January 13, 2016
Summary
President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address came up short of the facts on several topics:
January 13, 2016
BALESWAR, ODISHA – The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought Action Taken Report (ATR) from the Chief Secretary over starvation death cases continuing in Odisha.
Activist lawyer Radhakanta Tripathy moved the apex rights panel pointing out the negligence of the State Government in handling the situation.
January 12, 2016
Pakistani military officers were behind an attack on the Indian consulate in Mazar-e-Sharif last week, a top Afghan police official said on Tuesday.
One Afghan policeman was killed and nine others, including three civilians, were wounded in the attack on January 4 that coincided with an assault by militants on an Indian airbase in Pathankot.
January 12, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Lamenting the nation's persistently deep divides, President Barack Obama will declare Tuesday night that opportunity and security for American families "will only happen if we fix our politics."
January 12, 2016
TIRUCHENDUR, TAMIL NADU – Over 100 whales washed ashore along the 15km stretch of coast near Tiruchendur in Tamil Nadu today. Over 45 of the short-finned pilot whales have died. Many have been saved by local fishermen.
Locals said that many more whales would have died but fishermen in the area ensured that they kept putting them back into the sea.
January 12, 2016
New Delhi: Glaring lapses have come to the fore in the probe in the Pathankot Air Force base terror attack. On the one hand there was almost no effective security at the IAF base, said sources, adding that illegal entry was being allowed inside Airbase for as little as Rs 50.
January 12, 2016
An Italy senator said on Tuesday that Massimiliano Latorre, one of the two Italian marines accused of killing two Kerala fishermen in 2012, will not return to India after being allowed to go home temporarily for medical treatment. Latorre’s deadline to return to India expires on Friday.
January 12, 2016
New Delhi – Former Pakistan President General (retired) Pervez Musharraf has called on India to not 'overreact' to the terror strike on the Pathankot IAF base saying that both nations were victims of extremism and also accused New Delhi of creating pressure on Islamabad over terrorism.
January 11, 2016
NEW DELHI – Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has cleared major changes in how India buys its defence equipment, sources told NDTV. From now, priority will be given to indigenously designed, developed and manufactured defence equipment.
