Bangalore: With the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls ending on Saturday, the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) attention now turns to Karnataka where the party's maiden rule has been marked more by rebellion and scandals than good governance. BJP president Nitin Gadkari has summoned leaders of the warring factions of the Karnataka unit to New Delhi for a meeting Saturday to end the tussle to control the government and the party in...
02:02 PM, Mar 02, 2012
Bangalore: Udupi is known for temples and Chikmagalur for enchanting coffee plantations, but over the next two weeks a battle of controversies will unfold in the two Karnataka districts. It will be the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) scandals against Congress scams in the byelection to the Udupi-Chikmagalur Lok Sabha seat. The fight for the March 18 bypoll is mainly between the ruling BJP's Sunil Kumar and the Congress' Jayaprakash Hegde...
12:52 PM, Mar 01, 2012
Bangalore: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seems to be turning Karnataka from its 'gateway to the south' into its playground for scandals and self-goals. As of now scams outnumber self-goals but both appear to impact the party with the same intensity. As the outrage over three ministers being involved in sleazegate continued, came the shocker that the party tried to pressure a senior advocate to give up prosecuting Tamil Nadu...
12:54 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Bangalore: Karnataka, which has been in the news more for corruption scandals than the robust show by its iconic IT firms in the face of global meltdown, may prove that scams may not deter investors. In spite of debilitating scandals that have brought disrepute to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), its government in the state is confident of attracting over Rs.50,000 crore ($9.6 billion) from Indian and foreign investors in...
01:53 PM, Nov 29, 2011
Sagarika Ghose asks a panel of experts if, 'News of The World' type crisis is waiting to happen to Indian media. ...
12:14 AM, Jul 12, 2011
London: La Toya Jackson, sister of popstar Michael Jackson, has claimed that her late ex-husband Jack Gordon once offered to let Mike Tyson sleep with her for USD 100,000. The 55-year-old has previously spoken about the alleged abuse she suffered by Gordon, who died in 2005, insisting she was forced into marrying him and endured years of violence throughout the union, reported Contactmusic. "Mike Tyson later told my mother and...
05:18 PM, Jul 07, 2011
Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger fathered a child with his household help a decade ago, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, is accused of sexual assault and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is standing trial for statutory rape. Magazines and newspapers have slammed the men in question, often bunching them together; Time Magazines May 30 issue calls them pigs which is a bit harsh on Schwarzenegger. The Terminator...
12:42 PM, Jun 16, 2011
London: Singer Jennifer Lopez's first husband Ojani Noa is set to sell to a port site their honeymoon videos in which JLo appears naked. Lopez's lawyers hope to block the sale by enforcing a permanent injunction the singer took out to stop Ojani Noa from releasing the tapes. Thesun.co.uk reports that Noa, who was married to Lopez for 11 months in 1997, has found a legal loophole in his battle...
12:02 PM, Jun 06, 2011
New Delhi: African-American singer Akon crooned "You can put the blame on me" after simulated rape with an underage girl onstage at a club. But champion boxer Mike Tyson took a different tack. The enraged boxer famously spewed after being convicted in 1991 for raping a 19-year-old and serving three of a six-year imprisonment: "I just hate her guts Now I really want to rape her and her mama." On...
12:01 PM, May 19, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed ND Tiwari's petition challenging the Delhi High Court verdict on conducting a regular DNA test. On March 14 Tiwari had said that he would consider taking the test by giving hair from the forehead or saliva, rather than a regular DNA test (blood sample). The SC Bench had granted time till March 18 to ascertain, from forensic laboratories, whether such tests would...
01:14 PM, Mar 18, 2011
India has been hit by a spate of corruption scandals that have embarrassed the ruling Congress party, stalled parliament for nearly three weeks and soured investor sentiments. Here are details on four major scandals that have broken out recently: Telecoms License Row India may have lost up to $39 billion in revenue -- equivalent to the defence budget -- as the telecoms ministry gave out lucrative licences and radio spectrum...
11:46 AM, Jan 05, 2011
New Delhi: In a setback for former union minister ND Tiwari, the Delhi High Court on Thursday ordered him to undergo a DNA test to ascertain the veracity of a young man's claim that he is his (Tiwari's) biological son. The court observed that it cannot disregard the right of a child to know his or her biological father. "There is imminent need for him to give blood sample to...
03:06 PM, Dec 23, 2010
Indian women's hockey coach MK Kaushik on Wednesday resigned after sleaze charges were labelled against him. ...
11:14 PM, Jul 21, 2010
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