Surat: A video clipping showing an IPS officer thrashing a thief in the Varaccha area of Surat surfaced on Saturday. The incident happened on Friday evening and was recorded by a bystander on his mobile phone. The video, aired by few TV channels, showed Deputy Commissioner of Police ND Solanki beating up a man with a stick as four other policemen held him. The man was caught by the police...
10:00 PM, Oct 06, 2012
St. Andrews (UK): Shiv Kapur did well to jump 20 places to 56th with a two-under 70 in the second round while fellow Indian Himmat Rai (74) was way behind in 154th place in a field of 168 professionals at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championships. In the second round, Kapur played the Carnoustie course, while Rai was playing at the St. Andrews. The pros play three rounds, one each at...
12:46 PM, Oct 06, 2012
Junagarh: A combative and unrelenting Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Friday night continued his attack on Congress President Sonia Gandhi's foreign trips and accused Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of misleading the country on the issue, quoting RTI replies from Indian embassies. "The Prime Minister is misguiding the country. I ask the Prime Minister as a common man to come clean.. The RTI reply received from various Indian embassies abroad...
08:08 AM, Oct 06, 2012
Jamnagar: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Friday night accused Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of misleading the country on the issue of Congress president Sonia Gandhi's foreign trips, quoting RTI replies from Indian embassies. "The Prime Minister is misguiding the country. I ask the Prime Minister as a common man to come clean...The RTI reply received from various Indian embassies abroad says lakhs of rupees were spent on Soniaji's foreign...
11:46 PM, Oct 05, 2012
New Delhi: The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has stepped in to counter the claims that the government had spent huge amount of money on the foreign travel and her treatment abroad. The PMO issued a statement calling the reports quoting an expense of Rs 1880 crore on Sonia's foreign visits and treatment as "untrue and misleading". Pointing that the Central Information Commissioner (CIC) already denied the reports and made a...
05:39 PM, Oct 05, 2012
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday kept up the attack on Congress President Sonia Gandhi saying if the newspaper reports mentioning the details of the expenditure incurred on her foreign trips and treatment abroad were wrong, why did the ruling party shy away from taking legal action. "I would want to tell the Congress that this news was in newspapers many months back. Why did the government...
01:16 PM, Oct 02, 2012
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that he was willing to say sorry to the Congress if his allegations over foreign trip expenses of Sonia Gandhi were proved wrong. He said that he had a newspaper report to back his claims. However, the newspaper company itself has refused to back the claims saying they got the figure from a news agency. Meanwhile, the RTI applicant, whose document was ...
09:04 AM, Oct 02, 2012
New Delhi: Hours after Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi waved copies of a bunch of papers carrying an RTI report on Congress President Sonia Gandhi's foreign tours and the alleged expenditure on her treatment abroad, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) strongman has been forced to climb down after the RTI applicant himself denied the Rs 1880 crore figure that Modi alleged Sonia had spent on her tours. "If Modi is...
07:08 AM, Oct 02, 2012
Rajkot: Castigating Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for his allegation that Sonia Gandhi's foreign trips were funded from public exchequer, the state Congress unit on Monday said the BJP stalwart has "lost control over his mind and is suffering from "inferiority complex". Modi on monday targeted the Congress President claiming that Rs 1880 crore has been spent from the public exchequer on Sonia's foreign trips in the past three years....
12:56 AM, Oct 02, 2012
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has said that he will apologise if his allegations against UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi turn out to be wrong. ...
11:50 PM, Oct 01, 2012
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat government on Monday revoked the suspension of IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, as it accepted the decision of the central review committee which reports to the Union Home Ministry. The IPS officer had been suspended in August 2011 for not turning up to work in the wake of his allegations against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in connection with the 2002 riots. Bhatt had claimed that he was...
09:40 PM, Oct 01, 2012
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi upped the ante on Monday asking Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with whose permission the "wasteful expenditure" of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), were being made. "Should we forgive such people who make such wasteful expenditures?" he asked. The Gujarat CM launched a barrage of criticism against UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi saying if Rs 1880 crore could be spent on her foreign trips and...
01:34 PM, Oct 01, 2012
New Delhi: In a historic first for Indian women's wrestling, the country notched up a second medal at the ongoing World Championships after Geeta Phogat(55kg) added another bronze to the one clinched by her sister Babita in Edmonton, Canada. With this, India's medal haul in the event so far stood at two, an improvement on the singular bronze that Alka Tomar had won in the 2006 China edition. India is...
02:48 PM, Sep 29, 2012
Bangkok: Top-seeded Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia out-rallied Fernando Verdasco of Spain from the baseline to win 7-6 (5), 6-4 and move into the Thailand Open semi-final on Friday. Tipsarevic set up a match with 2009 champion Gilles Simon, who won the all-French quarterfinal with Gael Monfils 6-4, 6-1. "It was really tough but I expected it. I have played Fernando 5-6 times," said Tipsarevic, who improved to 4-2 against the...
08:47 PM, Sep 28, 2012
Bangalore: Gurjinder Singh and Akashdeep Singh scored thrice each as Punjab drubbed Services 7-2 in their last Pool C league match and booked a quarterfinal berth in the second Hockey India Senior National Men's Championships here on Thursday. In a match that was twice interrupted by rains, Services, who needed only a draw to advance to the knock-out stage, failed to deliver as Punjab notched their second win in the...
08:47 PM, Sep 27, 2012
A man took off his shirt, climbed onto a desk and shouted 'PM go back' as Manmohan Singh took to the stage to address the gathering. ...
06:22 PM, Sep 22, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: With a live relay of the thoughts that inspire each stroke, Bruce Pettys cartoons looked less of doodle-bombs and more of witty insights. Common good seemed to be where humanity was headed to. At some point, it stopped being progressive and things turned vertical, loading itself with more and more innovations. Now, heres an ingenious interpretation of the state-of-affairs now, he said, recreating an excerpt from his Oscar-winning animation...
12:29 PM, Sep 22, 2012
New Delhi: A man took off his shirt, climbed onto a desk in front of him and chanted slogans against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as he took to the stage to address a conference on economic growth organised by the Indian Law Institute at Vigyan Bhawan in the capital on Saturday. The man, identified as Santosh Kumar, a lawyer registered with the Supreme Court Bar Association, shouted, "PM vapas jao...
11:41 AM, Sep 22, 2012
Hyderabad: Though the drive against drunken driving had been initiated almost 10 months ago by the city traffic police, violation of the rule is still a cause of concern. Thousands of cases have been registered so far, yet the police are having a tough time dealing with those who violate the rule. The police find it surprising as a majority of those who violate the drunken driving rule are either...
01:31 PM, Sep 21, 2012
London: British actor Daniel Radcliffe says the most important thing in life is having good relationships with your friends, family and loved ones. The 23-year-old admits he is often plagued by self-doubt and worries about his work and it is at these times when he realises the importance of true friends, reports femalefirst.co.uk. "When you do feel self-doubt or you do feel unhappy and you talk to someone about it,...
03:04 PM, Sep 18, 2012
