New Delhi: A cab driver, ferrying a five-and-half-year-old girl to school and back home, has been sentenced to three months in jail by a Delhi court for biting her on cheek. Metropolitan Magistrate Kiran Gupta sentenced the taxi driver, holding him guilty of trying to outrage the child's modesty. The court convicted driver Aman Kumar for using criminal force on the minor with the intention to outrage her modesty after...
10:34 AM, Apr 22, 2012
New Delhi: Something is cooking in the country's largest paramilitary force CRPF! The proverb amply suits the about 2.5-lakh personnel force as more than 12,000 cooks in the forces' 200 battalions will be sent to train under the chefs of five-star hotels run by the India Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC) to learn to prepare delicious and nutritious food for the jawans and officers of the paramilitary. An exclusive training centre--School...
01:24 PM, Apr 11, 2012
New Delhi: Hachette UK announced today that it has acquired worldwide rights in the wholly-owned Enid Blyton estate, excluding Noddy, from Chorion for the Hodder Children's imprint of its Hachette Children's Books business. Enid Blyton has an extensive publishing portfolio with 800 titles translated into 40 languages. Till date over 500 million copies of Enid Blyton books have been sold, outselling any other children's author. Blyton's sales continue to flourish...
12:54 PM, Mar 27, 2012
Mumbai: Central Railways' grand vision to have corporates, builders and private companies adopt railway stations and build toilet blocks seems to have gone down the drain due to lack of interest displayed by potential developers. More than four months ago, senior officials of the network and General Manager Subodh Jain had proposed construction of '5-star' toilets. They had also identified stations like Dadar, Thane, Kalyan, Vikhroli, Kurla and CST for...
02:33 PM, Mar 01, 2012
You know, there is no easy way to say this, says Gaurav Jain, the 39-year-old managing director of Swastik Roadlines and explains. His father had started Swastik in partnership with two friends. Jain joined the company in 1999 when it was doing very well. It had 23 trucks. None of the founders realised what was around the corner. Ever since its inception in 1997, the company had grown on the...
05:50 PM, Feb 09, 2012
New Delhi: Most of us rely, heavily, on Wikipedia to get information on almost any topic, theme or subject. But in a protest against the proposed US anti-piracy legislation, Wikipedia has blacked itself out for 24 hours starting 10:30 AM (IST) on January 18. As a result, people are no longer able to access the content of English version of the site, and therefore facing an information blackout. But there...
01:03 PM, Jan 18, 2012
In the second of the series, Five Questions - we pose five questions on the legal aspects of the recent controversy over the Indian government's attempts at censoring content on the Internet to lawyer Sajan Poovayya. Poovayya is the managing partner at Poovayya & Co, a full-service law firm based in Bangalore and his areas of expertise include IT, Internet regulation and telecommunication. 1. Is India trying to emulate China...
04:03 PM, Jan 16, 2012
Mumbai: India's veteran marathoner, Hawaldar Ram Singh Yadav was truly a man on a mission in Mumbai on Sunday. After almost a year of meticulous planning that culminated in an almost 'top-secret' movement of location 48 hours before the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon, he finally got his hands on to something that eluded him four years ago at this very venue. Ram Singh finished the Mumbai marathon in 2 hours,...
12:22 PM, Jan 16, 2012
Hollywood is looking forward to another romcom this year 'The Five-Year Engagement'. The film releases in April. ...
03:24 PM, Jan 11, 2012
New Delhi: Mobile handset maker G'Five today said it has slashed product prices between 10-30 per cent across the board against the current trend of hiking rates by competitors due to depreciating rupee. "G'Five is one of the biggest manufacture of mobile handsets in China. Unlike other companies, we don't need to buy from a third party. Though depreciating value of rupee has certainly impacted our margin but by slashing...
05:05 PM, Jan 03, 2012
New Delhi: The Aviation Ministry proposes to provide Rs 330 billion to cash-strapped Air India by 2017 as part of the government's 12th Five-Year Plan, according to a working group report seen by Reuters. The proposed aid would include an equity infusion of 199 billion rupees into the loss-making carrier and 112 billion rupees for aircraft projects, including purchases and maintenance, the report shows. The report says the total debts...
09:58 AM, Dec 31, 2011
In the first of a new series on IBNLive - Five Questions - we posted five pertinent questions to the struggling Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia. Viral Oza, director - marketing, Nokia India answered on the company's behalf. Here are Nokia's answers to IBNLive's Five Questions: Q1. When can Indian consumers expect the Nokia Asha series in the market? While Nokia cannot share specific details with respect to the date...
01:11 PM, Dec 27, 2011
New Delhi: Fame is a tricky goddess, bestowing her blessings on the most unusual bunch of people. The year 2011 saw 30 seconds of fame for a wannabe model, a porn star Indians hadn't heard of, an enraged self-styled crusader who slapped a minister, a song of jilted love that went viral and a respected former cop-turned-activist. Here are five headline-hunters of 2011: 1. Sunny Leone: Sunny Leone, who? You...
01:23 PM, Dec 26, 2011
London: 'The Fast and the Furious' fans can look forward to the sixth as well as seventh installments of the popular film franchise, says actor-producer Vin Diesel. "With the success of this last one, and the inclusion of so many characters and broadening the scope, when we were sitting down to figure out what would fit into the real estate of number six, we didn't have enough space," contactmusic.com quoted...
12:21 PM, Dec 22, 2011
New Delhi: India needs to rapidly increase energy consumption to achieve the ambitious target of 9 per cent economic growth in the 12th Five-Year Plan (2012-17), Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said. "We have set for ourselves an ambitious target of 9 per cent annual growth in GDP in the 12th Five-Year Plan. This high rate of economic growth would require our energy consumption also to increase rapidly," he...
11:23 AM, Dec 14, 2011
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