FREMONT: Ganesha Mahotsav, one of the biggest Indian festivals of the year, began with a bang at the Fremont Hindu Temple on September 18. With the elaborate festivities, this will be the largest Ganapati celebration in US. Hundreds of devotees from across the Bay Area are gathering here every day to venerate the remover of obstacles, Lord Ganesha.
Tuesday was...
NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress ministers met PM Manmohan Singh today at his residence and submitted their resignations to him.Mukul Roy, Saugata Ray, Sisir Adhikari, Mohan Jatua, Sultan Ahmed and Sudip Bandopadhyay are TMC ministers who resigned.
TMC MPs later met President Pranab Mukherjee and handed over a letter withdrawing support to the UPA.
Railway Minister Mukul Roy along with five other...
KOLKATA: Congress today said it would pull out its ministers from the West Bengal government, days after Trinamool Congress decided to withdraw support to the UPA government."The ministers belonging to our party will resign from the Trinamool Congress-led government in the state after TMC ministers tender their resignation," WBPCC president Pradip Bhattacharya told PTI here.Asked when the Congress ministers...
NEW DELHI: In a big relief to Congress on a day Trinamool Congress pulls out of UPA, Samajwadi Party today pledged to continue support to the government as it "does not want to let communal forces to come to power"."Our support is clear. We will not let communal forces come to power. That is why I am supporting. I...
WASHINGTON: There is a "mismatch" between the Obama Administration's intention to improve defense and strategic ties with India and America's "arcane" export control regulations, a top US official has acknowledged, highlighting the need to remove "bureaucratic impediments".Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton B Carter, who has been entrusted by his chief Leon Panetta with the task of working with India...
WASHINGTON: The US is looking to increase its share in the growing multi-trillion dollar infrastructure market in countries such as India, Indonesia, Columbia and the UAE.Global construction spending will grow from USD 6 trillion a year today to nearly USD 9 trillion a year by 2020, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in her remarks on Thursday to...
NEW DELHI: In marginal relief to consumers, the government today abolished import and excise duties on LPG cylinders they buy beyond the 6 per annum quota of subsidized cooking gas, and asked state governments to subsidies the requirements of households at their level.The government had last week restricted supply of subsidized cooking gas to 6 per household in a...
NEW DELHI: Moving ahead with steps to revive investor sentiment and curb demand for gold, India's Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Friday cut withholding tax on overseas borrowings to 5 per cent from 20 per cent and approved the Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme (RGESS).While the RGESS is aimed at encouraging first time retail investors to invest in stock...
MAHARAJGANJ: An American national was today arrested here while trying to cross over to Nepal on fake visa papers, a senior police official said.Parnauntek of Ohio, who was on his way to Nepal from Mumbai via Delhi, was arrested by the immigration department in Sonauli area on finding his visa papers fake, Superintendent of police Laxmi Narain said.A case...
WASHINGTON: As anger in the Muslim world over anti-Islam film continued to smolder, the US Administration has turned to social media and television ads to try to stem global protest.The Obama Administration's campaign was launched in Pakistan by the US embassy in which President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton figure.In the 30-second TV advertisement broadcast across...