India

Farkuhabad (UP), Dec 15: Union external affairs minister Salman Khurshid has termed the arrest of deputy consul general Devyani Khobragade in public as an "insult" and said the US's reaction is awaited on the matter. "We consider it as an insult. US has been apprised about our stand on this and we are awaiting its response.. and do the needful after it is received," he told reporters yesterday

Dhaka, Dec 15: The death toll in violence across Bangladesh triggered by the execution of a top Jamaat-e-Islami leader on Saturday rose to 21, prompting Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to issue a stern warning saying, “We know how to control you.” Abdul Quader Mollah, known as the “Butcher of Mirpur” for atrocities committed during Bangladesh’s 1971 Liberation War, was hanged on Thursday night after

New Delhi, Dec 15: Senior Congress leader and Union labour and employment minister Sis Ram Ola has died in Delhi. He has been admitted in a Gurgaon hospital with a cardiac complaint, sources said. The 86-year-old Ola represents the Jhunjhunu constituency of Rajasthan. Ola was the recipient of the Padma Shri award in 1968 for social work.

New Delhi, Dec 15: Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal Saturday expressed surprise at activist Anna Hazare agreeing to the revised Lokpal bill tabled by the government in parliament and said he will continue his fight for the Jan Lokpal bill till his last breath. Kejriwal's remarks spelled a clear parting of ways between him and Hazare on an issue with which they are closely identified and

Varanasi, Dec 14: The BJP today said that Congress is left with no option but to project Priyanka Gandhi as its leader and face of the party. "The Congress family has this habit that if one person from the family fails they project the other one...now Congress has no option left other than projecting Priyanka Gandhi as their main leader and the face of the Congress party," Bharatiya Janata Party

Ralegan Siddhi, Dec 14: Softening his stand on the Lokpal issue, Anna Hazare today suggested moving ahead with the amended Bill presented in the Rajya Sabha and said improvements in the legislation could be brought through amendments later. "Time has came to move (ahead) with the present draft of Lokpal Bill and get it passed. Improvements can be made later through amendments once it becomes a

New Delhi, Dec 14: Giving a new twist to government formation in Delhi, Aam Aadmi Party today set some new conditions for Congress and BJP before it can decide on forming a government, a move seen as attempts to fob off criticism that it was running away from taking responsibility. Delhi Lt Governor Najeeb Jung, whom AAP Convener Arvind Kejriwal met, has said he will send a report to the President

New Delhi, Dec 14: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convener Arvind Kejriwal met Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung on Saturday and reportedly asked for 10 days time to decide on the formation of government in Delhi. The decision by AAP was taken after the party refused Congress' offer of unconditional support to form a government. Earlier on Friday, Congress had sent a letter to Delhi Lt Governor Najeeb

New Delhi, Dec 14: Oil minister M Veerappa Moily on Friday allayed fears of an oil shock by way of hefty increase in diesel and cooking gas prices but said fuel pricing and other reforms in the oil sector would continue irrespective of the Congress's drubbing in the recent assembly polls. A panel, under former Planning Commission member Kirit Parikh, has suggested raising prices of diesel by Rs 5

Mumbai, Dec 14: Seven persons were killed in a massive blaze that broke out in a high rise residential building in South Mumbai on Friday night, firebrigade officials said on Saturday. Six fire personnel, including two officers, were also injured while carrying out rescue and firefighting operations. The fire started on the 12th floor of the 26-storey Mont Blanc building in upscale Kemps Corner