New Delhi: Condemning the killing of a senior journalist of English tabloid 'Mid-Day' in Mumbai on Sunday, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni said no civilised society can tolerate this kind of attack on the freedom of the press. "This act has challenged the freedom of press and the perusal of objective reporting. This incident is a sign of insanity perpetuated by mindless individuals in which innocent citizens are killed....
07:48 PM, Jun 11, 2011
New Delhi: The government suffered a fresh blow in containing growing anger over corruption from million of voters as Ramdev, the country's most famous yoga guru, gained the support of a leading civil activist for his "fast-until-death" against graft. Here are some facts about Ramdev 1.He works 18-20 hours a day, waking up at 3 am every morning to begin his exercises, fuelled by a diet of milk, green vegetables...
01:01 PM, Jun 04, 2011
New Delhi: The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has written to the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) to ensure that "overtly sexual" deodorant adverts are modified or taken off air within five days. Taking serious note of racy ads that portray women "as lustily hankering after men under influence of such deodorants," the ministry has said these adverts offend "good taste and decency" and appear "indecent, vulgar and suggestive"....
03:35 PM, May 28, 2011
Guntur: Barely two days after he won the Kadapa Lok Sabha seat in a landslide victory, the YSR Congress chief Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Sunday launched a 48-hour fast to highlight farmers' plight in Andhra Pradesh. He is sitting on a fast at the sprawling Reddy college grounds at Nallapadu, a suburb of Guntur. Jagan said that the objective of his fast is to make the state as...
06:42 PM, May 15, 2011
New Delhi: Anna Hazare is in the fourth day of his fast unto death demanding a stronger anti-corruption Lok Pal Bill. He has lost 2.5 kg and his blood pressure is fluctuating but he is mentally going strong, according to Dr Praveen Sharma who examined the veteran social activist. But how long can he survive without food? The extent to which a human body and survive without food varies from...
01:14 PM, Apr 08, 2011
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh may not be aware of Anna Hazare's power to get his demands met through his "indefinite fasts". He should probably ask his cabinet colleagues Vilasrao Deshmukh or Sushil Kumar Shinde or even Shiv Sena MP Manohar Joshi. All of them, as chief ministers of Maharashtra, had to bowed to Hazare's demands one time or another. Till the 1990s, Hazare was known only as a...
03:31 PM, Apr 06, 2011
New Delhi: The deadlock between electronic media and ICC over coverage of Wednesday's Indo-Pak World Cup cricket semifinal got resolved on Tuesday, following a request from the Indian Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Ambika Soni. Ambika Soni proposed a 24-hour 'truce' in a dispute created by Indian non-rights holders (NRH) breaching the terms and conditions they had agreed to follow when they were awarded accreditation for the ICC Cricket World...
10:51 PM, Mar 29, 2011
Mumbai: Actor Ranveer Singh of Band Baajaa Baraat fame says the casting couch does exist in the Hindi film industry as small time casting directors and agents try to exploit newcomers. "Unfortunately the casting couch exist in our industry. I don't think it exists in the high rung studios because the stakes are too high, the money involved and the people involved are too professional," the 25-year-old told reporters here....
05:02 PM, Mar 25, 2011
New Delhi: Even as the Enforcement Directorate got three more days to interrogate black money accused Hasan Ali, the probe trail itself has taken a curious turn. On Monday, PTI reported that the Maharashtra government had suspended senior IPS officer Ashok Deshbhratar who allegedly carried out a "sting operation" on Hasan Ali Khan. The alleged suspension also created a ruckus in the State Assembly. A preliminary inquiry by the CID...
11:53 AM, Mar 22, 2011
The cash for votes saga took place over the vote on the Indo-US nuclear deal in July 2008. In august that year, CNN-IBN telecast a sting operation that showed an aide of then Samajwadi party leader Amar Singh caught on camera giving money to a BJP MP. The tapes became part of parliamentary inquiry but the JPC report eventually did not indict anyone. A rewind of the sting operation The...
