New Delhi: 1:00 pm: As the Lok Sabha resumed, uproar continued in the House with BJP MPs demanding Manmohan Singh's resignation. The Lok Sabha has now been adjourned for the day and the Food Security Bill may again be taken up on Wednesday. 12:40 pm: The Congress Core Group is meeting in Parliament to chalk out a strategy to end Parliament deadlock. 12:17 pm: Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Parliamentary...
11:21 AM, May 07, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi Lokayukta on Monday wrote to President Pranab Mukherjee alleging that the Delhi government was misusing public funds. The Lokayukta named Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and Public Works Department Minister Raj Kumar Chauhan in his letter to Pranab. The Lokayukta also recommended to President to issue an "advisory" to the Chief Minister and the PWD Minister asking them to desist from publication of their photographs on...
09:59 PM, May 06, 2013
The CBI on Monday in its second affidavit to the Supreme Court accepted that certain changes were made in its draft status report on the coal probe by the Union Law Minister, the Attorney General and senior bureaucrats. ...
07:03 PM, May 06, 2013
New Delhi: The troubles are mounting for the UPA as the Opposition turns up the heat on two of its ministers, Law Minister Ashwani Kumar and Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, demanding that they be sacked over the coal blocks allocation scam probe case and the Railway Board bribery case respectively. Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj threatened that Parliament will be allowed to function until the two...
04:40 PM, May 06, 2013
Chennai: Southern actress Hansika Motwani, who is currently shooting in Slovenia for an untitled Telugu multi-starrer, is completely in awe of the place. "Slovenia is four hours away from Milan. And it's such an amazing place, so much honesty, peace and calmness. Loving it," Hansika posted on her Twitter page. She is currently shooting with Vishnu Manchu for the film, which also features Manchu Manoj, Manchu Mohan Babu, Praneetha, Varun...
03:43 PM, May 06, 2013
New Delhi: Reacting promptly on the affidavit submitted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) before the Supreme Court in connection with the coal scam on Monday, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) demanded that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Law Minister Ashwani Kumar "should resign right away". "The government has lost the moral ground to continue in power," said BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain, adding the affidavit has proved that all...
12:52 PM, May 06, 2013
Chennai: Popular Tamil film and TV actor Mohan Raman, also a well known philatelist, was pleasantly surprised when the government honoured actors he had recommended from the south through 50 stamps that were released at the 60th National Film Awards. President Pranab Mukherjee released the stamps Friday commemorating 50 iconic film personalities who brought changes to Indian cinema. "I was approached by a member of the film chamber few months...
12:25 PM, May 06, 2013
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is expected to file its response on Jagan Mohan Reddy's bail plea before the Supreme Court on Monday. The YSR Congress chief, who has spent nearly one year in jail in a disproportionate assets case, had moved the SC challenging the Andhra Pradesh High Court's January 24 order refusing to grant him bail in the case. The SC had on April 29...
08:19 AM, May 06, 2013
Chennai: With voting for Assembly Elections in Karnataka over, DMK chief M Karunanidhi urged the Centre to set up Cauvery Management Board and the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee to give effect to the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal orders. Karunanidhi sought to remind the Centre on the statement by Union Water Resources Minister Harish Rawat that establishment of regulatory mechanism to govern the water sharing among the riparian states of the...
08:21 PM, May 05, 2013
Devda (Guj): Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday slammed the Union Government for allegedly ignoring the state government's demand about construction of gates at Sardar Sarovar Narmada dam, and said the Centre was only concerned about "nephews and uncles". "I alongwith our (BJP) leaders like Parsottam Rupala and LK Advani have urged the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh nearly 25 times, seeking Centre's permission to construct gates at Sardar Sarovar...
05:40 PM, May 05, 2013
New Delhi: Many people from the Sikh community protested against the acquittal of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in one of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases in New Delhi on Sunday. They also clashed with police when it tried to stop them from marching towards the residence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh 7RCR. The protesters had planned a march from Jantar Mantar to 7RCR but the police stopped them by barricading...
03:14 PM, May 05, 2013
The SC on April 30 tore into the UPA government and the Central Bureau of Investigation demanding answers on the government's alleged interference in the CBI coal allocations probe. ...
12:26 PM, May 05, 2013
Chennai: Having completed forthcoming Tamil action-drama "'Thalaivaa', actor Vijay Sunday joined the team of his new film 'Jilla' for a photo shoot session here. Mohanlal and Kajal Agarwal were also present on the sets. "Vijay sir, Mohanlal sir and Kajal joined the photo shoot session today (Sunday). The regular shooting of the film is likely to start by May end," a source from the film's unit told IANS. The film...
12:21 PM, May 05, 2013
Bhubaneswar: Odisha government on Saturday decided to set up a special cell at the Home Department to keep a tab on illegal transportation of minerals within the state and outside besides intensifying physical verification of different working mines. The decision was taken at a meeting of the State Level Task Force on Mines presided over by Chief Secretary BK Patnaik. "Besides home secretary, secretary of steel and mines and director...
01:15 AM, May 05, 2013
Ahmedabad: Demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the issue of corruption, BJP on Saturday said the Congress-led UPA Government has been reduced to a minority and could fall any time soon. "The way Dravidra Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) has withdrawn its support...the Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (JVM) (Prajatantrik) has taken back its support..the government has been reduced to a minority and could fall anytime," BJP general secretary Rajiv Pratap...
10:40 PM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: An anti-Sikh riots victim, who is on an indefinite fast against the acquittal of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar, on Saturday shot off a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh urging him to set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the 1984 riots. Nirpreet Kaur, who lost her father in the riots after the assassination of Indira Gandhi, began her fast on Friday protesting Kumar's acquittal in...
07:46 PM, May 04, 2013
d_90x62.jpg "Director Dasari Narayana Rao turns a year older today")
50 years in Telugu film industry, 40 years as a director and 150 films in his direction, all these figures reveal how great a director Dasari Narayana Rao is. A big day for Dasari Narayana Rao, the film maker celebrates his 69th birthday today. Not only as a director, he is best known as an actor, producer, lyricist and also a good politician. "Even from my student life, I used...
07:15 PM, May 04, 2013
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday enquired about the health of former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav, who was injured in a freak accident on Friday night. "Spoke to Lalu ji this morning asking him about his health after an accident yesterday. Hope he gets back to the best of the health soon," Modi tweeted. RJD president Lalu Prasad had sustained injuries on his head and face...
04:10 PM, May 04, 2013
The much hyped Vijay-Mohanlal's film is slated to commence from the second week of May. The grapevine is that even before the movie's shooting has started there is a lot of buzz regarding the distributors and theatrical rights. Post Thuppaakki Vijay's market seems to have shot sky high, and with Thalaivaa's teaser already oozing the hype factor. Production house from RB Chowdary is being thronged by the distributors and some...
03:36 PM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: Union Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, who met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at his residence 7RCR on Saturday, has offered to quit over the Railway Board bribery controversy. Sources, however, said no decision has been yet taken on Bansal's offer and the final call was likely to be taken at the Congress core group meeting on Saturday evening. Bansal, who was at 7RCR for 20 minutes, left the...
01:50 PM, May 04, 2013
