India, Russia to build stealth frigates
India on Tuesday signed a $500 mn deal with Russia to locally manufacture two stealth frigates with technology transfer. The agreement was signed between Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL) and Rosoboronexport of Russia.
Interview |Pollution is now a political subject, that's its big success: TERI chief Ajay Mathur
The Director General of The Energy and Resources Institute on what to expect from the Katowice Climate Change Conference and how to tackle pollution
Tardy prosecution to blame for acquittals in SC/ST atrocities cases, Centre tells SC
The high rate of acquittals seen under the Scheduled Castes Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act of 1989 is not because the cases are false or malafide. It is because of the failure of the police and the prosecution to render justice to a section of society which has suffered social stigma, poverty and humiliation for centuries, the Centre told the Supreme Court.
Gaja several times more devastating than Thane
Five days after Cyclone Gaja made its midnight landfall between Vedaranyam and Nagapattinam, almost every road, street and habitat here is littered with electrical posts, cables, cellphone towers, tree trunks and branches. Steel roofs of petrol bunks and buildings have been blown off; small bus stands collapsed as their pillars got twisted. Boats were flung away to distant places. There is hardly any structure that has escaped the fury of cyclone.
Mahipalpur riots case: justice after 34 years
The Mahipalpur anti-Sikh riot case of 1984, in which one of the convicts was awarded death sentence on Tuesday, was initially lodged in 1993. The Vasant Kunj police had lodged an FIR on a handwritten affidavit submitted before the Justice Ranganath Mishra Commission of Inquiry in 1985 on the recommendation of Justice J.D. Jain and D.K. Aggarwal committee.
Furore over RBI defaulter list lingers
A Right to Information (RTI) appeal against the RBI’s refusal to disclose a list of wilful defaulters has exposed the fault lines within the Central Information Commission.
M.P. Assembly Elections 2018: Congress shifts tack to counter the RSS
Away from high-pitched campaigns and media interactions, former Lok Sabha member Sandeep Dikshit of the Congress is quietly planning his next meeting under the banner of the Rachnatmak Lok Vistar Samiti (Panel for the constructive expansion of people’s interests) with his associates at the India Coffee House in Bhopal.
Farmers badly hit by demonetisation: Agriculture Ministry
Millions of farmers in India were unable to buy seeds and fertilisers for their winter crops because of demonetisation, according to a report submitted by the Union Agriculture Ministry to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance.
M.P. Assembly Elections 2018: Bhabhi in Budhni makes up for Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s absence
In an election where three-term Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is ubiquitous in the campaign, Budhni, his own Assembly constituency, has seen him only once — when he went in to file his nomination papers.
Sri Lanka political crisis: TNA seeks solution to deadlock
Sri Lanka's persistent political crisis “without a government or a Prime Minister” could embolden anti-social elements to take law into their own hands, Leader of Opposition R. Sampanthan has warned. “In such a situation, the country’s minorities, especially Tamils, may become the victims,” he said.
