NEW DELHI: Karti Chidambaram, who was on Wednesday arrested for allegedly taking bribes, was today sent to CBI custody for five days. Special Judge Sunil Rana extended Karti ‘s custody till March 6 after the CBI contended that there were “very shocking evidences” of his activities while on a recent trip to London. The court has allowed Karti’s advocates to… Read more »
NEW DELHI: Shakti Sthala, hailed as the world’s largest solar park by Karnatakagovernment, was today inaugurated by CM Siddaramaiah in Pavagada taluk of Karnataka’s Tumkur district. The 2,000MW capacity plant is spread across an area of 13,000 acres, which was leased to the government by 2,300 local farmers at Rs 21,000 per acre per annum. Currently, 600 MW of the… Read more »
SHILLONG: About 86 per cent voters exercised their franchise during re-polling at one polling station Raliang constituency in Meghalaya on Thursday, chief electoral officer FR Kharkongor said. The re-poll was ordered at Kyndong Tuber polling station after polling officers stopped voting on February 27 following a mix up of voting machines, he said. Till 4pm at the close of the… Read more »
NEW DELHI: Eight months after the Doklam standoff, junior defence minister Subhash Bhamre on Thursday said the situation along India’s border with China is “sensitive” and it has the potential to escalate. “At the Line of Actual Control the situation is sensitive as incidents of patrolling, transgression and standoffs have a potential of escalation,” he said. The nearly 4,000-km-long border… Read more »
With all the fanfare that accompanied the recent start to work on the Afghanistan section of TAPI – the pipeline that Turkmenistan hopes will one day pump its natural gas to markets in South Asia – another equally speculative but potentially momentous development was largely overlooked. Communicating with a construction site via satellite feed from a train station in southeast Turkmenistan on… Read more »
Sometimes a corruption case is about more than just the corruption. The downfall of Kuandyk Bishimbayev is a story about how Kazakhstan continues to struggle to uproot graft and how the scourge has been handed on seamlessly to a generation in which the elite had placed great hopes of a more transparent future. Bishimbayev was detained by anti-corruption agents in… Read more »
Alittle girl dressed in pink, maybe three years old, is smiling through a rip in a tarpaulin. She is leaning against the bamboo pole holding up her home. Below her is a 15-foot drop, straight down to a dried-up riverbed. The steep valleys across the huge Rohingya refugee camps are a growing concern as Bangladesh’s monsoon season approaches. Last summer,… Read more »
The registration of candidates as part of a campaign for the upcoming election of members of parliament, as well as local authorities to be held March 25 in Turkmenistan has been completed in the country. A total of 284 candidates have been nominated for the election of members of parliament, and local authorities (halk maslahati): regional – 489 candidates, district… Read more »