No grace left in dance today: Saroj Khan

No grace left in dance today: Saroj Khan Ace choreographer Saroj Khan, who has given hit songs like 'Ek Do Teen', 'Humko Aaj Kal Hai Intezaar', 'Dola Re' among others, says that there is no grace left in dance today. "Today, dance has changed a lot. I think nowadays what we get to see is only beats, there is no grace left in dance. We see only acrobatics. This is successful because we are in the habit of...
04:00 PM, Jun 02, 2012

US publishes satellite images of Syria

US publishes satellite images of Syria Washington: A US government website on Friday published what it said was photographic evidence of mass graves and attacks on civilian areas by Syrian government forces. The website, operated by a bureau of the State Department, published a series of overhead photos, said to be taken earlier this week by commercial satellite, showing what it said were mass graves dug following a massacre near the town of Houla. They also...
02:25 PM, Jun 02, 2012

Andhra: How the bail bribe case was cracked

Andhra: How the bail bribe case was cracked Hyderabad: A CBI team led by joint director VV Lakshminarayana knocked on the door of first additional CBI judge T Pattabhirama Rao's Banjara Hills residence last month, and asked for the keys to his bank lockers. Taken aback, the judge allegedly sputtered, "Keys? What keys? What are you talking about?" The judge has been accused of accepting Rs 2 crore from aides of Gali Janardhan Reddy for giving bail to...
12:55 PM, Jun 02, 2012

Facebook to let users vote on privacy changes

Facebook to let users vote on privacy changes New York: Facebook is letting its nearly 1 billion users vote on changes to its privacy policy beginning on Friday. This is the second time Facebook Inc. is letting users vote on policy changes. The first time was in 2009 when Facebook was a much smaller, privately held company with about 200 million users. The vote is over updates the company announced in May, a week before its initial public...
10:59 AM, Jun 02, 2012

Pakistan hikes defence budget by 10 per cent

Pakistan hikes defence budget by 10 per cent Islamabad: Pakistan has increased its defence budget by nearly 10 per cent to Rs 54,500 crore ($5.8 billion) for the 2012-13 fiscal year. The government had earmarked Rs 49,500 crore in the 2011-12 fiscal year. However, the actual expenditure was Rs 50,932 crore. The current allocation amounted to 18.4 per cent of Pakistan's total budget outlay of Rs 2,96,000 crore for the fiscal July 2012 to June 2013, Xinhua reported....
10:57 AM, Jun 02, 2012

British parents regret gifting gadgets to kids

British parents regret gifting gadgets to kids London: A study in Britain has found one third of parents regretting having given their children mobile phones, computers, and games consoles. According to the study commissioned by Hobbycraft, a chain of arts and crafts superstores, parents fear about the harm to youngsters' patience, creative and social skills as well as to quality time means 34 per cent of them yearn to take the gadgets back from their children, Daily...
10:47 AM, Jun 02, 2012

Army clerk tried to sell secrets to ISI, held

Army clerk tried to sell secrets to ISI, held New Delhi: A military intelligence unit of the Army is under the scanner after a soldier was caught in April allegedly trying to sell top secret operational information to Pakistan's spy agency ISI. The Army headquarters is awaiting the completion of inquiry and full report which names a clerk level official. The data recovered likely contains detailed operational plans, information on troop deployments and even conversations between top officers at...
09:33 AM, Jun 02, 2012

AP: CBI judge faces arrest in bribery scandal

AP: CBI judge faces arrest in bribery scandal Hyderabad: A trial court judge in Andhra Pradesh has been implicated in a bribery scandal involving mining baron Janardhan Reddy, who reportedly struck a deal with the former for bail. Judge Pattabhi Rama Rao now faces arrest after the Andhra Pradesh High Court gave sanction to the CBI to prosecute him. Sources say that the CBI got information that a deal worth Rs 6 crore had been struck between Reddy...
08:36 AM, Jun 02, 2012

UP Budget proposes unemployment allowance

UP Budget proposes unemployment allowance Lucknow: Seeking to fulfil his party's election promises, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Friday made provisions for unemployment allowance, waiving farm loans and giving laptops to students in his maiden state Budget for 2012-2013. Amidst walkout by BSP, Yadav presented the Budget saying that he has inherited a shattered economy that has been marred by corruption. The Budget proposed no new tax, while listing several incentives for a...
03:50 AM, Jun 02, 2012

Efforts made to fulfill poll promises: Akhilesh

Efforts made to fulfill poll promises: Akhilesh Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, who presented his maiden budget in the state Assembly o Friday, said efforts have been made to fulfil promises made to the people during the state election. "An effort has been made to fulfill all the poll promises," he said after presenting the annual budget for the current financial year. Yadav said no new tax has been proposed in the budget and efforts...
03:10 AM, Jun 02, 2012

'RBI doing everything it can to stabilise exchange rate'

'RBI doing everything it can to stabilise exchange rate' Kochi: With the rupee continuing with its free fall, RBI on Friday said it was doing everything it can to stabilise the exchange rate to reduce volatility of the currency. "... That has been our approach from the time this (depreciation) started and we will continue it," RBI Deputy Governor Subir Gokarn told reporters here on the sidelines of a function. He, however, declined to make any projections, saying "there...
01:30 AM, Jun 02, 2012

Pakistan hikes defence allocation by 10 per cent

Pakistan hikes defence allocation by 10 per cent Islamabad: Pakistan on Friday increased the defence allocation in its fiscal 2012-13 budget to Rs 545 billion (about $5.82 billion), marking an increase of 10 per cent over the outlay for the current fiscal. The allocation for the defence services amounted to 18.4 per cent of the federal budget of Rs 2,960 billion for fiscal 2012-13. Further details, including allocations for the three services and weapons acquisition programmes, were not...
12:05 AM, Jun 02, 2012
India @ 9 with Veeraraghav

India @ 9 with Veeraraghav

Catch the day's top stories on India at 9 with Veeraraghav. ...
11:43 PM, Jun 01, 2012

Power shortage continues to trouble India

Power shortage continues to trouble India New Delhi: It's summers in most parts of India and demand for power is at a peak of 2,17,000 megawatt (MW). But the power generation is much less at 1,99,877 MW and poor transmission and distribution is making it worse. Many cities like Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai are facing long power cuts and 40 per cent of the country does not get electricity at all. About 6 lakh villages do not...
11:06 PM, Jun 01, 2012
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