Kolkata: With West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee giving a 15-day ultimatum to the central government for accepting the state's demand for a three-year interest moratorium, Trinamool Congress on Monday said it will raise the issue in both the houses of parliament in the upcoming budget session. "The Trinamool MPs of both Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha will raise this issue of financial burden on Bengal. All the Trinamool MPs...
09:40 PM, Apr 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Bar Council of Delhi on Monday said that the sleaze CD controversy surrounding lawyer and Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi has lowered the dignity of the legal profession. Singhvi maintains that the CD's contents were fabricated and morphed. Rajiv Khosla, member of the Bar Council of Delhi and former president of the Delhi Bar Association, said: "Such incidents cause a great damage to the whole legal institution...
08:41 PM, Apr 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress has concluded intra-party discussions on the separate Telangana issue but is yet to take a final decision, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Monday. "We have concluded our discussions with leaders of our party at all levels -- MPs, legislators, senior party leaders belonging to all the three regions," Azad, who is also Congress General Secretary in-charge of party affairs in Andhra Pradesh, told reporters....
06:30 PM, Apr 23, 2012
Lahore: Separatist leader Yasin Malik has said his Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front will make efforts to get the Kashmir issue resolved "without the help of Pakistan". "We will step up our efforts to resolve the Kashmir issue if Pakistan, India and other international stakeholders continue with their irresponsible behaviour towards it," he told reporters after meeting Jamaat-e-Islami chief Munawar Hasan at the party's headquarters in Mansoora on Sunday. "We...
03:13 PM, Apr 23, 2012
New Delhi: In a majority verdict, the Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the criteria of the Election Commission (EC) for granting symbols to unrecognized registered political parties. A three-judge bench comprising justices Altamas Kabir, SS Nijjar and Jasti Chelameswar upheld the panel's symbol order by a two to one majority. Justice Chelameswar wrote the dissenting order against the EC's symbol order. The court passed the order on a batch of...
12:23 PM, Apr 18, 2012
Beijing: Trade officials from India and China on Tuesday met to discuss issues between the two countries relating to anti-dumping and trade disputes. The Indian delegation headed by JS Dadoo, Joint Secretary, Commerce Ministry met with their Chinese counterparts here. The talks were aimed at deepening interaction between the two countries on trade issues and discuss mechanisms to reduce trade disputes as the bilateral trade has touched about $74 billion...
04:06 AM, Apr 18, 2012
Mumbai: Mumbai based 145-year old jewellery retailer Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri is tapping the capital market with its public issue of more than 1.66 crore equity shares on April 24, diluting 25 per cent stake, as per the advertisement in The Financial Express. The company has 14 showrooms in nine cities across five states and it primarily sells gold jewellery and diamond-studded jewellery. Jewellery retailer plans to open an additional 44...
03:46 PM, Apr 17, 2012
Dubai: Iran is ready to resolve all nuclear issues in the next round of talks with world powers if the West starts lifting sanctions, its foreign minister said on Monday. In an interview with the Iranian student news agency ISNA, Ali Akbar Salehi also hinted that Iran could make concessions on its higher-grade uranium enrichment; a key concern of Western powers which suspect Iran is covertly developing a nuclear weapons...
03:32 AM, Apr 17, 2012
New Delhi: Hurriyat Conference (G) leader Syed Geelani on Saturday called for a bandh in Kashmir against the two-year jail term handed down to fellow separatist Ghulam Nabi Fai by a US court. Fai was charged with lobbying in the US government to affect American policy on Kashmir. He has also been accused of accepting money from the Pakistani intelligence agency, ISI, for the lobby work. ...
09:41 AM, Apr 07, 2012
San Francisco: Apple Inc's new iPad topped Consumer Reports' list of tablets despite the influential watchdog stoking doubts two weeks ago by saying the latest iteration of the best-selling tablet threw off more heat when used heavily. The widely followed group that reviews everything from electronics to cars, said on Monday that it did not find the higher temperatures to be cause for concern. The nonprofit organisation also tested the...
04:58 PM, Apr 02, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to focus only on the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) issue at the meeting of chief ministers in New Delhi next month. "I have received a letter from the Union Home Ministry about the conference of chief ministers on April 16. But NCTC is just one of the 10 items on the agenda. In such...
12:19 AM, Mar 31, 2012
Beijing: Struggling to gain entry to the top global beauty pageants due to objections from China, Miss Tibet 2011 Tenzin Yangkyi has said the best way for her to highlight the Tibetan question in the international arena is through participation in such contests. Yangkyi, a 19-year-old Tibetan student from Zurich, Switzerland, who hit the headlines last year after winning Miss Tibet pageant in India, told the Chinese state-run media that...
02:28 PM, Mar 26, 2012
Hyderabad: Rocked by the Telangana issue, the Andhra Pradesh Assembly was on Monday adjourned for the day without transacting any business. MLAs belonging to the Telangana Rashtra Samiti and the Telangana Telugu Desam Forum stormed the Speaker's podium as soon as the House began after a three-day holiday and raised slogans demanding that a resolution be passed seeking creation of a separate state. Amidst the din, Speaker Nadendla Manohar adjourned...
12:26 PM, Mar 26, 2012
Washington: Indian and American officials are slated to discuss aligning visa policies and children's issues between the two countries during the second US-India Consular Dialogue to be held in New Delhi on March 21, the state department has said. Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs, Janice Jacobs will travel to New Delhi leading her countries delegation to the second US-India Consular Dialogue, the State Department said. Jacobs will be...
05:27 AM, Mar 20, 2012
Brussels: Iran was largely cut off from global commerce on Thursday after the company that handles worldwide financial transactions said it was severing ties with many Iranian banks to back EU sanctions against Tehran. The action by the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, or SWIFT, aims to enforce European Union sanctions discouraging Tehran from developing nuclear weapons. It will go a long way toward isolating Iran financially. SWIFT is...
03:20 AM, Mar 16, 2012
Anand: Team Anna member Kiran Bedi on Thursday said they would campaign during the Gujarat Assembly polls slated later this year if an independent Lokayukta was not appointed in the BJP-ruled state. She also credited Chief Minister Narendra Modi for rapid development of Gujarat. "Every citizen of the state should demand from the Chief Minister appointment of a strong and independent Lokayukta before the Assembly election," the former IPS officer...
01:16 AM, Mar 16, 2012
New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at 7 RCR and expressed her objection to the National Counter Terrorism Centre. Addressing mediapersons after the meeting, the Trinamool Congress chief said that she conveyed to the Prime Minister that NCTC disturbed the federal structure of the country. Banerjee also asked the Prime Minister about the need of the Central anti-terror agency. "I received...
06:45 PM, Feb 22, 2012
Beijing: Blaming India and its multi-party political system for the delay in solving the vexed Sino-India border issue, Chinese state media on Wednesday said the two sides were "far away" from reaching a "fair" agreement due to "suspicion and distrust", which is also impeding progress in bilateral ties. Though the 15th round of border talks were concluded last month leaving a "good trend" in the bilateral relations, some contradictions and...
01:48 AM, Feb 16, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has not set any timeframe for resolving Mullaperiyar Dam dispute involving Kerala and Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said in New Delhi on Thursday. Chandy also said that in a federal structure the Centre has limitations in getting into a dispute involving two states. Reacting to the queries about the protests by UDF ally Kerala Congress (Mani) over the issue, he said the...
12:33 AM, Feb 10, 2012
