Saturday, March 24, 2012

Anna Hazare to fast at Jantar Mantar today for Lokpal Bill

Anna Hazare to fast at Jantar Mantar today for Lokpal Bill


Anna Hazare to fast at Jantar Mantar today for Lokpal Bill

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 06:55 PM PDT

Odisha hostage crisis: 2 Italian tourists freed, say local media reports

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 12:33 PM PDT

After spending 10 days in captivity, two Italian nationals, who were taken hostage in Odisha's Kandhmal district by Maoists, have been freed, according to local media reports. They have been reportedl...


Odisha hostage crisis: Talks with Maoists suspended indefinitely after MLA's abduction

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 10:32 AM PDT

The discussion between the Maoist interlocutors and the Odisha government over the release of the two abducted Italian nationals has been suspended indefinitely after an MLA of the ruling Biju Janata ...


Gadkari faces heat over Anshuman Mishra's Rajya Sabha fiasco

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 09:59 AM PDT

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may have rejected NRI businessman Anshuman Mishra's claims that he was offered a Rajya Sabha nomination by party president Nitin Gadkari, but serious differences withi...


Congress failed to adhere to coalition 'dharma', says Sharad Pawar

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 09:42 AM PDT

Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar today refuted the allegation that Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) ditched Congress in the recent elections to the posts of Zilla Parishad chairman and vice-cha...

Made mistakes but did not change at heart: Virat Kohli

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 08:47 AM PDT

If there is one thing that stands out about Virat Kohli it is his confidence in his abilities. Confidence that allows him to be aggressive and unabashed about his emotions on field. In an exclusive in...


Coming Soon: Dhoni in his long hair look

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 08:38 AM PDT

India cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni will soon have his long locks back.Dhoni, who was in Kolkata for a promotional event, chose not to speak about cricket and mostly talked about his passio...


Manmohan Singh arrives in Seoul for Nuclear Security Summit

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 08:20 AM PDT

Seeking a weapons free world, leaders from 58 countries will discuss measures to secure all fissile material across the globe at the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul next week, with Prime Minister Man...


Pak activists want Bhagat Singh chowk in Lahore

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 08:08 AM PDT

Pakistani civil society activists have demanded that the square in Lahore where Bhagat Singh was hanged over eight decades ago should be renamed after the freedom fighter to honour his struggle to fre...


India introduced 'element of balance' in UN resolution: PM writes to Rajapaksa

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 07:37 AM PDT

Seeking to mollify Sri Lanka after the vote against it in United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today wrote to President Mahinda Rajapaksa, telling him that India ...


Full text: PM Manmohan Singh writes to Lankan President Rajapaksa

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 07:14 AM PDT

In a letter to Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said that India did not spare any effort in introducing balance in United Nations Human Rights Council resoluti...

Gujarat Porn scandal: Congress releases another video

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 07:05 AM PDT

A day after forensic reports gave a clean chit to the two BJP MLAs accused of watching porn in the assembly, the Congress have released another video of BJP MLA Jetha Bharwad watching images of models...


Congress slams BJP over Anshuman Mishra's fund-raising claims

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 06:39 AM PDT

The Congress has hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) a day after NRI businessman Anshuman Mishra alleged that he had funded the election campaign of senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi in 20...


Odisha MLA's abduction fallout of factional rivalry between Maoists?

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 05:35 AM PDT

A tribal MLA of the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in Odisha, Jhina Hikaka, has been abducted by Maoists in Koraput district. The abduction comes 10 days after the Maoists took two Italians hostage from...


J&K minister's son, allegedly drunk, thrashes shopkeeper

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 04:29 AM PDT

Shahid Afridi assaults fan at airport, claims daughter was pushed

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 03:46 AM PDT

It was a not a very happy homecoming for Shahid Afridi after Pakistan's Asia Cup triumph as he got into a scuffle with a fan at the airport, claiming that he reacted angrily only when his three-ye...


Dutch woman found dead under mysterious circumstances

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 03:26 AM PDT

A 35-year-old Dutch woman was found dead under mysterious circumstances at a house in the famous seashore temple town of Mamallapuram, about 60 km from Chennai, police said today.


Federer named greatest player by Tennis Channel

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 03:09 AM PDT

Roger Federer has been named the greatest player of all time by America's Tennis Channel.The television network's "100 Greatest of All Time," a five-night series, aired this week and culminated on Fri...


Hamilton takes pole as McLaren grabs top two for Malaysian Grand Prix

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 03:04 AM PDT

Britain's Lewis Hamilton made it two straight pole positions to start the season as he dominated qualifying for the Malaysian Grand Prix on Saturday.Hamilton, who started from pole last week in Austra...

Women lead protests at Kudankulam nuclear power plant site

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 01:47 AM PDT

Protests continued for the sixth day on Saturday at the site of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant despite prohibitory orders. Thousands of villagers, mostly women, are continuing with their indefinit...


Sri Lanka government denies UN charge of intimidating activists

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 12:58 AM PDT

The Sri Lankan government today denied the United Nations charge of intimidating pro-Tamil activists at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.


Broker who stole business secrets from wife avoids prison

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 12:56 AM PDT

A former Lehman Brothers broker who stole corporate secrets from his executive wife and shared them with friends avoided a prison term on Friday, with the judge describing his crime as a "tragic and s...

Jim Kim: Obama makes surprise pick for World Bank

Posted: 24 Mar 2012 12:43 AM PDT

Passing over better-known candidates, President Barack Obama on Friday nominated global health expert and Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to lead the World Bank. It was a surprise pick aimed ...


Obama: 'If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon'

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 11:56 PM PDT

President Barack Obama spoke in unusually personal terms Friday about the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager in Florida, a case that has roiled civil rights activists and a suburban Orlando c...

PepsiCo CEO Nooyi gets $17 mn in compensation

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 11:19 PM PDT

PepsiCo Inc Chief Executive Indra Nooyi had total compensation worth $17.1 million last year, up 6 per cent from 2010, even as the food and drink company failed to meet its key internal performance ta...


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