From rapes to racist attacks - Is Delhi one of the 'MOST UNSAFE' capitals in the world?

Delhi, the Indian heart, and a city which had been bestowed with the title of ‘dil waalo ki dilli’ is no more a place of peace makers but the decoration of love has been severely damaged by the practitioners of violence and injustice. From the horrific gang-rape of Nirbhaya to the appalling murder of north-east student, Nido Tania, Delhi has also become the capital of crimes.

                                              

When the brutal Nirbhaya gang rape shook the conscience of humans, it felt that there won’t be any other such cases.Read more

The Adventures of Feku Man: Can you take it Mr. Narendra Modi?

New Delhi/Ahmedabad: The satirical Facebook on Narendra Modi called 'Feku Man' is full of political satire against Gujarat Chief Minister in the form of movie posters and cartoon caricature.

                                      

The page, Feku Man, was created on January 2 and since then it has regularly posted the politically-satirical movie posters targeting the Gujarat chief minister.Read more

Republic Day celebration comes to an end with Beating The Retreat ceremony

New Delhi: Soul-stirring martial tunes and foot-tapping drumbeats today reverberated as bands played near the majestic Rashtrapati Bhavan lit by thousands of bulbs during Beating the Retreat event, marking the end of the Republic Day celebrations.

                                  

The highlight of the event was the arrival of President Pranab Mukherjee, the chief guest for the event, in an open six-horse buggy along with the Presidential Bodyguards.  Read more

Black Buck Poaching Case

Jodhpur: Bollywood actor Salman Khan has reached the Jodhpur airport through a charter plane for the hearing in black buck poaching case. The hearing will start at 11 am in a local court of Jodhpur. 

                                        

 The actor is accused of carrying weapons with expired licence during the hunting of black bucks at Kankani village near Jodhpur in the intervening night of 1-2 October, 1998. He was shooting for the movie 'Hum sath sath hain'. Earlier, he was exempted from the appearance in the court till now but will now be examined before the court.Read more

Social media reacts to Rahul Gandhi’s interview to Arnab

New Delhi: The interview of Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi with Times Now has hit the zone of social media pretty well as the population on Twitter took a toll on Congress Vice President expressing disgust in their own humorous manner. While maximum of the people chose to stress more over the loop holes in the interview, a very few emphasized on the positive that came out of it.

                        

 The most common criticism that followed the pattern was loss of connection in the answers given by the poll campaign chief of congress and the questions asked by the journalist. Even the cricket expert Harsha Bhogle listed the factor of so-called connection issue tweeting that “there are questions on this rahul gandhi interview and there are answers but i am searching for a connection.”Read more

Modi Vs Mulayam

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh holds the key when it comes to forming government in Delhi. BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi knows this fact fully well, and it seems his efforts to make inroads into Samajwadi Party's land are paying dividends. At the same time, Samajwadi Party Supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav is in no mood to let Modi make an impact in Uttar Pradesh.

                                

Going by the sheer size of the crowd, both the rallies could be termed very successful. But, the fact that Modi is an outsider here, the crowd that cheered for Modi does not augur well for Mulayam. Read more

'Will Congress and BJP apologise for Raj Babbar and Shatrughan Sinha's rape scenes'

Thiruvananthapuram: After Chief Minister Oommen Chandy demanded an apology fromAam Aadmi Party leader Kumar Vishwas for his racist remarks about Kerala nurses, the AAPleader refused to apologise to the CM saying, "I shall not apologise to the Congress' 'goondas', who vandalized his party's office in Kochi."

                                             

However, he apologised to the nurses saying that he didn't mean to hurt sentiments of Kerala nurses. Read more

'Anarchists' take on Delhi Police in Capital, thirty including nineteen cops injured

New Delhi: Around 30 persons, most of them cops, were injured as supporters of Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) clashed with Delhi Police personnel as they tried to enter Rafi Marg to take part in Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s dharna on Tuesday.

                                           
The agitation was called off later in the day soon after Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung informed Delhi government of decision to send to two Station House Officers(SHO) on leave.Read more

CAG interrogates pvt discom officials in Delhi

New Delhi:  Teams from the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India visited the offices of the three private discoms in Delhi to begin with the audit of their financial records on request of the incumbent Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in the national capital.

                                                       

The CAG teams interrogated the officials from BSES Rajdhani, BSES Yamuna and Tata Power Delhi Distribution limited. The discoms have however continuously contesting the CAG’s authority to carry out the audit of the private discoms. Read more

Politics of DEATH in Bengal: SFI leader killed by mob

Kolkata: Violence in Bengal’s student politics continues unabated as a local leader of the Students' Federation of India (SFI), students wing of the CPI(M), was on Sunday allegedly beaten to death at Baruipur area in South 24 Parganas district.

                               

The incident comes barely a week after a leader from TMCP, the students’ wing of ruling Trinamool Congress, was murdered allegedly by two SFI activists in Sandeshkhali in adjoining North 24 Parganas district.Read more

 

8 dead, over 40 injured in stampede ahead of funeral of Dawoodi Bohra community spiritual head

Mumbai: At least 18 people lost their lives in a stampede that broke out on Saturday at 1:30 am ahead of funeral of Dawoodi Bohra community spiritual head Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin near the Malabar Hill residence of Syedna.

