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
New Delhi: Five global financial services majors, including Morgan Stanley, Stanchart and Citi, have lowered India's growth prospects to 5.7-6.4 per cent for the current fiscal, a day after markets received a "shock" from nine-year low GDP growth of 6.5 per cent for 2011-12. In their reports to clients worldwide, most of them blamed policy inaction by the government as a major roadblock to the Indian economy, which had expanded...
12:39 AM, Jun 02, 2012
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11:43 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: Terming the 2010 Commonwealth Games a "nightmare", Chief Election Commissioner SY Qureshi on Friday said the event is being remembered more for its controversies, which denied the nation the pride it got from the performance of its athletes. "What a nightmare it was, something we should have been proud of, that pride was denied to the nation... Unfortunately we did not get any time to bask in the...
10:37 PM, Jun 01, 2012
Mumbai: Veteran actor AK Hangal came out of retirement at the age of 97 to shoot for the television serial Madhubala. The veteran actor stepped out of his house for the first time in five months for the shooting of an episode of Madhubala in which he has done a cameo. Hangal pulled off his part in a single-take shot. Hangal has been active in filmdom since 1967 and played...
05:31 PM, Jun 01, 2012
The body of an artist is like a well in which experiences are stored. It is tapped when needed. A senior actor in theater, television and 50 plus films Indhudhar is caught up with three fresh ideas to give refreshing films to the Kannada cinema audiences. Indhudhar holds the record of appearing in over 4000 plus television episodes in those days beginning from 1989. A highly educated middle age multi...
10:58 AM, Jun 01, 2012
Beirut: Syria on Thursday blamed up to 800 rebel fighters for the massacre in central Syria last week that killed more than 100 people, nearly half of them children, in its most comprehensive explanation to date of the bloodshed. The narrative starkly contradicted accounts of witnesses who blamed "shabiha" or the shadowy gunmen who operate on behalf of President Bashar al Assad's regime. The UN also said it had strong...
03:21 AM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi/Mumbai/Nashik: The dramatic drop in Indian economic growth isn't bothering the likes of Mahendra Saraf. A farmer, he works in a sector that has seen growth shrink to 1.7 per cent in the first three months of 2012 against 7.5 per cent in the same period last year. But Mr Saraf, 26, is confident the blow to his profits will be cushioned by government agricultural subsidies. "Global and domestic...
01:02 AM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: National carrier Air India will shift to an "interim plan" to salvage its international operations that have been crippled by a 24-day-old pilots' strike. "We have finished work on our interim plan and it will be implemented from June 1. Under the new plan, several destinations where the load factors are quite low might be dropped for the time being," an Air India official told IANS. The airline...
12:47 AM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: He takes tentative steps towards a cluster of people, guided purely by his senses, and the oppressive silence that warns him that something is not right here. The gentle timbre of his voice rings through the air heavy with mourning "yaha itna sannata kyu hai bhai"? Thirty-seven years after AK Hangal shot that iconic scene from 'Sholay', the silence at the studio where the television serial Madhubala was...
03:47 PM, May 31, 2012
Brussels/Frankfurt: The EU's top economic official said on Wednesday he was ready to consider extending Spain's deadline to hit tough deficit targets by a year, the clearest sign the EU is concerned austerity measures it is enforcing in eurozone countries may be deepening the region's recession. Olli Rehn said he would only allow the leniency " which would give Madrid until 2014 to reduce its budget deficit to 3 per...
12:23 AM, May 31, 2012
Allahabad: In yet another indictment of land acquisition policy of previous Mayawati government, the Allahabad High Court on Wednesday quashed acquisition of 68 hectares of village land on pretext of "planned industrial development" in Greater Noida and held that invoking of urgency clause for the purpose was "tainted with malafides". A Division Bench comprising justices Sunil Ambwani and Het Singh Yadav passed the order on a writ petition filed by...
08:12 PM, May 30, 2012
Mumbai: When Bollywood film-maker Kunal Deshmukh set out to make 'Jannat 2', a raunchy tale about arms dealing with plenty of swearing and bare skin, he ended up shooting two versions - one for cinema audiences, and the other for television. Deshmukh was not being extravagant. Like many Indian movie producers and TV broadcasters, he walked a tightrope of catering to the tastes of a rapidly modernising but largely conservative...
03:34 PM, May 30, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MP Pyari Mohan Mohapatra on Wednesday dismissed reports of any split within the party and said that Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik continues to be the party leader. BJD MP Jay Panda also said that there was no rebellion within the BJD. "We have had a lot of discussions earlier. There is no dissidence in the party. Grievances have increased because the party organisation is...
10:20 AM, May 30, 2012
Bhubaneswar: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) is heading towards a split with Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's confidante and BJD MP Pyari Mohan Mohapatra has reportedly turned rebellious against him. CNN-IBN has now learnt that Patnaik is cutting short his first visit to London in ten years and rushing home. Reacting to the crisis he said, "I understand that in my absence an MP of my party is stirring trouble...
08:27 AM, May 30, 2012
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