ongoing probes in the Malegaon explosions.
Haryana police on Thursday said they were making arrangements to call Shaukat Ali, a [...]

Meet Delhi’s crorepati netas

It’s raining millionaires in Delhi assembly elections, the richest being a candidate of Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) with approximately assets worth more than Rs150 crore.
The candidate, Kanwar Singh Tanwar, is fighting from Gurjar-dominated area of Chhatarpur on the outskirts of south Delhi.
Tanwar is not the only millionaire this time; the BJP chief ministerial candidate, [...]