
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is on a one-day trip to Kolkata, where he will be attending two events - one at the Bose Institute, and the other at Calcutta University, where he's set to share the dais with West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee. This will be the leaders' first meeting after the petrol price hike, which the TMC chief has been protesting against....

09:21 AM, Jun 02, 2012

Mumbai: Filmmakers rarely applaud each other's work but Anurag Kashyap and Dibakar Banerjee are all praises for each other. After watching 'Shanghai', Kashyap has declared it is the best film he has ever watched and Banerjee is the country's best director. "It's a film that should be made compulsory for everybody to watch. This is the most powerful and the best film I have seen in a long time," Kashyap...

04:06 PM, Jun 01, 2012

Mumbai: The nation-wide bandh called by the NDA on Thursday crippled the commercial capital of the country, causing it to incur losses worth Rs 270-300 crore. MiD-DAY spoke to economists, who revealed that the city has a population of approximately 20 million, of which about eight million account for the workforce. On an average, each member of this workforce has an income of Rs 1 lakh per annum, while the...

03:47 PM, Jun 01, 2012

Young director Vysakh has been exceptional in creating multistar movies that go well with the masses. He had been able to convert his previous two films- 'Seniors' and 'Pokkiriraja', into big hits. Now the young director is coming up with his third movie 'Mallu Singh' all set to get released this May. One of the most expected movies of the year, this will be the one of the rare Malayali...

03:34 PM, Jun 01, 2012
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Puducherry: Archana Sasi, with a score of 176 marks, topped the unreserved category in the MBBS entrance examination results of JIPMER which were announced in Puducherry on Thursday evening. Regi Selvanayagam (172 marks) and Anubha Dev (171 marks) finished second and third respectively in the examination conducted on May 27. Ashuvanth S (155 marks), Gowri Shankar B (154), Surya R (151) finished first, second, third respectively in the Puducherry unreserved...

10:40 AM, Jun 01, 2012

New York: Want to super-size that soda? Sorry, but in New York City you could be out of luck. In his latest effort to fight obesity in this era of Big Gulps and triple bacon cheeseburgers, Mayor Michael Bloomberg is proposing an unprecedented ban on large servings of soda and other sugary drinks at restaurants, delis, sports arenas and movie theaters. Drinks would be limited to 16 ounces, which is...

09:15 AM, Jun 01, 2012

Kolkata: Warning that "politics of destruction" would not be tolerated, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said her government was considering bringing in a law to penalise political parties indulging in vandalism. "We can't tolerate vandalism, hooliganism and politics of destruction. We can't accept the destruction of public property during shutdowns and strikes by political parties," Mamata told reporters here on a day an opposition-sponsored shutdown saw sporadic...

02:02 AM, Jun 01, 2012

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11:49 PM, May 31, 2012

New Delhi: Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Thursday described the Bharat bandh called by the NDA and Left parties to protest petrol price hike as a "total failure" in Delhi and "thanked" people of the city for not responding to it. The Chief Minister, speaking in the Delhi Assembly, came down heavily on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), accusing it of forcibly blocking roads and making the traders shut their...

11:24 PM, May 31, 2012

The Prime Minister who was in charge of the coal ministry during 2006 to 2009 has been the target of a recent Team Anna's campaign against corruption. ...

10:34 PM, May 31, 2012

New Delhi: Petrol prices may be revised on Friday with companies talking about a scope of cutting rates by Rs 1.50-1.60 a litre. On a day when BJP-led NDA and the Left parties called a Bharat Bandh against petrol price hike, the government appeared in no mood to announce a cut. "To my mind, there will be no revision in rates tonight," a senior official at one of the three...

09:45 PM, May 31, 2012

With growth sharply falling and exacerbating India's economic woes, was Bharat Bandh called by the BJP and the Left a thoughtless mistake? ...

09:35 PM, May 31, 2012

Mumbai: The Maharashtra government will fix responsibility on those political parties who called the Bharat bandh on Thursday and recover from them losses caused to public and private property, Home Minister RR Patil said. "The process of registering the panchnamas of the loss has been initiated. The police department has been asked to assess the loss of the public and private properties due to attacks on the buses, disrupting public...

09:08 PM, May 31, 2012

Jaunpur: The Doon Express on Thursday got derailed near Mahrawa station in Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh, killing at least three people died and injuring 15 other. Union Railways Minister Mukul Roy ordered an enquiry into the accident, saying sabotage cannot be ruled out. The Railway Minister, who is mostly absent from New Delhi, ordered the routine enquiry in Kolkata. A crowded Doon Express was en-route to Dehradun from Howrah when...

08:53 PM, May 31, 2012

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today accused the CPI-M of colluding with the BJP over Thursday's NDA-sponsored bandh and indulging in acts of arson and other violent activity. "They (CPI-M) used to dub me as the supporter of BJP. But today the CPI(M) in collusion with the BJP has organised this bandh and indulged in destructive activities like setting fire to some buses. I leave it to the...

08:21 PM, May 31, 2012