Saturday, December 25, 2010

Trinamool MP stays clear of Pranab event

Trinamool MP stays clear of Pranab event

Trinamool MP stays clear of Pranab event

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 02:38 PM PST

Union home minister P Chidambaram's strong missive asking chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee to disarm CPM cadre seems to have failed to ease tension between Congress and Trinamool Congress.

Sons quit telecom brief the day Sibal took over

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 02:35 PM PST

The day Kapil Sibal assumed charge as telecom minister, his sons, both of them lawyers, are learnt to have dissociated themselves from their role as legal advisers to telecom companies.

It's a lie, I have never met Radia face-to-face: Nitin Gadkari

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 02:35 PM PST

Responding to Congress's attack, based on the allegation leveled by Radia's estranged partner Dhiraj Singh, the BJP chief said Congress was trying to deflect popular attention away from the spectrum scam.

6 yrs on, tsunami orphans still at mercy of charity

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 02:33 PM PST

Six years after the devastating tsunami, at least 56 kids, sheltered at the Annai Fathima Child Welfare Centre, an orphanage in Karapakkam on Old Mahabalipuram Road, are still living at the mercy of public charity.

Sanjeev Tripathi to be new RAW chief

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 02:30 PM PST

Sanjeev Tripathi, currently number two in the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), will take charge as the new chief of the India's external intelligence agency on or before December 30 on two-year term.

Kalmadi behind Rs 24cr OC loss in catering?

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 02:25 PM PST

CWG organizing committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi is only partly right in saying all decisions were approved by the executive board.

Lokayuktas decry move to dilute power

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 02:23 PM PST

At a time when it's in the dock over winking at corruption within, is the government trying to defang powers of the primary anti-corruption ombudsman in the country?

Govt: Prosecution of errant babus must be completed in a year

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 02:21 PM PST

Having been embarrassed over the appointment of P J Thomas as CVC while a sanction for prosecution was pending against him for 10 years, the Centre is looking to streamline disciplinary action to ensure the process does not take more than a year.

'Binayak verdict unconstitutional'

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 02:19 PM PST

The prison term awarded to Sen has also evoked outrage among social activists in India who warned that the politically motivated charges could enflame tensions in the country's conflict-hit areas.

Testimony of a merchant sealed Binayak Sen's fate

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 02:13 PM PST

A cloth merchant's testimony appears to have sealed the case against doctor and rights activist Binayak Sen, sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of criminal conspiracy and sedition.

Dantewada redux: CoBRA jawan killed by Maoists

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 02:10 PM PST

In an ambush similar to that in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada where 76 CRPF jawans were killed, Maoists tried to trap and eliminate a CoBRA team in Bengal's Purulia on Saturday.

Storm over Godse reference in Marathi lit fest souvenir

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 02:03 PM PST

Controversy marred the 84th Marathi Sahitya Sammelan on Saturday over a literary souvenir describing Nathuram Godse, Gandhi's assassin, as his admirer. The magazine was withdrawn.

Take party, give me state: KCR to Congress

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 02:03 PM PST

TRS chief K Chandrashekar Rao said he was ready to dissolve his party and merge it with the Congress if its demand for Telangana state was conceded.

Car used in Ajmer blast seized by ATS

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 01:55 PM PST

The Rajasthan Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) on Saturday claimed to have seized the car used in transporting explosives to Ajmer for the dargah blast which took place in October 11, 2007.

World's poor move with India into middle-income bracket

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 01:36 PM PST

Global poverty is no longer a poor-country phenomenon. A new study shows that while 93% of the world's poor lived in low-income countries in 1990, by 2007-8 three-quarters lived in middle-income countries.

'Failure will not hit manned mission and Chandrayaan-2'

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 11:51 AM PST

U R RAO, former Isro chairman, advocates a thorough postmortem to understand the GSLV launch fizzle and insists failures such as these won't impact India's ambitious Chandrayaan-2 and manned space mission programmes.

Technical glitch after liftoff, GSLV's gone in 63 seconds

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 11:49 AM PST

India's ambitious space programme suffered a blow when the GSLV-F06 rocket had to be destroyed 63 seconds after lift-off from Sriharikota, 100km from Chennai. This was the second GSLV failure in less than nine months.

Raja faces 2nd CBI barrage for 7 hours

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 11:46 AM PST

Raja arrived at the CBI office at 9.30am and remained there till 4.15pm with the agency announcing that he was asked about allocation of 2G spectrum and the 'Radia tapes', apart from other issues.

For Class of 2009, the downturn continues

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 11:30 AM PST

The Class of 2009 could well be called capitalism's orphans. For them, the recession isn't over, sandwiched as they are between a boom year (2008) and this year, when the economy bounced back.

GLSV failure: Future space missions under cloud

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 11:16 AM PST

The second failure of the Geo-Synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) in a span of six months is expected to have a serious impact on Isro's 3 important space programmes, space scientists said.

Digvijay hits out at RSS, VHP again

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 09:33 AM PST

Hitting out once again at the VHP and the RSS, Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh said on Saturday that the two were working like an "organised gang".

Vajpayee turns 87, BJP demands Bharat Ratna for him

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 08:19 AM PST

Former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee turned 87 Saturday and top Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders greeted him on the occasion and demanded that the Bharat Ratna, the country's highest civilian honour, be conferred upon the party patriarch.

It's GSLV's third failure in seven missions

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 05:52 AM PST

Today's failure of the GSLV is the third unsuccessful mission of the total seven of this indigenously developed space rocket.

GSLV failure a 'major' setback, say scientists

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 05:50 AM PST

Describing the failure of the GSAT-5P communication satellite launch this evening as "very tragic", India's top space scientists and strategic thinkers today said the launch vehicle going up in flames soon after the lift off was "a major setback" for ISRO.

PM not responsible for corruption: Nitish

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 05:30 AM PST

Corruption has emerged as a major issue in the country but Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was not responsible for the situation, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar said on Saturday.
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