New Delhi: Actor Dhanush won the Best Actor award at the 7th Annual Vijay Awards in Chennai recently. The glittering star studded event took place at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium in Chennai on May 11, 2013. An elated Dhanush, who won the Best Actor Award for his performance in the film '3' tweeted, "just grabbed my best actor Vijay award I sincerely thank my fans without u guys nothing's...
04:34 PM, May 12, 2013
NDA ally Shiv Sena has done its own post-mortem of the Karnataka debacle - it says the BJP should have projected Narendra Modi as an outright Hindutva leader instead of trying to project a secular image. ...
03:55 PM, May 12, 2013
In this episode of The Week That Wasn't, Cyrus Broacha talks about Parliament stalemate, Karnataka polls result and much more. ...
12:45 PM, May 12, 2013
CNN-IBN had exposed how 40 financial companies in Odisha had duped investors of more than Rs 20,000 crore. ...
03:18 PM, May 11, 2013
Bhubaneswar: Anti-POSCO leader Abhaya Sahoo has been arrested from the Bhubaneswar airport on charges of instigating violence at the POSCO site. Abhaya was about to board a flight in Bhubaneswar when he was arrested by the Jagatsinghpur police. Abhaya is the chairman of 'POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti' which has been spearheading the anti-POSCO movement for the past eight years. He was earlier arrested on similar charges and was on bail....
10:50 AM, May 11, 2013
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who has been refused US visa since 2005, will address Indian diaspora in 18 cities in that country through a video conference on June 13 as a part of Gujarat Day celebrations. "The event has been organised by NRIs and particularly the people of Gujarat-origin living in USA as part of Gujarat Day celebrations," an official statement said. "The Chief Minister will be addressing...
10:22 PM, May 10, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday gave a green signal to POSCO to continue with iron ore mining in Odisha. The court quashed Odisha High Court's order, which had set aside the state government's petition to allot iron ore licence to POSCO in the Kandahar hills. The state government had granted a licence to POSCO in 2009, which had been set aside by the High Court in 2010. The...
11:17 AM, May 10, 2013
New Delhi: Director Sonam Nair, along with the cast of 'Gippi', took part in a promotional event. Riya Vij, Divya Dutta, Taaha Shah and Jayati Modi were seen enjoying every moment of the event. Delhi girl Riya Vij is playing the role of 'Gippi' while Divya Dutta will be seen as her mother Pappi. ...
12:12 PM, May 09, 2013
Ranchi: BJP should learn that the "magic" of Narendra Modi was a failure outside Gujarat after its resounding defeat in Karnataka Assembly polls, Congress leader Subodh Kant Sahay said on Wednesday. "The BJP had pitted Narendra Modi against Rahul Gandhi in Karnataka. Now it should learn that Modi is confined to just Gujarat and his magic will not work in any other part of the country," the local Lok Sabha...
12:17 AM, May 09, 2013
New Delhi: Buoyed by Karnataka Assembly poll verdict, Congress on Wednesday said it is an indication of the shape of things to come in Lok Sabha elections and debunked comparisons between Rahul Gandhi and Narendra Modi as "illogical". "This is the victory of Congress' policies. This is the respect for the heritage of Congress. This is a support to the present Congress and an indication of India's political future," party...
11:55 PM, May 08, 2013
Bhubaneswar: Six people were killed and three others injured, some of them critically, when a passenger train rammed into their vehicle in Odisha's Dhenkanal district on Wednesday, police said. The accident took place at an unmanned level crossing near Dhalapur village, about 130 km from state capital Bhubaneswar, when the vehicle, packed with passengers, was crossing the railway track. Five people, including three women, died on the spot. The injured...
09:28 PM, May 08, 2013
Should the BJP now be wary of a similar result in the general elections as and when they happen? Or can the BJP bounce back? Will it welcome Yeddyurappa back into its fold again? Modi has proved to be a non-factor in the Assembly elections. Will he fare any better when it comes to attracting votes in the Lok Sabha elections? Saritha Rai joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on...
05:58 PM, May 08, 2013
Kendrapara: A manager of a chit fund was arrested from here even as reports of fraud by bogus non-banking financial companies trickled in from various pockets of Kendrapara and Jagatsinghpur district of Odisha. After DP finance, another chit fund Artha Tatwa (AT) has disappeared cheating investors in Kujang (Jagatsinghpur) and Pattamundai (Kendrapara) to a tune of Rs 20 crore, police said. "Madan Mohan Swain, branch manager of Golden Lion (a...
05:55 PM, May 08, 2013
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad refused to accept that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi failed to help the party in Karnataka elections as trends showed that the Congress was well ahead of its rivals and on the way to forming the next government in the state. Prasad said that Modi addressed just three-four elections rallies in Karnataka and "so he cannot be the deciding factor"....
10:31 AM, May 08, 2013
S Siddaramaiah, who is also speculated to be Congress's chief ministerial candidate for Karnataka elections, says he is confident that his party will win more than 120 seats in the state and will form the government without the help of an ally. He also out that there was any Narendra Modi factor in "secular" Karnataka. ...
09:07 AM, May 08, 2013
Cuttack: The Orissa High Court on Tuesday rejected two review petitions filed by two religious organizations seeking a relook at its January 2011 orders on demolition of illegal places of worship. The Division Bench of Justice Madanmohan Das and Indrajit Mohanti, adjudicating over the matter, did not make any further observation while rejecting the review petitions. Soon after the High Court order, the Revenue Divisional Commissioner (RDC) Central Division Arvind...
02:46 AM, May 08, 2013
Bulawayo: Zimbabwe and Bangladesh go into Wednesday's third and final one-day international in Bulawayo locked at one match apiece, yet it is the hosts who know they will need to improve their game if they are to claim a rare series victory. After being humiliated by 121 runs in the first match last week, Zimbabwe drew level with a six-wicket victory on Sunday, preventing Bangladesh from extending their unbeaten run...
09:46 PM, May 07, 2013
New Delhi: More than 4,00,000 babies across South Asia die right after their birth, reveals a new study. The report also indicates that chronic malnourishment which leads to mental or physical impairment is particularly severe in the region. The report's birth day risk index shows that of the one million babies who die each year on the day they are born, almost 40 per cent of these are in India,...
11:36 AM, May 07, 2013
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said that his party JD(U) will take a final decision on the NDA's prime ministerial candidate at the appropriate time. "There is no question of exercising veto ... JD(U) has made its views very clear," Kumar told reporters after a 'Janata ke darbar mein Mukhya Mantri' programme in an apparent reference to state deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi's recent comment that none could...
10:27 AM, May 07, 2013
