London: A drunken woman secretary, who hurled racist abuse at fellow Tube travellers in a tirade that was viewed by thousands of internet users across the world after being uploaded by a Sikh, was on Tuesday jailed for 21 weeks. Jacqueline Woodhouse, 42, launched an expletive-laden racist rant at passengers on the Central line in London. A seven-minute video of the incident that happened on January 23, was uploaded to...
06:22 PM, May 29, 2012
Mumbai: The Mumbai Anti-terrorism squad has submitted a chargesheet in the MCOCA court in the 13/7 blasts case. The 4788 page chargesheet includes testimonies of 641 witnesses. 19 of these witnesses identified the accused in an identification parade. The ATS has also submitted an unprecedented 308 hours of CCTV footage as evidence against the bomb planters. The CCTV footage was gathered from 170 cameras after a door to door survey...
07:35 PM, May 25, 2012
When Alison Bechdel wrote, 'Fun Home', a graphic novel about her closeted gay father and her relationship with him, it was received with great aplomb. Critics loved it and so did the regular readers. I read it last month and was in absolute love with it. At the end of the book, I wondered, What about Alisons mother? What about her point of view and her life? and the wonder...
01:57 PM, May 22, 2012
London: Hitting back at those behind his brief suspension from the House of Lords in 2010, prominent Indian-origin industrialist Swraj Paul has insisted that he did not do anything wrong, and believes that racialism may have something to do with the unfair treatment he received. Paul was one of the Lords caught up in the expenses scandal that rocked British politics in 2010. Most of the people involved were MPs...
08:29 PM, May 20, 2012
Amitabha Bagchi has knit a plot about Indian bureaucracy, corruption and redemption in his new work, 'The Householder'. Bagchi, who teaches at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, was inspired by noted Hindi writer Shrilal Shukla's novels and literary critiques. Here's an extract from his 'The Householder', published by Harper Collins India: The latch screeched on its slow way down, then opened with a loud click. The door moved...
11:22 AM, May 18, 2012
Hyderabad: Sakshi media house, owned by Kadapa MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy, on Wednesday filed an application with the Editors' Guild and the Press Council of India against CBI's action of freezing its bank accounts and the state government's decision to ban issuing advertisements to Sakshi Telugu daily and news channel. In separate representations to the Guild and the PCI, Sakshi editorial director S Ramakrishna Reddy lamented that the CBI's act...
07:02 PM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: His surname inspired a key character in the hit Bollywood film "Kahaani". Now writer Amitabha Bagchi has knit a plot about Indian bureaucracy, corruption and redemption in his new work, "The Householder". Bagchi, who earlier penned the bestselling novel "Above Average", told IANS: "I had started writing the book long before corruption had become public. Halfway through the book, the Niira Radia tapes came about and the 2G...
04:57 PM, May 16, 2012
London: Michelle Obama contemplated divorcing Barack Obama in 2000 after he ignored her advice not to run for a House seat in Chicago, making him so "depressed" that friends feared he might commit suicide, says a new book. According to the book, Michelle prepared divorce papers in 2000 following Barack's disastrous attempt to win a House seat in Chicago - in fact, as she was upset that he ignored her...
04:31 PM, May 16, 2012
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday said better facilities would be provided to Haj pilgrims this year and he would write a letter to the Centre to increase the state's quota of pilgrims. Describing Haj quota of the state as "insufficient", the Chief Minister, after inaugurating a lottery programme for selection of pilgrims, said he would write a letter to the Centre requesting to increase it substantially....
10:12 PM, May 15, 2012
Lucknow: Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati is facing the heat in the Noida Farmhouse scheme launched in 2010. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has ordered an investigation into the farmhouse scheme by Noida Development Authority Chairman Rakesh Bahadur. The scheme allegedly led to a loss of Rs 150 crore to the state's exchequer. The allegation is that the land was bought from farmers for industrial use, but sold ...
01:27 PM, May 15, 2012
Lucknow: Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati is facing the heat in the Noida Farmhouse scheme launched in 2010. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has ordered an investigation into the farmhouse scheme by Noida Development Authority Chairman Rakesh Bahadur. The scheme allegedly led to a loss of Rs 150 crore to the state's exchequer. The allegation is that the land was bought from farmers for industrial use, but sold...
01:27 PM, May 15, 2012
Mumbai: Looks like John Abraham is someone who likes to keep his promises, especially to his good friend Akshay Kumar. Buzz is that taking into account the success of their third film together at the box office, Housefull 2, John is gifting Akshay a high-end motorbike. Having first worked together seven years ago, in Garam Masala, the two actors have become fast friends. John had apparently promised Akki that if...
04:18 PM, May 12, 2012
BANGALORE: A skeleton of a youth, who was allegedly murdered four months ago, was found at a house in Sonnappanahalli in Chikkajala on Thursday. According to police, the deceased Prem Chand Singh, was a worker at a cement mixing factory. Police suspect the assailants have killed him by dropping boulders on his head. The body was totally decomposed and only bones were recovered from the spot.Muttamma, the landlord, in her...
08:59 AM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: Working women in urban areas give precedence to their career and professional ambitions over plans to start a family, a study said on Thursday. The survey was conducted on about 1,200 married, young working women and home makers in cities like Ahmedabad, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Pune. Over half of married women in the aforesaid centres said they have shelved plans to start a family as...
09:17 PM, May 10, 2012
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