Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon during his recent visit to the US made it clear to officials there that it was not India but Pakistan, which had mobilised troops along the border in the aftermath of Mumbai attacks, sources in New Delhi said on Thursday night.
A New York-based civil rights organisation on Thursday told the United S Congress how Asian American voters, including Indian Americans, faced hurdles in 11 states and in the District of Columbia during the 2008 presidential elections that prevented them from exercising their franchise
The US announced a $5 billion dollar bailout package for the auto components suppliers in its bid to ensure continued supply of parts and products to carmakers.
The world economy is set to contract for the first time in 60 years, as the financial crisis would lead to the global GDP shrinking by up to 1% in 2009.
Municipal commissioner Jairaj Phatak was criticised by the High Court for equating the case of a newborn that went missing from Sion Hospital to instances of stolen mobiles and ornaments.
It was perhaps the insecurity of losing her job, especially after she failed to report for duty, that drove airhostess Anupama Acharya to commit suicide, said the cops.
The state legislative council on Thursday approved the bill to calculate property tax on capital value instead of rateable value in Mumbai.
BJP has alleged that minister Arif Naseem Khan met an aide of Dawood in Dubai and asked him to pressurise the BSP candidate from Mumbai South to withdraw from elections.
The Congress called Sharad Pawar’s bluff, forcing the latter to concede on Thursday that his ambition to become PM was “disproportionate to party’s political clout”.
A political statement made by the president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of India, Cardinal Varkey Vithayathil, has shocked sections of the city’s Christian community.