Chandigarh: In an effort to impart quality education to the marginalised, the Punjab government on Sunday said it would spend Rs 30 crore to provide free text books to scheduled caste and scheduled tribe students in the state. "We are committed to quality education. The state government will provide free text books to scheduled caste and scheduled tribe students studying from class one to class eight in the state," Punjab...
07:09 PM, May 06, 2012
London: Germany forward Lukas Podolski confirmed one of the worst-kept secrets in European football when he announced on Monday that he will be leaving Cologne to join Arsenal this summer for an undisclosed fee. The 26-year-old Podolski will add proven, international class to an Arsenal strikeforce that has been reliant on the goalscoring exploits of Robin van Persie in a turbulent campaign this season. "The transfer gives me the possibility...
05:51 PM, Apr 30, 2012
Mumbai: Water, the elixir of life, needs to be preserved and conserved. Thats an indisputable fact. But government authorities appear to be carrying out this conservation keeping thousands perennially parched. So, while a person living in Mumbai gets about 45 litres of water a day, a study in stark contrast is the fate of Nashera in Mokhada taluka, Thane. This little village of 1,300 inhabitants got its first lot of...
01:27 PM, Apr 26, 2012
Vadodara: Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi, who is in the line of fire of Trinamool Congress chief Mamta Banerjee, has found support from organizations in his home district of Kutch in Gujarat. Trivedi, who is settled in West Bengal, hails from Bidada village of Mandvi taluka in Kutch district. Enraged over "humiliating" treatment being meted out to the Railway Minister by TMC chief Mamata Banerjee, the local organisations in Kutch district...
12:59 AM, Mar 18, 2012
Just inside the office of Pashmina Realty in Worli, there's an entire wall covered by a poster of LIFE, an NGO (non-governmental organisation) whose Mumbai chapter focusses mainly on health, education and low-cost housing under the Asit Kotecha Foundation. The poster is full of slogans written by Pashmina employees who participate actively in the NGO. Behind the poster wall is the office of Asit Kotecha, who owns Pashmina Realty and...
12:25 PM, Nov 23, 2011
Minsk: Police used tear gas to break up an anti-government protest in Belarus and forcefully detained dozens of demonstrators on Sunday in the capital. The authoritarian government had tried to thwart the protest by blocking access to Facebook, Twitter and a major Russian social networking site used by the organisers. The government also deployed thousands of police and secret service agents in central Minsk as an additional deterrent. But about...
09:19 AM, Jul 04, 2011
In conversation with CNN-IBN’s Amrita Tripathi, Salman Rushdie talks about his new book Luka and the Fire of Life, the Commonwealth Games and Kashmir. Amrita Tripathi: I had a chance to read Luka and the Fire of Life, and really enjoyed it – I’ve read online you wrote it for your son – tell us a little bit more. Salman Rushdie: As you know I wrote a book for my...
01:53 PM, Oct 04, 2010
Salman Rushdie's still got it – and not just the ability to pull headlines his way, or draw controversy with a few stray comments – he's got the goods. With ‘Luka and the Fire of Life’ (a sequel to his hit ‘Haroun and the Sea of Stories’), that releases in India mid-October, there's no question about it – the master storyteller is back. And how! If fables and magic, fairy...
08:50 PM, Sep 27, 2010
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Devil's Advocate. At the end of a week when the Maoists have been on the front pages practically every day, we present a completely different perspective to that of the government's. My guest today is an author, essayist and Booker Prize winner, Arundhati Roy.
Karan Thapar: I want to talk to you about how you view the Maoists and how you think the government should respond,...
04:03 PM, Sep 12, 2010
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12:06 PM, Feb 28, 2010
Paes and Dlouhy lost to Ivo Karlovic and Dusan Vemic in straight sets. ...
01:08 PM, Jan 27, 2010
Indo-Czech pair quell the challenge of Lucas Arnold and Horia Tecau. ...
06:25 PM, Jan 23, 2010
The fourth seeded pair were handed a straight sets defeat by the sixth seeds. ...
02:09 PM, Nov 24, 2009
They knocked Bhupathi-Knowles duo in the men's doubles final on Monday. ...
03:37 PM, Sep 14, 2009
Leander Paes won the battle of Indians as well as his 10th Grand Slam title. ...
03:41 AM, Sep 14, 2009
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