New Delhi: Reacting to Time Magazine's latest issue dubbing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh an underachiever, the BJP on Monday said that the UPA government was the most corrupt. "It is sad that India is perceived as the one of the most corrupt country in the world. Dr Manmohan Singh's government is the most corrupt. Sonia Gandhi cannot escape the blame as India suffering because of her misrule," said BJP spokesperson...
01:24 PM, Jul 09, 2012
New Delhi: The BJP on Sunday attacked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh following criticism of his performance by Time Magazine, saying he had only sent a message of "disillusionment, corruption and a leaderless economy". Singh, who has long been lauded for his pivotal role in liberalising the Indian economy, has been dubbed as an "underachiever" by the US magazine which says he appears "unwilling to stick his neck out" on reforms...
01:40 AM, Jul 09, 2012
New Delhi: Congress on Sunday countered the "underachiever" remark against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made on the cover of TIME magazine's Asia edition saying what the UPA has achieved under his leadership is by no stretch of imagination "under achievement". "In the past eight years the UPA government headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has provided political stability, social harmony, internal cohesion, economic growth and a greater role in global...
06:15 PM, Jul 08, 2012
Questioning the credibility of Time magazine, the JD(U) leader said, 'like East India Company, they also aim to loot us'. ...
05:09 PM, Jul 08, 2012
New Delhi: The Time Magazine in its latest edition has targeted none other than Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, calling him 'The Underachiever' and flaying him and his government, the UPA-II for failing to act at a time when India's growth was slowing down. Questioning Singh and the UPA's policies, Time said the PM, appointed so by Congress President Sonia Gandhi despite never having won an election, was "a man in...
01:47 PM, Jul 08, 2012
Washington: Time magazine has included Raj Kapoor's 1951 classic 'Awaara' among 20 new entries added to its All-Time 100 list of the greatest films made since 1923, the beginning of the prestigious US periodical. Rethinking the movie masterpieces, Time critic Richard Corliss describes Raj Kapoor as 'the great star-auteur of India's postcolonial golden age of movies - Cary Grant and Cecil B. DeMille in one handsome package.' "The '50s films...
07:09 PM, May 28, 2012
New Delhi: If you recall the sheer opulence of Baz Luhrmann's musical Moulin Rouge, complimenting Craig Armstrong and Marius de Vries's music, you will find it easier to justify Sanjay Leela Bhansali's magnum opus Devdas' place in the '10 Greatest Movies of the Millennium' list compiled by the Time magazine. A decade after it was released in seven languages, the grandeur of Devdas continues to enamour an audience in the...
05:24 PM, May 24, 2012
Washington: Time magazine has ranked Bollywood director Sanjay Leela Bhansali's 2002 film 'Devdas' eighth among the ten greatest movies of the millennium with 'WALL.E' at the top and 'The Artist' in the tenth spot. It described Shah Rukh Khan as an 'all-world charismatist' and Madhuri Dixit 'a hot number who danced flamencos on men's libidos'. "A year after 'Moulin Rouge!' had its world premiere at Cannes, another visually intoxicating musical...
05:23 PM, May 21, 2012
A Time Magazine cover showing a mother breast feeding her 4-yr-old son has sparked a parenting row amongst its readers. ...
06:12 PM, May 12, 2012
TIME magazine's newest cover for North America, showing a stay-at-home mother in Los Angeles breastfeeding her over-three-year-old son is drawing flak from different quarters for being too provocative. The photo shows Jamie Lynne Grumet, 26, a stay-at-home mom in Los Angeles who told the magazine that her mother breastfed her until she was six. TIME's American cover is on a style of child-rearing where nursing and breastfeeding a baby beyond...
06:59 PM, May 11, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of the world, has been invited by the publication to a gala dinner with the who's who in New York on April 24. "It will be a gala black tie formal dinner where the who's who will be present. The invitation was received by the Chief Minister's office on Friday," a...
05:13 PM, Apr 21, 2012
Kolkata: Ridiculing West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's claim that her government has completed most of its tasks in its very first year, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Surjya Kanta Mishra on Friday said after having sent the railways to the ICU as railway minister, she was now doing the same to the state. "As railway minister, she has sent the railways to the Intensive Care Unit. Now she...
10:20 PM, Apr 20, 2012
New Delhi: We all heard of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee making it to the Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Another Indian to make it to the coveted list is advocate and gender rights activist Anjali Gopalan. Gopalan, 54, is the founder and Executive Director of The Naz Foundation (India) Trust, an NGO dedicated to the fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic in...
06:54 PM, Apr 19, 2012
The Time Magazine has released the list of 100 most influential people in the world, which includes people such as artists, reformers, researchers, head of states and captains of industry. From India, the list includes two names, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and eminent lawyer Anjali Gopalan. The list further includes US President Barack Obama, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Pakistan Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry and footballer Lionel...
10:41 PM, Apr 18, 2012
New York: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was on Wednesday named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of the world. Banerjee chose to dedicate the "inclusion" to the people of Bengal. "I don't care about conspiracies. I dedicated the Time magazine inclusion to the people of Bengal," she said. Banerjee now joins a club of "people who inspire us, entertain us, challenge us and...
06:16 PM, Apr 18, 2012
Barely a fortnight after Narendra Modi was on the cover of Time magazine, he has now got the highest number of negative votes in an Internet poll conducted by Time magazine. ...
11:56 PM, Apr 11, 2012
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has finished third in the Time magazine's global poll on the 100 most influential people. The two who got ahead of Modi are a group of hackers called Anonymous and anti-piracy law champion Eric Martin after a nail-biting finish. However, what may have disappointed Modi backers more is that the BJP leader got more 'No' votes (266684) than the 'Yes' ones (256792) when the readers...
10:17 AM, Apr 09, 2012
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who had recently figured on Time magazine's cover, is "manipulating" the magazine's ongoing online survey to decide the 100 most influential people in the world, state Congress chief Arjun Modhvadia alleged on Wednesday. Talking to reporters in Ahmedabad, Modhvadia said, "Modi has sent hundreds of emails through various portals of Gujarat government to the people, asking them to vote for him at the Time...
04:46 AM, Apr 05, 2012
William J Antholis, Managing Director of The Brookings Institution, on March 16, 2012 wrote the following about Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on the institute's website: "I came away thinking that this was a man America needed to know better. He may never be able to move past his role in the 2002 riots. But he is a talented and effective political leader, and will continue pushing New Delhi and...
06:35 PM, Apr 04, 2012
Time magazine praises Narendra Modi in an article for development of Gujarat which he has been ruling for over a decade but wonders if he can become the Prime Minister. ...
11:59 PM, Mar 19, 2012
