President Pranab Mukherjee is to lead a high-level Indian delegation at the memorial service Tuesday of iconic anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela. The delegation would leave Monday night for South Africa, sources told IANS. The presence of President Mukherjee at the memorial service, to be held at FNB Stadium in Johannesburg, [...]
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Friday that the country’s growth rate had more than doubled to an annual average of over seven percent and the economy was on an upward trajectory in the last 20 years. “The rate of growth more than doubled to an annual average of over seven [...]
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday said he understood the anxieties of business leaders about red tape, tax laws and procedures but found them tough to address due to lack of political consensus on reforms. Speaking at an interactive session at the HT Leadership summit here, the prime minister said the [...]
South Africa’s first black president and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela has died, President Jacob Zuma announced here late Thursday. The Nobel laureate was 95. Mandela had been receiving intense home-based medical care for a lung infection after three months in hospital. He led South Africa’s transition from white-minority rule in [...]
Andhra Pradesh is set to be split into two with the union cabinet Thursday approving the draft bill for carving out Telangana as the 29th state of India. About 57 years after it was merged with Andhra to form Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, which comprises 10 districts including Hyderabad, will come [...]
India-born author Manil Suri has won this year’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award by Britain’s Literary Review magazine for his book “The City of Devi”. The prize was presented by British actress, author and columnist Joan Collins Dec 3 in London. Suri, who lives in US and works as a [...]
The New Delhi constituency, which is witnessing a high-pitched electoral battle, Wednesday became the first in the capital to have a paper trail which enables voters to verify if their vote has been recorded correctly. The Election Commission chose high-profile New Delhi constituency to introduce the “Voter Verifiable Paper Audit [...]
