Modi says council must include world’s largest democracies
Ignoring suggestions from some quarters that New Delhi should temper its campaign to gain a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at a G4 meeting between India, Germany, Japan and Brazil on Saturday that reforming the body “within a fixed time frame has become an urgent and important task”. The security council, he said, must include the world’s largest democracies. The other leaders at the meeting noted with concern that no progress had been made since the 2005 World Summit where all the heads of state and government had unanimously supported the “early reform” of the security council.
CBI raids Virbhadra Singh’s residence
In an unprecedented action against a serving chief minister, the Central Bureau of Investigation on Saturday raided the official residence of Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh and 10 other places alleging that his assets were disproportionate with his known sources of income. Searches were also carried out at the Congress leader’s official residence in Delhi, his two houses in Shimla and Rampur and a farm house in Mehrauli in south Delhi, which is in the name of his son Vikramaditya.
Shashank Manohar to become BCCI president
Shashank Manohar is all set to once again become the president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India. He was projected as the consensus by the faction led by BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur as the grouping headed by politician Sharad Pawar. The position came open after the death earlier this month of Jagmohan Dalmiya’s demise. The 57-year-old Vidarbha lawyer has previously served as BCCI chief from 2008 to 2011.
Rajnath says Pakistan is waging proxy war against India
Pakistan is waging a proxy terror war against India, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Saturday. He also noted that Pakistan has been continuously violating the ceasefire agreement to which India has always given a befitting reply.
BJP workers in Varanasi quit over lathicharge
Irked by the alleged lathicharge on sadhus and others demanding the right to immerse idols in the river Ganga, a group of agitated Bharatiya Janata Party workers in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s parliamentary constituency handed in their resignations to the Uttar Pradesh state party chief Laxmikant Bajpai on Saturday. Members of several Hindu groups staged a protest in Varanasi from September 21 to 23 to demand that the ban on immersing statues of deities in the river be lifted. The ban was ordered by Allahabad High Court to curb pollution.
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Ignoring suggestions from some quarters that New Delhi should temper its campaign to gain a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at a G4 meeting between India, Germany, Japan and Brazil on Saturday that reforming the body “within a fixed time frame has become an urgent and important task”. The security council, he said, must include the world’s largest democracies. The other leaders at the meeting noted with concern that no progress had been made since the 2005 World Summit where all the heads of state and government had unanimously supported the “early reform” of the security council.
CBI raids Virbhadra Singh’s residence
In an unprecedented action against a serving chief minister, the Central Bureau of Investigation on Saturday raided the official residence of Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh and 10 other places alleging that his assets were disproportionate with his known sources of income. Searches were also carried out at the Congress leader’s official residence in Delhi, his two houses in Shimla and Rampur and a farm house in Mehrauli in south Delhi, which is in the name of his son Vikramaditya.
Shashank Manohar to become BCCI president
Shashank Manohar is all set to once again become the president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India. He was projected as the consensus by the faction led by BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur as the grouping headed by politician Sharad Pawar. The position came open after the death earlier this month of Jagmohan Dalmiya’s demise. The 57-year-old Vidarbha lawyer has previously served as BCCI chief from 2008 to 2011.
Rajnath says Pakistan is waging proxy war against India
Pakistan is waging a proxy terror war against India, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Saturday. He also noted that Pakistan has been continuously violating the ceasefire agreement to which India has always given a befitting reply.
BJP workers in Varanasi quit over lathicharge
Irked by the alleged lathicharge on sadhus and others demanding the right to immerse idols in the river Ganga, a group of agitated Bharatiya Janata Party workers in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s parliamentary constituency handed in their resignations to the Uttar Pradesh state party chief Laxmikant Bajpai on Saturday. Members of several Hindu groups staged a protest in Varanasi from September 21 to 23 to demand that the ban on immersing statues of deities in the river be lifted. The ban was ordered by Allahabad High Court to curb pollution.
