The single entrance exam proposed has created quite a stir. The students are not too comfortable with it, the parents are disillusioned by it and ...
01:42 PM, Jun 11, 2012
New Delhi: In a tell-all interview given to CNN-IBN, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General VK Singh said that Defence Minister AK Antony could have done much more in the Tatra-BEML deal controversy, adding that the minister could have moved against Lt General (retd) Tejinder Singh. "I have faith in the Defence Minister... However, he could have moved against Lt Gen (retd) Tejinder Singh... He relies heavily on advice from...
07:49 PM, May 26, 2012
The lawyer of Luke Pomersbach denied the cricketer had confessed to the police of having inadvertently touched or molested US citizen Zohail Hameed. ...
10:05 PM, May 21, 2012
Television actor Shilpa Sakhlani who was present at the party last night claimed innocence, saying she didn't know it was a 'rave' party. ...
06:02 PM, May 21, 2012
Mumbai: The organiser of the party in Mumbai where drugs were allegedly being used has been remanded to police custody till May 25. The organiser, Vishesh Vijay Handa, was arrested under the Narcotic Drugs Act after the police busted the party on Sunday night in Mumbai. The reported presence of two Indian Premier League (IPL) players, Rahul Sharma of India and Wayne Parnell of South Africa, at the party has...
11:39 AM, May 21, 2012
The IPL has been dogged by controversies in recent days, be it the spot-fixing scandal, the Shah Rukh Khan brawl at the Wankhede or the Pomersbach arrest. ...
11:16 PM, May 18, 2012
Sidhartha Mallya has come out in defence of RCB cricketer Luke Pomersbach, who has been accused of misbehaving with a woman at a five-star hotel early Friday morning. ...
05:00 PM, May 18, 2012
New Delhi: In 1923, iconic Bengali humorist Sukumar Ray described a curious race of beings "who were scared to laugh". With the government forced to apologise for a 1949 cartoon on Jawaharlal Nehru and B.R. Ambedkar after parliamentarians of all hues raised a massive ruckus, are Indians becoming that humourless race? The 63-year-old cartoon by the eminent Shankar - considered the father of Indian political cartoonists who ran the highly...
01:12 PM, May 18, 2012
Naveed Akram Cheema has put in place stringent measures to ensure there is no fixing or controversy. ...
11:27 PM, May 16, 2012
Seldom does the Indian media today act as the cronies of the commoners. However, when it does, especially in pelting stones at the castle, it ...
02:17 PM, May 12, 2012
Kolkata: Resurrecting the issue of cartoons lampooning her sent by email by a Jadavapur University professor, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday claimed it actually contained a message threatening to assassinate her. She also alleged a conspiracy through Facebook, Twitter and SMS and said "I am being shown on Facebook. Now, it is my turn. I will show you Facebook". "Mamata Banerjee is not a cartoon. A section...
11:12 AM, May 12, 2012
New Delhi: Defence Minister AK Antony on Monday defended the Tatra deal in Parliament saying that the trucks were bought mainly due to operational needs of the Army and that not a single Tatra truck had been purchased post 2008. Seeking to turn the tables on the Opposition, Antony said the present government had not purchased a single new Tatra truck and the current deliveries were being made as per...
12:04 PM, May 07, 2012
TIRUMALA: YSR Congress Party president and Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy landed in a controversy when he went in for a darshan of Lord Venkateswara at Tirumala without signing the formal declaration of his faith in the Lord as required by temple rules for non-Hindus.Jagan Mohan Reddy, who is a practising Christian, is learnt to have refused to sign the form despite being told repeatedly by TTD staff about...
08:44 AM, May 03, 2012
New Delhi: The post-recess budget session of Parliament resumed on Tuesday. The government is planning to bring in three key finance sector reforms " the Pension Regulatory Bill, the Insurance Bill and the Banking Reforms Bill " in the current session. The priority, however, will be to see that the Finance Bill is cleared by the House. It may not be smooth sailing for the government, however, as the Opposition...
11:14 AM, Apr 24, 2012
Congress Rajya Sabha MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi has quit as the chairperson of Parliament Standing Committee on Law and Justice and as the Congress spokesperson following the CD controversy. ...
09:35 PM, Apr 23, 2012
New Delhi: Congress Rajya Sabha MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi has quit as the chairperson of Parliament Standing Committee on Law and Justice and as the Congress spokesperson following the CD controversy. Following is the full text of Singhvi's statement on his resignation: I have decided to resign as Chairman, Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law, Justice. Personnel and Grievances and have informed the Hon'ble Congress President accordingly. I have also decided...
06:30 PM, Apr 23, 2012
New Delhi: Congress Rajya Sabha MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi has quit as the chairperson of Parliament Standing Committee on Law and Justice and as the Congress spokesperson following the CD controversy. 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. Singhvi in a press release on Monday said that he had informed...
06:23 PM, Apr 23, 2012
Abhishek Singhvi CD controversy: Tonight at 10 pm CNN-IBN's Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose discusses with a panel of experts, is social media above the law of the land?
01:54 PM, Apr 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Army has withdrawn the controversial class three CBSE textbooks from schools under which shows the entire PoK region as 'Azad Jammu and Kashmir', there is no explanations for that faux pas yet. The new book shows the map of Jammu and Kashmir just the same as how the Pakistani government claims it to be. The Gilgit-Baltistan region is not shown as Pakistan occupied Kashmir instead it's called...
09:30 PM, Apr 22, 2012
New Delhi: In a major faux pas, a new CBSE textbook for class three in an Army school in Srinagar depicts the map of Jammu and Kashmir exactly how Pakistan claims it to be. The map reportedly calls the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir region, 'Azad Jammu and Kashmir', a term used by Pakistan to describe the region. The Gilgit-Baltistan region, which is a part of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, is called the Northern areas....
09:16 AM, Apr 22, 2012
