
In an interview to CNN-IBN, Ramdev defended his strategy of not naming individuals in his campaign against blackmoney. ...

06:51 PM, Jun 04, 2012

New Delhi: Ahead of his joint fast with Anna Hazare against UPA government on corruption on Sunday, yoga guru Ramdev threatened the government with a fight to finish by August for bringing back black money stashed abroad. As he headed to Rajghat from Tikri Kalan on Delhi border before reaching the dharna spot of Jantar Mantar, Ramdev said the economic situation in the country is very bad as the rupee...

08:59 AM, Jun 03, 2012

Bhopal: The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) has issued notices to five telecom companies in the state for not following due procedure while issuing SIM cards. The notice comes after some SIM cards were allegedly procured by five members of Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and Indian Mujahideen (IM) on fake identities. The members of the terror outfits were arrested in June 2011 from Bhopal and Jabalpur. ...

12:09 PM, Jun 01, 2012

Paris: Eden Hazard is set to join European champions Chelsea, who appear to have beaten Premier League winners Manchester City and Manchester United in the race to sign one of football's brightest young talents. The 21-year-old Belgium winger had a brilliant season for Lille, scoring 20 league goals " one behind French leaders and Montpellier striker Olivier Giroud " and topping the list with 15 assists. He scored a first-half...

08:53 AM, May 29, 2012

Based on today's world, where online dating is as common as cheese, both Aryan and Alisha luck out as Worddiva is a 28-year-old lawyer Alisha Menon and Wordfreak is a 25-year-old architect Aryan Chawla. By coincidence they both not only live in Mumbai but are also gorgeous and rich to boot. Alisha and Aryan meet each other at a blind date and fall for each other like a ton of...

05:18 PM, May 18, 2012

Democracy is always inventive, exploiting mediums to create fresh theatre. It seems to create new sites for protest, new forms of dialogue, and new ways ...

09:57 AM, May 15, 2012

The right to information, the right to work, the right to education, the right to food and now the right to pension. Watching Sagarika Ghose's ...

08:50 AM, May 10, 2012

Shivpuri: The Chipko movement, 40 years ago, was India's first green movement and one of our first green heroes is Chandi Prasad Bhatt. In the 1970s across Uttaranchal, rural women gave a cry to 'hug the trees' in protest against a government plan to chop the ancient trees. One of the activists from the region Chandi said, "Chipko meant "Hug the trees". When the government sent the woodcutters, we would...

07:27 AM, Apr 27, 2012

New Delhi: The CBI on Thursday booked Bharat Earth Movers Ltd (BEML) Chairman VRS Natarajan for alleged cheating, criminal conspiracy and corruption in connection with tendering process for hiring a private consultancy firm and carried out searches at several locations including his residence. The case related to award of contract for the implementation of Enterprises Resource Planning Project in the public sector undertaking during 2004-09. The agency has now named...

11:40 AM, Apr 19, 2012

New Delhi: Complying with an order of the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry on Wednesday asked the media not to telecast any programme pertaining to movement of Indian troops. The ministry has said the High Court in the matter pertaining to a petition filed by Nutan Thakur had considered the issue of reports related to movement of troops in the media. The ministry said...

08:35 PM, Apr 11, 2012

Lucknow: The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday directed the Centre and Uttar Pradesh government to ensure that there is no reporting on movement of troops by print or electronic media, days after a newspaper report on movement of two army units towards Delhi had created a storm. "Without interfering with the independence of media and keeping in view the fact that the news items relating to movements of troops has...

08:03 AM, Apr 11, 2012

New Delhi: Minister of State for Defence MM Pallam Raju has said that "someone" in the government "may have read too much" into the movement of two key army units towards Delhi in January. Speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, he said that there are protocols that exist where somebody has to be informed or somebody has to be kept in the loop. Here is the full transcript of...

08:30 PM, Apr 09, 2012

New Delhi: Army Chief General VK Singh on Saturday hit out at the Indian Express report earlier this week that claimed that two Army units made an "unauthorised" movement towards the capital on the night of January 16. In an interview to the Hindu newspaper, the General called the report "fables of a sick mind", "absurd and deplorable". According to The Hindu, the Army Chief said that there was no...

10:21 AM, Apr 07, 2012

New Delhi: That there was some talk about the mid-January movement of two elite Army units towards the capital which had exercised Army Chief Gen V K Singh's mind is evident in an interview he had given to an English magazine in middle of March. "Even, let us say one of our forces or divisions or brigades does exercise, somebody will say, oh! they did exercise. It was not an...

07:02 PM, Apr 05, 2012

New Delhi: Indian Army officials, Government and some editors have raised doubts on the story in The Indian Express that claimed 'suspicious' movement of Army units towards New Delhi. However, The Indian Express stood by its story. The newspaper's Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta clarified his stand while speaking to IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai on Wednesday and claimed that the report brought the facts out in public interest. Following is an excerpt...

07:43 AM, Apr 05, 2012