Sunday, May 6, 2012

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI): Can Hillary convince Mamata Banerjee?

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI): Can Hillary convince Mamata Banerjee?


Foreign Direct Investment (FDI): Can Hillary convince Mamata Banerjee?

Posted: 06 May 2012 07:07 PM PDT

Can US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton persuade West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to help push the policies she firmly resisted? That will be the big focus of one of the most high-profile ...


Full transcript: President Pratibha Patil's interview to NDTV

Posted: 06 May 2012 12:51 PM PDT

Amid controversy over her foreign trips, President Pratibha Patil, in an exclusive interview to NDTV's Rahul Shrivastava, says the visits go a long way in boosting India's image internationally. She h...


Hillary Clinton to meet Mamata Banerjee today; likely to discuss FDI, Teesta

Posted: 06 May 2012 11:41 AM PDT

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will meet West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today at the Writers' Building in Kolkata. Ms Clinton arrived in Kolkata on Sunday as part of her three-day v...


Socialist Hollande ousts Sarkozy in French vote

Posted: 06 May 2012 11:34 AM PDT

Francois Hollande was elected France's first Socialist president in nearly two decades on Sunday, dealing a humiliating defeat to incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy and shaking up European politics.


IPL 5: De Villiers' bludgeoning takes Bangalore past Deccan

Posted: 06 May 2012 11:29 AM PDT

Almost imperceptibly, AB de Villiers has replaced Chris Gayle as Bangalore's favourite adopted son. Watching him bat at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium on a dramatic Sunday night, it wasn't difficult to fig...


Yatra rift ignites full-scale war in Rajasthan BJP

Posted: 06 May 2012 10:50 AM PDT

The rift within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Rajasthan has intensified. A day after Vasundhara Raje threatened to quit the party over a proposed yatra by Gulab Chand Kataria, a Rashtriya Swayam...

I am in the dark, says Pranab on Presidential nomination

Posted: 06 May 2012 10:02 AM PDT

Pranab Mukherjee today refused to add any fodder to the talk of him being the front-runner for the presidential candidate, saying he was himself "in the dark" over the issue that has hogged headlines ...


IPL 5: Mumbai Indians stun Chennai by 2 wickets

Posted: 06 May 2012 09:26 AM PDT

A Mumbai Indians versus Chennai Super Kings match-up is usually a big game irrespective of context, but coming as it did with the teams placed three and four in a traffic jam-like points table, it...


Moscow protesters arrested in march against Putin

Posted: 06 May 2012 08:44 AM PDT

A protest demonstration by at least 20,000 people on the eve of Vladimir Putin's inauguration as president boiled into a battle with police after protesters tried to split off from the approved venue ...


A scarf, Tagore's Gitanjali among Mamata's gifts for Hillary

Posted: 06 May 2012 08:00 AM PDT

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will gift visiting US secretary of state Hillary Clinton Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali and Gitabitan, and the collected works of Swami Vivekananda during a...


Kolkata fortified for Hillary Clinton's visit

Posted: 06 May 2012 07:13 AM PDT

Tight security was in place as US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton arrived in Kolkata today, with even outbound and incoming flights from the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport halted f...


Man sets father on fire for giving shelter to his first wife

Posted: 06 May 2012 06:50 AM PDT

A man was burnt to death allegedly by his son after a family dispute at Khari Rahta in the Madhepura district of Bihar, police said today.

Aamir Khan's TV debut in Satyamev Jayate gets a thumbs up from Bollywood

Posted: 06 May 2012 05:20 AM PDT

Superstar Aamir Khan's much anticipated TV debut Satyamev Jayate got a thumbs up from the Hindi film industry. The celebrities took to their Twitter account and bestowed their positive reactions ab...


Was Lenin poisoned to death by Stalin?

Posted: 06 May 2012 04:45 AM PDT

Vladmir Lenin, the founder of Russian communism, was poisoned to death by his political successor Joseph Stalin, a sensational new theory has claimed.

Rajasthan: More BJP leaders offer to resign with Raje; BJP plays down crisis

Posted: 06 May 2012 04:22 AM PDT

In a dramatic development which could further aggravate the crisis in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Rajasthan, more leaders from the party have threatened to resign along with former chief minis...


Will France's 'Hyper President' be on his way out?

Posted: 06 May 2012 03:55 AM PDT

France will elect a President tonight for a fresh five year term. Results will be out at 11.30pm India time. Nicolas Sarkozy is trying to hold on to a second term but socialist candidate Francois Holl...


India to discuss nuclear cooperation, Iran with Hillary Clinton

Posted: 06 May 2012 03:42 AM PDT

Civil nuclear cooperation, regional security and Iran are among the key issues that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to discuss with External Affairs Minister SM Krishna during their ...

28,000 telephones disconnected for pesky calls: Kapil Sibal

Posted: 06 May 2012 03:17 AM PDT

The government has disconnected nearly 28,000 telephones till April 24 for sending pesky calls and SMSs using private numbers. Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal said the government has also issued close to...


India's missile defence shield ready: Defence Research and Development Organisation

Posted: 06 May 2012 03:00 AM PDT

India has developed its own missile defence shield which can be put in place at short notice to protect at least two cities, bringing the country at par with an elite group of few nations. The shield,...


Facebook IPO: Top 19 gainers, and how much they stand to make

Posted: 06 May 2012 02:07 AM PDT

Social networking site Facebook plans to raise roughly $10.6 billion in its mega IPO. Out of this, Facebook will get around $5.6 billion, while the rest will go to a handful of inside investors, many ...


10 big facts on Centre vs state over NCTC, new anti-terror agency

Posted: 06 May 2012 01:35 AM PDT

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister P Chidambaram met with the chief ministers of all states in the hope of finding consensus on the new National Counter Terrorism Centre or NCTC, describe...


I told Sonia Gandhi, no names at this stage: Sharad Pawar on presidential polls

Posted: 06 May 2012 01:32 AM PDT

In an indication that things are not entirely smooth for the ruling UPA alliance, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar has said that during his meeting with Sonia Gandhi last month, he ...


Government may consider waiving penalty in Vodafone-like cases

Posted: 06 May 2012 01:13 AM PDT

The government may dilute the provisions to allow waiver of penalties on tax demands to be raised on Vodafone-like acquisitions involving domestic assets.

Mullaperiyar dam row: Agitators march to judge's residence

Posted: 06 May 2012 12:30 AM PDT

Amid reports that the Supreme Court Empowered Committee on Mullaperiyar had found that the 119-year-old Mullaperiyar dam was safe, Kerala Water Resources Minister PJ Joseph on Saturday maintained that...

French presidential elections: Opinion polls say Sarkozy will lose

Posted: 05 May 2012 11:54 PM PDT

Today is the second and final round of the French presidential elections. Incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy's Socialist challenger Francois Hollande beat him in the first round of elections and is the front r...


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