Real hero Priti Patkar runs night shelters for children in Mumbai's red light areas. Her mission is to provide children with a safe haven and grooming them for a future away from prostitution. ...
09:40 AM, Mar 20, 2013
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Monday called for a nationwide political initiative to recast the Constitution along federal lines, scrapping of all central schemes and provisions for direct transfer of 50 per cent of central taxes to states. ...
02:10 AM, Mar 19, 2013
Self-proclaimed spiritual leader Asaram Bapu has come under flak for indulging in pre-Holi celebrations wasting tonnes of water even as Maharashtra reels under its worst drought in over four decades. "Water was not misused as claimed by media, we used very less quantity of water. Media has been misguided by an NGO. Our people have not manhandled media," said Asaram. ...
08:07 PM, Mar 18, 2013
China has become the world's fifth largest exporter of major conventional arms buoyed by Pakistan's growing import from its communist ally, even as India emerged as the leading buyer of weapons, a Swedish think tank said on Monday. ...
05:46 PM, Mar 18, 2013
Irrfan has won the Best Actor award for his powerful performance in Tigmanshu Dhulia's 'Paan Singh Tomar' and Marathi actress Usha Jadhav has won the Best Actress award for 'Dhag'. ...
04:02 PM, Mar 18, 2013
Italy warned its citizens to exercise caution when travelling in India following its decision not to send back to trial two Italian marines accused of killing Indian fishermen while on anti-piracy duty. ...
05:48 AM, Mar 18, 2013
A girl identified as Neha was found stabbed to death in her college laboratory in Agra. The girl, a resident of Delhi, and was doing PhD from Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra. ...
10:32 AM, Mar 16, 2013
The eight medals included two gold, two silver and four bronze, in the first Asian Grand Prix Archery Championship. ...
12:24 AM, Mar 15, 2013
To attract more overseas investment into the country, government is working on bringing new norms for a common KYC for foreign institutional investors (FII), Finance Minister P Chidambaram said on Monday. ...
03:33 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Sports Minister Suat Kilic has announced the deals alongside representatives from the seven companies in Istanbul. ...
12:21 AM, Mar 11, 2013
Slain DSP Zia-ul-Haq's wife has demanded an outside state trial and hearing by a fast track court into her husband's murder. In a letter addressed to the UP government, Parveen Azad has asked that the probe should be done by a Delhi CBI team, which report directly to the court. ...
05:15 PM, Mar 10, 2013
Students of eight new IITs will have to wait longer to shift to new campuses as none of them have made "real" progress despite the June deadline. ...
03:43 PM, Mar 10, 2013
In spite of being named in an FIR for murder and conspiracy, why is the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) still not questioning former UP Minister Raja Bhaiya over the killing of the Kunda DSP Zia-ul-Haq and two others? A team of the investigative agency is in Kunda probing the killings. ...
10:37 AM, Mar 10, 2013
A 21-year-old female student going to coaching on Saturday was kidnapped by a group of men travelling in a car here. The girl Situ Shah, a resident of Badalpur, was riding her scooty to her coaching class when the abductors came in a car near Durai and forced her away. ...
12:07 AM, Mar 10, 2013
Seeking to provide a close-to-real battlefield situation for its troops to train, the Indian Army is working on a Rs 40-crore plan towards modernising infrastructure at two of its main field firing ranges in Pokharan in Rajasthan and Babina in Madhya Pradesh. ...
06:43 AM, Mar 08, 2013
India's slowest economic growth in a decade could be even worse than anticipated, as preliminary data released in February showed the economy appears to have grown 5.0 per cent in the fiscal year that ends this month - lower than both the RBI and finance minister's forecasts - underscoring the urgent need for reforms to boost growth. ...
12:15 PM, Mar 07, 2013
Without a willingness to lug cheap flat-pack wardrobes home and wrestle with self-assembly, there would be no IKEA, but in Asia, where the locals have other ideas, the Swedish furniture giant thinks it still has a bright future. ...
10:51 AM, Mar 07, 2013
Weeping and shouting, a sea of Hugo Chavez's supporters paraded his coffin through the streets of Caracas on Wednesday in an emotional outpouring that could help his deputy win an election and keep his self-styled socialist revolution alive. ...
06:00 AM, Mar 07, 2013
Oprah Winfrey is headed to Harvard to deliver the commencement address. The school announced the news on the Harvard Gazette Website. Oprah's speech on May 30 will mark the 362nd graduation ceremony at the Ivy League Institution. ...
07:30 PM, Mar 06, 2013
