The BCCI selection committee will meet in Mumbai on Friday to pick the Test squad to face New Zealand. ...
03:54 PM, Aug 09, 2012
Tendulkar is all set to return to the Test arena after a break of two months for the NZ series. ...
12:28 PM, Aug 09, 2012
Mumbai: Terming the drought in the state as "terrible," Maharashtra Water Supplies Minister Laxmanrao Dhoble on Monday said the rainfall recorded till July-end was a meagre 24 per cent. "The state is facing a terrible, difficult drought. It is a cause of concern and the government will seek appropriate funds from the Centre to tackle the situation," Dhoble told reporters. "In Konkan, the average recorded rainfall is 62 per cent....
10:29 PM, Jul 30, 2012
It is known that Bellamkonda Suresh is producing a movie in which Sunil and Naga Chaitanya are playing the main leads. The film is the remake of Tamil hit Vettai, which was earlier planned to be released in Telugu as Bhale Tammudu. However, Suresh felt that it would do well if it is remade into Telugu. While Sunil is reprising Madhavan's role, Chai is stepping into the shoes of Arya....
04:14 PM, Jul 18, 2012
Besides the form and rhythm, Harbhajan has run out of luck and steam of late. ...
04:57 PM, Jul 03, 2012
"Who knows someday in the future [I may coach the Indian team]," Dravid said. ...
09:45 PM, Jul 01, 2012
New Delhi: Alcoholism has become an accepted norm in the upper middle class society of urban India. Be it a social gathering or be it a family function, the society doesn't consider alcohol as something which can bother their normal behaviour. However, Aamir Khan's TV show 'Satyamev Jayate' has a different take on the issue of alcoholism. In one of the relatively lighter episodes, 'Satyamev Jayate' demonstrated the problem of...
02:58 PM, Jul 01, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Holding that freedom of expression is an essential component of democracty, CPI(M) stalwart VS Achuthanandan expressed serious concern over the intolerance shown by certain political quarters towards cartoons and caricatures in recent times. Referring to the row over Sahankar's and RK Laxman's cartoons reproduced in textbooks, he said attacking cartoons and cartoonists did not augur well for a healthy democracy. He was delivering the inaugural address at a discussion...
12:20 PM, Jun 26, 2012
When should a sportsperson retire? This question was debated fiercely during and after India's disastrous tour of Australia, which ended in a 4-0 whitewash to ...
04:56 PM, Jun 25, 2012
New Delhi: Laxman Rao is no ordinary chaiwallah (tea vendor). His tea stall at New Delhi's ITO complex offers more than just a hot brew. For a few hundred rupees, you can pick up one of his 24 books, written over 40 years. "I observe people from my tea stall. They become my characters and my stories are based on them," he says. In 1975, when Rao came to Delhi,...
08:19 AM, Jun 25, 2012
Pune: Shorya Mahanot is only five-year-old but with his careless splashes of colour and strokes he has made many jaw-dropping paintings. The little genius even managed to impress renowned cartoonist RK Laxman, who gifted him an autographed brush. Inspired by his artist father and elder sisters, Shorya took to colours and wielded his first brush when he was just three-year-old. "One day my wife posted a painting on Facebook saying...
10:05 AM, Jun 22, 2012
Kolkata: The CPM on Tuesday demanded the release of its former MP Laxman Seth and two of his associates jailed for allegedly plotting violent incidents in West Bengal's Nandigram village in 2007. The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) made the demand after its unexpected win in the polls to the Haldia municipality, close of Nandigram where Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee led a successful peasants' movement that helped the party...
09:00 PM, Jun 05, 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
New Delhi: A journalist, who took part in a sting operation conducted by 'Tehelka' to expose wrongdoings in arms deal, on Monday refused to testify as a witness in a court in Delhi against two former officials of the defence ministry facing trial for graft. Journalist Mathew Samuel said that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had not reimbursed his travel and other allowances. He added that he would not...
10:37 AM, May 15, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has called for the trial court records on former BJP president Bangaru Laxman in the fake arms deal case. The argument of expediting the case on the basis of Laxman's old age and medical condition has been rejected by the court. Laxman will now have to spend two months in jail. The next date of hearing in the case is July 5. Bangaru Laxman...
11:16 AM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: Former BJP President Bangaru Laxman has moved the Delhi High Court challenging his conviction and the punishment awarded to him by a special CBI court in New Delhi for taking Rs one lakh as bribe in a fictitious defence deal case. Eleven years after having been caught in a sting operation by a news portal, Laxman was convicted and sent to four years in jail on April 28...
01:03 AM, May 10, 2012
New Delhi: Former BJP president Bangaru Laxman, who has been give a four-year jail term in fake arms sting case, resigned from the party's National Executive on Monday. A Delhi court had convicted Bangaru Laxman in the 2001 fake arms deal case conducted by newsportal tehelka.com. Bangaru was also fined Rs 1 lakh for taking a bribe of Rs 1 lakh to push a defence deal in a sting operation...
12:44 PM, Apr 30, 2012
Nagpur: Countering Congress' jibes at BJP in the wake of conviction of former BJP president Bangaru Laxman in a bribery case, the party on Saturday said the Congress has no moral right "to lecture them on morality". "Congress should not lecture us on morality," party spokesman Prakash Javadekar told reporters. Former BJP president Bangaru Laxman, who was found guilty of accepting a bribe by a Delhi court on Friday, has...
01:38 AM, Apr 29, 2012
Nagpur: Countering the Congress' jibes at the BJP in the wake of conviction of former BJP president Bangaru Laxman in the 2001 fake arms deal case, the party on Saturday said the Congress has no moral right "to lecture them on morality". "Congress should not lecture us on morality," party spokesman Prakash Javadekar told reporters in Nagpur on Saturday. Former BJP president Bangaru Laxman, who was found guilty of accepting...
11:34 PM, Apr 28, 2012
