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Pranab rules out early general elections
2008-03-08 15:01:00
External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee has told NDTV he does not foresee an early general elections. In an exclusive interview he said no Click here to read more )
More About: Elections , India , General , Rules , Early
Shah Rukh Khan?s Kolkata IPL team to be called Night Riders
2008-02-28 21:46:00
Steering clear of royals, kings and daredevils, the Kolkata franchise in the Indian Premier League has picked a somewhat original name for their squad in the T20 competition beginning April 18. The Kolkata outfit, which will squash the considerable egos of Sourav Ganguly, Ricky Ponting and Shoaib Akhtar into the same dressing room with cerebral Aussie ...
More About: Shah Rukh Khan , Night , Team , Khan
People-friendly Rail Budget- 53 new trains
2008-02-26 20:27:00
Lalu Prasad Yadav has presented his much-awaited Railways Budget 2008-2009. As his earlier budgets this time too he has presented a people-friendly rail budget which has generated a general positive sense in the public. Here are the highlights of Rail Budget 08-09. Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav has announced the introduction of 53 new trains and ...
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Guru to the Beatles, dies
2008-02-06 11:43:00
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a guru to the Beatles who introduced the West to transcendental meditation, has died at his home in the Dutch town of Vlodrop, a spokesman said on Tuesday. He was thought to be 91 years old. “He died peacefully at about 7 pm,” said Bob Roth, a spokesman for the Transcendental Meditation movement ...
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Britain repays debt of honour to Indian soldier
2008-02-04 21:33:00
The untold story of a gutsy Indian soldier killed in the Second World War is about to unfold in classrooms across the world, as Britain prepares to repay a debt of honour. Naik Yashwant Ghatge etched his name in war folklore after being awarded the Victoria Cross, the UK’s highest military decoration, for his superhuman ...
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Raj Thackeray is a maniac
2008-02-03 22:35:00
Violence broke out in Central Mumbai’s Dadar area on Sunday, a day after Raj Thackeray ’s verbal assault on Amitabh Bachchan and Lalu Yadav. It was part of his attempt to fan the flames of identity politics of Mumbai. But the victim was the city of Mumbai, as activists from his Maharashtra Navnirman Sena went on a rampage ...
Tributes paid to man who designed Indian tricolour
2008-02-03 21:24:00
India’s tricolour fluttered everywhere as tens of thousands participated in a run here Sunday to pay rich tributes to Pingali Venkaiah, the man who designed the national flag.The Tiranga Run was organised to create awareness about Venkaiah, who had presented the flag to Mahatma Gandhi at the Congress party’s meet here in 1921. Venkaiah died ...
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Woman arrested for trying to rip Sikh?s turban at US restaurant
2008-02-03 15:26:00
A New Jersey woman has been arrested on charges of bias intimidation and harassment after she tried to rip off a Sikh man’s turban at a restaurant. “I could feel a hand pulling this off,” said 38-year-old Hansdip Singh Bindra, who was at the popular bar with a colleague just after midnight. “Removing my turban in ...
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U.K. team to discuss immigration with India
2008-02-03 01:01:00
In an unprecedented move, Britain?s Immigration Minister Liam Byrne will travel to India next week to discuss with the government proposed changes to Britain?s immigration rules, including plans to increase the visa fee and the controversial new eligibility criteria for the Highly-Skilled Migrant Programme (HSMP).Mr. Byrne, who will be accompanied by a six-member delegation of ...
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Who cares for the dollar? Not the Fed, surely!
2008-02-02 02:00:00
Central bankers, economists and analysts are an anxious lot. As stock markets across continents are inexorably linked to the US Fed, they realise that the move to cut interest rates has far reaching implications. They know for sure that to save the United States’ financial sector as a whole from complete collapse, the Fed has ...
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Finally, women set to get 33% quota
2008-01-28 23:04:00
In the 2004 general elections, only 45 women were elected to the 543-strong Lok Sabha. Despite the clamour for a 33% reservation for women in Parliament for years, the Lower House registered a mere 8% women’s representation. Will the picture change drastically in the 2009 elections because of the promises made by the two major ...
More About: India , Women , Finally
R-Day: President creates history
2008-01-27 02:18:00
It was a historic moment on Saturday, as Pratibha Patil, who drove to the Rajpath in her motorcade along with her French counterpart Nicholas Sarkozy, became the first woman to take the salute in her capacity as the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces at Delhi’s Rajpath on the 59th Republic Day. Her husband Devisingh ...
