Sunday, December 4, 2011

Dev Anand's last rites may be performed in London

Dev Anand's last rites may be performed in London


Dev Anand's last rites may be performed in London

Posted: 04 Dec 2011 08:15 PM PST

While an aide of Dev Anand said the last rites will be performed in London, India may ask the high commission in London to bring Anand's body back to Mumbai.


Global crisis, graft made Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to push for retail FDI

Posted: 04 Dec 2011 08:15 PM PST

Allowing foreign investment in multi-brand retail has been tossed about in government for the last three years or so without anyone getting too serious about it.


Jayalalithaa seeks CISF cover for Mullaperiyar

Posted: 04 Dec 2011 04:59 PM PST

Tamil Nadu CM J Jayalalithaa asked the PM to order the immediate deployment of CISF at Mullaperiyar dam to avert any "man-made catastrophic consequences".


Manipur blockade for a new district

Posted: 04 Dec 2011 04:56 PM PST

The reason behind the economic blockade in Manipur


Indian holidayers crunch budgets as dollar rises

Posted: 04 Dec 2011 04:53 PM PST

Despite dollar touching a record high and remaining expensive, Indian tourists are not cancelling their trips abroad but are making compromises to make up for the 15% rise in travel expenses.


Paresh Baruah’s deputy arrested in Myanmar

Posted: 04 Dec 2011 04:51 PM PST

A top Ulfa leader, along with an Indian journalist and a lensman, was detained in Myanmar but the two reporters were later released.


ITBP DIG held for scam in recruitment

Posted: 04 Dec 2011 04:49 PM PST

The CBI on Saturday night arrested senior IAS officer and ITBP DIG Satpal Singh in connection with a recruitment scam in Dehradun.


Show spine while dealing with China: Omar Abdullah

Posted: 04 Dec 2011 04:43 PM PST

Expressing concern over China's involvement in J&K, chief minister Omar Abdullah has said India should show "some spine" while dealing with that country.


Australia's ruling party OKs uranium sale to India

Posted: 04 Dec 2011 04:36 PM PST

Australia's ruling Labour party on Sunday backed Prime Minister Julia Gillard's bold move to overturn a longstanding ban on uranium sale to India.


BJP loses deposit to rebel Sriramulu in Bellary bypoll

Posted: 04 Dec 2011 04:33 PM PST

The BJP got drubbed in the Bellary assembly byelection where party discard and former Karnataka minister B Sriramulu, contesting as an Independent and backed by the Reddy brothers, won by a huge margin on Sunday.


BJP loses deposit to rebel Sriramulu in Bellary bypoll

Posted: 04 Dec 2011 04:33 PM PST

The BJP got drubbed in the Bellary assembly byelection where party discard and former Karnataka minister B Sriramulu, contesting as an Independent and backed by the Reddy brothers, won by a huge margin on Sunday.


Congress gets a boost in Haryana with Ratia win

Posted: 04 Dec 2011 04:25 PM PST

Congress wrested the Ratia reserved assembly seat that has been with the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) for the past three decades.


Railways offering jobs to accident victims’ kin

Posted: 04 Dec 2011 04:21 PM PST

The railways has extended a helping hand to the families of those killed in recent train accidents by offering a job to at least one member of the victim's family.


PM hopes Parliament will function from Wednesday

Posted: 04 Dec 2011 04:20 PM PST

When asked if Parliament would function normally on Wednesday, the PM said, "Hopefully."


Plan panel questions four-laning of some national highway sections

Posted: 04 Dec 2011 03:59 PM PST

The Planning Commission has kicked off a fresh debate, questioning how National Highways Authority of India has gone ahead with four-laning of national highways even when the daily traffic volume on these stretches did not qualify them to be widened beyond two lanes.


Having rejected FDI in retail in its manifesto, Trinamool stayed true to word

Posted: 04 Dec 2011 03:54 PM PST

Trinamool has specifically ruled out opening retail in its manifesto and a vast web of local business and intermediaries is a reason for this.


Dress code for litigants? Bombay high court believes so

Posted: 04 Dec 2011 03:47 PM PST

The 138-year-old Bombay high court recently fined two foreigners for not dressing properly in the premises where the upholders of the majesty of law conduct serious business.


No mining licence issued during my term as CM: SM Krishna

Posted: 04 Dec 2011 03:25 PM PST

A day after a Lokayukta court ordered a probe against him, foreign minister S M Krishna on Sunday insisted that no mining licence was issued during his tenure as Karnataka chief minister.


Supreme Court judge, MEA ex-secretary slug it out for International Court of Justice post

Posted: 04 Dec 2011 03:19 PM PST

A senior sitting judge of the Supreme Court and an ex-legal advisor to the ministry of external affairs are slugging it out to get the Union government's nomination for a judge's post in Hague-based International Court of Justice.


IAF’s ‘Heli-Teli’ to track terror over Delhi and Mumbai

Posted: 04 Dec 2011 02:42 PM PST

IAF has deployed a specialized helicopter each at New Delhi and Mumbai to beam "live'' the action on the ground during "terror strikes or urban warfare''.


Congress MP wants defence trainees to be paid salaries

Posted: 04 Dec 2011 02:38 PM PST

Maharajganj MP Harshvardhan has written to defence minister A K Antony asking that the defence forces and bureaucracy be brought at par.


PMO steps in to speed up freight corridor plan

Posted: 04 Dec 2011 02:22 PM PST

The PMO called chief secretaries of Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh for a meeting on Friday and instructed them to speed up land acquisition for the ambitious project.


Shanti Bhushan CD was doctored: Lab report

Posted: 04 Dec 2011 02:17 PM PST

The conclusion of the report was that the CD was "not original and it is a post production edited version''.


Farmer drinks poison in front of CM

Posted: 04 Dec 2011 02:11 PM PST

The frustration of Vidarbha farmers was brought to the state government's notice in a bizarre incident on Sunday.


BJP saw FDI in retail decision as a stick to beat government with

Posted: 04 Dec 2011 01:59 PM PST

BJP leaders held a quiet but intense meeting in Parliament House to discuss the implications of FDI in retail and decided that the party will oppose the move vehemently.


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