New Delhi: The national capital on Sunday witnessed a rare event as artists and civil society members came together to protest against rising insidents of rapes and to register opposition to death penalty through poetry, discussion and songs. Those present at the event 'Violence no more' included personalities like Shabana Azmi, Usha Uthup, Syeda Hameed and Binayak Sen. The participants pitched for a case against the death penalty and paid...
05:11 AM, Apr 29, 2013
Jaipur: A delegation from Rajasthan led by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot now visiting Israel held talks with officials on cooperation in agriculture, horticulture and water resources, a statement issued here said on Sunday. Cooperation in water management, particularly drip and sprinkler irrigation in water-deficient Rajasthan, was also discussed, the statement said. "Israel is among the front-runners in desert agriculture management. With cooperation from Israel, coordinated management of horticulture and water...
04:55 AM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: Lok Janashakati Party leader Ram Vilas Paswan has been admitted to a private hospital in the capital after he complained of chest congestion. Doctors attending Paswan at Fortis Hospital said that the Rajya Sabha MP was "absolutely fine" and he would be discharged in a day or two. The 67-year-old leader, who concluded his three-month long Bihar Bachao Yatra on April 14, had "a chest infection after which...
06:22 PM, Apr 28, 2013
Kuala Lumpur: Ahead of general elections in Malaysia, the 950,000-strong ethnic Indian community, mostly Tamils, is being wooed by both the ruling and opposition parties with catchy Tamil songs, pamphlets and online videos. Both sides are vying for the votes of ethnic Indians, which can play a crucial role in as many as 60 of the total 222 parliamentary seats, where the community makes up between 10 per cent to...
01:14 PM, Apr 28, 2013
New Delhi: Major Anup Joseph Manjali was on Saturday awarded the second-highest peacetime gallantry award Kirti Chakra by President Pranab Mukherjee for killing three foreign militants in Jammu and Kashmir. 12 defence personnel were awarded the Shaurya Charkra for their acts of bravery including Captain A Rahul Ramesh and Naik Krishna Kumar who were given the honour posthumously. Manjali, who was deployed in Jammu and Kashmir with the 24 Rashtriya...
11:40 PM, Apr 27, 2013
South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor Co has been forced to apologise for an advertisement that sought to promote the zero carbon emissions of one of its cars by featuring a man failing to commit suicide using a hose attached to the exhaust. The ad debacle is the latest to hit the carmaker, the world's fifth largest by sales when combined with its Kia Motors affiliate, after it exaggerated fuel performance...
10:39 AM, Apr 27, 2013
New Delhi: The Medical Council of India (MCI) on Friday wrote to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) asking for a probe into a sting operation conducted by CNN-IBN which exposed the sale of post-graduate medical seats in colleges across three states for crores of rupees. The CNN-IBN sting had caught five colleges taking crores for admissions. The MCI has handed over the sting operation tapes to the CBI. The...
06:09 PM, Apr 26, 2013
New Delhi: Bharti SoftBank (BSB) today said it will invest $7 million (about Rs 37 crore) in its messaging application Hike that recently crossed five million users. "BSB, a joint-venture between Bharti Enterprises and SoftBank Corporation, focused on the mobile-internet space, announced $7 million fresh investment in Hike, its free messaging app," the company said in a statement. The company said Hike crossed the 5 million users in just four...
05:19 PM, Apr 26, 2013
Bangalore: Set to be back in the I-League next season after a gap of four years, Mohammedan Sporting's coach Sanjoy Sen was modest in the moment of triumph, saying that his "mediocre" side returned to the top tier riding on "chemistry, dedication and honesty". Mohammedan Sporting qualified for the next edition of I-League first division after they played out a goal-less draw with Bhawanipore FC in their penultimate League match...
04:04 PM, Apr 26, 2013
Sounsar: Expressing concern over the growing incidents of rapes in the country, BJP Vice-President Uma Bharti on Thursday said the issue should be tackled urgently by keeping aside political and regional considerations. "I am concerned with the growing incidents of rapes especially with minor girls, in the country. I am of firm opinion that the issue should be looked into by all concern by keeping aside politics and state-specific element,"...
