Iran Foreign Minister to reach Delhi on Thursday

Iran Foreign Minister to reach Delhi on Thursday New Delhi: Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi will be in Delhi on Thursday on a two-day visit to formally invite Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit to be held in Tehran in August. Salehi, who will be in Delhi as the Special Envoy of President Mahmoud Ahmedinijad, will hand over an invitation to the Prime Minister, the External Affairs Ministry said in a statement. During...
09:47 PM, May 30, 2012

Killed for nothing: CBI chargesheet in Shehla Masood murder case

In Conversation |  Hemender Sharma

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will file its chargesheet in the sensational Shehla Masood murder case in the special CBI court in Indore on ...
04:55 PM, May 24, 2012
Now, gangrape charges against Strauss-Khan

Now, gangrape charges against Strauss-Khan

Former IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is being interrogated in a gangrape case dating back to 2010. ...
02:17 PM, May 22, 2012

Strauss-Kahn involved in gangrape?

Strauss-Kahn involved in gangrape? Lille: French prosecutors said on Monday they had opened an inquiry into allegations of gangrape by Dominique Strauss-Kahn and three friends, as part of an investigation into his ties to a suspected prostitution ring in the northern city of Lille. The former IMF chief is under formal investigation over whether he was aware he was dealing with prostitutes and pimps when attending sex parties in Lille, Paris and Washington in...
07:38 AM, May 22, 2012

I'm awkward in 'Shanghai': Kalki Koechlin

I'm awkward in 'Shanghai': Kalki Koechlin New Delhi: Kalki Koechlin had to go through quite a transformation for her role in 'Shanghai' as director Dibakar Banerjee wanted her to look ugly yet adorable. The brief given by her director was quite simple - 'Look ugly'. However, it was nothing short of a nightmare to actually realise the filmmaker's vision. "Dibakar wanted me to look ugly and vulnerable. The first thing that he did was chop my...
05:55 PM, May 21, 2012

IT professionals, businessmen facing visa problems: Govt

IT professionals, businessmen facing visa problems: Govt New Delhi: Some IT professionals and businessmen were facing problems in getting visas mainly due to outsourcing issues in those countries but Indian consulates are active in providing all help in resolving the grievances, Lok Sabha was informed on Wednesday. Asked during Question Hour about denial of visa by some countries to some IT professionals and even students, Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur said her ministry as...
10:40 PM, May 16, 2012

Centre casual, contemptuous: Jayalalithaa

Centre casual, contemptuous: Jayalalithaa Chennai: Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Saturday went hammer and tongs against the Union Home Ministry headed by P Chidambaram for treating the Tamil Nadu government with absolute disdain over the formation of the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC). Delivering her hard-hitting speech at the conference of Chief Ministers on the NCTC, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at New Delhi, Jayalalithaa took strong exception to the casual attitude displayed...
12:27 PM, May 06, 2012

Who wrote Viveka Babajee's 'suicide letter'?

Who wrote Viveka Babajee's 'suicide letter'? Mumbai: The mysterious and suggestive note allegedly penned by supermodel Viveka Babajee in her personal diary before her June 2010 suicide will come under fresh scrutiny now. Khar police revealed on Wednesday that they would analyse samples of handwriting from all the three arrested in connection with the double murders of Arun Tikku and Karan Kakkar " Vijay Palande, Gautam Vora and Simran Sood. The objective of the analysis is...
01:12 PM, Apr 26, 2012

An emotional reunion ends Norway custody row

An emotional reunion ends Norway custody row New Delhi: It was an emotional reunion the Bhattacharya family has been waiting. After nearly a year in foster care in Norway, two NRI children, separated from their parents on grounds of negligence, arrived in India to an emotional welcome following a prolonged custody battle and diplomatic pressure by India. The children - Abhigyan (3) and Aishwarya (1) - escorted by uncle Arunabhas Bhattacharya and their Norwegian foster father were...
07:19 PM, Apr 24, 2012

Case against Italian marines to continue: MEA

Case against Italian marines to continue: MEA New Delhi: Notwithstanding the compensation of Rs one crore to the families of two fishermen allegedly killed by two Italian marines, the Ministry of External Affairs on Tuesday said the detention case against those two Italians will continue. Reiterating India's position that it has the jurisdiction over the matter, official spokesperson in the MEA Syed Akbaruddin said there is a case in the Supreme Court over the jurisdiction of Indian...
06:41 PM, Apr 24, 2012
Norway NRI children will stay in Delhi: Preneet Kaur

Norway NRI children will stay in Delhi: Preneet Kaur

Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur on Tuesday confirmed that the Norway NRI children will stay in Delhi for the day. ...
12:08 PM, Apr 24, 2012

US university to establish India Chair

US university to establish India Chair Washington: To foster greater understanding about the Indian democratic framework, a US university has decided to establish India Chair, which is said to be the first endowed Chair in North America devoted to study this aspect of the country. The India Chair in Democracy and Civil Society at the L Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs of the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) will be devoted to studying this...
10:15 AM, Apr 05, 2012

K'taka: CAG reports Rs 55 cr loss in ration card project

K'taka: CAG reports Rs 55 cr loss in ration card project Bangalore: Karnataka's Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department has wasted Rs 54.53 crore by entrusting to a private company the computerisation project to digitise the data collected through a house-to-house survey and issue computerised ration cards to the eligible families. "The department wasted Rs 54.53 crore through its failure to enforce the agreed terms of implementation during the project's lifetime," said a CAG report, tabled in the just-concluded legislature...
07:11 PM, Apr 01, 2012

BJP MLA thrashes man for taking lift from daughter

BJP MLA thrashes man for taking lift from daughter Mumbai: Parents are always a suspicious lot when it comes to their teenage children. But the degrees make all the difference between the unwarranted and the acceptable, as this incident proves. An innocuous lift given by an 18-year-old girl to a stranded commuter during a rickshaw strike ended with the unsuspecting commuter being pounded by the girl's family, who suspected they were having an affair. The girl is the daughter...
01:18 PM, Mar 28, 2012
'CM must order probe into Karnataka Wakf land scam'

'CM must order probe into Karnataka Wakf land scam'

The State Minorities Commission has found that over 22 thousand properties owned by the Wakf Board was illegally encroached and sold over the last decade. ...
10:36 AM, Mar 27, 2012
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