Kochi: Veteran CPM leader V S Achuthanandan, who is the prime accused in a land controversy, on Thursday got reprieve when a single-judge bench of the high court quashed the FIR -- but the state government decided to go in appeal. Single-bench judge S S Sateeshchandran asked the first information report (FIR) to be cancelled because it had no merit in it. The court said that it appeared that Achuthanandan...
03:23 PM, Dec 06, 2012
London: The British army's first Sikh soldier allowed to wear a turban rather than a bearskin on ceremonial duties has suffered abuse from his colleagues over his headgear and his refusal to cut hair and his beard, a media report on Sunday said. Guardsman Jatinderpal Singh Bhullar, 25, who joined the Scots guards this year, has been given permission to wear a turban outside Buckingham Palace, breaking hundreds of years...
03:17 PM, Dec 02, 2012
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah landed into a fresh controversy after he alleged that the People's Democratic Party (PDP) was bribing women panchayat members with make-up kits ahead of the Legislative Council Elections. Terming the statement as an "insult to women", state's women panchayat members have taken to streets in Srinagar demanding a public apology from the Chief Minister. A large number of women members from Ganderbal...
08:10 AM, Dec 02, 2012
Responding to the controversy over parts of the ambitious Aakash Tablet being made in China, its maker and Datawind CEO Suneet Tuli says it's a normal practice in the technology industry and that the Indians should get rid of such complexes. ...
09:14 AM, Nov 29, 2012
New Delhi/Beijing: India has termed as "unacceptable" China depicting Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin as its territory in maps of the country on their new e-passports, a step that led to retaliatory action by New Delhi. China sprung the surprise on India when it showed these territories as part of its own in the maps on their new e-passports. The Indian Embassy in Beijing responded by issuing visas to Chinese...
09:34 AM, Nov 24, 2012
New Delhi: Ram Gopal Varma has finally spoken up about the controversy surrounding his visit to the iconic Taj Hotel attacked by militants during the siege of Mumbai in 2008. In a public document titled 'Terrortour', Varma said the allegation of his seeming insensitivity towards the incident came out of a speculation that the late Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh facilitated his visit to the Taj for him to have...
03:15 PM, Nov 22, 2012
New York: Media magnate Rupert Murdoch stirred an online row with a tweet complaining about the "Jewish owned" press and apologised again in a bid to calm the furore. Murdoch, whose News Corporation empire includes Fox television, BSkyB, The Wall Street Journal, the London Times and HarperCollins publishers wrote on Saturday on Twitter: "Why is Jewish owned press so consistently anti Israel in every crisis?" Facing accusations of anti-Semitism, Murdoch...
09:07 AM, Nov 20, 2012
New Delhi: Congress Rajya Sabha MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi is back on the party's panel of spokesperson. Singhvi had quit as the chairperson of Parliament Standing Committee on Law and Justice and as the Congress spokesperson following a CD controversy in April. After the CD allegedly featuring Singhvi surfaced, the Congress sidelined him and removed him from party's official spokespersons roster. Singhvi was the Vice-President of Congress's media cell. Claiming...
04:18 PM, Nov 02, 2012
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari, who is facing corruption allegations, on Friday met veteran party leader LK Advani after arriving in the national capital. According to sources, the Maharashtra leader told the senior leader in the meeting that he would abide by the decision taken by the party. Sources close to Gadkari, however, said that he is unlikely to resign over the allegations. This came after...
10:23 PM, Oct 26, 2012
Muzaffarnagar: Muzaffarnagar: In his tirade against mobile phones, BSP leader Rajpal Saini stirred yet another mobile controversy and went a step too far by saying that women and children don't need mobiles. "There is no need to give phones to women and children. It distracts them and is useless. Why do women need phones? My mother, wife and sister never had mobile phones. They survived without one," said Saini. The...
09:00 AM, Oct 22, 2012
Kochi: Corporation Bank on Friday reiterated it had not extended overdraft facility of Rs 7.94 crore to a company owned by Congress president Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra and has no role in the raging controversy over his land deal with realty major DLF. "The bank has no role in the entire controversy," Corporation Bank chairman and managing director Ajai Kumar told reporters in Kochi. He said the bank had...
06:38 PM, Oct 20, 2012
Raigadh: After Mohammad Rafi's son expressed outrage at Lata Mangeshkar's claims about a letter of apology written to her by the late singer, former vocalist Shabbir Kumar has now challenged the songstress to show the letter containing the purported apology. "Lata ji's claims that Rafi saab had written her a letter of apology has hurt the sentiments of his fans and also raised doubts on her prestige," Kumar said at...
12:38 PM, Oct 18, 2012
New Delhi: In a new twist in the controversy surrounding Robert Vadra, sources in the Corporation Bank have revealed that they had given no loan to Congress president Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law. This was revealed by the sources on the basis of the internal probe of the Corporation Bank. CNN-IBN met top executives of the New Friend's Colony branch of Corporation Bank where Vadra's company, Skylight Hospitality, has an account. According...
06:22 PM, Oct 16, 2012
The McLaren Formula One team have argued successfully in Britain that a record 32 million pound fine they paid after a 2007 spying controversy should be tax deductible. McLaren had declared that the fine, originally set at $100 million but reduced by the loss of revenue resulting from being stripped of all their points in the constructors' championship, was 'connected' with its trade and should be exempt from corporation tax....
04:38 PM, Oct 12, 2012
SA have been accused of provoking the text message scandal that led to Pietersen being sent into international exile. ...
07:20 PM, Oct 07, 2012
Chennai: The library of the University of Madras is now embroiled in yet another controversy with senior professors raising questions about the timing of the post-centenary celebrations slated for September 25. The fete takes place even as the library has remained headless for about four years with several big ticket projects struggling to take off. Sources in the university said that the celebrations have been organised 5 years after the...
12:50 PM, Sep 22, 2012
Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde had said that the public memory is short and it would soon forget the coal scam, like the Bofors. ...
08:04 PM, Sep 16, 2012
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Sunday invited ire from the Opposition for his remark that the coal controversy, like the Bofors scam, will soon be forgotten. "Earlier the Bofors was a talking point. People forgot about it. Now it is coal. This too will be forgotten," Shinde said in a lighter vein at a function in Pune on Saturday. "Once hands are washed off coal, they...
09:51 AM, Sep 16, 2012
New Delhi: Tamil Nadu has pleaded with the apex court that pending a decision on the Cauvery River Authority (CRA) meeting, it should direct Karnataka to release at least 2 TMC of water per day from its reservoirs so that farmers in Tamil Nadu could commence Samba cultivation. Tamil Nadu filed its reply on Thursday to the rejoinder affidavit filed by Karnataka on September 3, wherein the latter had reiterated...
12:42 PM, Sep 07, 2012
