CNN-IBN and History TV 18 is embarking upon a once in a lifetime adventure to find out The Greatest Indian since Mahatma Gandhi. ...
11:54 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Here's a look at the politicians who have made it to the top 50 in CNN-IBN's search for The Greatest Indian. ...
09:17 AM, Jun 04, 2012
Puducherry: Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research in Puducherry will release on June 1 the result of the entrance exam held at the all India level for selection of students to first MBBS course during 2012-2013 academic year in the institute. Seventy five per cent of the 40,000 candidates who had applied for the entrance test in various parts of the country simultaneously appeared for the test on...
03:43 PM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: The nation on Sunday remembered the country's first PM Jawaharlal Nehru on his 48th death anniversary, with President Pratibha Patil and Vice-President Hamid Ansari paying homage to him. Patil, Ansari and Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi paid floral tributes to Nehru at Shanti Van, his memorial on the banks of Yamuna here. Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and Union Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath were among prominent citizens who...
05:29 PM, May 27, 2012
As his last seven films have failed to keep the Box Office happy, Megastar Mammootty is on the plan to set things right. As a right initiative, he has decided not to compromise on scripts and has asked the directors of his new projects to make the necessary changes. While some of his already announced projects like Vinod Vijayan's 'Pickpocket' and VM Vinu's 'Ganapathy' stands cancelled, Mammootty also has advised...
05:55 PM, May 18, 2012
New Delhi: In 1923, iconic Bengali humorist Sukumar Ray described a curious race of beings "who were scared to laugh". With the government forced to apologise for a 1949 cartoon on Jawaharlal Nehru and B.R. Ambedkar after parliamentarians of all hues raised a massive ruckus, are Indians becoming that humourless race? The 63-year-old cartoon by the eminent Shankar - considered the father of Indian political cartoonists who ran the highly...
01:12 PM, May 18, 2012
The grand old man of Indian cartooning, RK Laxman, has a delightful anecdote that embodies the charm of political cartooning. Soon after the 1962 Sino-Indian ...
12:22 AM, May 18, 2012
Its her third visit to Chennai, and she hasnt signed a Tamil film yet. Meet model-turned-actor Evelyn Sharma, a German model who is currently doing three Hindi films " Isaaq, From Sydney With Love and Yeh Jawani Hai Dewaani. As a model I travel all over the world and fitness is my priority. I always hit the gym wherever I am, says Evelyn. Entering movies was a personal choice for...
06:13 PM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: Unhappy over the initial report, Defence Minister AK Antony has asked Army to take immediate "corrective" steps to see that incidents like the clash between jawans and officers at a firing range near the India-China boundary in Nyoma, Ladakh do not recur. The Minister is understood to have expressed his displeasure to the Army top brass over the initial report that is said to have attempted a cover...
03:17 PM, May 13, 2012
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Friday took a swipe at Sonia Gandhi, saying that his state had not bowed down even before Jawaharlal Nehru, let alone the present Congress president. Modi also took a dig at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, saying that Singh's house is run on generators, but Gujarat is a power-surplus state. He was speaking in Botad town of Bhavnagar district, 120 km from here, during...
01:24 AM, May 05, 2012
Mumbai: This time it's for the 'Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara' director Zoya Akhtar with whom she shares an amazing rapport. Zoya is making a documentary titled 'Sheila Ki Jawaani' on 100 years of Bollywood that will star Katrina. A source says, "When Zoya was approached to make the docu, she felt that the popular 'Sheila Ki Jawaani' track from 'Tees Maar Khan' was the perfect example to describe the story...
10:51 AM, Apr 23, 2012
The port of Pipavav should have made money hand over fist ever since it started operations in 1998. After all, located deep in the Saurashtra region in south Gujarat, it is a gateway port that caters to landlocked regions like Delhi, the National Capital Region, Punjab and also the rich states of Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan. It handles more reefer trains (refrigerated trains that carry fish, meat, etc) than any...
10:59 AM, Apr 21, 2012
Mumbai: Post-retirement will President Pratibha Patil, the constitutional head of the military forces, live on land that virtually homeless jawans asked to be accommodated on? Activists argue that this controversial piece of land in Khadki, Pune where the President's post-retirement bungalow is being built, could have gone to jawans, who now live in slum like conditions. The President is the last resort for justice in this country. But with the...
09:20 PM, Apr 13, 2012
New Delhi: A bulletproof jacket is meant to stand between life and death. In Maharashtra Anti-Terrorist Squad chief Hemant Karkare's final moments, the loose and ill-fitting jacket proved to be no match for the terrorist's fire. Karkare's loose fitting and sub-standard bulletproof jacket shocked the nation but sadly security personnel engaged in counter insurgency operations across the country are in no better shape. CNN-IBN has access to copies of letters...
04:38 PM, Mar 28, 2012
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