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09:17 AM, Jun 04, 2012
Dubai: Osama bin Laden led a frugal life, spending all his personal wealth on attacks against the West and serving his guests good food, al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri said in a video posted online on Sunday. In the half-hour tape titled "Days with the imam, Part Two" a bespectacled Zawahiri, who took up the reins of al Qaeda after bin Laden's killing just over a year ago, fondly recalled...
02:36 AM, Jun 04, 2012
Cairo: Osama bin Laden spent all his personal wealth on jihad, considering meat and electricity as luxuries so he could save his money to help fund terror attacks, according to recollections from his deputy and successor posted online late on Saturday. Al-Qaeda's new leader Ayman al-Zawahri, in the second of his "Days with the Imam" series of videos, said that bin Laden would however pay readily for hospitality for his...
10:22 PM, Jun 03, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday conducted raids in three places in Uttar Pradesh in connection with the NRHM scam. The raids were conducted at the residential premises of former UP health minister Anant Mishra in Lucknow and Kanpur. The action came after an FIR was filed by the CBI nearly two days ago in connection with the appointment of nearly 100 Chief Medical Officers (CMOs)....
08:48 AM, Jun 02, 2012
Lucknow: The Rs 5,700-crore National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam is now knocking on the doors of former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati. Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sources have told CNN-IBN that the Mayawati government split the Health Ministry to facilitate the appointment of 100 additional chief medical officers (CMO), who were tasked with just handling NRHM funds. CBI claims that the plan was...
03:28 PM, Jun 01, 2012
Lucknow: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday filed another chargesheet in the Rs 5,700-crore National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam of Uttar Pradesh. The chargesheet has been filed against former health minister Babu Singh Kushwaha and BSP MLA Ram Prasad Jaiswal in connection with the alleged irregularities in the implementation of NRHM funds in the state. The matter pertains to Rs 13.4 crore allotted to Construction Design Services...
06:55 PM, May 31, 2012
Puducherry: Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research in Puducherry will release on June 1 the result of the entrance exam held at the all India level for selection of students to first MBBS course during 2012-2013 academic year in the institute. Seventy five per cent of the 40,000 candidates who had applied for the entrance test in various parts of the country simultaneously appeared for the test on...
03:43 PM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: The nation on Sunday remembered the country's first PM Jawaharlal Nehru on his 48th death anniversary, with President Pratibha Patil and Vice-President Hamid Ansari paying homage to him. Patil, Ansari and Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi paid floral tributes to Nehru at Shanti Van, his memorial on the banks of Yamuna here. Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and Union Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath were among prominent citizens who...
05:29 PM, May 27, 2012
New Delhi: Congress president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi will be visiting Guwahati on Saturday to attend the first anniversary celebration of the third consecutive term of the Congress government in the state. Meanwhile, ULFA hardliners have called for a 12-hour bandh in the state in protest against the visit. On Friday night, one person was killed in a bomb blast allegedly by anti-talk faction of ULFA in Tinsukia district....
08:29 AM, May 26, 2012
New Delhi: Legendary actor Kamal Haasan's upcoming film Viswaroopam, that has been produced and directed by the actor himself, will be showcased at the 13th Videocon IIFA Weekend in Singapore this June 2012. Viswaroopam is made in both Hindi and Tamil and is one of Haasan's biggest projects till date. The Hindi version titled 'Vishwaroop' will be unveiled on June 8 at the Raffles City Convention Centre in Singapore, giving...
10:42 AM, May 25, 2012
Guwahati: A TADA designated court in the city on Thursday acquitted United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa in a murder case dating back to 1990. Rajkhowa was acquitted on the basis of benefit of doubt in the case relating to the murder of noted businessman Surendra Paul. The businessman was gunned down on April 9, 1990 at Tinsukia district in upper Assam by suspected ULFA militants. The...
05:11 PM, May 24, 2012
New Delhi: In 1923, iconic Bengali humorist Sukumar Ray described a curious race of beings "who were scared to laugh". With the government forced to apologise for a 1949 cartoon on Jawaharlal Nehru and B.R. Ambedkar after parliamentarians of all hues raised a massive ruckus, are Indians becoming that humourless race? The 63-year-old cartoon by the eminent Shankar - considered the father of Indian political cartoonists who ran the highly...
01:12 PM, May 18, 2012
The grand old man of Indian cartooning, RK Laxman, has a delightful anecdote that embodies the charm of political cartooning. Soon after the 1962 Sino-Indian ...
12:22 AM, May 18, 2012
Ghaziabad: A special CBI court has extended by 14 days the judicial custody of former Uttar Pradesh health minister Babu Singh Kushwaha and eight others, arrested for their alleged roles in the multi-crore NRHM scam. All the accused were brought from Dasna district jail to the court and were produced before the special CBI judge AK Singh on Tuesday. They will now be produced on May 29. Besides Kushwaha, UP...
03:02 AM, May 17, 2012
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