Lucknow: The Lucknow police have registered FIRs against four people including former Cabinet Secretary Shahshank Shekhar Singh and Senior IAS officer Navneet Sehgal. A case of criminal intimidation has been filed in the Hazrat Ganj police station on a complaint by Taj Corridor case litigant Anupama Singh. Anupama Singh alleged that she got life threats from them. The Rs 175-crore Taj Heritage corridor scam came to light in 2002-2003. The...
12:18 PM, May 26, 2012
Singapore: 'Taj Express', a Bollywood musical extravaganza, will add traditional and folk dance as well as music from the north eastern Indian states in future shows, its organizers said. "We will add north eastern states' traditional and folk dances and music in future shows," said Vaibhavi Merchant, director of choreography of 'Taj Express' which would hold its international premier in Singapore on June 6. Vaibhai said that it is important...
05:25 PM, May 12, 2012
Alaska: It takes a certain type of person to get on stage under a name taken from a building renowned as one of the most beautiful ever constructed, without being laughed out of the room. Henry Saint Clair Fredericks is that type of person, and he has long preferred the name Taj Mahal, which he says arrived in a series of dreams a few decades ago. Under that moniker he...
02:04 PM, Apr 28, 2012
London: Will Pike, a London-based survivor of the Mumbai terror attacks that left him crippled for life after falling 50 feet from his bedroom window, has sued Mumbai's Taj Mahal Palace Hotel for "failing" to provide guests with adequate security. Proceedings have been started in the High Court in London and a notice was served last week on the London base of the Indian Hotel Company Limited (IHCL), which owns...
10:28 PM, Mar 30, 2012
Dushanbe: Tajikistan blocked local access to Facebook and two Russian-language sites that published an article critical of its long-serving president on Saturday, representatives of two Internet providers said. The shutdown was ordered by the state-run communications service, the local Internet providers told Reuters, requesting anonymity. Users who tried to access Facebook or the two websites, which published a story critical of President Imomali Rakhmon, were automatically re-directed to the home...
10:31 AM, Mar 04, 2012
Jammu: In order to address the need of drinking water of Jammu, the state government will tap water from Chenab river. Minister for PHE, Irrigation and Flood Control, Taj Mohi-ud-Din said that to provide adequate drinking water to Jammu city, the government has envisaged a scheme for lifting of water from river Chenab. He said once the project report would be completed same would be submitted to Asian Development Bank...
05:29 AM, Feb 26, 2012
New Delhi: There is a good reason why South African businessman Iqbal Meer Sharma did not recognise actor Saif Ali Khan or his guests inside the posh Wasabi restaurant at Mumbai's Taj Hotel despite having a wife who has worked in several Bollywood projects and hobnobs with its top people. Sharma's comment that he did not know at the time of the confrontation who Khan was, was met with incredulity...
05:54 PM, Feb 24, 2012
New Delhi: Talk about adding insult to injury. Not only was Iqbal Meer Sharma's anniversary dinner with actress wife Tareena ruined, the media circus surrounding his high profile brawl with actor Saif Ali Khan was a living nightmare. Sharma, the South African businessman who accused Khan of assaulting him following an argument inside Mumbai's posh Wasabi restaurant at the Taj Hotel, said he has not seen a film in 20...
04:39 PM, Feb 24, 2012
The 'Dabangg' star said that the media should have waited for Saif Ali Khan's explanation of the midnight brawl that took place between the star and an Indian businessman from South Africa, before criticising him over the incident. ...
04:31 PM, Feb 24, 2012
Mumbai: Investigators, who had pinned hopes on a CCTV footage for evidence in their probe into the assault case against Saif Ali Khan, were left disappointed with police saying on Thursday no video cameras were installed in the area where the brawl took place at a luxury hotel. The 41-year-old Bollywood star, who has been booked for assaulting an NRI businessman Iqbal Sharma at a restaurant in Taj hotel following...
10:43 PM, Feb 23, 2012
Police have recorded the statements of three witnesses and have sought CCTV footage from the Taj Hotel. ...
05:17 PM, Feb 23, 2012
Mumbai: Actor Saif Ali Khan, who was arrested on assault charges and then released on bail, filed a counter complaint, claiming that he was the one to be attacked first and that he acted in self defence. The police will now record statements of witnesses as part of the investigation. This includes four staff members of Taj and alleged victim Iqbal Sharma's family members who were present when the brawl...
11:30 AM, Feb 23, 2012
Mumbai: There was high drama in Mumbai as actor Saif Ali Khan was arrested and then released on bail for allegedly assaulting an NRI at the Taj Hotel. Saif said that he acted in self defence and that he was provoked and attacked first. Giving his side of the story in the ugly scuffle at a 5-star hotel that made headlines, Saif Ali Khan, outside his residence in Bandra on...
07:29 AM, Feb 23, 2012
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