Friday, November 30, 2012

Former prime minister Inder Kumar Gujral to be cremated today

Former prime minister Inder Kumar Gujral to be cremated today

Former prime minister Inder Kumar Gujral to be cremated today

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 07:46 PM PST

Former Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral will be cremated in the capital today at 3 pm near Samata Sthal. He will be given a state funeral.

Gujarat elections: LK Advani, Sushma Swaraj to campaign today

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 07:14 PM PST

Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders LK Advani and Sushma Swaraj will be in Gujarat today to campaign for the assembly elections that are less than two weeks away.

Extortion case: Delhi court to hear bail plea of Zee News editors today

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 06:35 PM PST

A Delhi court will today hear the bail application of top Zee News editors Sudhir Chaudhary and Samir Ahluwalia, who have been arrested and charged with trying to extort Rs. 100 crore from Congress MP...

Lakshmi Mittal, French govt strike deal over disputed Florange unit

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 06:33 PM PST

French Prime Minister Bernard Ayrault announced the government had shelved its nationalisation plan. In return, ArcelorMittal chief Lakshmi Mittal has promised to invest 180 million euros at the Flora...

In Mizoram, sex workers are many, protection little

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 06:24 PM PST

Sex workers and injecting drug users are high risk groups for HIV infection. In Mizoram, government programmes are focusing on reaching out to them with HIV prevention campaigns. But this is proving t...

Four injured in Beed explosion, Anti-Terror Squad on spot

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 11:17 AM PST

Four members of a family, including a minor boy, were seriously injured when a radio set exploded at their residence in Koregaon village of Kaij tehsil of Beed district in Maharashtra on Friday aftern...

Tension mounts over Mittal plant facing French takeover

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 10:48 AM PST

Steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal and the French government sought a last-ditch solution on Friday on the eve of the expiry of his deadline to the state to find a new buyer for a plant it has threatened to ...

New Jersey bridge collapses, train derailed, hazardous spill reported

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 10:11 AM PST

A freight train derailed on Friday on an old-style swing bridge that apparently buckled, three years after a similar failure, toppling at least two tanker cars into a creek and causing a leak of hazar...

WikiLeaks suspect turned bed sheet into a noose

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 10:08 AM PST

The army private accused of the biggest leak of official secrets in US history admitted on Friday he had turned a prison bed sheet into a makeshift noose he could have used to kill himself.

Kidnapped when she was four, she's searching for her parents

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 09:43 AM PST

Beena, 30, has two young daughters. In their home in a Bangladeshi resettlement colony in Thiruvananthapuram, they present a pretty family picture.

30,000 weddings in Delhi, huge traffic jams all across NCR

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 09:29 AM PST

Motorists in Delhi and Gurgaon were on Friday evening caught in massive traffic jams with an estimated 30,000 weddings being performed.

Indian mission offers consular help to arrested couple in Norway

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 08:50 AM PST

A couple from Andhra Pradesh who have been arrested in Norway for alleged child abuse will find out on Monday if they can leave jail.

Another complaint filed on Facebook post against Bal Thackeray in Palghar

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 08:28 AM PST

In yet another case emerging from Palghar town in the district, police have received a complaint about some "objectionable" matter relating to late Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray posted on a "fake" Fac...

The political journey of BS Yeddyurappa

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 06:43 AM PST

A staunch Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) man, BS Yeddyurappa, who on Friday quit the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Karnataka assembly, rose from being a clerk in a rice mill to the party's f...

At 14, Aditi Ashok takes lead in Hero Women's Indian Open

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 06:24 AM PST

Aditi Ashok, a 14-year-old amateur from Bangalore, stunned one and all with a terrific three-under 69 card for a three-way lead after the first round of the Hero Women's Indian Open, here on Friday.Ad...

Who is Shweta Bhatt?

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 06:02 AM PST

Shweta Bhatt is 48 today. She spent a better part of her birthday rushing to file nomination papers since her party, the Congress, announced her candidacy for the Gujarat elections only at the last mi...

With tears and a fax, Yeddyurappa quits BJP after 40 years

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 05:07 AM PST

BS Yeddyurappa was in tears this morning as he prepared to formally quit the BJP, his party of 40 years. The 70-year-old former Karnataka Chief Minister was at Bangalore's Freedom Park this morning, f...

For most, tax burden is lower than in 1980

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 04:44 AM PST

Alan Hicks divides long days between the insurance business he started in the late 1970s and the barbecue restaurant he opened with his sons three years ago. He earned more than $250,000 last year and...

BJP complains to Election Commission against Aadhar-based direct cash transfer scheme

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 04:19 AM PST

The BJP today complained to the Election Commission that the announcement of direct cash transfer scheme was a violation of the model code of conduct in view of the assembly elections in Gujarat next ...

Provident fund account statements now just a click away

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 04:05 AM PST

Over 50 million provident fund subscribers can now access their account statements online as EPFO today launched its e-Passbook service. Active subscribers whose electronic challan-cum-return i...

What will happen if Indian Olympic Association is derecognised

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 04:03 AM PST

The International Olympic Committee and the Indian Olympic Association are at loggerheads with the former warning IOA that its elections must be in accordance with the international charter. On Wednes...

PM asks ministries to implement cash transfer scheme urgently: 10 latest developments

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 04:02 AM PST

The government has called its scheme to directly transfer cash to those benefiting from subsidies as well as other social schemes a "game-changer". The opposition calls is bribing the voter with the 2...

Trial to begin in second hate speech case against Varun Gandhi

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 04:02 AM PST

Varun Gandhi will be tried in Uttar Pradesh for alleged hate speeches made by him in 2009 while campaigning in his constituency of Pilibhit. Mr Gandhi, who belongs to the BJP, won the Lok Sabha electi...

Former Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral dies in Delhi

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 03:03 AM PST

Former prime minister Inder Kumar Gujral has died. He was 93. Mr Gujral was admitted to the Medicity Medanta Hospital in Gurgaon on November 19 with a lung infection.

A suave Inder Kumar Gujral made a mark in India's foreign policy

Posted: 30 Nov 2012 03:01 AM PST

A suave and sober politician, Inder Kumar Gujral belonged to that genre of intellectuals who made a mark in India's foreign policy and a slice of luck catapulted him to the Prime Minister's office, th...
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