Sources claimed the government was working out a compromise that could be a face saver to both the sides in the row. ...
07:51 PM, Jan 05, 2012
New Delhi: Sources claimed on Thursday that the Defence Ministry was working out a compromise formula that would be a face saver for both sides in the Army chief age row. Sources said that the government was most likely to claim that Army chief General VK Singh did not misrepresent facts related to his age and that he agreed to retire in May this year. General Singh had earlier in...
12:58 PM, Jan 05, 2012
New Delhi: General VK Singh on Thursday played down the entire age row episode saying he had no axe to grind with the government. The Defence Ministry has already begun the search for the next Army chief in a bid to avoid any confusion in case General Singh quits or if a court rejects his plea before his official tenure comes to an end. In normal circumstances the name of...
10:26 AM, Jan 05, 2012
It would never occur to any General to get just a one year extension by claiming that his YOB as per Military Secretary's records was ...
07:30 PM, Jan 04, 2012
New Delhi: Sources say all options are open to Army chief General VK Singh after the Defence Ministry rejected his complaint on the controversy involving his age. He could file an appeal before the Armed Forces Tribunal (which is equivalent to high court) or move the Supreme Court. The other option on the table is to resign before his tenure ends. In a major setback for General Singh, the defence...
09:43 AM, Jan 02, 2012
New Delhi: Congress on Tuesday assailed the BJP for creating an uproar in Parliament demanding Home Minister P Chidambaram's resignation in the wake of the hotelier controversy and asked if it was a pointer to the opposition party's dwindling faith in parliamentary democracy. "The BJP is not allowing Parliament to function. Sometimes, they create uproar in one House and sometimes in the other. Has their faith in democracy and Parliament...
09:53 PM, Dec 20, 2011
New Delhi: After the Delhi Police submitted a closure report saying that the CD showing conversation between Amar Singh, Shanti Bhushan and Mulayam Singh Yadav were genuine, Tis Hazari court on Monday is all set to pronounce its order on whether the report can be accepted or not. If the court rejects the report, Delhi police might be asked to investigate further, include the Chandigarh FSL report. If it accepts...
03:56 AM, Dec 12, 2011
New Delhi: Rebutting allegations levelled by Team Anna member Prashant Bhushan, Delhi Police on Tuesday said the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) or the Home Ministry have not shown any interest in denying him forensic reports on controversial CD purportedly featuring his father Shanti Bhushan. "It is totally false and baseless that Hon'ble Prime Minister's Office or Hon'ble Home Minister has taken any interest in the matter. The original reports with...
05:46 PM, Dec 06, 2011
New Delhi: The case against former Team Anna member Swami Agnivesh for his controversial comments on the Amarnath Yatra is slated to come up for hearing in the Supreme Court on Monday. The activist had earlier sought the dismissal of criminal proceedings but the court was reluctant. Agnivesh had termed the annual pilgrimage as religious deception. Earlier, representing Agnivesh before the apex court, Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium had contended that...
09:28 AM, Nov 14, 2011
Los Angeles: Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher has decided to stop using his Twitter account after sparking outrage by defending ousted college football coach Joe Paterno. Paterno was fired from his role as head coach of the Pennsylvania State University football team on Wednesday amid the growing sex abuse scandal surrounding his former assistant Jerry Sandusky. Paterno has come under fire for failing to take more action against Sandusky, who has...
12:31 PM, Nov 11, 2011
Thiruvananthapuram: A biographical film on Mohammed Abdul Rahman Sahib - a prominent freedom fighter in the Malabar region - has run into controversy with allegation from certain quarters that the director was "distorting" history to fetch a market for the movie. ' Veeraputhran-The Legend' is the film by noted film-maker P T Kunhu Mohammed is accused of giving indications that Rahman Sahib was poisoned to death while official history states...
02:51 PM, Oct 17, 2011
London: Supermodel Gisele Bundchen's lingerie ad has become the subject of controversy and is under Brazilian government officials' scanner. The 31-year-old has starred in a series of TV ads for lingerie company Hope, and in one, she strips down to her skimpy underwear before telling her husband a bad news that she crashed his car again, reported Aceshowbiz. Government officials from the women's secretariat in Brazil responded by branding the...
06:48 PM, Oct 01, 2011
Jaipur: Trouble mounts for Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot. After Bharatpur clashes and Bhanwari Devi case, the Bilwara postmortem controversy has become a new headache for the chief Minister. Gehlot was call upon by the high command to explain the crisis. But all's well in Rajasthan claimed the Chief Minister, after being summoned to Delhi by Congress President Sonia Gandhi. "Not only are we in control of the state, there's...
12:12 AM, Oct 01, 2011
New Delhi: Quite often producers feel the need of generating controversies to promote their films. However, this is not the case with Muran, a soon to be released Tamil film. One of its heroines Nikitha Thukral has already shot to limelight with her alleged involvement in actor Darshans domestic violence case. Nikithas alleged role play in Kannada actor Darshans wife bashing has given her ample media space and thus Muran...
05:43 PM, Sep 25, 2011
V S Naipaul sparked off another row by claiming that there has been no woman writer whom he considers his equal. What's your reaction to the statement made by Naipaul?
06:05 PM, Jun 18, 2011
New Delhi: MF Husain was both loved and loathed in equal measures. Husain was a great modern artist, but he was always more than just his art. In the last years of his life, controversy followed him almost at every step. For right-wing Hindu groups, Husian became a hate figure. In the mid 1990s, some of Husain's works from an earlier period became controversial because of their portrayal of Hindu...
09:05 PM, Jun 09, 2011
London: Singer Britney Spears is being sued for $10 million by a licensing company that has alleged the singer failed to pay their commission for launching her fragrance line. The "Toxic" hitmaker and her father Jamie Spears are the subject of legal action by the Brand Sense Partners firm, which has alleged breach of contract. They are claiming they have stopped receiving the 35 percent commission that was agreed as...
12:00 PM, Jun 05, 2011
New Delhi: Baba Ramdev after becoming an enemy of MNCs is now a crusader against corruption, but there's a whole other side to the Yoga Guru. Ramdev has made some pretty striking statements in the past. Baba Ramdev had earlier taken a stand against cold drinks saying, "Drinking cold drinks cause cancer, drinking cold drinks can also lead to impotency, drinking cold drinks causes osteoporosis, drinking cold drinks can also...
09:26 PM, Jun 03, 2011
London: After ending the famous 15-year feud with American writer Paul Theroux at the Hay Festival this week, Nobel laureate V S Naipaul has sparked off another row by claiming that there has been no woman writer whom he considers his equal. Often described as the 'greatest living writer of English prose', Naipaul made the comments at the Royal Geographic Society on Wednesday, prompting angry responses from literary critics, writers...
07:05 PM, Jun 02, 2011
