SHE is older and wiser. And that, it would seem, is about all that has changed.
As Naomi Campbell strutted down the catwalk this week she looked remarkably like the young woman walking just...
THE DELHI High Court has imposed a fine of Rs 2 lakh on the Indraprastha Apollo Hospital for not providing free treatment to patients belonging to economically weaker sections of society.
T...
Inquiry puts three teachers and an education official under lens
EDUCATION officials and teachers had skipped work and left students virtually on their own the day five girls died ...
Twittering minister continues to update his online account despite being reprimanded by the Congress top brass
UNION MINISTER Shashi Tharoor, whose seemingly tasteless " cat...
TAMILNADU LAND GRAB IN DINAKARAN'S NAME?
For years, the two tiny lakes and adjoining pasture served as the common property resource for the poor village folks, mostly Dalits. No...
Fair salaries a must for IIT teachers
IMAGINE this headline: ' Massachusetts Institute of Technology professors to go on hunger strike over salary revision'. It is unlikely...
The Atomic Energy Commission acted like akangaroo court on an issue that is vital for our security
NATIONAL Security Adviser, M. K. Narayanan has said that the Atomic Energy Commi...
KALAVATI Bandurkar, the face of debt- ridden farmers of Vidarbha, has sprung a surprise by announcing her decision to fight elections.
The 50- year- old widow with seven daughters and two s...
THE MNS ( Maharashtra Navnirman Sena) factor is playing out loud and clear in both the saffron and ' secular' camps. While BJP decided to dump as many of the MNS seats on its ally, Shiv ...
THE idea of having a memorial for Chhatrapati Shivaji was greeted with resounding applause by the ruling parties, while the Opposition, not wanting to come out looking politically incorrect, has m...
THE ELECTION season is in full bloom as yet another generation of politicians is being groomed for a career in politics. These hand- medowns are causing considerable heartburn in all the four main...
KAPIL Sibal has refused to bow down to pressure from the IIT faculty threatening to go on a hunger strike over pay regulation.
" We always dream that our IITs will produce nobel laurea...
CHINA'S ambassador to India Zhang Yan met Union home secretary G. K. Pillai on Tuesday to express his concern over reports in the Indian media on Chinese incursions into the country's te...
Jaswant's anger
JASWANT Singh doesn't like being asked if he regretted penning his book on Jinnah.
" Do you find me regretting it?" he snapped back on Tues...
Day 5: Check out these new looks for brides and Barbies
Lakme Fashion Week Spring/ Summer 2010 saw another day of great designs. In a collection that had touches of geometric lines, ...
THE GOVERNMENT'S effort to set an example in austerity by last- minute pruning of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's delegation to the G- 20 Summit that starts in Pittsburgh on Thursday see...
THE CENTRE on Tuesday issued a " look- out circular ( LOC)" against US- based LTTE sympathiser Dr Ellyn Shander. She was to have addressed a meeting in New Delhi on Thursday at the India...
THE MINISTRY of home affairs ( MHA) is planning to file another affidavit in the Ahmedabad High Court in the Ishrat Jahan case.
Through this second affidavit, which sources say the MHA is p...
THE CONGRESS will contest 174 seats and its alliance, the Nationalist Congress Party ( NCP), 114 under a seat- sharing accord clinched by the two parties for next month's assembly polls in Ma...
PAKISTANI Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Tuesday stopped short of confirming that Hafiz Saeed, the alleged mastermind of the Mumbai attacks, has been arrested.
Addressing the media in...
FORMER Russian president Boris Yeltsin got so drunk during a visit to Washington in 1995 that he was found standing outside the White House in his underpants.
He was trying to hail a cab to...
IN A FASHION week there are bound to be many " how bizarre" moments. The Lakme Fashion Week that concluded on Tuesday in Mumbai threw up enough of those. These outfits are not meant for ...
FOR ALL those who were left bemused by the memorable scene from the cult Thai movie Ong- Bak , where humble autorickshaws ( tuk tuks ) figure in an action- packed vehicle chase — some of them driv...
THE RAJPUT community of the former princely state of Jaipur has yet to reconcile with the marriage of its princess, Diya Kumari, with a man of the same gotra or clan.
Diya had married Naren...
GLOBAL leaders converged in New York on Tuesday at the biggest climate change conference.
As many as 100 delegates hoped to revive stalled negotiations on a new pact to combat global warmin...
FORMER Vice- President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat disapproved of expelled BJP leader Jaswant Singh's attempts to mobilise Rajputs in order to practise community- based politics.
Jaswant, ...
THE Trinamool Congress on Tuesday demanded an inquiry into the alleged misappropriation of funds by former Rajya Sabha MP and CPM central committee member Nilotpal Basu.
The party pitched f...
INDIA keeps appearing in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, most notably in the Sign of Four . So, it comes as no surprise that an Indian author has set out to give the detecti...
Expelled BJP leader says writing is a hazardous business
THE OCCASION was the launch of former top cop Ved Marwah's book, India In Turmoil ( Rupa), but BJP's expelled ...