01:27 AM, Apr 26, 2013
Nagpur: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday rejected preliminary objections raised by Maharashtra government's Vidarbha Irrigation Development Corporation (VIDC), under the scanner for alleged corruption, against two PILs seeking probe into the matter. The court's Nagpur bench is hearing two PILs on the alleged scam, seeking a probe by CBI or a court-monitored investigation. The ruling by division bench of justices Bhushan Dharmadhikari and Arun Chaudhari paved the way for...
03:37 AM, Apr 25, 2013
Beijing: The top US military officer said on Wednesday that he has called on China to be more transparent about cyberattacks and boost collaboration with the US to tackle a common threat to their economies. General Martin Dempsey said tackling cyber intrusions featured in his talks with his Chinese counterpart and other Chinese leaders during his three-day visit to China aimed at building mutual trust between the world's most powerful...
01:36 AM, Apr 25, 2013
Geneva: Scientists at the world's biggest atom smasher have found further reasons for the apparent lack of antimatter in the universe. A team working with data from CERN's Large Hadron Collider says it has discovered a particle that decays unevenly into matter and antimatter. The lab near Geneva said on Wednesday that the particle called 'B0s' is the fourth sub-atomic particle known to prefer matter over antimatter. Theory posits that...
08:46 PM, Apr 24, 2013
New Delhi: Sky gazers can look forward to a partial lunar eclipse that will take place Thursday and will be first of the three eclipses of 2013, officials said on Wednesday. Earth's shadow will cover one per cent of the moon and will just touch the moon's limb. The moon will not disappear and turn red but will get slightly darker than usual. "Only a tiny sliver of the Moon...
05:57 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Lucknow: A minister in Uttar Pradesh has brought further embarrassment for the Akhilesh Yadav government. At a time when ministers are touring districts for state's image makeover, UP Textile Minister Shiv Kumar Beria in his remarks said that no policeman can sit down without his permission and they have to take his permission before acting. "No cop can do anything until I give orders. No cop can even sit till...
11:39 AM, Apr 24, 2013
New York: The US government has sued Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp, claiming it gave kickbacks to pharmacies to switch kidney transplant patients from competitors' drugs to its own. The civil health care fraud lawsuit in US District Court in Manhattan seeks unspecified damages and civil penalties for a scheme that the government said has been carried out since 2005. US Attorney Preet Bharara said on Tuesday that the company used the...
09:00 AM, Apr 24, 2013
Nagpur: Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Uma Bharti on Tuesday demanded that child rapists be hanged within a month after fast-tracking trials in such cases. "The government should set up fast track courts to try rape cases within 15 days and the rapist should be hanged within a month. Government should decide upon the mercy petition, if any, of the convicts in such cases within 30 days to ensure that...
01:15 AM, Apr 24, 2013
New Delhi: Kartik Tiwari and debutant Mishti gave as many as 37 retakes to get a kissing scene right for Subhash Ghai's 'Kaanchi'. The film's unit, currently in the picturesque locations of Ranikhet, did not brace themselves for so many retakes of the scene. The movie's associate director Anshuman Jha is said to have pulled up the actors for not enacting the scene passionately, said a source. After a continuous...
12:30 PM, Apr 23, 2013
New Delhi: Reliance Industries' telecommunications arm will use Bharti Airtel's submarine cable network to provide data connectivity across Asia Pacific, the two Indian companies said on Tuesday. The i2i cable network connects India to Singapore and is wholly owned by Bharti, India's top mobile phone carrier. Bharti and Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd, unit of Mukesh Ambani-controlled Reliance Industries, will continue to build on this "strategic framework" and consider other mutual...
11:47 AM, Apr 23, 2013
New Delhi: Left parties on Monday lashed out at the government for providing armed commando cover to top corporate leader Mukesh Ambani, saying the common people have been left in the lurch as gruesome incidents of rape keep happening. "It is unprecedented that at a time when such ghastly and gruesome incidents of rape are taking place and people are demanding more security, Z-plus category of security is given to...
04:20 PM, Apr 22, 2013
