Ex-close friend and director Farah Khan's husband Shirish Kunder follows Shah Rukh Khan around at a party thrown by Sanjay Dutt. Khan gets irritated and punches Kunder in the face. ...
04:22 PM, Jan 31, 2012
Mumbai: A day after Shah Rukh Khan is said to have roughed up the husband of his former best friend at a party thrown by actor Sanjay Dutt to celebrate the success of his film Agneepath, conflicting accounts are emerging from various eyewitnesses of what really happened at the posh Juhu lounge where many of Bollywood's A-listers were present. Both Shirish Kunder and Khan were nonchalant following the altercation. Khan...
02:38 PM, Jan 31, 2012
Mumbai: A day after Shah Rukh Khan is said to have roughed up the husband of his former best friend at a party thrown by actor Sanjay Dutt to celebrate the success of his film Agneepath, conflicting accounts are emerging from various eyewitnesses of what really happened at the posh Juhu lounge where many of Bollywood's A-listers were present. Both Shirish Kunder and Khan were nonchalant following the altercation. Khan...
02:38 PM, Jan 31, 2012
New Delhi: After courting controversy over his 'slap for corruption' remarks, Anna Hazare on Friday distanced himself from it saying that he has never advocated violence and accused section of politicians of conspiring to brand him as a "big criminal". In his latest blog, Hazare said he has been fighting against corruption for the past so many years but has never beaten anyone asked anybody to do so. "But this...
05:06 PM, Jan 27, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Madhukar Pichad on Wednesday said that people would give a fitting reply to Anna Hazare for his comments justifying the slapping. Pichad was reacting to Hazare's remarks on Tuesday night that a person is left with no option but to slap when his capacity to tolerate corruption runs out. "When Anna made such comments (in the past), people gave him a reply. We...
07:26 PM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi Harvinder Singh, the man who slapped Union Agriculture Minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar, has been granted bail by the Patiala House court. Singh was granted bail on Monday with the court ruling that he was not mentally stable. Singh had slapped Sharad Pawar at the NDMC Centre in New Delhi on November 24 while shouting slogans against price rise and corruption. After slapping Pawar,...
12:04 PM, Dec 19, 2011
New Delhi: Union Agriculture Minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar, who was slapped by a young man in New Delhi on November 24, has hit back at anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare for supporting the attack on him. "By supporting the attack on me, Anna has supported violence and has given new definition of Gandhism and non-violence. Anna has hatred against me. Next time, if someone attacks me...
03:47 PM, Dec 07, 2011
Ralegan Siddhi: Firing a fresh salvo, Anna Hazare on Tuesday accused Sharad Pawar of persisting with his "old habit of protecting corrupt people" even as he virtually justified the recent attack on the NCP chief, evoking a sharp reaction from the party. Hazare alleged that Pawar turned a blind eye to a number of corruption cases. "If an inquiry is ordered, it will become clear who has been responsible. This...
01:58 AM, Dec 07, 2011
Ralegan Siddhi: Acknowledging that he "committed violence" when he made the infamous remark "just one slap" after Sharad Pawar was attacked in Delhi last month, Anna Hazare on Tuesday said he did not consider this violence as wrong. "For the betterment of the society and the country, I have used strong words many times in the past. "Just One Slap?" I admit that I committed violence when I said that....
06:13 PM, Dec 06, 2011
Chandigarh: Peeved at the Punjab government for not heeding to their demands, teachers demanding permanent jobs in the state on Tuesday threatened to immolate themselves after one of their lady colleagues was allegedly slapped in public view by an Akali Dal sarpanch. A delegation of Education Guarantee Scheme (EGS) teachers association led by its chief Pritpal Singh on Tuesday went to the private residence of Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh...
01:20 PM, Dec 06, 2011
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Union agriculture minister and NCP chief Sharad Pawar was slapped by Harvinder Singh as he was returning from a public function on the 24th of ...
09:51 PM, Nov 25, 2011
New Delhi: The man who had attacked Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar was on Friday assaulted by members of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). The party workers assaulted the attacker, Harvinder Singh, inside the Patiala House court where he was produced after his arrest on Thursday. Singh was arrested on Thursday after he slapped Pawar at the NDMC Centre in New Delhi. Meanwhile, the Patiala House court sent Singh to...
01:56 PM, Nov 25, 2011
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Friday sent the man, who assaulted Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Thursday, to judicial custody till December 9. The accused, Harvinder Singh, was on Thursday arrested after he slapped the agriculture minister at the NDMC Centre in New Delhi. Singh slapped Pawar while shouting slogans against price rise and corruption cases. He has been arrested by the police and taken to Parliament Street...
01:14 PM, Nov 25, 2011
New Delhi: Leaders across party lines condemned the attack on Union Minister for Agriculture and Consumer Affairs, Sharad Pawar, in the Lok Sabha on Friday. While Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said that using violence was not the way, Opposition leader Sushma Swaraj condemned the attack in the "strongest possible manner". Here is what the members of Lok Sabha said: Pranab Mukherjee, Union Finance Minister: "People may have different views,...
12:42 PM, Nov 25, 2011
New Delhi: "It won't be wrong if we call them a 'Thappad Brigade', a few people mad for cheap publicity. Just like the bikers' gang of Delhi, who enjoy spreading nuisance on Delhi roads through their late-night road shows, members of thappad brigade enjoy cheap publicity by hurling shoes or attempting to slap political leaders or other popular personalities," reacted a senior politician after the Thursday incident. The leader, who...
11:35 AM, Nov 25, 2011
I have faced agitation in my long political career but never something like this, Sharad Pawar said. ...
09:50 AM, Nov 25, 2011
Pune: After committing a faux-pas in his reaction to the attack on Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, Anna Hazare said on Thursday night that he was ready to apologise if his remark was perceived to be "wrong". "He got slapped! Only one slap?" Hazare had said to a group of journalists at Ralegan Siddhi when he learnt about the attack today. But later he condemned the attack. Explaining what he...
01:49 AM, Nov 25, 2011
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Thursday strongly condemned the attack on Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar and said such incidents expose "lapses" in security of senior leaders and Ministers. The NCP President (71) was slapped by a man at a public function in Delhi. The attacker, Harvinder Singh, claimed he was angry with corruption and price rise. "It has come to light that the same person had attacked...
12:47 AM, Nov 25, 2011
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday condemned the slapping of union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar by a youth in New Delhi. "It is not right way to protest on any issue...We do not approve of such a violent act and condemn it. There is no place for violence in society and democracy", Kumar told reporters in Patna on his arrival from his seva yatra in Bihar's Sheikhpura district....
12:31 AM, Nov 25, 2011
On Anna Hazare's comment, Union Minister Sharad Pawar reacted and said, "He has a new language for Gandhivaad." ...
06:46 PM, Nov 24, 2011
