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New Delhi: India’s commercial export of power to Bangladesh began from Saturday by press of a button jointly by the Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and the Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Re-engineer your idol immersion style, says the Kali temple chief priest in the Capital’s Chittaranjan Park. ‘You can do it, if you are a little innovative and develop eco-friendly cisterns to use for immersion.’ The priest, known to the locality for realistic interpretation of Hindu scriptures without pomp and show, has offered a plausible solution of idol immersion, that makes newspaper headlines every year in the country all for wrong reasons.

LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party national president Mulayam Singh Yadav and his chief minister son Akhilesh Yadav are busy in damage control mode to win over the confidence of Muslims after the notorious Muzaffarnagar riots.

The US Federal Government shutdown continuing into third day on October 3 over a short-term budget dispute unresolved in a broken Congress, seemed headed to drive the world’s super-power into a globally disastrous default, the first ever, by mid-October, when US Treasury runs out of cash to pay its bills.

New Delhi: Indian Air Force is ready to assist the Army in its operations against the heavily fortified infiltrators from Pakistan in the Keran sector of Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district saif the IAF chief Air Marshal NAK Browne.

New Delhi: Electricity to start flowing from India to Bangladesh from Saturday through high voltage direct current inter-connection lines lighting millions of houses.

New Delhi: Come October 8. Indian Air Force will celebrate its 81th anniversary with air display by various aircraft as part of the Air Force Day Parade-cum-Investiture Ceremony at Air Force Station at Hindan, few miles from Delhi.

The sentencing of the RJD President Lalu Prasad Yadav by five years in prison by the Special CBI Court on Thursday marks a new phase in the political graph of this colourful Lok Sabha member from Bihar. At a time when the RJD was recovering the lost ground in the state, the conviction has come as a great set back to both the RJD and its leader. Lalu would have got away from losing his membership had Rahul Gandhi not put a spoke on the ordinance last week brought by the government to help him.

Conviction of Lalu Prasad Yadav in much talked about fodder scam case of Bihar is an important event not only having bearing on the politics at the provincial level, but also on national level. Lalu might have lost last four General Elections in Bihar after 2004, but he remained the most powerful politician of the state because of his solid MY (Muslim-Yadav) alliance. In the last Bihar Assembly elections, too, his RJD and ally LJP of Ramvilas Paswan had bagged 25 percent of votes polled. With his conviction and disqualification from contesting an election, his RJD is bound to lose its shine.

Explaining the disjunction between Rahul Gandhi’s views on the ordinance on convicted legislators and the government’s decision to come to their rescue, external affairs minister Salman Khurshid underlined the need for parties sometimes to choose between “pragmatism” and “principles”.