Dehra Dun: Fearing poaching by ruling Congress ahead of the confidence vote in Uttarakhand, the BJP has summoned all its 31 MLAs in the state to New Delhi. Party sources said except one or two BJP MLAs, all the 31 MLAs have already left for New Delhi on the instructions of the party high command. When contacted, state party spokesman Satish Lakhera confirmed the development but said the party might...
04:31 PM, Mar 20, 2012
Havana: State media on Wednesday accused the social networking site Twitter of helping spread a rumour that former Cuban leader Fidel Castro had died, and criticised anti-Castro expatriates it dubbed "necrophiliac counterrevolutionaries" for jumping on the story. An article on the state-run Cubadebate website accused Twitter of allowing an account holder with the sign-on "Naroh" to start the rumour on Monday from an Italian server, possibly after it was taken...
09:25 AM, Jan 05, 2012
Islamabad: After a gap of four years, Pakistan and India on Monday began two-day talks on conventional and nuclear confidence building measures (CBMs). Geo News said that the talks on Monday were being held at the Pakistan Foreign Office on conventional CBMs, while the talks on nuclear CBMs will be held Tuesday. The talks are the first formal engagement since the leaders of the two countries met in the Maldives...
05:11 PM, Dec 26, 2011
Hyderabad: The Congress government in Andhra Pradesh couldn't have asked for a better end to the Winter Session of the Assembly. It survived the no-confidence motion on Monday by a comfortable margin of 38 votes. The session went on for a record 17 hours, before the Speaker announced what was expected. N Manohar, Speaker, AP Assembly, said, "The motion of no confidence in the Council of Ministers headed by Sri...
01:35 PM, Dec 06, 2011
New Delhi: The confidence building measures put in place by India and Pakistan are starting to show results but there is still a long way to go for full normalisation of ties between the two countries, government sources said on Wednesday. The sources said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani during their planned meeting next week on the sidelines of the 17th SAARC summit in...
11:21 PM, Nov 02, 2011
Havana: Fidel Castro marked his 85th birthday outside of the public spotlight on Saturday, with little fanfare around the aging revolutionary icon who is rarely seen in public these days but still casts a long shadow over Cuban society. There were no announced celebrations of Castro's birthday, though the previous night two dozen musical acts from across Latin America held a concert in his honor. "What we say in the...
12:47 PM, Aug 13, 2011
Havana: Cuba's Communist Party elected President Raul Castro on Tuesday to succeed his older brother Fidel Castro as head of the country's highest political body and only legal party. Fidel Castro made an unexpected appearance on the last day of the crucial Communist Party congress that also approved sweeping economic reforms. The two brothers, who have rarely appeared together since Fidel Castro fell ill in 2006 and was forced to...
09:53 PM, Apr 19, 2011
Poonch: Locked godowns and a deserted trade centre. The cross LoC trade between India and Pakistan, initiated as a Confidence Building Measure in 2008, remains suspended for the past six weeks as traders stage a shutdown to protest against the state government's decision to levy sales tax. Pawan Anand President of the Cross Loc Traders' Association said, "This trade was supposed to be duty-free. After 2-and-a-half years, the Govt has...
08:39 AM, Apr 15, 2011
'Sweet Valley Confidential: Ten Years Later...' (St. Martin's Press), by Francine Pascal: The stars of the young-adult book series "Sweet Valley" have grown up. Twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield were introduced in 'Sweet Valley High' in the early 1980s. The beautiful blond teens with peaches-and-cream skin " they're a perfect size 6 " live in Sweet Valley, Calif. Elizabeth is sensitive, thoughtful and responsible, while Jessica is more emotional, selfish...
01:49 PM, Mar 31, 2011
New York: Half of men would forgive their female partner's infidelity, as long as it was with another woman, according to a new study on cheating. Women, however, were less likely to forgive and forget if their boyfriend had been with another man, the University of Texas at Austin study showed. Researchers asked 718 college students to imagine being in a long-term relationship and what their reactions would be to...
10:55 AM, Jan 28, 2011
London: Women never change, it seems. One in three won't go out of the house without applying make-up, a study has revealed. The study has found that most females don't feel confident enough in their appearance without their war paint - in fact, six out of 10 wear make-up every day, no matter what they're doing, where they're going or who they're seeing. One in three always put make-up on,...
12:44 PM, Jan 13, 2011
New Delhi: This is something detectives of the likes of Sherlock Holmes and Byomkesh Bakshi could never come across but with the phenomenon of the Internet, modern sleuths are increasingly investigating a number of "online infidelity" cases in the country. Gone are the days when one had to leave the home to find a partner as the Internet brings the world right into bedrooms fracturing the personal relationships due to...
02:22 PM, Dec 19, 2010
Bangalore: Facing an all-out attack from the opposition, Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa on Wednesday accused the Congress and JDS of "relentlessly" trying to destabilise the BJP government and said he plans to order a judicial probe into the land owned by leaders of the two parties. Irked by the land scam allegations against his government, which has faced repeated threats to its survival following rebellion by BJP dissidents, Yeddyurappa...
02:24 PM, Oct 20, 2010
Bangalore: The BJP government of Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa is safe for the moment after the state High Court remained split on the disqualification of 11 BJP MLAs by Speaker K G Bopaiah. The issue will now be heard by a third judge on October 20. On the issue of disqualification of five Independent MLAs, the two-member bench of the court referred the matter to a division bench...
08:18 AM, Oct 18, 2010
Bangalore: Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa on Thursday accused the opposition Congress-JDS combine of attempting to destablise his government and said he had created "history of sorts" by winning the trust vote for a second time in a gap of three days. "I thank all those who supported my government. The government winning the trust vote today is a victory of democracy. In the history of the country, there...
04:49 PM, Oct 14, 2010
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