Friday, October 26, 2012

India Matters: The Political Desi

India Matters: The Political Desi

India Matters: The Political Desi

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 06:41 PM PDT

Indian-Americans, who have been so successful in fields like business, medicine and law, have been underrepresented politically in the US. Clearly Indian Americans have been lagging when it comes to p...

Nitin Gadkari to continue as BJP president, but second term at risk

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 12:27 PM PDT

Nitin Gadkari: BJP president Nitin Gadkari, confronting corruption charges, will remain in office for now despite corruption charges. He has also been asked by his party to proceed as scheduled to Him...

SM Krishna quits Cabinet; Ambika Soni, Mukul Wasnik may follow ahead of Sunday reshuffle

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 12:26 PM PDT

The resignation of external affairs minister SM Krishna from the Cabinet has been followed by two more ministers putting in their papers, all of it indicating that Sunday's exercise is going to be a f...

Richard Branson speaks to NDTV on Vijay Mallya, aviation and success: Full transcript

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 12:17 PM PDT

Virgin Atlantic founder and chairman Richard Branson speaks exclusively to NDTV's Shweta Rajpal Kohli on being a flamboyant entrepreneur, his success story in aviation and the crisis plaguing Vijay Ma...

Kidnapped Indian-origin baby Saanvi Venna found dead

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 12:04 PM PDT

10-month-old baby Saanvi Venna has been reportedly found dead, according to the US media. Saanvi had been missing from her parents' apartment in the US state of Pennsylvania since Monday.

NCP's RR Patil attacks ally Congress, ridicules Congressmen

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 10:27 AM PDT

Maharashtra's Home Minister RR Patil has come down heavily on his party's alliance partner, the Congress. Speaking while campaigning for his Nationalist Congress Party or NCP in the local elections he...

Citigroup is fined $2 million over Facebook IPO

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 10:10 AM PDT

Citigroup has paid a $2 million fine and fired a junior analyst after the employee leaked confidential information about Facebook's initial public offering to a popular tech blog.

Indian engineer returns home after spending 5 years in Pakistani jail

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 09:32 AM PDT

Bhavesh Parmar, a 32-year-old Mumbai-based software engineer who mysteriously landed up in Pakistan and was jailed for 5 years, finally returned home this afternoon.

Indian F1: Hrithik Roshan is Jaypee's choice for waving the flag

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 09:20 AM PDT

Bollywood actor Hrithik Roshan is the star the Jaypee Group, the organisers of the Formula One Indian Grand Prix, have chosen to wave the chequered flag Sunday while Sachin Tendulkar, who did the ...

Cabinet reshuffle on Sunday, what next for Rahul Gandhi?

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 09:14 AM PDT

Rahul Gandhi is set to play a "larger role" in the affairs of the Congress party as well as the government very soon.

Actor runs over children during TV serial shooting in Andhra Pradesh

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 09:11 AM PDT

A five-year-old boy was killed and a nine-year-old girl was seriously injured during the shooting of a television serial on the outskirts of Hyderabad. According to reports, during one of the shots be...

India asks Italy if Brigadier asked for 5 million dollar bribe

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 08:39 AM PDT

India has asked the Italian government to share details of whether Indian middlemen, including a brigadier in the Army, offered to swing the purchase of 197 light utility helicopters for the Indian Ai...

Snake on a plane: Slithery passenger hitches ride

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 08:09 AM PDT

A stowaway snake was found on a plane after it landed at Glasgow airport with the slithery passenger hitching a ride from Mexico to Scotland under a row of seats in the passenger cabin.

Italy's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi gets four years in jail over tax evasion

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 07:59 AM PDT

Italy's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi was sentenced to four years in prison for tax fraud connected to his Mediaset television channels Friday, and was banned from holding public office for ...

One child dead, another injured during TV serial shooting in Andhra Pradesh

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 07:35 AM PDT

A five-year-old boy has died and a girl has been seriously injured during the shooting of a television serial in Andhra Pradesh.

Kingfisher: Ready to fly the moment suspension of licence revoked

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 07:22 AM PDT

Kingfisher Airlines has reportedly told the civil aviation regulator, Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), that it is ready to fly the moment the suspension of its flying licence is revoke...

Indian doctor from Bangalore detained in Saudi Arabia, alleges mother

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 07:03 AM PDT

Usmane Ghani, an Indian doctor from Bangalore working in a military hospital at Riyadh, has been detained by the Saudi Arabian police at the behest of the Indian government, alleged his grieving mothe...

In RSS talk of 'impartial probe', ominous signs for Nitin Gadkari's second term

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 06:48 AM PDT

Nitin Gadkari: The senior most leaders of the BJP are meeting tonight to assess the impact of the corruption charges that have engulfed party president Nitin Gadkari over the last week. Sources say th...

Shark falls from sky onto a US golf course

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 06:10 AM PDT

A two-foot long leopard shark apparently fell from the sky on the 12th tee of a Golf club in southern California.

External Affairs Minister SM Krishna resigns

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 05:58 AM PDT

External Affairs Minister SM Krishna has resigned from the Cabinet. His resignation, sent to the Prime Minister's Office, comes just two days before an anticipated cabinet reshuffle. "I am making way ...

Billions in hidden riches for family of Chinese leader

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 05:53 AM PDT

The mother of China's prime minister was a schoolteacher in northern China. His father was ordered to tend pigs in one of Mao's political campaigns. And during childhood, "my family was extremely poor...

She 'will rise again', says Malala Yousufzai's father

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 05:29 AM PDT

The father of a Pakistani girl who was shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating girls' education said on Friday his daughter was strong and would "rise again" to pursue her dreams after receivin...

Congress defends all-clear sounded for Robert Vadra's Haryana deals

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 05:02 AM PDT

Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, did not buy any land at below-market rates in Haryana, according to an official inquiry conducted by the Congress government in the state.

India objects to Ferrari's flag support for arrested Italian marines: 10 big developments

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 05:01 AM PDT

The Indian government has objected to the Ferrari F1 team's plan to display the Italian naval flag and military symbols on their cars during practice races at the Indian Grand Prix this weekend. India...

Indian GP: Sebastian Vettel tops as Red Bull scorch practice sessions

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 04:53 AM PDT

Defending champion Sebastian Vettel set the pace for Sunday's Indian Grand Prix by emerging the fastest driver in both the practice sessions as Red Bull put up an impressive show, on Friday.Ferrari's ...
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