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New Delhi: India, recognizing the work of one of its major border force, has issued a postage stamp on the 50th anniversary of its raising day.

New Delhi: The Border Security Force (BSF) has asked the government to raise 41 new battalions for guarding India’s border with Myanmar. It has also asked for creation of 4 frontier points and 12 sectors along the India-Myanmar border.

Elections to the 601-member Constituent Assembly for framing a new federal constitution for Nepal was held on November 19. The results are now out for the 240 seats which are directly elected by the people under the First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) system. Another 335 seats will be filled up through the proportional representation system, while 26 members will be nominated by the Cabinet.

Bank robbery always makes big news. But, not when it is craftily conducted by clever corporates. Corporate robbery of banks even carries a fashionable nametag called ‘non-performing asset’. It refers to loans that have gone sour and are not recoverable. Banks simply write them off. Unlike other categories of bank thieves who, if caught, face prosecution under a host of sections and sub-sections of the Indian Penal Code, big-time corporate bank robbers mostly go scot-free although several of them are even known to be habitual loan defaulters.

New Delhi: India will continue with its work of development of the Chabahar port in Iran as the said project does not come under the purview of the sanctions imposed by the Western powers against that country.

India was as much shocked as the rest of the world when the news of the tragic assassination of the US President John F Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Kennedy’s fiftieth death anniversary was recently celebrated with the top leadership of the Democrats including President Obama and former President Clinton and his wife Hillary present on the occasion. There are many who believe that had Kennedy lived longer, the Indo-US relations would have bloomed and taken a different direction. During his brief tenure, besides food aid, there were several US projects that emerged including the Tarapur plant, Kanpur IIT and Nagarjuna Sagar project in Andhra Pradesh.

New Delhi: Come December First. India’s Border Security Force which played a crucial role in the liberation of Bangladesh in 1971 is slated to celebrate its 48th anniversary of its raising day with a march of women contingent, for the first time, in full regalia with Berretta & X95 weapon, demonstrating the force’s gender prowess.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The infamous solar scam has come alive again to torment the Congress and the United Democratic Front (UDF) Government headed by it.

The last couple of weeks have been quite bizarre for the Indian democracy and the principal actors of its grand stage: New Delhi. Two of the projects that seemed most incorruptible in some way or the other came under scorching heat as Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Admi Party faced the accusation of being corruptible like other players of the game and Tehelka’s editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal was accused of committing sexual misconduct and rape against one of his junior colleagues.

Delhi will vote on December 4 to elect its government. Traditionally, the fight used to be confined between BJP and Congress, but now Aam Aadmi Party of Arvind Kejriwal is into the fray as a third force. When Kejriwal announced to enter the fray, BJP was the party to get nervous on the announcement and there was a celebration time in Congress, whose leaders thought that by dividing anti Congress votes, Kejriwal’s AAP would help it to capture power for the fourth consecutive times. But, the celebration is over now and Congress leaders are anxious to avoid a humiliating defeat. The reason is not difficult to see. AAP has been eating into the support base of Congress in a manner not visualized earlier by the Congress leaders.