Arabian Flight
Prime Minister Narendra Modi`s visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is all show and no substance, claimed opposition party leaders on Monday. Reacting to Modi`s engagements in the UAE, Congress leader Manish Tewari, said that the visit amounted nothing more than rhetoric and chest thumping. But the BJP called the visit `historic`, especially after the UAE government agreed to give land for temple construction for the Indians living in Abu Dhabi.
Look Who's Talking
The prime ministers of India and Pakistan have offered to help each other in efforts to alleviate flood havoc in Kashmir. Both sides have been ravaged by floods that have killed over 200 people as rivers burst their banks after heavy rain.
Bad-al Sarkar
Punjab`s education minister Surjit Singh Rakhra on Saturday stirred a fresh controversy when he sought to play down the death of a girl, who got killed after being molested and shoved off a moving bus owned by Punjab`s ruling Badal family. "Nobody can stop accidents. Whatever happens that happens by God`s will," Surjit Singh Rakhra said on Saturday.
Congress Back to exile
While Congress`s Sheila Dikshit is leading to lose power in Delhi, BJP`s Vasundhara Raje is all to return to power in Rajasthan defieting Ashok Gehlot.
Exit Poll Sweeper
An aggregate of four exit polls shows Arvind Kejriwal`s Aam Aadmi Party getting 38 seats in Delhi, enough to form government. The poll of exit polls shows the BJP and its ally Akali Dal getting 29 seats and the Congress left way behind at three seats in the 70-member Delhi assembly.
Power supply to Bangladesh
India begins electricity exports to Bangladesh, despite its own chronic power shortages, in a project that could improve relations between the two South Asian countries.
Up, up, uppppp.......
After two rounds of cuts, petrol prices were today raised by Rs 3.96 per litre and diesel by Rs 2.37 a litre, tracking global cues.
Pluck Yourself
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat is learned to have told BJP president Amit Shah not to expect the organisation`s help in the forthcoming assembly elections in some states, including Maharashtra, while Shah was on his first visit to the city after becoming party chief to seek the blessings of the sarsanghachalak.
Chhota Shakeel Threatens India
Chhota Shakeel, close aide of India`s most wanted man Dawood Ibrahim, has threatened India of dire consequences for hanging 1993 Mumbai serial blast convict Yakub Memon.