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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The board of governors of IIM Ahmedabad has formally rejected key administrative reforms recommended by a central government panel alleging encroachment on the B-schools’ autonomy.
The board met today and formulated the institute’s “response of opposition†to the human resource development ministry, members said.
Each of India’s seven IIMs is independent of the others. But as the [...]
The Punjab and Haryana High Court took the Haryana Government to task on Wednesday over the leniency shown by the state police department towards an officer accused of gangrape.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice Tirath Singh Thakur and Justice Jasbir Singh expressed strong disapproval with the action taken by the Inspector General of Police, Rohtak [...]
Sarovar Hotels and Resorts has announced the signing of two new properties in Faridabad, Express Sarovar Portico and Park Plaza, thus adding to the present Delhi NCR portfolio of Park Plaza Gurgaon and the recently opened Park Plaza Noida. Other hotels scheduled to open in Delhi and NCR are Optus Sarovar Premiere and Park Inn [...]
US Senator John Kerry today echoed India’s concern that Pakistan’s ISI and other elements might have had a hand in the Mumbai attacks and advocated tight control on the spy agency.
President-elect Barack Obama’s personal emissary, however, sounded a note of caution over using the military option, saying it could have “unintended consequences†for Pakistan’s [...]
TOI had raised this question on Monday — where are the 14 other Pakistan trained terrorists? Now foreign news organisations too are asking the same.
The basis of the question is the captured terrorist, Ajmal Amir Kasav, telling his interrogators he had trained along with 23 other LeT for attacks on India. While 10 of them, [...]
The ongoing political imbroglio over the removal of the Maharastra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh continues as he returned from Delhi last night without any specific direction from the Congress High Command, sources today said.
“The High Command has not given me any specific instruction on the resignation, which I offered to the Congress Working Committee,†Deshmukh [...]
Twelve-year-old Jonty has Down’s syndrome, detected when he was two. As a student of VISHWAS (Vision for Health, Welfare and Special Needs) School, however, he’s learning how not to let it come in his way. Today, when Jonty, his parents and several other special children marked World Disability Day at Vishwas Kendra in Sushant Lok [...]
There was panic in the Tis Hazari courts here on Thursday after an anonymous caller threatened to blow up the complex, leading to proceedings being suspended for the day not just in the lower courts but also in the Delhi High Court, police said.
“A call was received at the nearest police station at 9.12am [...]
Two students were severely assaulted Thursday morning by the staff of a private bus in Noida, on the outskirts of Delhi, when they asked the balance amount of the money they paid towards their fares. Gauri Shankar Tiwari (21) and his cousin, Mantosh Mishra (22) were punched and hit with iron rods by the bus [...]