Washington: US President Barack Obama's re-election campaign has sharply attacked his Republican rival Mitt Romney, accusing him of employing double standards and "breathtaking hypocrisy" in comparing the economic records of the two candidates. Obama's senior campaign strategist David Axelrod doubted whether Romney's record as Massachusetts Governor could be touted as that of a 'job creator'. "By almost every measure, Governor Romney's jobs record in Massachusetts was undistinguished, and yet he...
11:04 AM, Jun 05, 2012
Mumbai: The actor will skip an upcoming awards event in Singapore this weekend due to his shoot schedule. As his kids Aryan and Suhana have their school vacations from June, his family is also joining him. He will be joined by Katrina Kaif (who is shooting with Salman Khan in Thailand) and Anushka Sharma a few days later. Last year the star had attended the awards event in Toronto. Shraddha...
11:01 AM, Jun 05, 2012
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Nitin Gadkari met senior party leader LK Advani on Tuesday. While no details of the meeting have emerged, it comes days after Advani criticised proceedings in the BJP national executive in Mumbai, where Gadkari was endorsed as the party's president for a second term. Advani had attacked BJP President Nitin Gadkari in his blog, questioning the decisions taken by him in the past...
10:45 AM, Jun 05, 2012
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10:44 AM, Jun 05, 2012
Hyderabad: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has issued summons to Andhra Pradesh IT Minister Ponnala Laxmaiah in connection with the Jagan Mohan Reddy disproportionate assets case. He was the irrigation minister in late YSR Reddy's regime and is one of the six ministers who was issued notices by the Supreme Court earlier this year. He has been asked to appear before the CBI on June 7. This comes 10...
10:13 AM, Jun 05, 2012
New Delhi: The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) celebrates June 5 of every year as World Environment Day (WED). It was started in 1972 and is intended to raise global awareness about the need to take act to better and save the environment. The date of June 5 comes from the day that the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment began in Stockholm in 1972. It continued till June...
10:05 AM, Jun 05, 2012
New Delhi: In what could be seen as a proof of growing bonhomie between the Congress and the Samjawadi Party, Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh said he will not field any candidate in the Kannauj Lok Sabha by-poll against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's wife, Dimple, who will be filing her nomination on Tuesday. The Congress' decision is in sharp contrast to the 2009 by-election to the Firozabad Lok...
09:46 AM, Jun 05, 2012
New Delhi: Lok Sabha members would soon be able to use iPads in the house with a parliamentary panel clearing Wi-Fi connectivity in the Lower House of Parliament. The facility is already available in the Rajya Sabha. According to Lok Sabha Secretary General TK Vishwanathan, the National Informatics Centre (NIC) has been asked to extend Wi-Fi facility to the Lower House before the monsoon session, scheduled to begin in July....
09:13 AM, Jun 05, 2012
Keonjhar: While the National Rural Health Mission is under scrutiny in Uttar Pradesh, Odisha seems to have a success story. Udasi Sahu, 43, in Keonjhar district is helping provide healthcare to a population of 5,000. For Guramani Mahanta, Udasi Sahu is no less than a saviour. The 27-year-old mother-to-be was worried when the doctors advised her to undergo a caesarean operation, which is something she couldn't afford. Her last hope...
09:00 AM, Jun 05, 2012
New Delhi: The results of the West Bengal civic polls will be declared on Tuesday. An 86 per cent voter turnout was recorded in the crucial election to six municipalities across the state on Monday, the first major test for the Trinamool-Congress alliance after its landslide victory in the 2011 Assembly polls on the back of a huge anti-incumbency wave. All 129 seats in the six civic bodies - Durgapur,...
08:58 AM, Jun 05, 2012
London: Four days of nationwide celebrations during which millions of people have turned out to mark Queen Elizabeth's 60 years on the throne conclude on Tuesday with a church service and carriage procession through central London. The 86-year-old British monarch will cut a lonely figure as the Diamond Jubilee draws to a close, however, after her husband of 64 years, Prince Philip, was taken to hospital on Monday with a...
08:14 AM, Jun 05, 2012
New Delhi: Two Indians were among the 193 victims of Sunday's plane crash in Nigeria. One was the co-pilot, Mahendra Singh Rathore, and the other was Kerala engineer Rijo Eldos. The families are hoping to get the bodies soon, though rescue workers have been able to find just about 130 bodies. An initial probe claims that the pilot of the Dana Airline flight sounded an SOS of engine failure right...
08:05 AM, Jun 05, 2012
New Delhi: Just days after a joint one-day fast, both sides, Team Anna and Baba Ramdev, seem to have have drifted away again. While Ramdev is busy wooing political parties, Anna Hazare has backed his teammates and launched a direct attack on the Prime Minister. This came even as Ramdev had said naming individuals was not right. As Team Anna met for an eight hour brainstorming session on Monday, the...
07:42 AM, Jun 05, 2012
New York: Lloyd Blankfein, the Chief Executive of Goldman Sachs Group Inc, told jurors at the insider-trading trial of one of the investment bank's former directors that "all parts" of a 2008 board meeting the two attended were confidential. "If something is discussed in a board meeting, it is confidential," Blankfein said, when asked about a June 2008 board meeting in St Petersburg, Russia, that he and defendant Rajat Gupta...
07:35 AM, Jun 05, 2012
Noida: Playing down reports of differences with Ramdev, Team Anna on Monday announced that the activists will participate in the August 9 protest by the yoga guru who has also been invited to join their agitation from July 25. The patch-up bid came a day after Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal was snubbed by Ramdev for making personal attacks against the Prime Minister and other political leaders from his platform....
03:39 AM, Jun 05, 2012
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