New Delhi: Google 'Madagascar' and two of your top three results will not be the country that lies off the coast of southeast Africa, but the DreamWorks Animation movie franchise. The first two installments have earned more than $1.1 billion worldwide. The third, 'Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted,' opens in theaters on June 8, the beginning salvo in a global release strategy that continues throughout the summer. A spinoff movie...
04:04 PM, Jun 07, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Information Commission has directed the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to hand out a compensation of Rs 3,000 to an RTI applicant for providing "misleading information" which caused her mental and physical harassment. Laxmi Aggarwal had filed a right to information (RTI) application with the DDA on March 11, 2011, inquiring the time of de-sealing and demolition of an unauthorised construction on the fifth floor of a...
03:48 AM, May 31, 2012
Bichel does not want to be Australia's next bowling coach because of the heavy demands of touring. ...
10:05 PM, May 18, 2012
McDermott has been prominent in the development of young pacers James Pattinson, Pat Cummins and Mitchell Starc. ...
11:32 AM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: The newly-trifurcated Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) announced on Wednesday that it was likely to increase the parking charges. In the first interaction with the media, commissioners of the newly created North, South and East Delhi municipal corporations laid out their ideas for the road ahead. "The focus will be on increasing the revenue. One of the plans is to increase the parking charges. It will also help...
08:28 PM, May 09, 2012
New Delhi: A CBI special court has decided to frame charges against 10 accused, including ex-officials of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), for alleged lapses in the allotment of plots as part of the resettlement of slum dwellers. The accused were allegedly involved in allotment of plots in fictitious names under the scheme executed by the Slum and Jhuggi Jhopri Department. Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Special Judge Anoop...
08:59 AM, May 06, 2012
New Delhi: Price rise, dissidence, lack of intensity in campaigning and failure to highlight "misdeeds" of BJP-ruled MCD were on Saturday identified by majority of Congress MLAs as reasons for the party's drubbing in municipal polls. At a meeting convened by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit to analyse the poll outcome, most of the MLAs cited price rise, particularly hike in milk prices just ahead of the election, and dissidence in...
01:21 AM, Apr 29, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi BJP on Wednesday alleged that the Congress was trying to "grab power" in South Delhi Municipal Corporation through backdoor and accused it of nursing "evil intentions". Delhi BJP chief Vijender Gupta lashed out at Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and DPCC chief JP Aggarwal for their "confusing and contradictory" stands. "On the one hand, the Chief Minister and Delhi Congress President JP Aggarwal say that they had nothing...
08:35 PM, Apr 25, 2012
New Delhi: After the Congress' rout in MCD elections, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Thursday used sarcasm to downplay BJP's victory and accused it of creating a "tragic situation" by bringing top leaders like Nitin Gadkari to campaign for the local polls. "It was an MCD election in which the rather tragic situation was that no less a person than the BJP's president Nitin Gadkari had to come down...
04:46 AM, Apr 20, 2012
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11:50 PM, Apr 18, 2012
A day after the Congress suffered defeat in the MCD polls at the hands of the BJP, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit finds herself under the scanner. ...
11:35 PM, Apr 18, 2012
Bangalore's Chinnaswamy Stadium was found steeped in garbage on Wednesday morning after the municipality refused to clean it up. ...
10:52 PM, Apr 18, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has taken the full responsibility for the defeat of the Congress party in the Delhi civic polls, but has maintained that the result is not a referendum on her. Speaking exclusively to CNN-IBN's Bhupendra Chaubey, the Delhi Chief Minister refused to accept that the results were a huge setback for the party. Heres an excerpt of the interview: Bhupendra Chaubey: A day after...
06:30 PM, Apr 18, 2012
New Delhi: As Congress received a drubbing in the Delhi municipal polls, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Wednesday sought to downplay the party's poor showing saying it was civic elections and could not be compared with anything else. In her first comments after the party lost to BJP in all the three Corporations in Delhi, Dikshit said, "This was not my election. It was the MCD elections. When our (Assembly)...
01:33 PM, Apr 18, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said the Delhi civic poll results in which the Congress suffered defeat should be accepted with "good grace". "These are local elections, local issues. People who work for the people, these are qualities that count. In every election, there is a winner and a loser. One has to accept it with good grace," Manmohan Singh told reporters in New Delhi on the...
03:33 AM, Apr 18, 2012
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11:57 PM, Apr 17, 2012
In a huge blow to the Congress and the Sheila Dikshit government in the capital, the BJP won the Delhi civic polls, sweeping all the three municipal corporations of Delhi. ...
11:56 PM, Apr 17, 2012
The state CAG report on Tuesday named trusts run by Vilasrao Deshmukh, Chhagan Bhujpal and Narayan Rane as beneficiaries in controversial land allotments. ...
10:37 PM, Apr 17, 2012
New Delhi: Celebrations in the BJP camp, gloom for the Congress. BJP made history by winning all three municipalities in the capital - for the second time in a row. Immediately, the party was quick to interpret this not as a municipality result but a larger referendum against the Congress. The BJP workers were seen celebrating after a resounding win in all the three civic bodies. And the party leadership...
09:16 PM, Apr 17, 2012
New Delhi: Four regional parties, RLD, NCP, JD(U) and Samajwadi Party, have made their mark in Delhi municipal polls by opening their accounts though BSP suffered a setback as its tally went down. The list of successful independent candidates was big as 24 of them won as against 2007's figure of 16. The independents, who have won 14 seats in South Corporation, will play an important role as BJP needs...
08:55 PM, Apr 17, 2012
