Three back-to-back blasts went off near a market in Lahore on Friday night, but there was no immediate report of any casualty, hours after 45 people were killed and over 100 others injured when two suicide bombers targeted the army in the cantonment.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi appears to be playing for larger — and long term — stakes and the move to provide reservation to women is not bereft of political calculations, writes Neerja Chowdhury
Former Union minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Murli Manohar Joshi is likely to become the next chairman of the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee while Yashwant Sinha will replace him as head of the Standing Committee on Finance, BJP sources said.
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Highlighting the special status accorded by Russia to its ties with India, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday said his country did not have any military cooperation with Pakistan because it understands India’s concerns.
Three persons were injured, two of them with rubber bullets in post Friday prayer protests in north Kashmir’s Sopore town.
The Bombay High Court on Friday rejected the plea of 2008 Malegaon blast case prime accused sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur for liberty observing that no case had been made out for granting bail.
Giving a fillip to their ties, India and Russia today signed 19 pacts, including three in civil nuclear field and one for purchase of 29 MiG-29 fighters besides inking the revised agreement on Gorshkov aircraft carrier, a deal that was stuck for three years over price.
Union Home Secretary G K Pillai has given a missive to Kerala DGP and the Kochi city police commissioner on the possibility of a Lashkar terror attack in the city in the near future.
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Giving a new twist to his campaign against the Women’s Reservation Bill, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav on Friday said the SP wanted only 20 per cent quota and that too not for seats but for political parties to give tickets for the fair sex.
Defying curfew, irate mobs on Friday torched vehicles and road kiosks and clashed with the police, leaving a superintendent of police and five other personnel injured in Bareilly, which has been hit by communal violence since March 2.Additional Director General of Police (law and order) Brij Lal said in Lucknow that unruly elements indulged in [...]