JUSTICE MADAN MOHAN PUNCHHI
Post held: Former Chief Justice of India
The Committee on Judicial Accountability alleged in 1998 that Justice Punchhi had committed irregularities...
THE CONTROVERSY surrounding the elevation of Justice P. D. Dinakaran to the Supreme Court has revived demands for a change in the existing system of appointment of judges. But the government has b...
JUSTICE K. Veeraswami and son- inlaw Justice V. Ramaswami are two names that inevitably crop up when it comes to corruption and misuse of office in the higher echelons of the judiciary.
Whi...
BORN into a wealthy feudal family in Orathur village near Arakkonam in Tamil Nadu on May 9, 1950, P. D. Dinakaran went on to become a judge of the Madras High Court.
Hailing from a Dalit fa...
F or years, the two tiny lakes and adjoining pasture served as the common property resource for the poor village folks, mostly Dalits. Not only have most of the village folk become landless now, e...
THE DELHI High Court has imposed a fine of Rs 2 lakh on the Indraprastha Apollo Hospital for not providing free treatment to patients belonging to economically weaker sections of society.
T...
This is a good year for asset creation. Your financial situation will improve dramatically. You will become a calmer person.
ARIES Mar 21- Apr 19
You may be robbed of th...
Agle Janam Mohe Bitiya Hi Kijo 9.30 pm, Zee TV
Shekhar spends his first day farming with Laali. Back in the haveli , encouraged by Laali, Shekhar enters the fray for the tractor desp...
With our critic's star ratings
THIS WEEK'S RELEASES
WANTED ( A) Directed by Prabhudeva.
* ing Salman Khan, Ayesha Takia Azmi, Mahesh Manjrekar, Assee...
Places to visit, shows to check out &food to grab
Navratra Special
Savour the navratra spread at the 64/ 6 Restaurant, Country Inn & Suites, Sahibabad.
Three-...
... but women keep their spirits high even as they balance home chores and work load, keep family members happy and look their best in the evening
THERE'S something about ...
Looking forward to your next girly session? A new study says they are good for your heatlh
ASK ANY woman whether she prefers a male or female friend to pour her heart out to ...
Get some stylish blouses to look chic and different this season
MADHURI DIKSHIT danced to the beats of dhakdhak showing off her figure in a backless blouse. The next year, she shook...
The buzz on the sequel to the Sherlock Holmes movie
A ' Sherlock Holmes' sequel is afoot.
Three months ahead of the release of its Robert Downey Jr. action pic, Warn...
The story behind YSR letters
MANY congratulations to M AIL T ODAY for taking criticism in its stride and publishing a string of letters from supporters of YS Rajasekhara Reddy YS Ja...
WHAT do you expect when two hot females come together for a project? Not camaraderie definitely. Reports are rife that Amrita Rao is unhappy about Malaika Arora- Khan making a more grand entry tha...
MALLIKA Sherawat was a special guest at the Montblanc- UNICEF charity event held at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles recently. There, she " wowed" the crowd with an elegant yell...
SHE is older and wiser. And that, it would seem, is about all that has changed.
As Naomi Campbell strutted down the catwalk this week she looked remarkably like the young woman walking just...
WORRIES about a possible public outrage prompted the Delhi government on Tuesday to reject a proposal offering to withdraw a concession offered on domestic cooking gas.
A note proposing a p...
THE next time you are taking a loan from a bank, especially a floating rate housing or car loan, check whether your bank is a member of the Banking Codes and Standards Board of India ( BCSBI). If ...
THE Securities and Exchange Board of India ( Sebi) made a couple of amendments to the existing take over norms on Tuesday. It said an open offer will be triggered if American depositary receipt ( ...
THE Andhra Pradesh government is unlikely to bid for oil and natural gas blocks under the eighth edition of New Exploration and Licensing Policy ( NELP- VIII), which will close on October 10, as i...
INDIA'S economic slowdown has ended, the Asian Development Bank ( ADB) has said, while revising its growth forecast for the year upwards for India and China.
" The governmentalt14...
DESPITE fears of an impending correction, the market was on a winning spree for the fifth day, gaining to a 16- month high on Tuesday.
NSE's Nifty crossed the 5,000- point mark. The up...
INDIA'S largest telecom company stepped up the heat on Tuesday, in an attempt to secure approvals for its bid to combine with South African telco MTN to create the world's fifth largest ...
AFTER witnessing sluggish sales over the last few months, the market for used cars is showing signs of recovery. Dealers are hoping that the ongoing festive season, which is considered auspicious ...
THE International Air Transport Association ( IATA) has informed the UN office on climate change that mechanisms designed for ground- based polluters will not work effectively for aviation which c...
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Will Microsoft Zune be an iPod killer?
SERIOUSLY, if being sexy was the only criterion to bludgeon and kill Apple iPod in the market, then Microsoft's...
