Mumbai: One person was arrested on Wednesday in connection with a murder case of a four-year-old girl in Goa. The girl, a Mumbai resident, was on a visit to her grandfather's house to spend her summer vacation. The girl was living in her grandfather's house in south Goa from where she went missing on May 20. The victim's body was recovered on Tuesday afternoon about 200 metres away from the...
10:59 AM, May 23, 2012
There seems to be no end to criticism for the economic policies by the Manmohan Singh government as the UPA-II completes three years in power. CNN-IBN's Smitha Nair spoke to Forbes Magazine CEO Steve Forbes and he claimed that the government has made errors at many levels. Following is an excerpt from the interview with Steve Forbes: Smitha Nair: Do you think the Manmohan government has shifted the goal post...
08:06 AM, May 22, 2012
Mumbai: The images of intolerance. Professor Suhas Palshikar, who resigned as chief advisor to the NCERT over the row surrounding a BR Ambedkar cartoon was threatened by members of a fringe group and his office was vandalised too. Palshikar said, "People who have masterminded the act are more important rather than those who have done it. Attackers are simply instrument." Former NCERT advisor Yogendra Yadav said, "I spoke to him...
09:17 PM, May 12, 2012
As farmer suicides and acute water shortage continues in Vidharba, villagers are migrating to Mumbai for a better life. ...
10:31 AM, May 10, 2012
Satara: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan is set to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday to seek a relief package for 12 drought-hit districts in his state. The state has reportedly sought a package of over Rs 2,200 crore and 5 lakh tonnes of foodgrain at BPL rates. However, CNN-IBN has found that quick-fix relief packages every year have failed to cure the problem and no long-term remedies have...
08:09 AM, May 08, 2012
New Delhi: A Pune court on Wednesday gave its clearance for a polygraph test on seven policemen in connection with the murder of RTI activist Satish Shetty. Shetty was murdered in 2010 in Pune. Shetty had exposed several land scams using the RTI. Satish was hacked to death by unidentified men in January 2010 in Talegoan in Maharashtra. Satish was credited with exposing several land scams in the Talegaon-Lonavala region,...
02:20 PM, May 02, 2012
Shirdi: Anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare embarked on a new innings demanding a strong Lokayukta Bill in Maharashtra. For the next five weeks, Hazare will tour his home state. The insipid response to his December, 2011 agitation in Mumbai, the failure of the Anna factor in the Assembly polls, apparent cracks within Team Anna, even health worries haven't deterred Hazare. Anna Hazare has embarked on a new innings in a state...
11:35 PM, May 01, 2012
Mumbai: A Class XI student in Andheri has been bludgeoned to death by his classmates, allegedly because he objected to lewd texts sent to his girlfriend. The police have arrested eight students in connection with the case. "The accused wrote an offensive SMS to a girl after which they went to the victim's house along with others. A fight ensued after which the boy was murdered," said Suhas Warke, DCP....
07:44 PM, Apr 19, 2012
President Pratibha Patil's son, Rajendra Shekhawat said on Friday that the land will not remain in the President's possession forever. ...
01:55 PM, Apr 13, 2012
Mumbai: Even before the onset of summer, farmers across nearly nine districts in Maharashtra are battling drought like conditions, many forced to go without food and water and, the worst part, this time around, the fear of a lower than normal rainfall looms large as well. Sangli is one of the nine districts in the state that are facing drought like conditions. Dhule, Nasik, Usmanabad, Latur, Pune, Satara, Solapur and...
06:14 AM, Apr 10, 2012
New Delhi: Union Minister and former Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Thursday refused to comment on the CAG report which indicted him for alleged irregularities in land allotments during his tenure. "I will react after the CAG report is tabled. I am certain my name will be cleared," he told CNN-IBN. The CAG in a recent report is learnt to have indicted Union minister Vilasrao Deshmukh for preferential allotment...
05:17 PM, Apr 05, 2012
Vishnu Bhagwat said whoever describes the Army Chief as a troublemaker needs to get his head examined. ...
09:50 PM, Mar 29, 2012
Mumbai: 12 CRPF jawans were killed and 28 injured in a Naxal attack in Maharashtra. The landmine blast took place in the Gadchiroli district after the bus carrying the jawans drove over the landmine. A powerful landmine ripped through the vehicle on Tuesday morning. The battalion was on its way from Karvafa to Gatta tasked with road opening and area domination when the attack took place. Gadchiroli, the hotbed of...
11:51 PM, Mar 27, 2012
Watch the special show on the politics of Goa, which is set to go for vote on March 3. ...
11:28 AM, Mar 01, 2012
Panaji: More than one-third of the 40 seats in the Goa Assembly up for grabs have been cornered by half a dozen families. The Assembly Elections of 2012 could well see the creation of a feudal political elite in the state as the Congress battles charges of growing nepotism. It has been called dinner table politics as the elite families club together. The question that Goa will answer in elections...
09:41 AM, Feb 29, 2012
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