New Delhi: Gearing up for its electoral debut in the upcoming Delhi Assembly polls, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Saturday announced the names of 44 shortlisted candidates for 12 constituencies. "The final 12 would be selected after recommendations of grassroot level workers and selection committee after proper consultation and debate among them," AAP Convener Arvind Kejriwal told reporters while announcing the list of shortlisted candidates. He said the candidates were...
08:57 AM, May 25, 2013
Cannes: A man pretending to be South Korean rapper Psy talked his way into glitzy parties at the Cannes film festival and posed with fans until he was spotted drinking champagne by the real Psy's manager. Psy, in Singapore on Thursday night to perform at the inaugural Social Star awards, said that Scooter Braun spotted the imposter, took a photo and sent it to the musician. "He sent it to...
08:35 AM, May 25, 2013
London: The family of the British soldier who was beheaded by two armed men outside a military barrack in Woolwich in London have expressed their sorrow and grief on the soldier's death. Lee Rigby was due to travel home from London to see them this weekend, his family informed. "I just want to say that I love Lee. I always will and I'm proud to be his wife. He was...
07:56 AM, May 25, 2013
New Delhi: Former IPL chairman Lalit Modi on Friday demanded that Chennai Super Kings be terminated from the League after the arrest Gurunath Meiyappan. Asked to react on the course of action after the arrest of Gurunath, Modi said "CSK should be terminated" immediately and fresh auction be held. "If a owner of an IPL team is engaged in betting, the contract clearly states that there is a suo motu...
01:50 AM, May 25, 2013
Muktsar: To ensure all round development of rural students studying in government schools in Punjab, the state government on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with NGO International Award for Young People. The MoU was signed by DPI (schools) Kamal Kumar Garg and Bivujit Mukhoty, representative of the NGO, in presence of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal. "This was a leap forward towards state government's commitment to provide quality...
01:32 AM, May 25, 2013
New Delhi: It was the theatre of the absurd as murky dealings in the Indian Premier League (IPL) on Friday led to the arrest of BCCI chief N Srinivasan's son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan and the clamour for Srinivasan's resignation grew. Amidst reports that he was likely to resign on Saturday evening, a defiant Srinivasan hit back, saying, "Who has said I am resigning?" Meiyappan, who has allegedly been involved in betting...
01:29 AM, May 25, 2013
New Delhi: Hours after its spokesperson demanded resignation of Indian cricket board chief N Srinivasan over his son-in-law's name figuring in the investigations into the IPL spot fixing scandal, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Friday sought to distance itself from the demand. Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) spokesperson DP Tripathi on Friday told reporters that Srinivasan should resign as chief of the Board of Control for Cricket (BCCI) in India. Tripathi...
01:15 AM, May 25, 2013
Bhadohi: In a bid to plug possible note of dissent within the party over choice of candidates for the next General Elections, Samajwadi Party leader Ram Asrey Kushwaha on Friday said "unhappy" workers can approach party supremo to put forward their views. "If workers are unhappy they can put their views through the party forum, after which SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav will take a decision," the party national general...
01:01 AM, May 25, 2013
Rajahmundry: Some prominent US educational institutions are imparting industrial training to students in India under the Centre's Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP), Human Resource Development Minister M Pallam Raju on Friday said. Under the initiative, training is provided to students who have passed polytechnic and engineering courses, based on their understanding of the subject and as per the needs of industry. The first phase of the World Bank-sponsored TEQIP,...
12:27 AM, May 25, 2013
New Delhi: Despite the cesspool of a scam, the routine on the grounds of IPL 6 match venues hasn't changed in the least. The presenters have been just as bombastic, the cheergirls have been performing with just as much gusto, the song and dance routine remains just as much cheerful. However, the most striking aspect has been the silence among India's premier commentators. None of them has been allowed to...
11:45 PM, May 24, 2013
BCCI chief N Srinivasan is under tremendous pressure to step down as his son-in-law is being probed in the IPL betting scam. ...
10:42 PM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: A Naval Board of Inquiry on Friday started probe into the charges made by the wife of a senior Navy officer that she was being forced by her husband into getting "sexually involved" with his colleagues. The BoI venue was shifted from Karwar in Karnataka to Delhi and during the day-long proceedings, the two sides, the woman and her husband, who is a Navy officer, questioned each other,...
10:24 PM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: CBI has not been able to make any substantial recovery of cash or valuables from the office and residence of its Superintendent of Police Vivek Dutt, who was probing the high-profile coal block allocation scam when he was arrested under graft charges, sources claimed. The agency has deputed Vidhi Kumar Birdi, a 2003 batch IPS officer from Jammu and Kashmir cadre, to replace Dutt in the coal block...
09:42 PM, May 24, 2013
Ahmedabad: A special CBI court on Friday reserved its order on the bail application of suspended IPS officer GL Singhal, an accused in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case. After hearing the arguments, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate SH Khutwad said he would pronounce the order on May 27. Singhal, who was arrested by CBI on February 21, has sought bail on the ground that the agency failed to file charge...
09:02 PM, May 24, 2013
Mumbai: Senior BJP leader Prakash Javadekar on Friday alleged that irregularities in allocation of offshore mineral blocks to private firms point to a mega scam that dwarfs all "scams" under the watch of UPA so far. "Unlike petrol and oil blocks, allocation of these 37 offshore mineral blocks was not done in transparent manner. This particular scam will break all previous records. We will reveal details of the scam next...
08:16 PM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: A plea for a separate cell in Tihar jail on the grounds of being "well educated" and belonging to a "respected family" has been rejected by a Delhi court which on Friday dismissed the petition of former Ranji cricketer Manish Guddewar arrested in IPL spot fixing scandal. The court rejected the plea of Guddewar, a former Ranji player of Vidarbha, saying lots of educated people are lodged in...
06:55 PM, May 24, 2013
Madurai: Facing Mumbai Police summons for questioning in the spot-fixing scandal, Gurunath Meiyappan, CSK team owner and son-in-law of BCCI President N Srinivasan, on Friday left by a chartered aircraft for Mumbai to appear before the police. Meiyappan, who has been named by actor Vindoo Dara Singh as being involved in betting, took the flight a little after 5 pm, the deadline set by Mumbai Police for appearing before them...
06:41 PM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will declare results of Senior School Certificate Examination 2013 (Class XII) on May 27 at 10:00 am. The results will be available on the following websites - www.results.nic.in, www.cbseresults.nic.in and www.cbse.nic.in The students can also call up on the following numbers to check the results - 011-24300699, 011-28127030. The students can also register for SMS alert. ...
06:30 PM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: Socialite Paris Hilton wore Indian designer duo Falguni and Shane Peacock's creation at the amFar (The American Foundation for AIDS Research) Cinema Against AIDS Gala in Cannes. Paris, who attended the gala with her boyfriend River Viiperi, was spotted wearing a customised baby pink coloured full-length gown with feather embellishments at the bottom. "Paris has always loved our clothes and we have worked with her in the past....
05:50 PM, May 24, 2013
From being a newspaper delivery boy to becoming a newsmaker himself, 23-year-old Shivakumar has got through to the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) - Calcutta. Shivakumar, an engineering student and the only educated member in his family, has fought hard to make his dreams come true. N Shivakumar joined IBNLive readers for an interaction. Q. How did you finance your engineering course? Are you taking loan for the IIM course...
05:26 PM, May 24, 2013