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Sachin Tendulkar is a King of Cricket
2008-01-24 21:35:00
No-one in the history of cricket - NO-ONE - has scored more international hundreds than Sachin Tendulkar . Classy Sachin Tendulkar is back with bang by hammering brilliant century in Adelaide for the first time; Sachin Tendulkar has given India the perfect start as they set out to score a second consecutive victory against AustraliaOpener Virender Sehwag ...
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Slavery charges on India born couple
2007-12-19 00:33:00
An India born American millionaire couple has been found guilty of slavery by US prosecutors. The millionaire couple enslaved and tortured two Indonesian women working in their New York mansion as house-keepers. The women were repeatedly subjected to psychological and physical abuse and were forced to work 18 hours or more a day. Fifty-one-year old Mahender Murlidhar ...
More About: Slavery , Couple
UK to announce tough visa policy today
2007-12-19 00:30:00
The UK government will on Tuesday be releasing new proposals that lay down stiffer conditions for getting a visa to enter that country. This is not yet even close to becoming law but if and when it does, it will be a lot more difficult to go for a holiday to the UK. Even before the ...
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Tata bids $2.05 bn for Jaguar-Land Rover
2007-12-19 00:28:00
Jaguar and Land Rover , two iconic auto brands in the United Kingdom, are set to see a change of ownership in the new year, with their current American parent Ford Motor looking to finalise a winner by the end of 2007 or early 2008. The bids from leading Indian conglomerates and the front-runners for the deal, ...
More About: Jaguar , Land Rover , Tata
Soon, Moon to have traffic jams
2007-12-19 00:25:00
Standing long hours because of traffic light signals on ?earth? are now passé, because it might be time to consider traffic lights on the moon. In the past week, Isle of Man?s governments, space agencies, and even a company have announced plans to land on the moon. On Dec 17, marking the 35th anniversary of the Apollo ...
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Malaysian PM warns ethnic Indians
2007-11-27 20:03:00
Malaysia’s Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on Tuesday warned protesting ethnic India ns that the government will invoke the Internal Security Act (ISA), under which a person can be held without trial for an extended period of time. “When it is appropriate it will be used,” Badawi, who is also the internal security minister, was quoted ...
More About: Indians , Malaysian , Ethnic
Mumbai flat sells for a record Rs 34 crore
2007-11-22 00:26:00
Over tea and sandwiches at the Citibank office at Mumbai ?s Bandra-Kurla Complex at 10.30 am on Wednesday, family members and representatives of some of India Inc?s top guns settled down to outbid each other for a luxurious apartment. By noon, the country?s largest-ever residential transaction on record was completed when a four-bedroom flat at NCPA ...
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Internet faces meltdown by 2010
2007-11-21 00:17:00
The Internet could be in trouble. A just released study predicts, the Net will face meltdown by 2010. And when that happens, innovations like Google and YouTube may not happen anymore and e-commerce too will take a beating. The reason: The sheer scale of data exceeds the ability of the network to cope. The study ...
More About: India , Faces
Rahul Gandhi under terror threat
2007-11-18 23:34:00
A major terror plot targeting Rahul Gandhi has been uncovered after the arrest of three terror suspects in Uttar Pradesh on Friday morning. The suspects, carrying IDs of Kashmir, were arrested by the Special Task Force in Lucknow with rifles, RDX, grenades and detonators. The UP police say the arrested men have given indications of ...
More About: India , Terror , Rahul Gandhi , Threat
Bipasha Basu voted sexiest Asian woman
2007-11-17 01:11:00
Bollywood actress Bipasha Basu has been named the sexiest Asian woman by the British newspaper Eastern Eye. On claiming the top spot for the second time after 2005, the India n actress said: ‘I’m glad I got the crown back and will try and hold on to it this time. ‘I think sexiness goes beyond looks and is ...
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?Lord Ram was born in 5114 BC?
2007-11-14 22:55:00
“Ram was and is for real. He was born on January 10, 5114 BC,” Saroj Bala, IRS, Commisioner of Income Tax says, calmly, with the assurance of one who has tangible facts. Taking on the contemporary historical interpretation of Ramayana as a religio-literary text, and Lord Ram as a semi-mythical figure, is this unassuming person ...
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