Dhaka: Fifty Indian investors, including the Tata, Birla and TVS groups, have sought a special economic zone (SEZ) to be set up in Bangladesh for joint ventures. A visiting business delegation of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on Monday proposed that the Bangladesh government establish a SEZ for them to house joint venture (JVs) industries. The reaction of Bangladesh government was positive about the proposal. Commerce Minister Faruk Khan...
01:03 PM, May 10, 2011
Dhaka: A Bangladeshi court on Monday reserved its judgment on a petition by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, locked in a bitter legal battle with the government over his sacking from the Grameen Bank, as his lawyers expressed frustration over 'delay' in the ruling. The High Court is expected to pass an order on Sunday on Yunus' petition challenging the legality of a central bank order removing him as Managing Director...
07:04 PM, Mar 07, 2011
Thiruvananthapuram: Under pressure from his party over his 'anti-judiciary' remark, Congress MP K Sudhakaran retracted his earlier statement that he was witness to a Supreme Court judge being bribed in a bar licence case years back. In a somersault, Sudhakaran told a television channel that he had not seen the judge taking bribe, but had definite information that the money was given to a judge by bar owners to get...
12:47 PM, Feb 18, 2011
New Delhi: Civil Aviation Minister and Kerala Congress veteran Vayalar Ravi, responded to the charge that he was one of the recipients of alleged kickbacks in a case involving liquor licences in 1994. He said, "It is clear that the people of Kerala know Vayalar Ravi well and know what he will do and will not do." Congress Member of Parliament K Sudhakaran had first made the allegation that a...
09:37 AM, Feb 18, 2011
Bangalore: The Karnataka High Court has upheld the disqualification of five Independent MLAs from the Assembly in October 2010. The five Independent MLAs - Gulihatti Shekar, D Sudhakar, PM Narendra Swamy, Venkataramanappa and Shivaraj Tangadagi - had been disqualified by Karnataka Assembly Speaker KG Bopaiah for rebelling against Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa while they were ministers in his Cabinet. The three-judge bench of Justice Mohan Shantangouder, Justice S Abdul Nazeer...
05:07 PM, Feb 14, 2011
Thiruvananthapuram: A Kerala Congress MP has kicked up a row after claiming that he witnessed a Supreme Court judge being paid 21 lakh as bribe in the 1990s. The ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist and the Kerala Bar Council on Sunday demanded that the Supreme Court order a thorough inquiry into the charge levelled by K Sudhakaran, who is the Lok Sabha MP from Kannur. Sudhakaran claimed that the bribe...
12:28 PM, Feb 14, 2011
Dhaka: The teenager who died after she was raped and whipped a 100 times following a fatwa by local clerics had suffered "heavy wounds" all over her body, said a fresh autopsy report submitted to the high court in Dhaka. Media and judicial activism has helped revive the case of the teenager who was "whipped to death", according to a Daily Star report. The second medical report gives gruesome details....
01:05 PM, Feb 10, 2011
Bangalore: He worked with Mahatma Gandhi and participated in freedom struggle, but the 113-year-old wants contribute in India's development even after his death, so the centenarian has pledged to donate his eyes for research. The word 'Living Legend' is not mere metaphor when it comes to Pandit Sudhakar Chaturvedi, who on Saturday pledged his eyes for research, as his age and health proving to be no bar for this noble...
08:42 PM, Dec 18, 2010
There are about 100 full-time JMB cadres in West Bengal's 3 districts. ...
08:20 AM, Jun 21, 2010
TV channels put the death toll at between between 107 and 150, including a dozen people who died in hospital from injuries. ...
12:27 AM, Jun 04, 2010
Dravid was felled by a Shahadat Hossain bouncer when he was batting on 111. ...
08:50 PM, Jan 25, 2010
Bangladesh has launched a major crackdown on ULFA militants. ...
03:01 AM, Nov 07, 2009
Sudhanshu Sudhakar is suspected to be working as an ISI agent in India. ...
12:52 PM, Sep 22, 2009
All 139 persons onboard the aircraft were safe, officials said. ...
12:07 PM, Aug 17, 2009
Sudhakar Soradkar says the Pradhan report has been unfair to Hasan Gafoor. ...
05:20 PM, Jun 16, 2009
One of the killed is a gold medalist from Osmania University. ...
04:24 PM, May 24, 2009
Model-turned-actress for one part wore a dress that showed off her long legs. ...
10:37 AM, Mar 22, 2009
Agents of the US FBI have arrived to help probe last week's mutiny in Dhaka. ...
01:59 AM, Mar 09, 2009
It's no longer being called a mutiny. Dhaka says it's a pre-planned massacre. ...
03:27 AM, Mar 02, 2009
Special tribunal to hear charges against rebel border guards. ...
10:29 AM, Mar 01, 2009
