Gadchiroli: The country has no future if the real power that should ideally rest with the people in true democracy is continued to be enjoyed by a select few, Anna Hazare said on Sunday. "Though India became a republic state on January 26, 1950, only a few have enjoyed the fruits of the real power, while majority of people are deprived of it. Today, crores of rupees are spent (by...
01:10 AM, May 14, 2012
Bangalore: A top police official has sought action against former cricketer Venkatesh Prasad and his wife for allegedly committing a "security breach" at the Chinnaswamy Stadium here after the IPL match between Deccan Chargers and Royal Challengers Bangalore. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central Division) Ravikante Gowda told that Prasad's wife, Jayanti, refused to listen when he intervened after she had a heated argument with an ASI who asked her and...
05:14 PM, May 07, 2012
NEW DELHI/HYDERABAD: Sending Telangana supporters into a swoon, Union home minister P Chidambaram has distanced himself from his own Dec. 9, 2009 statement promising steps towards a separate state for the region.Speaking in the Lok Sabha Wednesday, he said the situation has changed dramatically since that midnight announcement, and at any rate a consensus among the stakeholder parties was proving elusive.Responding to Telangana MPs prodding to announce a schedule for...
11:40 AM, May 03, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday rubbished opposition parties' allegation of policy paralysis in the party-led United Progressive Alliance and said the launch of nuclear-capable missile Agni-V showed that the government was not diffident about taking decisions. Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari said a government afflicted with policy paralysis will not take significant geo-strategic decisions. "The missile test clearly indicates that this is a government, which is not diffident about taking...
03:24 AM, Apr 22, 2012
New Delhi: Asking civil servants to take bold decisions, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said the government would not indulge in "witch hunting" against them in the name of fighting corruption and was committed to protecting the honest. He also said they should not be affected by the "nature and colour of the political leadership". "..it should be our endeavour that there is no witch hunting in the name...
12:58 AM, Apr 22, 2012
Cast: Taylor Kitsch, Rihanna, Alexander Skarsgard, Brooklyn Decker, Liam Neeson Director: Peter Berg If the only yardstick you're meant to use while judging an action blockbuster is the number of gigantic explosions it contains, then Battleship, from Hancock director Peter Berg, belongs right up there with the big boys. Berg borrows many a trope from Michael Bay for this loud, dumb actioner that could just as easily work with the...
12:33 AM, Apr 14, 2012
New Delhi: 'Battleship' steams into movie theaters overseas this week, giving international audiences the first chance to decide whether a board game-based movie is sea-worthy. The Hasbro Inc search-and-destroy game was once a way for kids to while away a summer afternoon. But as it debuts in Europe on Wednesday, 'Battleship' the movie has become a potential franchise, sporting Michael Bay-inspired special effects, aliens invading Earth, a bikini-model actress, superstar...
02:15 PM, Apr 13, 2012
Rajeev Masand interviews Brooklyn Decker, star of the latest Hollywood movie, 'Battleship'. ...
09:54 AM, Apr 10, 2012
New Delhi: After a marathon hearing spanning over a month, the Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved its verdict on a bunch of petitions challenging the Delhi High Court verdict decriminalising gay sex among consenting adults in private. A bench of justices GS Singhvi and SJ Mukhopadhaya reserved its verdict on a bunch of petitions by anti-gay right activists, social and religious organisations against the 2009 verdict of the high court,...
02:23 PM, Mar 27, 2012
New Delhi: The Centre clarified its stand on homosexuality in the Supreme Court on Wednesday saying it accepts the Delhi High Court verdict that decriminalised consensual gay sex. Attorney General GE Vahanvati clarified the Centre's stand in court. "The Delhi High Court verdict decriminalising homosexuality is acceptable to us," Attorney General GE Vahanvati told the court. In fact the Centre said criminalising consensual gay sex in private was a violation...
12:12 PM, Mar 21, 2012
New Delhi: Indian Railways will award contract for construction of about 1,000 route km on eastern and western dedicated freight corridors (DFCs) in the next fiscal, Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi said on Wednesday. "It is expected that the contract for civil and track works for about 1,000 route kilometres on Eastern and Western DFCs would be awarded during 2012-13," Trivedi said while presenting the Railway Budget for 2012-13. The Railways...
04:54 AM, Mar 15, 2012
Beijing: China said on Friday the inflationary pressure on its economy is easing as consumer price index, the main gauge of the rate of price rise, has dropped to 3.2 per cent in February, the lowest in 21 months. China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced in Beijing that the country's consumer price index (CPI) climbed by 3.2 per cent year-on-year in February, marking the lowest growth rate since June...
12:04 PM, Mar 09, 2012
New Delhi: In an embarrassing goof-up, the government on Thursday tied itself in knots in the Supreme Court by first disapproving decriminalisation of gay sex terming it as "highly immoral" and later taking a different line, drawing sharp criticism from the bench. In 2009, the gay community celebrated a landmark verdict by Delhi High Court for decriminilising gay sex in the country but three years later the government disapproved of...
10:15 PM, Feb 23, 2012
New Delhi: The goof-up by the government over hearing on decriminalisation of homosexuality on Thursday has drawn sharp criticism from the Supreme Court. The Home Ministry first told the Supreme Court it opposes the decriminalisation of gay sex in the country by terming it as "highly immoral" and later took a different stand. The government sources said that the Additional Attorney General read out an earlier stand by the government ...
07:28 PM, Feb 23, 2012
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