Cannes: Jackie Chan is landing his last punch as an action star, but says he is stepping into retirement having made one of the most important films of his career. The Hong Kong actor told the AP on Friday that his latest film "Chinese Zodiac" will be his last action movie. Chan, launching the movie at the Cannes Film Festival with co-stars Kwone Sang Woo, Yao Xingtong and Liao Fan,...
05:18 PM, May 19, 2012
HYDERABAD: Vexed by the adamance of the TRS and the BJP on contesting the Parakal Assembly byelection, the Telangana Joint Action Committee (TJAC) has decided to work with no political party in the Telangana region and to show the exit door for its political constituents, particularly the TRS and BJP, for the time being.The TJAC's extended steering committee, which met under the chairmanship of M.Kodandaram here on Tuesday, decided to...
08:39 AM, May 16, 2012
THIRUVALLA: The exodus from the rank and file of the CPM has started surfacing in the Pathanamthitta district, one of the hotbeds of groupism and factionalism in the CPM. Frustrated by the nauseating groupism, 74 hardcore workers of the CPM in Kaviyoor had not renewed their membership this year. These workers led by Kaviyoor CPMs former local committee secretary S Satheesh, who is also the former DYFI area secretary, have...
12:58 PM, May 07, 2012
New Delhi: Expressing concern over continuous threat of cross-border terrorism, India and Russia on Wednesday held comprehensive discussions on combating international terrorism and reaffirmed their commitment to consolidate bilateral interaction in the fight against the scourge. In the seventh meeting of the India-Russia Joint Working Group (JWG), the two countries emphasised that their cooperation in countering new challenges and threats is an integral part of the Indian-Russian special and privileged...
03:55 AM, Apr 12, 2012
New Delhi: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has been ranked fifth in the list of top forces that effectively deal with disputes and other issues concerning transfer pricing, prepared by UK-based newsletter TPWeek. Besides Mukherjee, the other leading forces were Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), ActionAid and Taskforce on Financial Integrity and Economic Development, revealed the poll conducted by TPWeek. Around 700 readers comprising tax directors, transfer...
08:27 PM, Apr 05, 2012
New Delhi: The Government on Friday lowered the securities transaction tax (STT) to 0.1 per cent, a move that will bring down costs of equity transactions. STT, which was introduced in 2004, is levied on the sale and purchase of equities. "In order to reduce transaction costs in the capital markets, I propose reduction in the STT by 20 per cent (from 0.125 per cent to 0.1 per cent) on...
02:15 PM, Mar 16, 2012
BANGALORE: Karnataka Chief Minister Devaragunda Venkappa Sadananda Gowda (DVS) is an inspired man after BJP president Nitin Gadkari made it clear that he would stay in command. In an interview to Express on crossing the six-month mark as the CM, the smiling soldier of the BJP said he was on a mission to provide a clean administration.While admitting that he was carrying a list of failures as the CM, he...
09:18 AM, Feb 29, 2012
Fukushima: Japan's prime minister ordered workers to remain at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear plant last March as fears mounted of a "devil's chain reaction" that would force tens of millions of people to flee Tokyo, a new investigative report shows. Then-premier Naoto Kan and his staff began referring to a worst case scenario that could threaten Japan's existence as a nation around three days after the March 11 earthquake and...
08:13 PM, Feb 28, 2012
Love action games? Then here are five games you must have on your Android. With devices getting smarter and processors getting faster, gaming has turned out to be a bigger, more prominent avenue of interest for smartphone owners. And not just simple gaming like in the olden days - today smartphones offer detailed graphics, immersive sound and realistic controls, aided by devices like Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, and Sony Tablet...
03:28 PM, Feb 26, 2012
New Delhi: Ironic it may sound, elite anti-naxal commando squad CoBRA, which was named after one of the most venomous reptiles, is now facing incidence of snake bites among its personnel posted in deep jungles. Ten battalions of the Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) are deployed in the dense jungles of Odisha, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Jharkhand and Bihar to undertake intelligence based anti-Maoist operations and provide quality assistance to...
05:57 PM, Feb 24, 2012
New Delhi: Stopping just short of suspending the Maldives from the Commonwealth, the inter-governmental organization of 53 member states-mainly former British colonies - has declared that the island nation on Indian Ocean would no longer be part of the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) while it remained on the Commonwealth's watch list. CMAG also called for "early elections, which should take place within this calendar year", urging former President Nasheed...
03:11 AM, Feb 23, 2012
London: Maldives was on Wednesday suspended from the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group - the most powerful panel of the Commonwealth body - following the recent developments in the country including the ousting of its democratically-elected President Mohamed Nasheed. At its extraordinary session in London on Wednesday, the CMAG received a report from a three-member ministerial mission that visited Maldives from February 17 to ascertain the facts surrounding the transfer of...
11:37 PM, Feb 22, 2012
New Delhi: Stock exchanges on Tuesday pitched for abolition of the Securities Transaction Tax (STT) on equity trades at their meeting with Finance Ministry officials in New Delhi. The issue of removal of STT was raised by representatives of different stock exchanges, including BSE, National Stock Exchange, MCX-SX and USE. Besides, the officials of the market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) were also present in the meeting....
09:18 PM, Feb 07, 2012
New Delhi: Indicating signs of possible funds related to crime and terror trickling into the Indian casino sector, a government report has said that more than 7,000 instances of suspicious transactions have been detected in the elite gaming business during the last financial year. A total of 7,006 Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs) during the 2010-11 fiscal have been reported by the casino business and allied payment operators to the Financial...
12:59 PM, Jan 22, 2012
Hyderabad: The Telangana political Joint Action Committee (JAC) would meet in Hyderabad on Saturday to finalise its future course of action about the resumption of separate statehood agitation. JAC leaders, including TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao, who held a meeting in Hyderabad on Friday, decided to continue their talks on Saturday. The TRS president had earlier threatened to intensify the agitation from mid-January. During September and October last year, the...
08:38 PM, Jan 20, 2012
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