The government will make child-birth at government hospitals totally “cashless” from this year, health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has said. Speaking at a forum on HIV and AIDS in New York, Azad also said that India will start the supply of free contraceptives at people’s homes, covering about a sixth of the population, this year. […]
The Congress has just taken its gloves off in its fight with Baba Ramdev — with official spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi attacking the movement for being a proxy for opposition party BJP. “Some parties are remote controlling it, whether it is RSS or BJP,” Singhvi said, questioning the massive infrastructure put in place by the Baba […]
The UP government has denied Baba Ramdev permission to conduct his agitation in the Delhi suburb of Noida. According to early reporters, the Baba — on his way there — was forced to turn back to Haridwar at Muzzaffarnagar, not far from Delhi. The Baba has vowed to continue both his fast and his agitation […]
The Lokpal movement has challenged the imposition of prohibitory orders in central Delhi and Jantar Mantar in a notice given by former law minister and eminent lawyer Shanti Bhushan. Bhushan, one of the brightest legal brains in the country, pointed out that the current imposition of Section 144 — prohibition of assembly — is directly […]
Congress has denied any responsibility for the attack on Baba Ramdev’s protest camp at Ramlila Maidan. “The party did not have anything to do with it.. It was a decision taken by the Delhi Police,” he said, indirectly pointing the finger at P Chidambaram. Delhi Police is controlled by the Union Home ministry under P […]
MF Hussain, the legendary painter who was in exile after threats to his life, died in London a few hours ago, according to media reports from the city. Hussain died in exile from his homeland in India, having become a Qatari citizen in 2006. In the 1990s some of Husain’s works became controversial because of […]
The crowd tells you all. The kind of people you associate with also defines the contour of your movement. Unlike the crowds that donned the movement of Anna Hazare against the corruption couple of months ago, Baba Ramdev’s movement against corruption has assumed communal tinge with the association of the RSS and the BJP and […]
The Supreme Court has taken suo motu notice of Saturday night crackdown on Baba Ramdev’s protests and issued notices to the Delhi Government secretary, Home secretary and the Delhi police commissioner seeking their explanations. The notices have come even before Baba Ramdev had to push ahead with his threat of launching legal challenges to the […]
Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari has compared the recently broken up protest by Baba Ramdev to a “1992 like situation,” a reference to 6 December 1992 when right wing Hindu groups tore down a disputed Mosque in Ayodhya. Tewari, speaking on Times Now channel, said that the agitation by the Yogi was far from peaceful and […]
Logitech, one of the World’s biggest computer peripherals brand, has introduced a USB-powered speaker priced at Rs 625. The speaker is one of the, if not the, first speaker to not require a separate power source and to work purely from the power derived from a computer’s USB port. All USB ports give off a […]
Israel felt that a BJP government showed more enthusiasm in advancing mutual co-operation between India and Israel, compared to the Congress-led UPA government, going by a cable released by Wikileaks. According to it, the then Deputy Director General for Asia and the Pacific with Isreal foreign ministry, Ruth Kahanoff, felt that the [Congress-led] government was […]
Karnataka Lokayukt Santosh Hegde has lent his support to the anti-black money campaign launched by Baba Ramdev. Hegde is among the five leaders of the April agitation to force the government to set up a drafting committee for the Janlokpal corruption ombudsman bill. He is one of the five members representing the movement headed by […]
Baba Ramdev has accused the Delhi Police of trying to hurt or kill him and put the blame on the minority community living near the protest venue of Ramlila Venue. He said that the Police are coming up with an alleged letter written by Islamic terrorists threatening to harm him, but he suspected the Police […]
Still continuing his fast and agitation, Yog guru Baba Ramdev said today morning that he has forgiven Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The statement, made in his morning sermon, came hours after Manmohan Singh made his own climb-down, calling the caning of peaceful protestors “unfortunate.” “He has accepted his sin.. I have forgiven him for it,” […]
BJP has alleged that the crushing of Ramdev Baba’s agitation was planned three days before it was finally carried out on Saturday night. Spokesperson Arun Jaitley said the events of the last four days have to be explained as a tussle between the hard line adopted by home minister P Chidambaram and the compromise path […]
The crude bomb that exploded in the Delhi High Court parking was supposed to set off a second explosion using the nearby car, Delhi police officials suspect. According to them, they are now coming round to the theory that the bomb was carefully planted for maximum impact. “It had nails and bolts in it and […]
India’s beleaguered state carrier Air India has found itself facing yet another crisis after the three state-owned oil companies have refused to refuel some of its jets today. It is reported that oil companies have imposed a cut of 20% on their supplies to Air India. Air India was forced to cancel six of its […]
Inflation will remain high for most of the year and the domestic product (GDP) will fall to 8%, according to a survey of economists by FICCI. Unlike the earlier target of around 5% for the yearly price rise (inflation), the economists now accept a “new normal” for inflation — around 7-7.5%, the survey said. Current […]
China has become home to the World’s highest number of Internet video consumers, according to the latest ‘Virtual Network Index’ report by the biggest networking firm, CISCO. According to it 284 million Chinese, around a quarter of its population, watch video on the Internet while only 9.6 million Indians — less than 1% of India’s […]
The Supreme Court has asked cricketer and former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly to return a controversial piece of land in Salt Lake City allotted to him by the Left front government for setting up a school. A Bench comprising of Justices G S Singhvi and A K Ganguly has told Ganguly to comply with the […]
