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Bihar
Three die, several missing as boat capsizes
PATNA, JULY 17.Four more drowning deaths, including three in a boat capsize in Samastipur district, were reported today, taking the toll in the current spate of floods in about a dozen districts to 29. A country-made boat carrying 12 persons ...


Jammu & Kashmir
  • Yatra resumes


    Maharashtra
    Expedite setting up of panel, says Hazare
    MUMBAI, JULY 17. The social activist, Anna Hazare, whose allegation of corruption against four Nationalist Congress Party Ministers had led to a strong counter-charge from one of them, Civil Supplies Minister, Suresh Jain, now wants Mr. Jain to ...
    Govt. to 'test' POTA on crimes against Dalits
    MUMBAI, JULY 17. The Maharashtra's Progressive Democratic Front today referring to the Shiv Sena chief, Bal Thackeray's exhortation that the Dalit issue should not be `politicised', said that in at least one of the several cases of atrocities on ...
    Left has a big role in forming alternative to NDA: Pawar
    MUMBAI, JULY 17. Though the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party had separately voiced the need for a broad, multi-party anti-National Democratic Alliance platform to fight the next Lok Sabha elections, the decision of the Communist Party ...


    New Delhi
    New vistas at Rashtrapati Bhavan
    NEW DELHI, JULY 17.Only those below 18 years are allowed entry into this new gallery at Rashtrapati Bhavan here. Opened recently, it is reserved for the "most important dignitaries'' who visit the President, A.P.J.Abdul Kalam's palatial home on ...
    New road tax proposal hits roadblocks
    NEW DELHI, JULY 17. Not everything seems to be working out well for the Sheila Dikshit Government. After hiccups in implementation of the reduced stamp duty as stated in the Budget, another proposal to levy an ad volerm road tax on motor vehicles ...
    Parties fight over plaque unveiling
    NEW DELHI, JULY 17. The controversy over the Union Labour Minister, Sahib Singh Verma, inaugurating a municipal primary school in Bawana is refusing to die down. In the coming days, this might turn out to be a bone of contention between ...
    Third Front for reopening riot cases
    NEW DELHI, JULY 17. A large number of workers of Third Front today held a demonstration on Parliament Street here to press for re-opening of cases and retrial of those allegedly involved in the 1984 Sikh riots in Delhi and the Best Bakery case in ...
    Research status for Ganga Ram hospital
    NEW DELHI, JULY 17. The Central Department of Scientific and Industrial Research has accorded recognition to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital here as a research organisation. The recognition entitles Sir Ganga Ram Hospital to receive research grants from ...


    Uttar Pradesh
    MLA sentenced to life term
    LUCKNOW, JULY 17.An independent member of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, Vijay Singh, was sentenced to life imprisonment along with another accused, Sanjiv Maheshwari, in connection with the murder case of Brahma Datt Dwivedi, former senior BJP ...


    West Bengal
    Buddhadeb hits back at Vajpayee
    KOLKATA, JULY 17.The West Bengal Chief Minister, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, today countered the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee's criticism of the Left Front Government saying that the Prime Minister's utterances reflected the Bharatiya Janata ...



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