Posted on: 7:09 pm | May 19, 2013
One week after a violence-plagued national election, some Pakistan districts are finally getting their chance to vote. Andrew Raven (Reuters) reports. – Video and text by Reuters
For more, read: Re-polling [...]
infrastructure-building activities in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and issues of sovereignty.
The joint statement, still in the works, is to be issued after PM Manmohan Singh holds talks with visiting counterpart Li Keqiang on Monday.
At the [...]
Thousands of office-goers will have to jostle and struggle to reach their respective workplaces as they will not have access to several of the city’s arterial roads. The Metro service will serve no purpose for them either.
Due to the three-day [...]
The Delhi High Court has said that banks can’t evict a tenant using the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act (SARFAESI), a law that allows lending firms to auction properties when borrowers [...]
A 22-year-old man – a suspect in a theft case – suffering from typhoid has landed up in hospital after he was allegedly tortured at a police station in Ghaziabad.
The man, Haidar, and two others – Majid and Rajender — were picked [...]
Early detection of breast cancer just got easier as the world’s most accurate mammography system has made its way into north India. What’s more, the new machine provides 20% less radiation dose than the ones available now.
The machine- AMULET- [...]
Expressing concern over rising cases of developers duping the public, the Delhi high court has asked a builder to immediately return a total of Rs. 3.5 crore, he allegedly received from 50 investors, as principal amount.
An FIR had been lodged [...]
In a major revamp of existing property registration system, the Delhi Government will put in place a transparent mechanism by end of the year under which people will be able to access hassle-free services in all 13 sub-registrar offices without [...]
A court has rejected the Delhi Police’s plea to frame charges against a woman who along with her husband and one other person was accused of approaching the US Embassy for visas by impersonating as Congress leaders.
The complaint was filed [...]
Known as a dual desk, it is made of wood and nattily combines a desk with a bench for school students. Manufactured by Tihar convicts of the carpentry unit, the surge in the sale of these gleaming rust-coloured desks apparently enabled the prison [...]
A 19-year-old student was killed and another injured when a speeding truck overturned near Hindon Air Force crossing in Sahibabad on Sunday, the police said.
Three cranes and two JCB machines were pressed into service to take out the victims [...]
You will be able to get real-time traffic information when driving on busy arterial roads during night hours from now on.
To improve efficiency in managing traffic on city’s arterial roads after dark, the Delhi traffic police, in line with [...]
A magistrate has drawn flak from a Delhi court for summoning the chiefs of Air Force and Army as defence witness in a cheque bounce case, saying it was done “mechanically.
District and Sessions Judge RK Gauba questioned the summoning of the [...]
Women empowerment has been a much talked about issue, more so after the infamous Delhi gang rape on December 16 last year. Yet, crimes against women are on an all time high.
But all hope has not been lost, not yet.
The students of Step by Step [...]
Workers of BJP’s youth wing, led by the party’s Delhi unit president Vijay Goel, on Sunday courted arrest while protesting in front of Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda’s residence to demand the release of Delhi’s share of [...]
A 35-year-old man was crushed to death by a Delhi Transport Corp (DTC) bus. The police are yet to trace the bus or its driver.
The incident took place in west Delhi’s Mangolpuri area Saturday night.
In another accident on Saturday night, [...]
Posted on: 7:09 pm | May 19, 2013
One week after a violence-plagued national election, some Pakistan districts are finally getting their chance to vote. Andrew Raven (Reuters) reports. – Video and text by Reuters
For more, read: Re-polling [...]
Deputy Convener of MQM Dr Farooq Sattar speaks during a press conference at Nine Zero.-ONLINE File Photo
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has announced that they will hold protests in Pakistan and in other countries [...]
A view of the Balochistan Assembly. — Online/File Photo
QUETTA: Future ruling party, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has failed to develop consensus regarding nomination of leader of the house in Balochistan Assembly.
Former [...]
An army soldier (R) sits on a chair while a voter stamps his ballot papers inside a booth at a polling station during re-polling for the general elections in Karachi, May 19, 2013. Sunday’s voting took place at 43 polling stations across [...]
Karachi: Besides rich archaeological and cultural heritage, Sindh owns a diversity of fossils and well exposed geological layers.
In a lecture at Alliance Francaise in Karachi, Dr Rafique Ahmed Lashari form University of Sindh shared his views [...]
The Jamaat-i-Islami said that the three coalition parties will have similar number of ministries in the province. -File Photo
PESHAWAR: The Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) have announced names for three ministries in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa [...]
— Video grab from DawnNews
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has appealed to his party workers in Lahore to end their sit-in protests, DawnNews reported.
He said that the party will hold full-fledged [...]
The image shows PTI supporters at a party rally. — Photo by AFP
KARACHI: Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf’s (PTI) Arif Alvi has won the NA-250 seat after re-polling was conducted in 43 polling stations of the constituency, DawnNews [...]
HT has identified areas that are dimly lit and lack police presence. We have also pointed out law-and-order issues where your focus is required?This is a good initiative by Hindustan Times. In addition to highlighting various law-and-order issues, [...]
A four-year-old tigress was found dead in her enclosure at Bandhavgarh tiger reserve on Saturday.
This is the second death of a tigress at Bandhavgarh in less than 10 days. Director of Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, Sudhir Kumar, told HT that forest [...]
The polling for local rural bodies in Punjab passed off peacefully on Sunday, barring a few minor incidents. The turnout to elect members for 22 zila parishads and 146 panchayat samitis across 13,110 villages was 65%.
With pre-poll clashes claiming [...]
The protest against the introduction of the four-year undergraduate programme in Delhi University reached the doorstep of Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Sunday.
Beating the sweltering Delhi heat, teachers, students and activists tried to [...]
Mindless and ill-conceived is how teachers have described the courses formed under the new four-year undergraduate programme (FYUP) at Delhi University.
Teachers who have seen the course material have emphsised how a student who passes out [...]
On a day when a number of teachers and students rubbished Delhi University’s four-year undergraduate programme (FYUP) as “anti-minority”, Delhi University SC/ST Teachers’ Association welcomed the programme.
Lauding the decentralisation [...]
