New Delhi : Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been chosen for the 2017 Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development by the international jury which made the announcement here tonight. A statement from Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust, institutor of the award, said, “The award is being presented to Dr Singh for his leadership […]
Offers to give up RS seat over inaction against Akalis Jalandhar : A day after boycotting an all-party meeting of MPs over Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh’s absence, senior Congress leader Partap Singh Bajwa today reiterated that he had written to party vice-president Rahul Gandhi, offering to resign from his Rajya Sabha seat in protest […]
Indore, November 17 : Suyash Dixit, a 24-year-old software engineer in Indore, has declared himself as the king of an unclaimed strip of 2,072 square kilometers of land between Egypt and Sudan. Self-claimed king of this ‘no man’s land’, Suyash has founded the idea of the first ‘virtual governance of a kingdom’ and named it […]
Jaipur, November 17 : Entry to the famous Chittorgarh Fort in Rajasthan was closed on Friday in protest against filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s upcoming movie “Padmavati”, which many claim has distorted historical facts. “We have closed the first gate known as Padan Pol gate since 10 a.m. We are not allowing anyone to enter the […]
New Delhi, November 17 : US-based Moody’s on Friday upgraded India’s sovereign credit rating by a notch to ‘Baa2’ with a stable outlook citing improved growth prospects driven by economic and institutional reforms. The rating upgrade comes after a gap of 13 years—Moody’s had last upgraded India’s rating to ‘Baa3’ in 2004. In 2015, the […]