Jyoti Basu became a trending topic in micro blogging site 'twitter.com' with 'RIP' (rest in peace) the most common tweet, including from Minister of State for External Affairs Sashi Tharoor. "Jyoti Basu, 1914-2010. RIP," read
Former chief minister Jyoti Basu was very reluctant to be treated in hospital and after being admitted with pneumonia on January 1, the Marxist patriarch was desperate to return home, his personal aide Joykrishna Ghosh
As promised after their shocking revolt, 22 Indian hockey players and support staff, including coaches, were on Monday handed their payments adding up to Rs one crore by IOA President Suresh Kalmadi at the World
Maoists may have been dependent on weapons looted from armouries but now they have developed the expertise to clone sophisticated weapons, including assault rifles of AK series, in a development that should worry security agencies
Army officials in Leh were a part of a meeting convened by the Jammu and Kashmir government that agreed that China was encroaching into the land with "specific design" to grab a particular area to
Russia is all set to reassert its numero uno status in the Indian defence market with another mega arms deal. The two nations are now poised to ink the around $1.2 billion contract for 29
Canadian-Pakistani Tahawwur Hussain Rana, indicted on charges of helping plan the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, is expected to be arraigned in a court here on January 21 along with co-accused David Coleman Headley. According to information
Samajwadi Party Chief Mulayam Singh Yadav on Sunday accepted the resignation of his close associate Amar Singh from all party posts including that of general secretary and Parliamentary Board. SP sources said Mulayam Singh Yadav,
Former Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao had done a lot of groundwork for constructing a Ram temple at Ayodhya but he could not carry his mission forward as Congress lost power in the 1996
Deeply hurt by the allegation made against him during the recent hockey crisis, A K Mattoo has resigned as the Hockey India President and also from all the other administrative posts in various sport bodies.Mattoo
Marxist patriarch and former West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu, who was battling for life in a hospital in Kolkata for the last fortnight, died on Sunday.‘ I have to give you a sad news
Mumbai Mirror reported on Sunday that one of the survivors of the 26/11 attacks, UK based businessman 37-year-old Deepak Kuntawala has faked his reported act of heroism. The report said immediately after their providential escape,
After throwing a grenade at the Sopore police station on Friday morning, the four militants armed with AK rifles didn't flee. Instead, they waited a dozen yards away in the neighbourhood across the street.An hour
Dense fog enveloped New Delhi on Sunday delaying flights and trains, even as the rest of the northern region reeled under intense cold wave.The fog started forming around midnight and became dense in the morning, especially
In the second attack in two days on Indians in Australia, a 25-year-old taxi driver was abused and punched by his passengers, one of whom spat on him, an assault described as "opportunistic" and "not
Supreme Court judge V S Sirpurkar will head a three-member panel that will go into the issue of impeachment of Karnataka Chief Justice P D Dinakaran, whose removal has been sought by 75 opposition members
National security adviser M. K. Narayanan has ben appointed governor of West Bengal, former home minister Shivraj Patil of Punjab and former Puducherry chief minister M.O.H.Farooq of Jharkhand, according to a communique issued by Rashtrapati
In the fourth fog-related train mishap in the last fortnight, at least three persons were killed and 14 others injured when the Kalindi Express rammed into Shram Shakti Express near Tundla on a wintry Saturday
The Sports Ministry on Saturday said any selection process that leaves out the best talents is faulty and it would have no issues if National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) exempts ace shooter Abhinav Bindra
The Supreme Court on Friday maintained that daily allowance has been provided in the past for the spouse of Chief Justice and other judges on foreign tours, rejecting the government stand that they were not
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