New Delhi: Congress on Monday finalised its list of candidates for Assembly elections in Punjab, where the party is poised for keen contest with the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal " Bharatiya Janata Party combine. The names were decided by the Central Election Committee of the Congress headed by party chief Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as its permanent member. The candidates for Assembly polls in Uttarakhand have already...
12:55 AM, Jan 03, 2012
Vatican City: Pope Benedict ushered in Christmas for the world's 1.3 billion Roman Catholics, urging humanity to see through the superficial glitter and commercialism of the season and rediscover the real significance of the humble birth of Jesus. The 84-year-old pope, celebrating the seventh Christmas season of his pontificate, also urged that those marking the holiday in poverty, suffering or far from home not be forgotten. At the start of...
09:02 AM, Dec 25, 2011
Chandigarh: The Shiromani Akali Dal sarpanch who slapped a lady teacher was arrested on Tuesday, but was out on bail shortly after that on a bond of Rs 50,000. Teachers refuse to relent until satisfactory action is taken. Angry teachers took to streets after Varinder Kaur, a teacher from Gidderbaha, was assaulted in public by Shiromani Akali Dal sarpanch Balwinder Singh. Kaur was slapped and manhandled when she and other...
07:07 PM, Dec 06, 2011
Chandigarh: Peeved at the Punjab government for not heeding to their demands, teachers demanding permanent jobs in the state on Tuesday threatened to immolate themselves after one of their lady colleagues was allegedly slapped in public view by an Akali Dal sarpanch. A delegation of Education Guarantee Scheme (EGS) teachers association led by its chief Pritpal Singh on Tuesday went to the private residence of Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh...
01:20 PM, Dec 06, 2011
New Delhi: An FIR has been registered against the Shiromani Akaali Dal sarpanch who slapped a woman teacher, who was demanding a permanent job, at a function in Muktsar district in Punjab. The lady Varinder Kaur was part of a delegation of teachers who wanted to meet Bhatinda MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal, the wife of Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal at the function on MOnday. A scuffle broke out...
10:26 AM, Dec 06, 2011
A sarpanch belonging to the Shiromani Akali Dal repeatedly slapped and manhandled a woman teacher in Gidderbaha in Punjab. ...
07:36 PM, Dec 05, 2011
New Delhi: In a shocking incident, a Shiromani Akali Dal Sarpanch Balwinder Singh of Gidderbaha in Punjab slapped and manhandled a woman teacher during the public visit program of Harsimrat Kaur Badal who is Member of Parliament and wife of Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal. A group of teachers from the education guarantee scheme teachers union had gone to the venue to put forth their demands for jobs....
01:25 PM, Dec 05, 2011
New Delhi: A Shiromani Akali Dal MP on Thursday alleged that Sikhs were being "deliberately targeted" in Italian airports and charged the government for its failure to safeguard the interests of the community despite assurances. In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Harsimrat Kaur Badal said she was registering a strong protest on behalf of the entire community against the "ill-treatment" of Sikhs at airports in Italy and other...
12:47 AM, Dec 02, 2011
Chandigarh: In a change of stand, Punjab's ruling Shiromani Akali Dal on Thursday said there was a need to relook at FDI in retail sector, after having earlier favoured the Centre's move. A SAD release said that SAD President Sukhbir Singh Badal discussed the issue of FDI with members of the party's Core Committee which met this evening. "After considering various views expressed by senior members at the meeting, Badal...
11:38 PM, Dec 01, 2011
New Delhi: An all-party meet is set to take place on Tuesday after Parliament was stalled again on Monday over the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in retail issue. But sources tell CNN-IBN that the government will stay firm on its decision of allowing FDI in retail. The decision to call the all-party meet was taken after a meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Monday....
05:37 AM, Nov 29, 2011
New Delhi: The UPA government is standing firm on its decision to allow FDI in retail. The Opposition BJP, Left and even the government's own allies have opposed the move. The BJP continued to press for an adjournment motion on the issue failing which Parliament conducted no business for the fifth day. The government, however, is hoping to break the deadlock at the all-party meet on Tuesday. Senior BJP leader...
08:42 PM, Nov 28, 2011
London: Actors Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law have promised there will be more focus on the 'bromance' between their characters in 'Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows'. The movie is a sequel to the 2009 film 'Sherlock Holmes' directed by Guy Ritchie, which was noted for the chemistry between Downey Jr and Law in the main roles and the pair have insisted the sequel won't be any different. "Last...
12:21 PM, Nov 17, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear death row convict Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar's plea to convert his sentence into a life term. The Khalistani militant who had been sentenced to death for triggering the 1993 Delhi car bomb attack that killed 12 people, had filed a mercy petition before the President in January. President Pratibha Patil had rejected the mercy petition in May 2011. Bhullar's counsel had...
08:46 AM, Nov 09, 2011
New Delhi: A joint delegation of BJP and Shiromani Akali Dal leaders on Thursday called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and sought punishment of the Congress men accused in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu and Delhi BJP President Vijender Gupta led the delegation of MPs and office-bearers of the two parties to the Prime Minister on the 27th anniversary of the anti-Sikh riots and submitted a...
01:38 AM, Nov 04, 2011
A Vellayan (Murugappa group) Age: 58 Profile: Chairman of Chennai-based Murugappa Group Rank: 55 Family wealth: $ 1.02 billion Insights: - Wants to stick to values such as integrity and trust - But says decision making will have to be faster Sometime in 1945, AMM Vellayan, the second son of AM Murugappa Chettiar, went back to Burma to take stock of the wealth his family and his community left behind...
11:38 AM, Nov 02, 2011
New York: PD James could hold back no longer. The 91-year-old detective novelist said on Wednesday she was glad to finally complete a long-desired project - a sequel to Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice.' James' "Death Comes to Pemberley" will be published by Faber & Faber in Britain in early November and by Alfred A. Knopf in the United states on December 6. James said in a telephone interview from...
02:08 PM, Oct 13, 2011
Srinagar: Bollywood actor Rishi Kapoor, whose Kashmir connection dates back to 1970s when he had shot to fame as a young lover in superhit 'Bobby', today revisited the Valley saying he finds the place now as romantic as it was decades ago. "Very few places in the world provide so much variety as Kashmir. You have so much variety here. It is a virgin beauty. This place is all about...
03:02 PM, Oct 04, 2011
Mexico City: The Roman Catholic Church reacted harshly on Friday to a bill proposed by Mexico City legislators that would require all couples to sign a prenuptial agreement specifying how to handle child custody and other issues in case of divorce " and estimating how long the marriage is expected to last. Sponsors of the bill submitted this week in the city council say the proposal aims to cut down...
09:28 AM, Oct 02, 2011
'Love BreakUps Zindagi' is written and directed by Sahil Sangha and produced by Dia Mirza, Zayed Khan and Sahil Sangha under the banner of Sahara Motion Pictures and Born Free Entertainment. It stars Zayed Khan and Dia Mirza in the lead roles. ...
04:16 PM, Sep 30, 2011
Los Angeles: Director Roman Polanski received a standing ovation as he picked up a lifetime achievement award at the Zurich Film Festival in Switzerland. The 78-year-old filmmaker, who lives in France, was due to collect the award in 2009 when he was taken into custody by airport officials in Zurich more than 30-years after he fled America and skipped sentencing on a charge of unlawful sex with a minor, reported...
06:42 PM, Sep 28, 2011
