Lucknow: The previous Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh had spent over Rs 121 crore on decorative advertisements during the last five years to showcase its programmes and achievements, the UP Legislative Council was informed on Friday. In a written reply, the state government said in 2007-08 over Rs 13 crore was spent on advertisements while in 2008-09 over Rs 20 crore were spent. Likewise, in 2009-10 over Rs 17 crore...
01:13 AM, Jun 02, 2012
In a city such as Delhi, your air conditioners should be all-weather but not if you happen to be transferred to Cherrapunjee. You may not ...
01:51 PM, May 22, 2012
New Delhi: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa's ad campaign worth Rs 25 crore to celebrate one year in power and highlight its achievements has been slammed by critics. Is this an attempt by Amma to position herself for 2014? The Rs 25 crore Amma splash in the national capital was tough to miss as national dailies carried four page adblitz of the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister's one year in office....
10:12 PM, May 16, 2012
London: TV viewers in Britain have got their knickers in a twist over the sight of women dancing in bikinis and a big woman flashing her underwear in a cartoon advertisement. The 30-second promotion for insurance company confused.com has so far sparked 37 complaints from outraged members of the public who describe it being unduly sexual. Cartoon characters with large breasts in skimpy bikinis are shown jumping up and down...
10:53 AM, Apr 28, 2012
After 8 years of being the face of a popular cola drink, Akshay Kumar has been replaced by Telugu star Mahesh. ...
01:00 PM, Apr 18, 2012
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is caught in the centre of another controversy. An advertisement by the Gujarat Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) depicts the chief minister as Lord Krishna. Published in a vernacular newspaper, the ad is created by Amreli district President Bharat Kanabar. The advertisement also shows the state BJP President as Arjun and other BJP leaders as the Pandavas. The Congress has already protested against the...
12:25 PM, Apr 06, 2012
Chennai: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will present the Budget on March 16. Citizen journalists Mariam Nasreen and Thomas Geevarghese want the finance minister to increase medical reimbursement limit. Health services have become more expensive since the medical reimbursement limit of Rs 15,000 was set back in 2001. Nasreen and Geevarghese want the finance minister to increase the limit to Rs 50,000. Nasreen is blind and has spent the last 18...
09:21 AM, Mar 11, 2012
Thrissur (Kerala): Thanks to a verdict by a Lok Adalat in Kerala, an elderly casual labourer and his wife have won the right to collect their deceased son's semen from an infertility clinic and use it to have a surrogate child. Ravi Kumar, 59, a casual labourer, and his 58-year-old wife Karthiyayani from Thrissur are overjoyed with the verdict. They have even found a woman who is willing to become...
01:25 PM, Feb 29, 2012
New Delhi: After praising Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi earlier at a press conference on Tuesday, Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit backtracked from her statement, with her office issuing a clarification. "It is to clarify that Sheila Dikshit did not praise any chief minister while answering questions posed by the media persons. CM Sheila Dikshit stated that the governments which have been concentrating on fine-tuning governance and have provided stability have...
07:00 PM, Jan 31, 2012
New Delhi: After a newspaper campaign, actor-filmmaker Farhan Akhtar will be the likely face of Delhi Police for an audio-visual advertisement to educate people about crime against women. 38-year-old Akhtar, who directed the recently released Bollywood movie 'Don 2', has already appeared in a newspaper campaign in which he exhorted Delhiites to help end violence against women. "Now we are planning an audio-visual campaign with the actor on the issue....
01:55 PM, Jan 29, 2012
Chandigarh: First it was 'kaka' and now it is 'peo-puttar' (father-son). The Election Commission (EC) on Sunday directed that the words 'peo-puttar' should not be used in advertisements and campaigning, in an incorrect manner, in the run-up to the Jan 30 assembly poll in Punjab. The direction followed a complaint by the Akali Dal to the EC against the Punjab Congress using the word 'peo-puttar' in its series of advertisements...
01:38 PM, Jan 23, 2012
New Delhi: It's a classic case of public display of political sycophancy. The New Delhi edition of The Hindu newspaper had an interesting item on January 1, 2012 - a full page jacket advertisement by a Congress leader wishing party head Sonia Gandhi a happy new year and promising to remain at her feet forever. H Vasanthakumar, a Tamil Nadu politician with ownerships in a television channel and a durable...
06:35 PM, Jan 02, 2012
Kolkata: The basement of the fire-ravaged AMRI Hospital in Kolkata was used for storing inflammable articles and not for car parking, a senior corporation official alleged. Kolkata Municipal Corporation DG (building) Devasish Kar alleged d that the basement was use for storing combustible articles and not for car parking for which it was meant when the building was constructed in 2004-5. "It is an administrative lapse," Kar said. Mayor Sovan...
05:43 PM, Dec 09, 2011
Felix Buxton, member of the Grammy award winning DJ set Basement Jaxx, speaks about their video 'Romeo' featuring actress Divya Dutta. ...
03:34 PM, Nov 18, 2011
The Italian clothes giant apologised and pulling out an ad featuring Pope Benedict kissing a top Egyptian Imam. ...
11:51 PM, Nov 17, 2011
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