India

New Delhi, October 2: More than 1.35 lakh people committed suicide in the country in 2011 of which the highest number were reported in West Bengal followed by Tamil Nadu. Family Problems and illness, accounting for 24.3 per cent and 19.6 per cent respectively, were the major causes of suicides while poverty was to be blamed in 1.7 per cent of the cases, according to government data. Love affairs

New Delhi, October 2: Digvijaya Singh on Tuesday hit out Narendra Modi over his allegation on Sonia Gandhi's foreign trips, saying he has been trained well by RSS in the "Nazi tradition" of false propaganda and BJP's "cheap intentions" have been proved by trying to politicise a health issue. Comparing the Gujarat chief minister with Joseph Goebbels, the propaganda minister of Nazi government in

Mumbai: Vasant Tarte, a police constable in his early 40's has a grueling schedule. But in spite of that he makes time to visit the Memon couple every single morning. The Memons are senior citizens in their late 70s, living alone in Mumbai. Mr Tarte, a father of two has adopted the couple and pledged to take care of them. It's not by way of adoption under the Hindu law but as part of a drive

New Delhi, October 2: Kingfisher Airlines Ltd has declared a partial lockout and cancelled all of its flights through Thursday, as labour unrest exacerbates troubles for the debt-laden company. On Monday, Kingfisher was forced to cancel all of its flights in the latest blow for the carrier as it scrambles to find an investor, sending its stock down by its maximum daily limit. "Following a series

London, October 2: Lt Gen K S Brar, who was assaulted by four people in central London on Sunday night, is convinced that it was an attempt to assassinate him by " pro-Khalistan elements" for his role in the 1984 "Operation Bluestar". Brar, who kicked and fought three of the four assailants, suffered a knife wound in the neck and is recovering after receiving medical treatment at a London hospital

New Delhi, October 2: Now, at least on one particular stretch along the unresolved 4,057-km Line of Actual Control (LAC), Indian soldiers can finally cock a snook at Chinese troops after years of being aggressively needled. Indian soldiers are armed with spanking new high-tech QRT (quick-reaction team) boats to patrol the highly-picturesque but equally-contentious Pangong Tso (Tso means lake in

Mumbai, October 2: For nearly two years after India became independent, pictures of the king and queen of Britain continued to adorn government offices and departments. It was only from June 2, 1949 that the government of then Bombay state ordered all offices to replace the photographs of British colonial rulers with those of Mahatma Gandhi, who by then had been assassinated. In keeping with the

Ahmedabad, October 2: At a rally in Gujarat today, Chief Minister Narendra Modi said that the Centre has spent 1880 crores on foreign trips made by Sonia Gandhi, the Congress president. The Gujarat Congress chief Arjun Modhwadia retaliated by saying that Mr Modi should get a Nobel Prize for lying. And the RTI activist whose information was cited by Mr Modi has also refuted the Chief Minister's

New Delhi, October 1: BJP president Nitin Gadkari on Monday slapped a criminal defamation case against Congress leader Digvijay Singh for accusing him of having business links with his party MP Ajay Sancheti who allegedly pocketed Rs 500 crore in coal block allocation. Singh had recently made statements that Sancheti was Gadkari's business partner and had earned a huge profit of around Rs 500

New Delhi, October 1: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi upped the ante on Monday asking Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with whose permission the "wasteful expenditure" of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), were being made. "Should we forgive such people who make such wasteful expenditures?" he asked. The Gujarat CM launched a barrage of criticism against UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi saying