Tibet PM gets more powers
Tibetan Parliament spokesperson Mr Tenzin Norbu said prime minister Kalon Tripa’s responsibilities will now include the selection of representatives and special envoys to hold talks with China.
18 ministers get portfolios
Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday allotted the portfolios among his new council of ministers comprising 14 Cabinet and four ministers of state.
SC directs farmers to petition HC
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to entertain a writ petition of eight farmers from Bhatta, Parsaul and Acheypur villages, the scene of recent alleged atrocities of the Uttar Pradesh police on the issue of acquiring their land and asked them to approach the Allahabad high court.
Six states to get new PCC chiefs
The Congress high command appears to have made up its mind to appoint the Andhra Pradesh Congress chief from the Kapu community and is expected to announce new PCC chiefs in half-a-dozen states, including Andhra Pradesh, in the coming days.
Absconding Nigerian held for killing live-in partner
With the arrest of a 31-year old Nigerian national, the Delhi police on Monday claimed to solved the murder of a woman whose body was found stuffed in a bag at a flat in Uttam Nagar.
Positive talks on Siachen held
The twelfth round of defence secretary-level two-day talks between India and Pakistan to reach an agreement on the Siachen Glacier began in New Delhi on Monday but no major breakthrough is expected on any demilitarisation of the glacier. The Siachen Glacier is the world’s highest and coldest battlefield where temperatures plunge as low
Mamata pays to refurbish her chamber
Ten days after taking oath of office, chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday occupied her refurbished chamber. She had been working from the adjacent conference room because the chief minister’s chamber was being
Man arrested for raping tenant wife
A 20-year-old married woman was allegedly raped in northeast Delhi’s Sonia Vihar area by her landlord who has been arrested, the police said on Monday.
Air India put on Yemen alert
National carrier Air India on Monday was put on alert by the government for possible operation of special flights to the west Asian nation of Yemen which has been facing turbulence and internal violence. “AI has been sounded out and asked to be ready for possible operation of special flights to Yemen,” aviation sources confirmed to this
Separate Gorkhaland talks later, says CM
Separate Gorkhaland issue will not figure in the talks which will resume between the state government and the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) on June 6 to resolve the problems in the Darjeeling Hills. This became evident after a meeting between GJM president Bimal Gurung and chief minister Mamata Banerjee at the Writers’