ISLAMABAD – The final vote count from weekend’s nationwide elections in Pakistan on Tuesday confirmed a big win for former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s party.
The figures released by the country’s election commission show Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-N party will likely get a majority in the national assembly, setting him up to be prime minister for [...]
NEW DELHI – CBI chief Ranjit Sinha on Wednesday found himself at the centre of a raging controversy with the railway police association attacking him for targeting officers out of vendetta and BJP accusing the agency of a political motive in chargesheeting senior Rajasthan leader Gulab Chand Kataria.
BJP slammed CBI saying the chargesheet against Kataria, [...]
NEW DELHI – Daughter-in-law should be treated as a family member and not housemaid, and she cannot be “thrown out of her matrimonial home at any time”, the Supreme Court has said, while expressing concern over instances of brides being burnt and tortured in the country.
The apex court said a bride must be respected in [...]
NEW DELHI – In terms of use of modern technology, talented people and tolerance, Delhi is the most creative state in the country, says a study.
According to the Creative Index Report 2013, Chandigarh, Punjab, Kerala, Goa, Mizoram, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Puducherry and Maharashtra round out the top nine. Haryana and Manipur are tied for the [...]
SHIRDI – SaibabaSansthan trust has recorded Rs 1,441 crore income in the last five years, with 22 per cent higher donations received every year, Sansthan’s executive officer Kishor More said on Wednesday.
The trust has spent Rs 828 crore on various beneficial works for devotees, including Rs 160 crore on hospital, ‘prasadalaya’ and funds allotted in [...]
NEW DELHI – Congress MP from Dhaurahra, UP and MoSHRDJitinPrasada says recent attempts by BSP and SP to woo brahman community will not lead to any electoral gains as the community can see through their vote bank politics.
“BSP and SP remember brahmans only at the time of elections. Under BSP’s regime there were maximum cases [...]
NEW DELHI – India tops the list of countries in the world with the most first-day deaths at 309,300 annually, according to “State of the World’s Mothers 2013” report released on May seven by London (UK) headquartered Save the Children International.
Nigeria trails behind India at second position in the world with only 89,700 first-day deaths. [...]
SAVAR (Dhaka) – The death toll in Bangladesh’s worst industrial disaster passed the 800 mark as rescuers pulled out 51 more decomposed bodies on Wednesday from the debris of the ill-fated eight-storey building that collapsed last month.
According to officials at the makeshift army control room here, the death toll hit 803 on the 15th day [...]
LAHORE – In majority Muslim Pakistan, religious minorities say democracy is killing them.
Intolerance has been on the rise for the past five years under Pakistan’s democratically elected government because of the growing violence of Islamic radicals, who are then courted by political parties, say many in the country’s communities of Shiite Muslims, Christians, Hindus and [...]
LAHORE – Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan was injured on his head when he fell off a forklift that was hoisting him on to a stage for an election campaign meeting in this eastern Pakistani city on Tuesday.
Khan, 60, and several of his bodyguards apparently lost their balance and fell several feet to the ground. Footage on television [...]
