SA have been accused of provoking the text message scandal that led to Pietersen being sent into international exile. ...
07:20 PM, Oct 07, 2012
Chennai: The library of the University of Madras is now embroiled in yet another controversy with senior professors raising questions about the timing of the post-centenary celebrations slated for September 25. The fete takes place even as the library has remained headless for about four years with several big ticket projects struggling to take off. Sources in the university said that the celebrations have been organised 5 years after the...
12:50 PM, Sep 22, 2012
Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde had said that the public memory is short and it would soon forget the coal scam, like the Bofors. ...
08:04 PM, Sep 16, 2012
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Sunday invited ire from the Opposition for his remark that the coal controversy, like the Bofors scam, will soon be forgotten. "Earlier the Bofors was a talking point. People forgot about it. Now it is coal. This too will be forgotten," Shinde said in a lighter vein at a function in Pune on Saturday. "Once hands are washed off coal, they...
09:51 AM, Sep 16, 2012
New Delhi: Tamil Nadu has pleaded with the apex court that pending a decision on the Cauvery River Authority (CRA) meeting, it should direct Karnataka to release at least 2 TMC of water per day from its reservoirs so that farmers in Tamil Nadu could commence Samba cultivation. Tamil Nadu filed its reply on Thursday to the rejoinder affidavit filed by Karnataka on September 3, wherein the latter had reiterated...
12:42 PM, Sep 07, 2012
Ahmedabad: A readymade garments shop that opened around three weeks back in Ahmedabad and sells Gandhi and Superman T-shirts among other trendy clothes has been courting controversy not just in India but all over the world. From New York Times to Russia Today, from Die Welt to Daily Mail - Rajesh Shah's shop which is called HiTLER with the dot in 'i' resembling a swastika, the National Socialist Party (Nazi)...
10:47 AM, Sep 03, 2012
New Delhi: India's Sushil Kumar, who won silver in the final of the men's freestyle 66kg event on the final day of the 2012 London Games, could find himself in the eye of controversy after video analysis indicates he bit the ear of his opponent in the semi-finals on Sunday. Backed by vociferous Indian spectators, Sushil wrapped up the first period against the Kazakh wrestler 3-0 in the high-voltage semi-final...
09:11 PM, Aug 12, 2012
Munnar: After running into controversy again, CPI-M leader MM Mani on Sunday strongly refuted having made a speech two days back in which he purportedly said the party was involved in the murder of an INTUC leader in Idukki district. Mani's denial came a day after Malayalam television channels aired an audio of the speech purportedly made by him at a public meeting at Pathammile near Munnar last week. "This...
02:52 PM, Aug 12, 2012
Mumbai: Director Madhur Bhandarkar has come out in the open about the controversy over 'Heroine' trailer and says they did not mean to demean anyone. "We have censored it. It has been censored for Dubai and has been passed by the censor board. There are some people who have raised objections. But we did not mean to demean anyone, Dubai is my personal favourite city," the 43-year-old said here in...
05:17 PM, Aug 06, 2012
New Delhi: From the demure sari-clad surprise candidate of UPA-I to the confident Sukhoi-flying Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, Pratibha Devi Singh Patil, India's first woman president re-wrote history. But the 77-year-old's tenure was also mired in controversy. In June 2007, a Jalgaon Congressman's wife claimed that Pratibha Patil's brother GN Patil murdered her husband, Vishram G Patil. She accused Pratibha Patil of shielding her brother. The same month, a...
07:11 AM, Jul 22, 2012
Bidar: Governance plumbed to a new low during the budget meeting of the Bidar City Municipal Council on Monday, with CMC president Shreedevi Karanje brandishing " yes, her slipper " in order to assert her authority and put in place those protesting the unilateral budget presented by her. Three members of the ruling JD(S) " Shivakumar, Manohar Dande and Mokers " alleged Shreedevi and Commissioner G Ramadasthe of not convening...
12:19 PM, Jul 03, 2012
Kochi: Kerala's education department on Monday sent a circular to woman teachers to turn up at a function in a saree and green blouse, inviting allegations that the colour reflected the minister's party flag. The circular was cancelled late in the evening. The Ernakulam district official who issued it was placed under suspension. The education portfolio in the Congress-led government is handled by Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) member P.K....
10:47 AM, Jul 03, 2012
New Delhi: The Government-appointed committee looking into the controversy surrounding political caricatures in the school textbooks has submitted its recommendations. The NCERT panel said that cartoons with negative references to politicians and bureaucrats should be removed from the textbooks. It found that current textbooks carry too many cartoons of the Nehru-Gandhi family. It says these must be removed as well. It has recommended the removal or modification of 36 of...
08:13 AM, Jul 03, 2012
New Delhi: Faced with a corruption case during his tenure as the chief minister of Himachal Pradesh, Union Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Minister and Congress MP Virbhadra Singh has resigned from the Union Cabinet following the framing of charges against him and his wife Pratibha Singh. Virbhadra Singh is accused of misusing his office when he was the Himachal Pradesh chief minister in 1989 and granting favours to industrialists....
01:17 PM, Jun 26, 2012
The former Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister has offered to resign but Congress President Sonia Gandhi is waiting for the High Court order. ...
12:01 PM, Jun 26, 2012
New Delhi: Union Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Minister Virbhadra Singh is all set to resign from the Union Cabinet following the framing of corruption charges against him for allegedly misusing his office when he was the Himachal Pradesh chief minister in 1989. He will meet Prime Minister manmohan Singh at 12:30 PM on Tuesday and hand over his resignation letter. Claiming that he was being framed, Virbhadra Singh said,"Nobody...
11:53 AM, Jun 26, 2012
Chandigarh: A Shimla court has framed charges against former Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister and Union Minister Virbhadra Singh in a case of criminal misconduct in 1989. Virbhadra Singh was allegedly heard in the CD speaking to some with industrialists to grant them favours. The CDs had recorded his conversations with industrialists during his tenure as the Himachal Pradesh chief minister in 1989. His political adversary Vijai Singh Mankotia had released...
12:46 PM, Jun 25, 2012
Former chief of Army and Governor of Arunachal Pradesh General JJ Singh has spoken out for the first time on his role in the age controversy saying the row vitiated the atmosphere and affected the sheen of the Office of the Chief. ...
09:30 AM, Jun 17, 2012
Sreesanth landed in a controversy when a co-passenger in a Bangalore-Delhi flight alleged him of "boorish behaviour." ...
09:09 PM, Jun 13, 2012
