2G: RS approves process for JPC
NEW DELHI (AMN) The process of setting up of a Joint Parliamentary Committee to probe into the 2G Spectrum allocation from 1998 to 2009 was completed today after the Rajya…
Parl adjourned over alleged killing of Sikhs
NEW DELHI: Parliament was on Tuesday adjourned till noon as opposition members vociferously demanded a probe into the alleged massacre of Sikhs in Haryana and alleged tapping of telephones of…
Five states go to polls in April-May
ABHIJIT ROY CHOUDHRY /TIANEW DELHI: With the announcement of election dates for West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Assam and Puducherry political churning has begun at states level as well as…
Murder of a Mosque
A.J. PHILIPWHEN a friend Shahrukh Alam invited me, on behalf of The Patna Collective, to a workshop on “And what could they possibly want? Engaging the ‘faithful’: Secularism, Social Development…
The fall of ‘Sykes-Picot’ regime
ZAFARUL-ISLAM KHANThe upheaval in the Arab World these days is the second attempt within half a century to bring down the treacherous Sykes-Picot regime imposed on the region after the…
Religious terrorists do not exist
A.J. PHILIPA Hindu religious leader’s recent confession that some major terrorist attacks in India in the past were the handiwork of a “Hindu” group has lent a new dimension to…
Another batch of Indians arrived from Libya
NEW DELHI: The government has airlifted 597 more Indians from the strife-torn Libya. While the fourth special Air India flight with 331 Indians on board arrived here this morning,
Death for 11 in Godhra case
TIA correspondent AHMEDABAD: A Special Court at the Sabarmati Central Jail here awarded death sentence to 11 people and life term to 20 others for criminal conspiracy in the torching…
Bhopal tragedy: SC asks UC to enhance compensation
NEW DELHI: ( AMN) The Supreme Court Monday issued notices to the Union Carbide Corporation, Dow Chemicals and others on a Centre's plea seeking enhancement of compensation to the victims…
PM hails Budget, Opp terms it anti-people
TIA special correspondent NEW DELHI: While Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the UPA have applauded the budget presented by the finance minister Pranab Mukhrjee as ‘aam admi budget’,