Men and women ride a float representing the Election Commission of India during the Republic Day parade in New Delhi on Thursday. India celebrated its 63rd Republic Day under heavy security and a large military parade, with the Thailand's Prime Minister, Ms Yingluck Shinawatra as the chief guest of the event. State wide elections will take place across the country in the next 45 days. (Raveendran | AFP)
Television talk show host Oprah Winfrey gestures while speaking during the Jaipur Literature Festival in Jaipur on Sunday.
JAIPUR: The traffic manners may have left her aghast, but the world’s most celebrated talk show host Oprah Winfrey says she was impressed by India’s “glorious” family tradition and would love to return to the country which had much more to it than filth and poverty.
Rescue workers evacuate a hospital staffer as a fire engulfs the AMRI hospital in Kolkata on Friday. AFP
KOLKATA: Ninety people, most of them patients in sleep, were on Friday choked to death in a major fire suspected to have been caused by inflammable material stored in the basement of a multi-speciality private hospital here in the wee hours.
India opener Virender Sehwag celebrates after scoring a double century during the fourth ODI against West Indies in Indore on Thursday. Punit Paranjpe | AFP
INDORE: Swashbuckling opener Virender Sehwag smashed a world record 219 to become only the second batsman after Sachin Tendulkar to reach the 200-run landmark in ODIs as India posted their highest one-day total of 418 for five in the fourth match against the West Indies here on Thursday.
Former Karnataka chief minister, Mr B S Yeddyurappa (front) is escorted to a police vehicle after he was denied bail in two cases of corruption in Bangalore on Saturday. AFP
BANGALORE: In a major embarrassment to the Bharatiya Janata Party, the party’s first chief minister in south India who had to quit over corruption charges Mr B S Yeddyurappa was jailed on Saturday after a court rejected his bail plea and ordered his arrest.
National Investigation Agency (NIA) officers inspect and collect evidence from the deadly bomb blast site at the Delhi High Court in New Delhi. (AFP)
NEW DELHI: Two days after the high intensity blast at the Delhi High Court, investigators were groping for a breakthrough even as the Home Minister, Mr P Chidambaram Friday said there were “promising leads” in the probe.
NEW DELHI: Hailing Parliament’s nod on key elements of Jan Lokpal bill as “people’s victory”, Mr Anna Hazare on Sunday broke his 12-day-old fast declaring that electoral reforms will be on top of his agenda next so that corruption can come down.
Anti-corruption activist, Mr Anna Hazare raises his fist as he chants slogans with supporters at the Ram Lila grounds in New Delhi on Saturday. (AFP)
NEW DELHI: The anti-corruption crusader, Mr Anna Hazare will end his 12-old-day fast at 10 am Sunday after the Parliament Saturday endorsed in principle three of his key demands to deal with corruption in a compromise between the government and the Gandhian.
Social activist, Mr Anna Hazare (centre) waves to supporters from the back of a vehicle as it travels through the streets of New Delhi on Friday. (AFP)
NEW DELHI: Upping the ante, Mr Anna Hazare on Friday gave a 12-day deadline to the government to pass the Jan Lokpal bill failing which he will continue his fast “till my last breath”.
The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh addressing the nation on the occasion of 65th Independence Day from the ramparts of Red Fort, in Delhi on Monday. (PIB)
NEW DELHI: In a speech dominated by concerns on corruption, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh told the nation on its 65th Independence Day on Monday that the government was taking action on many fronts to fight graft and believed in a strong Lokpal while also sending a message to activist Mr Anna Hazare that he should not go on a hunger strike.
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