09:27 PM, Mar 17, 2011
Delhi: BJP's Ekta Yatra ended without unfurling the Tricolour in Srinagar. The day saw high drama as BJP's top leaders Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley were kept in custody in Jammu till afternoon. A handful of BJP workers managed to reach Srinagar, but were promptly rounded up by the state police. BJP leaders unfurled the national flag in Kathua - a few hundred kilometres away from their intended destination Lal...
09:27 PM, Jan 26, 2011
Jammu: Irked by Jammu and Kashmir government thwarting its flag-hoisting plan, BJP on Wednesday termed as "grand standing" Omar Abdullah's invitation to its leaders to attend the Republic Day function even as seven party activists were arrested when they made a vain bid to unfurl the national flag in Srinagar. Describing as "unfortunate" the detention of senior leaders Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj and Ananth Kumar in Jammu, BJP president Nitin...
02:57 PM, Jan 26, 2011
Kathua: BJP leaders Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley and Ananth Kumar, arrested as a preventive measure to foil the party's bid to hoist the national flag at Lal Chowk in Srinagar on Republic Day, have been released on Wednesday. Following the release, the three leaders have lashed out at the Omar Abdullah government for foiling their Tiranga Yatra to Srinagar. "On Republic Day two BJP leaders have been put behind the...
02:09 PM, Jan 26, 2011
Srinagar: Police on Wednesday arrested seven BJP activists as they made a vain bid to hoist the national flag at Lal Chowk here, which had been turned into a fortress to foil the party's plan. A lone BJP supporter appeared at Regal Chowk, less than 100 yards away from Clock Tower at Lal Chowk, carrying a national flag at 8.30 AM, officials said. Srikant, a resident of Gurgaon in Haryana,...
12:53 PM, Jan 26, 2011
New Delhi: Describing as "unfortunate" the detention of its senior leaders in Jammu, BJP on Wednesday rubbished charges that it was playing politics over hoisting the national flag at Lal Chowk in Srinagar. "Some people say there is politics in hoisting the national flag at Lal Chowk. I don't understand what politics can there be in hoisting the flag... This is not politics but our duty," BJP President Nitin Gadkari...
10:31 AM, Jan 26, 2011
New Delhi: With the BJP showing no signs of backing down from its Ekta Yatra and plans to hoist the Tricolour at Srinagar's Lal Chowk, the Omar Abdullah government has stepped up security arrangements across the Valley. Entry points from Punjab like Lakhanpur and Nagri-Narole into Kashmir have been plugged to stop BJP activists from entering Jammu and Kashmir. Four companies of CRPF have been deployed at the state border...
08:29 AM, Jan 24, 2011
New Delhi: Days ahead of the BJP's plan to hoist the Tricolour on Republic Day at Lal Chowk in Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir Chief minister Omar Abdullah met Home minister P Chidambaram in the capital on Wednesday. Omar Abdullah met Chidambaram and Congress President Sonia Gandhi and raised concerns over BJP's Ekta yatra. He hoped that the BJP would do nothing to precipitate the situation in the state through its...
11:15 AM, Jan 19, 2011
Srinagar: Appealing to BJP to abandon its plans to hoist the tricolour at Lal Chowk in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday said the party has exposed its intention to create trouble in the Valley. "It is strange that after 19 years, when BJP hoisted flag in Lal Chowk in 1992, it has again struck to them (BJP) to hoist the flag in Lal Chowk. It...
04:26 PM, Jan 13, 2011
New Delhi: A committee set up by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry has called for greater sample size in Television Rating Points (TRP), taking a serious view of the small sample size used by the two existing Rating Agencies in India. It also felt that rural areas have been ignored in the current system of TRP measurement. The committee recommended an increase in the sample size from 8000 people per...
02:47 PM, Jan 10, 2011
Hyderabad: TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu was discharged from the hospital on Saturday. The former Andhra Chief Minister on Friday called off his week-long hunger strike. The TDP leader was arrested and moved into Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences in Hyderabad a week ago. Naidu had begun the fast to demand higher compensation for rain-affected farmers, in a bid to reboot his anti-rural image. ...
06:27 PM, Dec 25, 2010
