Rajgarh: Claims by Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan that hail-frost affected farmers were compensated are just the opposite from what facts conveyed, Digvijaya Singh alleged in Rajgarh on Friday. "If the government has a strong will, then no power on earth can prevent it from compensating farmers," he said while addressing a protest meeting against delay in distribution of relief to hail-frost affected farmers. Talking to reporters, the...
12:57 AM, Apr 13, 2013
Paris: China found new cases of bird flu in five live bird markets in the eastern part of the country, a report posted on the website of the World Animal Health Organisation OIE showed on Wednesday. China said the H7N9 avian influenza virus was found on Wednesday in three live bird markets in Jiangsu province, one in Anhui province and one in Zhejiang province, the report said. It did not...
02:08 AM, Apr 11, 2013
Bhopal: Denying reports that his upcoming film 'Satyagraha' is based on Anna Hazare's Lokpal Bill movement, noted film director Prakash Jha said that the movie shows discontent among today's youth. "The film is not based on Anna Hazare's movement, but there may be few similarities between it and the Lokpal agitation. The movie is about the problems faced by youths and their thinking," Jha told reporters here last night. Besides...
04:31 PM, Apr 10, 2013
Amitabh Bachchan posted this photo on his Facebook page with this message: "Greeting the lovely Kareena as she arrives on set of 'Satyagraha' in Bhopal. Shooting an important sequence on a deserted highway, blocked graciously by the authorities for our shoot." ...
10:44 AM, Apr 10, 2013
Chandigarh: Nearly 1.5 lakh students studying in Class 12 of government schools in Punjab will get tablet computers, a minister announced on Tuesday. Education Minister Sikander Singh Maluka said the state government will provide free computer tablets to all the 1.5 lakh students studying in Class 12 in government schools at a total cost of Rs.110 crore in the current financial year. Maluka said satellite-based education (EDUSAT), earlier launched in...
03:56 AM, Apr 10, 2013
Twitter was split in the middle in its reaction to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's speech on Monday at the annual general meeting of FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO) on the status of women in India. ...
11:31 PM, Apr 09, 2013
Chennai: Southern actress Anjali has accused her step mother Bharati Devi and Tamil director Mu Kalanjiyam of harassment. She has alleged that the two have robbed her of all savings. "I've been mentally tortured by my step-mother and director Kalanjiyam. Both of them pose a threat to my life and I fear staying anywhere close to them. "I moved out of Chennai yesterday (Monday) after I brought the allegations public....
08:47 PM, Apr 09, 2013
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, while speaking of empowering women on Monday at the FICCI Ladies Organisation meet, gave an example of Jasuben and her thriving pizza business in the state. "More people in Gujarat prefer eating pizza at Jasuben's outlet rather than Pizza Hut or some other big company," Modi said. Ahmedabadis would not agree more with what Modi said in New Delhi, while giving an example of...
08:11 AM, Apr 09, 2013
Satara: After being on the run for a fortnight, noted Marathi author and Padma Shri awardee Laxman Mane, booked in half a dozen separate rape cases, on Monday surrendered before the police here in western Maharashtra. Mane, who has rejected sexual assault charges levelled against him, went to Satara tehsil police station at around 4.00 pm and was arrested. "Mane surrendered in Satara rural police station. He has been arrested,"...
11:36 PM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was the toast of the day as he took to the stage on Monday, first at an event hosted by the FICCI Ladies Organisation and later, at the Network 18's first Think India Dialogue in the capital. At the former, he wooed women entrepreneurs with talks on the need for their empowerment, education and safety, during the latter, Modi spelt out his definition...
10:14 PM, Apr 08, 2013
The audio of Aadhi and Nisha Agarwal's 'Sukumarudu', released recently and has gathered a good response from the audience. 'Pilla Jamindhar' fame Ashok is the director and Anup Rubens has composed the music for the film. K Venugopal is produced the film under the banner of Soudhamani creations. Anup Rubens said, "I thank all the audience who have made this audio a big hit. For the first time, I have...
09:55 PM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: Emphasising on the need to decentralise power, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Monday revealed how his government was taken to task by the Centre for laying down gas pipeline across the state. "The Gujarat government was targeted by the Centre for laying down gas pipeline across the state. The Centre said that it was its job, not the state's. What is the use of such policies? We...
07:09 PM, Apr 08, 2013
CNN-IBN's national bureau chief Bhupendra Chaubey joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on Modi's address to FICCI Ladies Organisation. Q. Modi did not had any relevant data on his women empowerment schemes. Is this just another political stunt, taking an alternative route of speaking at a national level. Asked by: Gautam A. Modi from now on is totally focussed on hardselling himself as the champion of development. In course of...
03:53 PM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: Moving forward on its plans to rope in the industry in its activities, ISRO is looking towards the launch of the first privately built rocket in the next five years. The Indian Space Research Organisation has embarked on hiving off production of communication satellites and polar satellite launch vehicles (PSLVs) to the industry. "We are now setting up a national committee to work out the modalities on how...
03:20 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Monday reached out to women, saying they are ahead of men today while addressing the FICCI Ladies Organisation in New Delhi. Addressing the FICCI Ladies Organisation, Modi called for the need to integrate and financially empower women to achieve growth and make India a developed country. ...
02:56 PM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Monday reached out to women, saying they are ahead of men today while addressing the FICCI Ladies Organisation in New Delhi. Calling for the need to integrate and financially empower women to achieve growth and make India a developed country, Modi said that they constitute 50 per cent of the country's population and India could become a developed nation only if the...
02:38 PM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: Twitter was split in the middle in its reaction to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's speech on Monday at the annual general meeting of FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO) on the status of women in India. Soon after Modi began his speech addressing the women present at the venue as his 'beheno' (sisters), the two hash tags, diametrically divided in their praise and mockery of the leader, started trending...
01:30 PM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Monday reached out to the women of the country saying women and mothers are supreme and are held in the highest regard in the country. Addressing the FICCI Ladies Organisation, Modi said, "A mother's place is supreme in our culture and values. We call river Ganga our mother, India is also mother India. A mother's place and a woman's place in our...
12:57 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Mohanlal will play a very different alcoholic in his new movie 'Ladies and Gentleman' coming from hitmaker Siddhique. The director who explains how he got hold of the star after a twenty years from their last in Vietnam Colony says that he was not that convinced as Lal agreed to do the film with a lead character who drinks alcohol. More over he has already done a similar role in...
10:18 AM, Apr 08, 2013
