In Maha drought, the show goes on
The film Chennai Express, starring actors Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone, has run into a controversy for using water from a dam in drought-hit Satara district of Maharashtra. Maharashtra relief...
View ArticlePM in germany on 3-day visit to push trade
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reached Berlin on Wednesday on a three-day visit that wil see him co-chairing the second round of inter-governmental consultations with German Chancellor Angela Merkel....
View ArticleCBI told to reopen Tytler ’84 riot case
The shadow of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots is back to haunt the Congress and Jagdish Tytler once again. A Delhi court on Wednesday ordered reopening of a 1984 riot case against Mr Tytler in which the CBI...
View ArticleMamata leaves ‘unsafe’ Delhi
Trinamul supremo and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee cut short her stay in the national capital on Wednesday, a day after being heckled by SFI activists, and said “Delhi is not a safe...
View ArticlePak Hindu migrants can stay on
The latest batch of Hindu migrants from Pakistan will not be forced to return there. The Union home ministry is considering granting “long-term visas” on humanitarian grounds. With Pakistani Hindus...
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Off to Pakistan
Off to PakistanSikh pilgrims leave for Pakistan by a special train from Attari railway station on Wednesday to celebrate Baisakhi and visit Sikh shrines in the neighbouring country. — PTI
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Actor Anjali calls up, police clueless
Hyderabad: South Indian actor Anjali, who went missing from Daspalla Hotel in Jubilee Hills on Monday, called up her mother on Wednesday and assured her she was safe. Talking to Deccan Chronicle,...
View ArticleK’taka polls: Cong in bind over selection of 47 candidates
The Opposition Congress is facing difficulty in finalising 47 candidates for the Karnataka Assembly elections in the backdrop of intense lobbying by senior party leaders in the high-stake polls. The...
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Mamata’s condition stable: Doctors
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who was admitted to a private clinic here with complaints of breathing problem and palpitation, was resting and her condition was stable, doctors attending to her said...
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Race starts for Sabita's post
Hyderabad: With the Opposition stepping up pressure on the Chief Minister to drop the so called ‘tainted’ ministers from the Cabinet, there is heavy competition among Kiran Kumar Reddy’s cabinet...
View ArticleNo 24-hour power for Rae Bareli, Amethi
When political equations change, power automatically gets “cut”. With relations between the ruling Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh and the Congress getting increasingly strained, the state government...
View ArticleSC justifies capital punishment in India
The Supreme Court on Friday also justified the practice of capital punishment in India, particularly in view of growing terrorist activity that has cost the lives of hundreds of innocent civilians and...
View ArticleBJP, SAD differ on Bhullar SC verdict
NDA allies BJP and SAD on Friday came out with divergent views on the apex court order dismissing terrorist Devinderpal Singh Bhullar’s plea for commuting his death sentence, with the former demanding...
View ArticleAt 93, and 400 films later, Pran gets Phalke
Pran, one of the meanest villains ever cast in Hindi films, was on Friday chosen for the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke award by the government. The government will confer the award, the highest official...
View ArticleHC to centre: no coercive steps on telcos
The Delhi high court on Friday restrained the Centre from taking any coercive steps to make telecom firms Vodafone and Idea Cellular pay the penalty slapped on them for providing 3G intra-roaming...
View ArticleIT. CDR sacked for affair with officer’s wife
Defence minister A.K. Antony on Friday ordered the dismissal of a Navy lieutenant commander for having entered into a relationship with another officer’s wife, a punishable offence termed as “stealing...
View ArticleMusharraf admits US drone deals
Former Pakistan military ruler Pervez Musharraf has admitted his regime had secretly signed a deal with the United States government on drone strikes. This is the first time that any present or past...
View ArticleWB proposes multi-billion plan for India
The World Bank has come out with a $12 billion to $20 billion four-year plan aimed at bringing down poverty levels in seven low-income Indian states, where majority of India’s poor live, to just 5.5...
View ArticleDisclosure of assets: Speaker exempts Koda
Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar has exempted jailed independent MP Madhu Koda from declaring his assets. Mr Koda, a former chief minister of Jharkhand, is under investigation on corruption and other...
View ArticleFor terrorist, death stays death
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected Khalistani terrorist Devinderpal Singh Bhullar’s plea for commutation of his death sentence and said that keeping in view the peculiar facts of the case, “we are...
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