                                           

While 18 people were killed, more than 40 people were reported to be injured. All the injured people have been taken to Saifi hospital.Read more

Sonia Gandhi trying to shield son Rahul Gandhi from Modi wave?

New Delhi: Congress has decided to avoid direct conflict between Narendra Modia and Rahul Gandhi. Congress says Sonia Gandhi intervened and told CWC meeting that there is no tradition to announce PM candidate before polls.

                                         

According to Congress spokesperson Janardhan Dwivedi, it is not the party's tradition to name a prime ministerial candidate. "Sonia Gandhi herself opposed nominating Rahul as the PM candidate. Just because one party has announced its PM candidate, we need not announce one, she said," Dwivedi said after the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting held on Thursday.Read more

German woman alleges rape in a Chennai bound train

Chennai: A German woman, who is a social worker in Udipi, alleged of rape on January 10. The woman was travelling in a Chennai bound West Coach Express. She boarded the train on a reservation against cancellation ticket.

                                                       

She has alleged that Chandan Kumar who also shared the berth with her in the train raped her near the Kozhikode area on the night of January 10.Read more

Will AAP disintegrate soon?

New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party is facing the mutiny once again and this time, it is bigger. The party is preparing for Lok Sabha elections. He party will announce its first candidate list by January 20. The senior party leader Yogendra Yadav said that the main competition of the party will be with BJP. In various surveys till date, AAP has gained satisfying success rate.

                                          

Arvind Kejriwal’s AAP has also started a campaign in which they are adding up the members in the party and will register around 1 crore members by January 26. The party is adopting different strategies to attract every class of people. Also, CM and founder of AAP, Kejriwal also went to the mosque on the occasion of ‘Milan-un-Nabi’. The members of Civil Society has also been associated with the party buy in spite of all these factors, the success of AAP is being questioned.Read more

RSS workers donned burqas given to them by BJP for Modi's Goa rally

Panaji: Opposition Congress on Monday alleged that RSS workers masqueraded as burqa-clad women in BJP's PM candidate Narendra Modi's rally held here yesterday, apparently to create the impression that minority community members also participated in the event. 
                                      

"RSS workers wore burqas provided to them by BJP leaders and sat in a group at Modi's rally to project that minority community has also participated in it," said state Congress spokesman Manohar Asgaonkar in a press conference also attended by state unit President.John Fernandes.Read more

Hafiz Saeed' WARNING to India

Islamabad/ New Delhi/ Srinagar: Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed up the ante against India and claimed that India will be forced to leave the troubled region of Kashmir, just like US left Afghanistan.

                                    

Saeed was speaking at a workshop organised by the Defence of Pakistan Council- an alliance of about 40 religious and political parties.Read more

 

Poor infrastructure and inefficient management plague Indian Railways

New Delhi: The Indian Railways with its vast array of railway networks comprising 115,000 kilometres of track over a route of 65,000 km covering 7,500 stations is one of the world’s largest railway networks and transports more than 25 million passengers annually.
                                                  
Apart from an important means of transport the Indian Railways have been a great integrating force for more than 150 years. Railways in India bind the economic life of the country as well as accelerate the development of the industry and agriculture.Read more

This is how a 15-year-old girl out-wrestled a 17-year-old boy!

Indore: For people who think that a woman is not good enough to compete with a man in a wrestling match, they need to think again. A wrestling match held in Indore on Thursday saw excited supporters and fans as they witnessed a female contestant pin down her male rival in only three minutes.

                                          

Supporters and fans eagerly gathered at around 5:30 in the evening when a 15-year-old female wrestler, Roshni Khatri from Depalpur, stepped down into the arena and challenged the men there to fight her in the ring. Eager to show their might, many wrestlers present there accepted the challenge to contest her in the ring. 17-year-old Paras Solanki weighing 55 kilograms was asked to step into the arena by the organisers. The ‘free for all’ contest barely lasted for a few minutes as Roshni pinned down Solanki within three minutes of his stepping into the ring.Read more

Priyanka Gandhi attends crucial Congress meet, likely to fuel Rahul's campaign

New Delhi: With Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi floundering on one assignment after another, sister Priyanka Gandhi may be pressed into service to ensure country's oldest political party holds on to its traditional bastions of Amethi and Rae Bareli; constituencies that send Rahul and Sonia to country's Parliament. Party insiders confirmed the news to mediapersons after Priyanka attended a meeting of senior Congress leaders held at Rahul's Tughlak Lane residencs in Lutyen's Delhi. 

                             

The Gandhi scion, however, was not present in the meeting. Party sources further confirmed that Priyanka would not be contesting the 2014 General Elections. The meeting was attended by political secretary to the Congress President.Ahmad Patel, media in-charge Ajay Maken, general secretary in-charge of organisation, Janardhan Dwivedi, Uttar Pradesh in-charge Madhusudan Mistry and rural development minister and close Rahul aide Jairam Ramesh.Read more

Aam Aadmi Party's Kaushambi office ransacked over Prashant Bhushan's comments on AFSPA

New Delhi: Days after senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Prashant Bhushan advocated refrendum over the contentious Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in Kashmir Valley, a right-wing organisation going by the name of Hindu Raksha Sena attacked the Kaushambi office of the party. 

                                                         

Initial media reports suggest that unidentified men, said to be 30-40 in number, pelted stones at AAP's office around 11:05AM.Read more