Though Pyari Mohan Mohapatra, the BJD MP and chief advisor to Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik, was at the helm of affairs in the BJD ...
11:25 AM, Jun 01, 2012
Mandya: A Polish couple has gone missing after setting out on a boat ride in Cauvery river from Tamil Nadu towards Karnataka, police in Mandya said. According to a complaint lodged with police by S Jayaprabha, Manager of a private company at Hosur, his colleague Ian Turton and his wife had embarked on a boat ride from Denkanikote in Tamil Nadu to Muthathi in Karnataka on May 19. The couple...
09:10 AM, May 23, 2012
It has been more than two months since the Maldivian island experienced political turmoil but the scars of the crisis still seem to run deep. ...
08:43 AM, May 11, 2012
Author Niven Govinden's 'Black Bread White Beer' captures the inner lives of this thirty something, upwardly mobile couple as it deals with festering, unaddressed issues-mixed-race marriages, parental pressures, the tension between humanism and organized religion-and the loss of their unborn child. With Amal and Claud on the verge of true commitment and true adulthood, 'Black Bread White Beer' casts a critical eye on a society in which, despite never-ending advances...
05:20 PM, May 10, 2012
Washington: After years of "evolving" on the issue, US President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he believes same-sex couples should be allowed to marry, taking a stand that is likely to please his political base and upset conservative voters. "It is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married," Obama said in an interview with ABC's Robin Roberts. Obama's...
06:01 AM, May 10, 2012
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has held that refusal by a wife to conceive a child because of family's financial instability could not be used as a ground for divorce by her husband. "Also, not knowing how to cook, not being religious, not parting with salary and not folding clothes properly," could not be treated as grounds for divorce, ruled Justice PB Majmudar and Justice Anoop Mohta. The bench was,...
07:16 PM, May 04, 2012
New Delhi: Former Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed on Monday called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the two leaders reportedly discussed the political situation in the atoll nation and its future, as Nasheed's party has been pushing for early polls following his ouster in February. Nasheed, who is in New Delhi for the last five days trying to drum up support for his demand for establishing a popular government in...
08:29 PM, Apr 23, 2012
Suhasini Haider: Hello and welcome to Worldview with me Suhasini Haider. It's an island in the Indian Ocean that has seen turbulent times and tonight we're talking to two big men locked in battle for the Maldives. In the studio we're pleased to welcome President Mohamed Nasheed, in fact, the ousted President for the moment and we have an exclusive interview with President Mohammed Waheed Hassan as well as we ...
10:42 AM, Apr 20, 2012
New Delhi: Former Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed on Wednesday claimed he had an opportunity to carry out "a counter-coup" against the present dispensation under Mohamed Waheed with the help from some military officers but rejected it due to his strong democratic roots. Nasheed, who is also the first democratically elected president of Maldives, also pushed for support from the Indian government and its policy-makers for his party's call for an...
05:01 PM, Apr 18, 2012
New Delhi: Slamming the doctor couple for trying to settle the case against them by offering Rs 75,000 to their minor maid, whom they had allegedly left locked-up and starving in their flat while vacationing in Bangkok, a Delhi court on Friday rejected the bail plea of the medico's wife. Duty Magistrate Arul Varma dismissed the bail plea of Dr Sanjay Verma's wife Sumita Verma. The couple had appeared before...
07:46 PM, Apr 06, 2012
Islamabad: Former ISI chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha told a Pakistani judicial commission on Friday that the military had not planned a coup after the US raid in Abottabad that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in May last year. "If there was a threat, the ISI would have known about it," Pasha said while deposing before the commission that is investigating a mysterious memo that had sought US help...
08:16 AM, Apr 06, 2012
Islamabad: Former ISI chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha told a Pakistani judicial commission on Thursday that the military had not planned a coup after the US raid in Abottabad that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in May last year. "If there was a threat, the ISI would have known about it," Pasha said while deposing before the commission that is investigating a mysterious memo that had sought US help...
12:41 AM, Apr 06, 2012
The Indian Express carried a report on Wednesday saying that two Army columns marched towards the capital in January without notifying the government. ...
10:49 PM, Apr 04, 2012
Visakhapatnam: Defence Minister AK Antony on Wednesday termed as "absolutely baseless" fears of any coup attempt by the armed forces and expressed confidence that they will not do anything to undermine democracy. "Absolutely baseless. Army has already explained this. It is usual, natural activities. Nothing unusual. We are absolutely confident of the patriotism of the armed forces. Don't question their patriotism. They will not do anything to undermine Indian democracy,"...
12:51 PM, Apr 04, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court of Tuesday rejected anticipatory bail plea of the doctor couple, who allegedly left their minor maid locked up and starving in their house while they vacationed in Thailand. Delhi police said that the couple are not in India right now. However, the lawyer informed the court that the couple was in India and willing to cooperate with the cops. Earlier, a look-out notice was issued...
02:40 PM, Apr 03, 2012
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