Punjab chief minister has not kept promises to NRIs: legislatorCHANDIGARH - Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has ‘betrayed’ NRIs by not keeping the promises he had made to them this January, an opposition legislator from the state has alleged. BSP leaders on overdrive to collect funds for Mayawati’s birthday bashLUCKNOW - Ever since Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati declared that her birthday Jan 15 would be observed as ‘Aarthik sahyog diwas’ (financial support day), party leaders and units across the state have been bending over backwards to ensure the collection drive for the occasion is a stupendous success. Modi advocates tough stance on terrorismGANDHINAGAR - Terming the Mumbai terrorist attacks as an ‘undeclared war on India’, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday urged the Manmohan Singh government to harden its stance towards pakistan. Mumbai Police Crime Branch to probe 26/11 terror strikesNAGPUR - Investigation of the Nov 26 Mumbai terrorist strikes, including the one on the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST), has been entrusted to the Crime Branch of Mumbai Police, Maharashtra Home Minister Jayant Patil told the state assembly Wednesday. Faith in Jesus blossoms in Nepal’s prisonsKATHMANDU - When the first Christian missionaries started trickling into Nepal after the forbidden Himalayan kingdom was opened to outsiders following a pro-democracy movement in 1950, they chose to take the word of god to people who were treated as outcasts: lepers, prisoners and some of the most disadvantaged communities. Chhattisgarh police arrest 22 for assaulting 50 womenRAIPUR - Twenty two men have been arrested in Chhattisgarh for assaulting about 50 women and branding them witches, a senior official said Tuesday. No to tainted legislator as Madhya Pradesh’s Leader of OppositionBHOPAL - Even as the Congress is yet to select the Leader of Opposition in Madhya Pradesh, the Association for Democratic Reforms - a network of over 1,200 civil society groups - has urged it not to consider any legislator with a criminal background for the post. Caffeine produces greater effect on men than womenLONDON - Caffeine produces a greater effect on men than women. The effect begins to make itself felt just 10 minutes after it is drunk. |