Maoist rebels back Mamata
Feb. 6: The Maoists have come out in open support of Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee ahead of the meeting of the chief ministers of the four Naxal-infested eastern Indian states with Union home minister P. Chidambaram in Kolkata.
Obama names Jhumpa for his arts panel
Feb. 6: Indian-American Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri has been appointed as a member of US President Barack Obama’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities, along with five others.
Home secy checking facts on Chatwal
Feb. 6: In the thick of controversy surrounding the Padma Bhushan given to the US-based Sant Singh Chatwal, the Centre is trying to ascertain the facts regarding allegations of complaints registered against the NRI hotelier.
Rahul rides Mumbai’s locals, Sena gets a snub
Mumbai, Feb. 5: He came, didn’t speak to the media, didn’t see the people gathered alongside roads and ignored the protesting Shiv Sena workers, but by the time he left had captured the city’s imagination. No waving of hands, no hankering about the
Delhi high court judges make their assets public
NEW DELHI, Feb. 5: The Delhi high court judges, including the Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah, made their assets public on Friday evening. The information has been posted on the website, www.delhihighcourt.nic.in.
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AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi at a railway platform in Mumbai on Friday. PHOTO: AFP
Ministry let barons profit on sugar meant for poor
Guwahati, Feb. 5: While families across the country were feeling the pain of rapidly rising prices, the sugar mills were busy making profits, earning more than Rs 123 crores through the open-market sale in October 2009 of undelivered stocks of levy sugar lying with the sugar mills since 2006-2007.
Nirupama, Pak envoy discuss dates, agenda
New Delhi, Feb. 5: India’s foreign secretary Nirupama Rao met Pakistan’s high commissioner to India Shahid Malik at her South Block office here on Friday evening to discuss the possible dates and the likely agenda of the foreign secretary-level dialogue proposed by India.
PC’s visit to Pak off till March?
New Delhi, Feb. 5: At Nepal’s request, the Saarc home and interior ministers’ meeting, which was to be held in Islamabad on February 26-27, is likely to be postponed to March.
Will talks survive Parliament session?
New Delhi, Feb. 5: Sooner, rather than later. That might be India’s best bet for the renewal of dialogue with Pakistan after it sought to break the ice and invited Pakistan foreign secretary Salman Bashir through an informal communication for across-the-board talks
