PENJERLA/NEW DELHI, India – It was supposed to be Johnson & Johnson’s biggest manufacturing plant in India. It was to eventually employ at least 1,500 people and help bring development to a rural area near Hyderabad in southern India. Yet, three years after the U.S. healthcare company completed […]
Voting ended Sunday in India’s most acrimonious election in decades that will decide whether Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi gets a second term in power. As the final polling booths closed, a huge security cordon was thrown around the voting machines and boxes of paper ballots used […]
Raipur, May 19: A BJP leader was Sunday arrested for allegedly molesting a 34-year-old woman here, police said. Prakash Bajaj (42) was arrested on charges of molestation following a complaint lodged by the woman at Civil Lines police station here, an official said. Bajaj is a member of the […]
Chandigarh, May 19: The simmering tension between Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and his cabinet colleague Navjot Singh Sidhu was out in the open again on Sunday with the former accusing the cricketer-turned-politician of damaging the Congress with his “irresponsible actions” just before polls. Though Singh stressed that he […]
New Delhi, May 19: Most exit polls forecast a majority for the ruling BJP-led NDA in Lok Sabha polls with varying numbers as the seven-phase polling in the general elections ended Sunday Two exit polls telecast by Times Now gave the NDA 296 and 306 seats, while they […]
Kedarnath, May 19 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday performed puja at the Kedanath shrine after meditating for 17 hours at a holy cave near the temple. He reached the shrine situated at a height of 11,755 feet near the Mandakini river on Saturday and paid obeisance. He also […]
Kolkata, May 18: Hours before the final phase of Lok Sabha polling, Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister wrote to the Election Commission Saturday in to ensure “peaceful and impartial” elections in the state without the interference of the BJP. The EC should ensure that Sunday’s polling […]
New Delhi, May 17: The Army on Friday said a member of its 18-personnel expedition team to Mount Makalu in Nepal, which claimed to have spotted mysterious footprints of mythical creature Yeti, died while descending from the summit point. The team had successfully climbed Mt. Makalu (8,485 metre) on […]
NEW DELHI – Five days after a suicide bomber killed 40 CRPF personnel in February in the Kashmir Valley, playwright and director Abhishek Majumdar was forced to cancel a play looking at the behaviour of Indian security forces in the disputed region. The play, which was scheduled to […]
Puducherry, May 16: A 27-year-old man was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a minor girl at her house in a village near here Thursday, police said. The man, a Puducherry government electricity department employee, was noting down the power consumption details at the nine-year-old girl’s house when the […]
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