Friday, February 17, 2012

Mumbai elections: Shiv Sena-BJP win; Congress concedes defeat

Mumbai elections: Shiv Sena-BJP win; Congress concedes defeat


Mumbai elections: Shiv Sena-BJP win; Congress concedes defeat

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 03:03 AM PST

Mumbai will find out today who will run its mega-bucks Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation or BMC. Counting has begun. Here are five big facts on this story:


Mamata is in Group of 5 who oppose centre's new counter terror body

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 02:54 AM PST

It's not exactly a good Friday for the Congress. In Mumbai, it's performance in the local elections has been below average. And on the national landscape, it's staring at another huge confrontation wi...


Read Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik's letter to PM

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 02:52 AM PST

Five chief ministers including Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik and West Bengal's Mamata Banerjee have objected fiercely to the new National Counter Terrorism Centre. They say the centre's bluepr...

Norway custody row: Parents meet children after three months

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 02:52 AM PST

After an "agonisingly long" wait, Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya are finally meeting their children in Norway today. The meeting began at around 2:30 pm IST as is expected to last not more than an h...


Mumbai airport ranked third in world for 'service quality'

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 02:50 AM PST

While the Indira Gandhi International Airport at New Delhi has been ranked the first in India and the second best globally for 'service quality;, Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CS...

Women demand mobile phones, not toilets: Jairam Ramesh

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 02:15 AM PST

BJP complains to EC on Beni Prasad's quota remark

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 01:39 AM PST

India strengthening its military against China: US officials

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 01:27 AM PST

For the second time in less than a fortnight, top American intelligence officials have claimed that India is building up its armed forces focused at China's perceived aggressive posture in the Asia-Pa...


Why Narendra Modi has been missing in UP polls

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 01:02 AM PST

Notice to President's son over seizure of Rs 1 crore

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 12:56 AM PST

Italian ship shot at fishermen without provocation, says India

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 11:03 PM PST

Watch: Now out-sourced to India, the music video

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 10:12 PM PST

The video is one example of the breadth of outsourcing, which has come to include the kind of highly specialized skills - like microchip design, which IBM contracted to an Indian company in 2005 - tha...

Now out-sourced to India, the music video

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 09:52 PM PST

Drew Smith found himself in the same position as many independent musicians trying to make a living in the struggling music business. He had no record label to underwrite his career, no publicity mach...


Maharashtra civic corporation polls: Counting of votes today

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 08:56 PM PST

Counting of votes for Mumbai's Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation and nine other civic bodies in Maharashtra began this morning. In very early trends, the Shiv Sena and NCP are neck and neck in the le...


UP's rural health fund scam: Mayawati's govt faces heat

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 08:48 PM PST

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's government is facing the heat after a fifth death allegedly related to a rural health fund scam in the state was reported yesterday. Political attacks against t...


Counting of votes for Maharashtra civic polls today

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 05:52 PM PST

Counting of votes for the ten municipal corporations across Maharashtra will begin today. As important cities like Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur elect their civic bodies, these elections are being fought as...


Homosexuality is to be seen in context of changing society: Supreme Court

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 11:12 AM PST

Homosexuality should be seen in the context of changing society as many things which were earlier unacceptable have become acceptable with passage of time, the Supreme Court observed on Thursday.


Congress only knows how to 'grab headlines': Swaraj

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 09:17 AM PST

Taking potshots at Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi's act of tearing up a poll manifesto, BJP leader Sushma Swaraj today said the party just wants to "grab headlines" through such acts.


Aadhar cards to verify LPG, phone connections: Nilekani

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 08:07 AM PST

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has begun two-pilot projects that would allow public sector oil marketers to make Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) transfers as well as getting mobile...


26/11 diary studied in Supreme Court

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 06:40 AM PST

At first glance, the diary appears innocuous-a thin lined book with entries in Urdu. But this is the record kept by one of the ten Pakistani terrorists who sailed from Karachi to Mumbai in November 26...


1984 anti-Sikh riots: Protests outside Sheila Dikhsit's house after 'Butcher of Trilokpuri's' sentence commuted

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 05:05 AM PST

It's an old ghost come back to haunt. Dozens of Sikh protesters today picketed Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's house in the Capital protesting that the death sentence awarded to a 1984 anti-Sikh...


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