Islamabad: Pakistani opposition lawmakers and members of the treasury benches on Friday engaged in fisticuffs as Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh presented the government's new budget in Parliament amidst uproar. Members of the main opposition PML-N, who were protesting against power cuts and corruption during Shaikh's speech, scuffled with lawmakers of the ruling Pakistan People's Party in the National Assembly or lower house of parliament. Several lawmakers were seen raining...
11:04 AM, Jun 02, 2012
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday favoured longer sessions of the state Assembly to discuss problems faced by the people and asked all legislators to make best use of the sittings. At an orientation programme of newly-elected legislators, he said the state Assembly and the Legislative Council should have serious and detailed debate on various issues, especially on measures for development of the state and people's welfare....
02:30 AM, May 21, 2012
New Delhi: A suspected Maoist belonging to People's War Group was arrested in the capital, police said on Friday. Pradeep Kumar, hailing from Jharkhand, was apprehended from Rohini area on Thursday, a senior police official said. Acting on a tip off about his presence in the area, he said, a team of Crime Branch laid a trap and caught him. Kumar is being questioned by police. He was allegedly hiding...
11:44 AM, May 11, 2012
More than 3000 working poor are right now agitating at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, under the banner of Pension Parishad as the curtains are up on the 'right to pension' campaign. Spearheaded by Aruna Roy, the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan leader and member of the National Advisory Council (NAC), the campaign seeks universalisation of a minimum pension of Rs 2000 per person per month for all elderly citizens of India...
02:53 PM, May 10, 2012
London: Two years ago, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) launched a petition to fight hunger with the slogan: "1,000,000,000 people live in chronic hunger and I'm mad as hell." Since then, more than 3.4 million people, including actors, pop stars and footballers, have added their voices to the online campaign calling on governments to make the elimination of hunger their top priority. But outrage over the "horrifying figure"...
10:57 PM, May 05, 2012
New York: Grammy-award winning singer and new mother Beyonce was named the world's most beautiful woman for 2012 on Wednesday by People magazine. The 30-year-old entertainer was awarded Peoples top spot after she and her rapper husband Jay-Z welcomed their first child, a daughter named Blue Ivy Carter, who was born in New York in January. "I feel more beautiful than Ive ever felt because Ive given birth. I have...
09:41 PM, Apr 25, 2012
In the jungles of Salboni in West Bengal, the Maoists blatantly violate the law in the name of delivering justice. ...
02:37 PM, Apr 25, 2012
Pyongyang: North Korea has threatened to launch "special operations" against South Korea's president, the official KCNA news agency said on Monday. A special mission team of the Korean People's Army (KPA) said that "special operations" aimed at Lee Myung-bak and his followers are designed to begin soon "in the unique way of the DPRK", reported Xinhua citing the KCNA. It said that Lee, together with his conservative media group who...
02:25 PM, Apr 23, 2012
New Delhi: We all heard of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee making it to the Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Another Indian to make it to the coveted list is advocate and gender rights activist Anjali Gopalan. Gopalan, 54, is the founder and Executive Director of The Naz Foundation (India) Trust, an NGO dedicated to the fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic in...
06:54 PM, Apr 19, 2012
According to the Maoists, the people's court will decide BJD MLA Jhina Hikaka's fate. Hikaka was taken hostage on March 24. ...
05:34 PM, Apr 19, 2012
New York: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was on Wednesday named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of the world. Banerjee chose to dedicate the "inclusion" to the people of Bengal. "I don't care about conspiracies. I dedicated the Time magazine inclusion to the people of Bengal," she said. Banerjee now joins a club of "people who inspire us, entertain us, challenge us and...
06:16 PM, Apr 18, 2012
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's gone international in style. After making it to the cover of Time in March, he's now number three in a global online poll by the magazine, to pick the hundred most influential people in the world today. Modi got 2,56,792 votes in his favour. Interestingly 2,66,684 people also voted against him - making him the most unpopular figure on the list, just behind...
08:44 PM, Apr 13, 2012
The latest issue of People magazine in Chennai features Tamil actor Dhanush on the cover. ...
01:05 PM, Apr 10, 2012
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