BJP BESET WITH NEW PROBLEMS

Vasundhara Raje threatens to quit party

ANIL ANAND

New Delhi, May 6: Even as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is gearing up to make an alliance for the impending Presidential election, it has got embroiled in a fresh controversy of its own making.  Already locked in a severe factional battle particularly on the role of the RSS in its organizational More

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Chidambaram assures to explore re-location of NCTC outside IB

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, May 6: With states stoutly opposed to NCTC in its current form, Home Minister P Chidambaram has assured that the matter of re-location of the anti-terror body outside the Intelligence Bureau (IB) would be re-examined. In his concluding remarks at the Chief Ministers conference More

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NCTC constitutionally vulnerable: BJP

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, May 6: Terming anti-terrorism body NCTC as a "Constitutionally vulnerable" instrument which went against the country's federal structure, BJP today asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as to why the fight against terror through POTA was "compromised" for vote-bank politics."When you talk More

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NCTC: A vanity project or a necessity to fight terror?

SARWAR KASHANI

New Delhi, May 6: The rejection of the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) by the state governments on the grounds that it goes against the country's federal principles has evoked mixed response. While a former home secretary said there should not be any politics over terror, a former IB official More

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Hillary arrives in India

Meets trafficking victims in Kolkata

Kolkata, May 6: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Sunday spent the first day of her two-day trip to Kolkata, a city she returned to after about 15 years, with a socio-cultural itinerary, meeting young women rescued from human traffickers and visiting the British era Victoria Memorial. Clinton More

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NO BLANKET BAIL ORDERS, RULES SC

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, May 6:  High courts cannot issue blanket bail orders for accused persons allegedly involved in heinous offences like murder, the Supreme Court has held. A bench of Justices K S Radhakrishnan and Dipak Mishra said that while liberty was precious to every human being, courts cannot More

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Parliamentary panel raps Ministry of Defence

Failure to service BSF's choppers

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, May 6: A Parliamentary panel has pulled up the Defence Ministry for not honouring its commitment made to the BSF for providing technical support, including supply of spare parts, to the paramilitary force's helicopter fleet. The BSF's Mi-17 IV chopper fleet not only flies sorties More

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27 HURT AS PUNJAB MAIL DERAILS

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Rohtak (Har), May 6: At least 27 passengers including seven women were injured when eight coaches of the Delhi-bound Ferozpur-Mumbai train derailed in Haryana's Rohtak district early this morning. The Punjab Mail which was on its way to Mumbai derailed near Sampla-Kharawar at 3.50 AM, Alok Mittal More

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As hookah becomes in, it raises health concerns

MADHULIKA SONKAR

New Delhi, May 6: From being a centre-point of village gatherings to gracing plush joints in metros, the hookah has made a comeback in social space. But its return has sparked concern among cancer experts who say Indian youth are getting addicted to the hubble-bubble in the mistaken belief that it More

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Awareness is key to prevent thalassemia

New Delhi, May 6:  With more than 10,000 thalassemic children being born in India every year, experts believe that the largely incurable blood disorder can be easily prevented through greater awareness. May 8 is globally celebrated as 'International Thalassemia Day'. It is an inherited More

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