Chandigarh: An advocate-turned-politician, Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal has gradually moved his way up in his political career while maintaining a clean image. However, this will be impacted by a bribery scandal in which his nephew Vijay Singla figures prominently. Bansal, 64 (born July 16, 1948), who is into his fourth term as MP from Chandigarh, is generally a soft-spoken man who has maintained a low-profile even as a top...
05:20 PM, May 04, 2013
Bulawayo: Zimbabwe's batsmen go into Sunday's second one-day international against Bangladesh knowing that they must cast aside their suicidal tendencies if they are to keep the series alive. The hosts were bowled out for just 148 inside 33 overs as they lost the first one-dayer by 121 runs on Friday, with the majority of their batsmen either trapped lbw or bowled while playing across the line. Many of the same...
03:26 PM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: Academy award-winning actress Reese Witherspoon has pleaded no contest to a charge of disorderly conduct and paid a $100 fine after she was arrested with her husband following an evening out in Atlanta last month. The deputy solicitor of the Municipal Court of Atlanta, Ronda Graham, said in a statement on Thursday that "the pending criminal matters against Ms. Reese Witherspoon and Mr. Jim Toth have been resolved."...
12:50 PM, May 04, 2013
Mumbai: The news of Honda launching a new 150cc streetbike had us expecting the CB150R launched in Thailand few months back. But the motorcycle turned out to be a face lift of the Unicorn. Honda had launched the CB Dazzler a couple of years ago, which was a differently styled Unicorn. Now comes the CB Trigger which will replace the Dazzler as a jazzy 150cc commuter. The Trigger's styling may...
12:44 PM, May 04, 2013
The Dzire has won every comparison test in Overdrive. Even last month, after driving to Goa and back in six entry level diesel sedans, we came to the conclusion that the Maruti is the undisputed champion. However things change, and after a long wait Honda has now joined the party with the Amaze, the first big challenger to the Dzire. Should Maruti be worried? We pitch both the cars in...
12:33 PM, May 04, 2013
Johannesburg: Five South African officials, including police and military commanders, have been suspended after a chartered plane carrying about 200 guests from India to a lavish family wedding was allowed to land at a South African air force base, the government said on Friday. The scandal, in which the passengers allegedly bypassed customs procedures on their way to a gaudy entertainment complex, has angered many South Africans who see the...
10:38 AM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: National Democratic Alliance (NDA) MPs on Friday met President Pranab Mukherjee over Chinese incursion in Ladakh. The MPs also took up with the president the manner in which the Sarabjit Singh issue was handled by the government. The delegation, led by senior leader and NDA working chairperson LK Advani, also submitted a memorandum seeking the president's intervention on both the issues. They demanded that Mukherjee discuss these issues...
05:12 AM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi Metro has registered an increase of about 16 per cent in ridership in 2012-13 in comparison to the last financial year. Addressing the gathering at DMRC's 19th Foundation Day celebrations, its Managing Director Mangu Singh said apart from increase in ridership, the overall earnings of the organisation had also increased by 15.77 per cent during the same period. Sudhir Krishna, DMRC Chairman and Secretary, Ministry of...
02:44 AM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: Seeking to blunt BJP critcism of "inaction" by UPA government in Sarabit Singh case, the Congress on Friday released a paper documenting actions taken by the government in the matter and accused NDA of "never raising the issue" when the Opposition alliance was in power. The three-page document released by AICC said "it started in 1990. Sarabjit was in jail all through NDA rule but never did the...
10:26 PM, May 03, 2013
Live updates from the first ODI between Zimbabwe and Bangladesh in Bulawayo. Zimbabwe innings: End of 32.1 overs: 148 all out Shingi Masakadza becomes the last man to fall to Robiul Islam for 33 lbw. Ziaur Rahman ends with a five-wicket haul. End of 30 overs: 139 for 7 Shingi Masakadza tonked two sixes and a four as he, along with Malcolm Waller took the Zimbabwe innings forward. But the...
12:19 PM, May 03, 2013
The bustling form of several Indian pace bowlers in the ongoing IPL looks to be the only major discussion point on Saturday in the corridors of the BCCI headquarters in Mumbai, when India's squad for the ICC Champions Trophy is announced. This summer's tournament will be held in England where seam and swing bowling will find favour and that India's selectors have several names to ponder over can only be...
11:59 AM, May 03, 2013
Keonjhar: Tulasi Munda, a woman who never got to go to school herself, is leading the education revolution amongst tribals in Odisha. She set up a night school for the children of other tribals. Being a little girl born at the cusp of freedom in the tribal belt of Odisha, her life was never going to be easy. Like thousands of other adivasi children in the mining town of Koenjhar,...
11:29 AM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: Telecom major Bharti Airtel on Friday announced it will sell 5 per cent stake to Doha-based Qatar Foundation Endowment (QFE) for around Rs 6,800 crore ($1.26 billion) by issuing over 199.87 million new shares. The company said in a statement that "it has entered into a binding agreement with Qatar Foundation Endowment (QFE), under which Bharti will issue 199,870,006 of its new shares to QFE representing a shareholding...
11:10 AM, May 03, 2013
Mangalore: Senior BJP leader and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Thursday cautioned Karnataka's electorate against voting for the Congress in the state legislative assembly poll May 5, 2013, as it had failed on all fronts at the national level. "You have seen how the Congress-led UPA (United Progressive Alliance) government in Delhi has been faring during the last nine years, how it failed to control price rise, inflation and in...
05:33 AM, May 03, 2013
Kolkata: Angry protestors in Kolkata on Thursday burnt effigies of Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, while torch rallies were held as a mark of respect to Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh who died after a brutal assault in a Pakistan jail. In central Kolkata, Congress workers held a rally outside the Tea Board office, demanding the perpetrators of the barbaric attack on Sarabjit be brought to justice. "Why did Sarabjit Singh...
04:38 AM, May 03, 2013
Mumbai: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday accused the UPA government of "degrading" constitutional institutions and endangering the federal structure of the country. "All our constitutional institutions are being degraded. If we don't give strength to our constitutional institutions, all systems will be finished," Modi said. "A democracy functions according to systems. It cannot be based on individuals. People may come and go, but the system of democracy is...
03:57 AM, May 03, 2013
Bulawayo: Having contested a hard-fought tied Test series, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh turn their focus to the 50-over format with the first of three ODIs starting here on Friday. Bangladesh bossed the hosts in the second Test at Harare to level the series, and will take that spirited performance in the first match of a low-key series while the much rest of the cricketing world engages in the razzmatazz IPL or...
08:24 PM, May 02, 2013
Telugu actor Junior NTR and Samantha pair up for 'Rabhasa'. The film is direction of Santhosh Srinivas, who had earlier directed Ram's 'Kandireega'. Bellamkonda Suresh will produce this movie under the banner of Sri Sai Ganesh Productions. The movie is said to be an out and out entertainer and it will go on the floors soon. Junior NTR and Samantha pair up for third time after Brundhavanam and Harish Shankar's...
04:39 PM, May 02, 2013
Mumbai: "Petty-minded" politics took away the life of Sarabjit Singh, Bollywood filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar and veteran writer Javed Akhtar said, as Hindi film celebrities reacted strongly to the death of the Indian death row prisoner in Pakistan. Here's what the celebrities posted on Twitter on his death: Salman Khan: Freedom at last. Hope they give him to his family. We all tried, guess not hard enough. May god give his...
04:08 PM, May 02, 2013
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