Mumbai: Buzz is that Rahul Mahajan and Monica Bedi are not too gung-ho about agreeing to feature in the next season of TV reality show Sach Ka Saamna. Both are infamous for their controversial images in public. The channel bosses, however, are still trying to get the two celebrities to overcome their reluctance and give their nods towards the show. It is learnt that Rahul was initially positive about appearing...
02:25 PM, Nov 22, 2011
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Fondly called Kishoreda, India's music legend Kishore Kumar was the mellifluous master of immortal hits that redefined style in an industry governed by tradition. The ...
04:09 PM, Aug 04, 2011
Kolkata: While cricketer turned commentator Sourav Ganguly is watching the India vs England test match, back in Kolkata, his restaurant in the posh Park Street has shut down. Kolkata being the food paradise, the Prince of Kolkata too wanted to be a Maharaja of its gourmet world. So Sourav's, a four storied multicuisine restaurant, came up in the heart of Park Street seven years ago. But just as Ganguly stumbled...
07:32 AM, Aug 02, 2011
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For every leader that inspires, there is one who derails. Power can enrich but also cripple. A demagogue can benefit his constituents but chooses instead ...
11:24 AM, Jul 31, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday quashed the allotment of land to cricketer Sourav Ganguly by West Bengal government in Kolkata saying it was "unreasonable and arbitrary" and asked him to surrender the plot in two weeks. The bench, also comprising Justice G S Singhvi, set aside the allotment of 63.04 'katha' land given to the former India captain by the Left Front government in the year 2000 in...
07:21 PM, May 26, 2011
New Delhi: In a setback to former Indian cricket team captain Sourav Ganguly, the Supreme Court on Thursday quashed the land allotment to him by the West Bengal Government in 2000. The Supreme Court directed Sourav Ganguly to surrender the 63.04 'katha' land allotted to him by the West Bengal government within two weeks. The court passed the order on a petition filed by a West Bengal-based NGO, Humanity and...
11:45 AM, May 26, 2011
New Delhi: In a setback to former Indian cricket team captain Sourav Ganguly, the Supreme Court on Thursday quashed the land allotment to him by the West Bengal Government in 2000. The Supreme Court directed Sourav Ganguly to surrender the 63.04 'katha' land allotted to him by the West Bengal government within two weeks. The court passed the order on a petition filed by a West Bengal-based NGO, Humanity and...
11:45 AM, May 26, 2011
Ganguly, who initially went unsold at the players' auction, came in as a late replacement for Ashish Nehra. There was much speculation about his IPL fate. But he guided Pune to victory on Tuesday against the Deccans. Do you think he will prove his detractors wrong?
10:15 PM, May 10, 2011
Shah Rukh Khan takes time out to play his role of a brand ambassador and was at his witty best. ...
02:24 PM, May 10, 2011
Burdwan: Barely 12 hours before polling in Burdwan district on Tuesday, two CPM leaders were arrested and one presiding officer of a booth was removed for violating Election Commission guidelines. Two CPM leaders were arrested from Srirampur village under Purbasthali South constituency for campaigning on Monday morning, violating Election Commission guideline, District Magistrate-cum Returning Officer, Omkar Singh Meena said. The presiding officer of a booth in Burdwan South seat, Asit...
10:31 AM, May 03, 2011
Kolkata: Be it 'detective Feluda' or the 'prince of Calcutta', celebrities from the world of culture, sports and literature milled at the city's polling booths to cast their vote Wednesday. Some took time off from shooting and some came early to beat the heat. They duly stood in queue to exercise their franchise in the third phase of the West Bengal assembly polls, held in Kolkata and two neighbouring districts....
03:06 PM, Apr 27, 2011
The Trinamool Congress has questioned Sourav Ganguly's political impartiality. ...
10:18 AM, Apr 06, 2011
Kolkata: The Election Commission has replaced Sourav Ganguly with MS Dhoni and APJ Abdul Kalam as its brand ambassadors. Ganguly had earlier written to the commission to withdraw from the campaign after the TMC questioned his political impartiality. For the left handed batsman it's the opposition to the Left in Bengal that has posed a problem. Not in cricket, but the controversy over the former Team India captain's alleged proximity...
10:05 AM, Apr 06, 2011
The Election Commission on Tuesday replaced Sourav Ganguly with Mahendra Singh Dhoni and APJ Abdul Kalam as brand ambassadors. Ganguly had earlier written to the commission seeking to withdrawal from the campaign after TMC questioned his political impartiality. The controversy over the former Team India captain's Sourav Ganguly alleged proximity to a few Left Front ministers prompted an irked Ganguly to request the Election Commission to remove him as one ...
09:14 PM, Apr 05, 2011
The Election Commission on Tuesday replaced Sourav Ganguly with Mahendra Singh Dhoni and APJ Abdul Kalam as brand ambassadors. Ganguly had earlier written to the commission seeking to withdrawal from the campaign after TMC questioned his political impartiality. The controversy over the former Team India captain's Sourav Ganguly alleged proximity to a few Left Front ministers prompted an irked Ganguly to request the Election Commission to remove him as one ...
09:14 PM, Apr 05, 2011
Kolkata: With the Election Commission yet to decide on using a promotional video by cricketer Sourav Ganguly for the coming election in West Bengal, the electoral office in Kolkata is mulling to use promos by Team India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and former president APJ Abdul Kalam. The awareness videos featuring Dhoni and Kalam were used during the recently-held Bihar and Jharkhand elections as part of the EC's campaign to...
12:12 PM, Apr 05, 2011
Kolkata: Amid controversy over political affiliation of Sourav Ganguly, the Election Commission on Sunday deferred selection of the former Indian cricket captain as its brand ambassador to promote and popularise voting. The EC order on Ganguly followed Tranamool Congress' allegation that he was associated with a particular political party and that he had worked as an ambassador of the West Bengal government, particularly the WBIDC. TMC had submitted a CD...
01:21 PM, Apr 04, 2011
Kolkata: Rejecting Trinamool Congress' view, the Election Commission on Thursday said it did no wrong in selecting Sourav Ganguly as its brand ambassador for the West Bengal polls and there was no evidence of the former Team India captain's participation in any political campaign. "We have examined the question of Ganguly as a brand ambassador and ascertained that there is no such evidence of the former Team India's affiliation to...
10:58 AM, Apr 01, 2011
