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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With extreme heat wave conditions prevailing over North India and the Capital recording its highest day temperature for April in the past 50 years on Wednesday, the Delhi Government’s Directorate of Education on Thursday advised all schools in the city to close for summer vacation from Friday or latest by Saturday.
Education Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely [...]
The Haryana government has managed to stop the flooding of its mandis with wheat from neighbouring Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. With wheat from these two states leading to a glut and poor lifting in various mandis across Haryana, the government has resorted to drastic steps to check any inflow of wheat from outside the state.
The [...]
The units of central paramilitary Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) looking after the security of the President Estate and other VVIP security have been brought under one roof, and the force on Monday inaugurated a new headquarter for this purpose in the national capital.
Vikram Srivastava, director general of the ITBP, inaugurated the new headquarter of special [...]
From fifth-graders to lawyers, the race to Parliament from Delhi has contenders distinguished by their qualifications or lack of them.
While academic brilliance was never an issue in elections in India, the polls on May 7 in Delhi will witness battle among a total of 160 candidates, of which 31 have never completed matriculations, five are [...]
t was a busy day for Congress MP Sandeep Dikshit, seeking a second term from East Delhi, as he lined up several meetings in his constituency on Sunday in a bid to meet his voters as part of his campaign strategy. Talking about the projects he had undertaken towards “development ” in the last five [...]
Across the Indian city of Lucknow, the noise and dust of stone-cutters carving sandstone blocks fill the air. But the massive construction projects under way in the city are neither for modern office towers nor for much-needed infrastructure such as power stations.
Instead, Uttar Pradesh, one of India’s most impoverished and underÂdeveloped states, is pouring taxpayers’ [...]
The Election Commission (EC) has issued a notice to Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda asking him to explain why he had travelled in a vehicle with read beacon atop it while he was allegedly on a political visit to Rohtak. The EC has also ordered the transfer of Panchkula DC Rajinder Kumar Kataria with immediate [...]
Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who started her day-long whirlwind tour of Haryana from here in Sonepat district, disappointed the people who had gathered here since morning to listen to her when she left without speaking and merely waved to them from her multi-utility vehicle.
Ms. Gandhi was officially here to lay the foundation for a medical [...]