NDA requests President to visit Nandigram
NEW DELHI: A delegation of the National Democratic Alliance led by Leader of the Opposition L.K. Advani here on Thursday submitted a memorandum to President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam requesting him to visit Nandigram in West Bengal "to comfort" the ...
"Speaker protecting Buddhadeb"
KOLKATA: The Speaker of the West Bengal Assembly adjourned the House for more than an hour on Thursday after pandemonium broke out with Opposition legislators demanding Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's resignation over the March 14 ...
NCW seeks report on March 14 violence
NEW DELHI: : Taking cognisance of the violence at Nandigram on March 14 in which a woman was among those killed in police action, the National Commission for Women (NCW) has sought a report from the West Bengal Government. In a letter ...
Notices to Lalu, Rabri
Turns down CBI's opposition to the State Government's prerogative
"Make water management a national obsession"
Unless water becomes everybody's business... we will not build a movement for water-secure India, says Manmohan Medha Patkar: "... Senior police officers used abusive language. Some of the women were slapped, boxed, their arms twisted and their c lothes torn... "
Small section of judges corrupt: Justice Thomas
KOLLAM: Justice K.T. Thomas, retired judge of the Supreme Court, has said that a totally honest judiciary will be a Utopian notion. Addressing a talk series, "Maarunna Malayali," organised by the Press Club here on Thursday, Mr. Justice Thomas ...
New BJP appointments from the RSS
NEW DELHI: Several more "pracharaks" of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh — some newly inducted and some who had been earlier working with the Bharatiya Janata Party — have been given key positions in the party organisation. The ...
