
New Delhi: A modern immigration and visa registration project, aimed at bringing all the information of foreigners under one platform, will be inaugurated in New Delhi by Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday. "The project envisages facilitation services to the travellers including online application forms, 24X7 online channel, phone support for grievance redressal and e-mail/SMS support for dissemination of information, application status and feedback," a Home Ministry statement said....

02:59 AM, May 25, 2012

Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda suffered injuries after the helicopter he was travelling in crashed. ...

09:58 PM, May 09, 2012

Chandigarh: The Haryana Government on Wednesday defended its dress code orders issued recently by the Women and Child Development Department that asked its employees to wear "decent" clothes at work. The order issued on April 18 by the Department's Superintendent on behalf of the then Director Renu Phulia with regard to wearing of "decent clothes in the office" said, it has been observed that some officials (both males and female)...

06:50 PM, May 09, 2012

Chandigarh: The Haryana Women and Child Department has issued a dress code for its women employees, according to which, they would not be allowed to wear jeans and t-shirts to work. According to the new dress code, the women employees can only wear salwar kameez and sarees to work. Jeans and t-shirts have been branded as 'indecent clothing' by the Haryana Women and Child Department and decent clothes include only...

09:08 AM, May 09, 2012

New Delhi: Kingfisher Airlines has been ordered by a Delhi district consumer forum to pay Rs 12,000 to one of its passengers for booking him on a non-operational flight and telling it only when he went to the airport to catch it. The New Delhi District Consumer Grievances Redressal Forum ordered the airlines to pay the compensation to Delhi resident RP Singh, while holding it guilty of rendering deficient service...

04:19 PM, Apr 26, 2012

New Delhi: Men can now easily find out if a woman fancies them - with a dress that goes see-through if the wearer gets aroused. This futuristic creation is made of smart fabrics which become gradually becomes transparent in response to the heartbeat of the wearer. Designed by Studio Roosegaarde and Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde is in talks to produce a high street version. The project is called Intimacy and...

09:58 AM, Apr 06, 2012

New Delhi: The motion of thanks on the President's address will be taken up in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. It is a crucial test for the government amid signs of altering political equations at the Centre. Even as the Opposition parties' amendments on the National Counter Terror Centre (NCTC) failed in the Lok Sabha, the numbers, do not favour the government in the Rajya Sabha. In the Rajya Sabha...

08:18 AM, Mar 20, 2012

New Delhi: A Trinamool Congress move that could have embarrassed the government in Parliament over NCTC issue on Wednesday came a cropper with the rejection of its amendment to the President's address seeking deletion of the reference to the controversial matter. The amendment, moved by Trinamool Chief Whip in the Lok Sabha, Kalyan Banerjee, on Tuesday, was negated on technical grounds. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be replying to the...

07:45 PM, Mar 14, 2012

New Delhi: The Government on Monday unveiled a blueprint for guaranteeing internal and external security and economic and livelihood security as it expressed confidence that it will steer the country back to the high growth trajectory of 8 to 9 per cent. With the government's image taking a knock on account of a number of scams, President Pratibha Patil listed a number of measures and said together these have the...

12:04 PM, Mar 12, 2012

New Delhi: The ceremonial Change of Guards in Rashtrapati Bhavan will not take place on March 10 due to the rehearsal for President Pratibha Patil's address to both Houses of Parliament. The three-month-long session will begin on March 12 and continue till May 22. "The Ceremonial Changing of Guards at Rashtrapati Bhavan will not be held on March 10, 2012 due to conduct of Full Dress Rehearsal in connection with...

12:43 PM, Mar 08, 2012

London: Actress Katherine Heigl says working as a child model when she was nine was "brutal" and she hated the experience. The 33-year-old, who raises three-year-old daughter Naleigh with husband Josh Kelley, began her career in showbusiness with a stint as a model for clients including US department stores Macy's and Sears but Katherine has admitted she hated the experience. "Oh my god, it was brutal. You even understand it,...

12:29 PM, Feb 02, 2012

Los Angeles: Tom Cruise's five-year-old daughter Suri has been named the best dressed celebrity child in a new poll. Suri pipped David and Victoria Beckham's daugther Harper Seven and Brooklyn and Madonna's stylish teenage daughter Lourdes Leon to take the top spot in the list compiled by My1stYears.com. "Suri Cruise has an amazing wardrobe and for a five-year-old, wears some gorgeous outfits. She certainly has terrific taste for one so...

01:09 PM, Jan 19, 2012

I was 12 when we moved from Boston, USA to Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. It was a huge culture shock for me. I had been living ...

12:21 PM, Jan 09, 2012