New Delhi: The nation on Sunday remembered the country's first PM Jawaharlal Nehru on his 48th death anniversary, with President Pratibha Patil and Vice-President Hamid Ansari paying homage to him. Patil, Ansari and Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi paid floral tributes to Nehru at Shanti Van, his memorial on the banks of Yamuna here. Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and Union Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath were among prominent citizens who...
05:29 PM, May 27, 2012
New Delhi: In 1923, iconic Bengali humorist Sukumar Ray described a curious race of beings "who were scared to laugh". With the government forced to apologise for a 1949 cartoon on Jawaharlal Nehru and B.R. Ambedkar after parliamentarians of all hues raised a massive ruckus, are Indians becoming that humourless race? The 63-year-old cartoon by the eminent Shankar - considered the father of Indian political cartoonists who ran the highly...
01:12 PM, May 18, 2012
The grand old man of Indian cartooning, RK Laxman, has a delightful anecdote that embodies the charm of political cartooning. Soon after the 1962 Sino-Indian ...
12:22 AM, May 18, 2012
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Friday took a swipe at Sonia Gandhi, saying that his state had not bowed down even before Jawaharlal Nehru, let alone the present Congress president. Modi also took a dig at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, saying that Singh's house is run on generators, but Gujarat is a power-surplus state. He was speaking in Botad town of Bhavnagar district, 120 km from here, during...
01:24 AM, May 05, 2012
Chitra Subramaniam was the journalist who broke the Bofors story nearly 25 years ago. In an interview with IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, the senior journalist seemed to back former Swedish police chief and her informant in the case, Sten Lindstrom, in his claims that while Rajiv Gandhi did not receive any bribes in the Bofors case, it was a multi-country massive cover-up. Here is a full transcript of the interview:...
06:57 PM, Apr 25, 2012
The port of Pipavav should have made money hand over fist ever since it started operations in 1998. After all, located deep in the Saurashtra region in south Gujarat, it is a gateway port that caters to landlocked regions like Delhi, the National Capital Region, Punjab and also the rich states of Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan. It handles more reefer trains (refrigerated trains that carry fish, meat, etc) than any...
10:59 AM, Apr 21, 2012
Chennai: Businessman K N Ramajayam, the younger brother of former DMK minister K N Nehru, was found murdered on Thursday near Tiruchirapalli in Tamil Nadu, police said. According to the police, Ramajayam, aged around 50 with interests in varied businesses, had gone out for a morning walk and did not return home. Later, police got information about the body of a male with its hands and legs tied. Ramajayam's wife...
06:25 PM, Mar 29, 2012
Mumbai: Whatever the make and model of the car, the boot isn't the most comfortable place to travel. Take it from Samit Ghangade. The 29-year-old real estate agent from Versova was abducted and being taken to Navi Mumbai by four men when the Nehru Nagar police intercepted the vehicle and nabbed the abductors. As cops at the nakabandi stopped the abductors and approached the car, they heard knocks from the...
12:13 PM, Mar 27, 2012
The incident-free third phase of the seven-part elections in the state will decide the fate of three cabinet ministers. ...
11:59 PM, Feb 15, 2012
Lucknow: Around 56 per cent of the 1.75-strong electorate on Wednesday exercised its franchise for 56 seats in the third phase of the UP assembly polls in which Mayawati's ruling BSP is facing a strong challenge from Congress, SP and BJP. The incident-free third phase of the seven-part elections in the state will decide the fate of three cabinet ministers, a minister of state, 29 sitting MLAs and 14 former...
06:55 PM, Feb 15, 2012
New Delhi: Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar said that Rahul Gandhi has made Uttar Pradesh his 'special turf' and the party's heavy reliance on him in the Assembly polls there would prove to be a 'risk worth taking'. He said that it will not be the end of the road for Rahul Gandhi if the Congress does not perform well in the Assembly elections in the politically-crucial state of Uttar...
06:15 PM, Feb 12, 2012
New York: The stylish 'Nehru jacket' popularised by India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's has been listed among the top global political fashion statements. Nehru's attire has found place in the list that includes the tracksuit of Cuba's communist leader Fidel Castro and former Chinese leader Mao Zedong's safari suit, according to the Time magazine. "The Nehru jacket is a descendant of the northern Indian achkan, a closed-neck, coat like...
11:43 AM, Jan 13, 2012
Washington: An official US report has identified Nehru Place in New Delhi among the top 30 notorious IT markets of the world, dealing in goods and services infringing intellectual property rights (IPR). "Nehru Place is reportedly one of the many markets in major cities throughout India that are known for dealing in large volumes of pirated software, pirated optical media containing movies and music, and counterfeit goods," said the report...
03:00 PM, Dec 21, 2011
Jaipur: The Rajasthan High Court on Wednesday issued a show cause notice to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on a petition seeking initiation of criminal defamatory action against him for his reported remarks on country's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Justice Mahesh Chandra Sharma issued the notice on a petition filed by an Indian Youth Congress leader Charmesh Sharma, a resident of Bundi. Both the Chief Judicial Magistrate and the...
11:14 AM, Dec 08, 2011
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