THE present bull run in the financial market has seen a revival of the initial public offerings ( IPO) by companies and the latest to join the bandwagon is Anil Ambani- led Reliance Communications...
CBRE's report says low demand has led to correction
IF you are dreaming of opening a store in the capital's tony Khan Market area, this might be a good time to start looki...
Centre slaps telcos with Rs 32- cr fine
The government has slapped a penalty of Rs 32 crore on mobile operators for failing to adhere to the subscriber verification norms in 2008- 09...
Pakistan team management is yet to decide about playing Mohammad Asif in the Champions Trophy despite him completing a 12- month ban on Tuesday
...IN- FORM Tillakaratne Dilshan hammered his third one- day century and versatile spinner Ajantha Mendis grabbed three wickets to put Sri Lanka in a strong position against South Africa in the openi...
ENIGMATIC fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar predicted that Pakistan and host South Africa may clash in the summit clash of the ICC Champions Trophy.
Akhtar, ignored for the elite eightnation tourna...
Pakistan coach feels governments of both countries must take the initiative
PAKISTAN coach Intikhab Alam wants India and Pakistan to restart bilateral series soon, but the former...
THE Cricket Boardalt39s 80th AGM, scheduled in Mumbai on September 24, has a 13- point agenda including clearing of IPL- II accounts, which came under the public scanner following dissensions with...
DISCARDED Indian spinner Murali Kartik has signed up with Somerset as their overseas player for 2010 switching sides with Middlesex.
Left- arm spinner Kartik, who joined Middlesex in 2007, ...
OLYMPIC bronze- medallist Sushil Kumar failed to replicate boxer Vijender Singh's feat and lost out on a medal opportunity in the World Wrestling Championship after losing the bronze medal pl...
SOMDEV'S DATE WITH SPORTS MINISTER
Says he has been assured full backing to make the event agrand success
COMMONWEALTH Games Organising Committee chairman Su...
Goan club continues its splendid run this season
CHURCHILL Brothers rode on a hat- trick by captain Odafe Onyeka Okolie to beat Mohun Bagan 3- 1, in a nail- biting finish to the Dur...
Somdev rises to 131 in ATP rankings
INDIA'S new tennis hero Somdev Devvarman rose two rungs to 131 in the latest ATP rankings while Sania Mirza dropped to 65 in the WTA list.
SINGAPORE gamblers shrugged off news that last year's Formula One race in the city- state was fixed and said it would not stop them placing bets on this weekend's nighttime Grand Prix.
Former champion from Belgium takes a cue from Kim Clijsters.
Says fire is burning inside her and she will compete from 2010
...Former F1 champion says it's now time to look ahead at positives
THE race- fixing controversy that has shamed Formula One is a bump on the road that the sport will quickly...
MUMBAI's safe- for- women image took a beating when a 25- year- old woman was allegedly gangraped and set ablaze on Monday night.
The woman, who suffered 90 per cent burn, died in hosp...
THE BIHAR Police have arrested a dismissed Indian Army man who was allegedly working as a mole of Pakistan's Inter- Services Intelligence ( ISI) in the state.
Acting on a tip- off, a j...
Inquiry puts three teachers and an education official under lens
EDUCATION officials and teachers had skipped work and left students virtually on their own the day five girls died ...
FIVE girls were killed and 35 injured in the stampede at the crammed government school in Khajuri Khas on the morning of September 10.
Students of the senior secondary school in Northeast D...
HOLLYWOOD star Julia Roberts has been bitten by the India bug.
The actress, who is in Pataudi, Haryana, shooting for her film Eat, Pray, Love, sought the blessings of Swami Dharmdev, in who...
SHASHI Tharoor, the 53- year- old minister of state for external affairs, has brought about a new understanding of India's relations with Liberia and Ghana, two African nations no one really ...
ABOUT 6000 light goods vehicles in the Capital will have to move to CNG from diesel engine to be able to ply on the city roads from October 1. All commercial vehicles which weigh more than 7,500 k...
THE primary section of the Delhi Public School at Indirapuram has been closed for a week as a precautionary measure after two students caught the swine flu virus.
" Two students from M...
THE Delhi government has approved the sale of Tamiflu at authorised chemist retail outlets in the Capital.
" The Delhi government has implemented the notification of the government of ...
AN INDIAN- ORIGIN woman, who stabbed her two teenage daughters to death with a kitchen knife, was on Tuesday jailed for a minimum of 33 years, one of the longest prison terms in modern times in Br...
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travels by air and politicians, no matter how rich, desist from an overt show of wealth, the dapper minister of state ( MoS) for external affairs was brought do...
L. K. ADVANI'S continuance at the top has clearly made him vulnerable to targeted attacks by his own partymen.
After Yashwant Sinha, Jaswant Singh and Arun Shourie pummelled the vetera...
THE MOOD is buoyant and the weather fine in Sriharikota as the country gears up to launch its 16th remote- sensing satellite on Wednesday.
Space scientists at the Indian Space Research Orga...
TWO HIGH court judges have been transferred by the President after their names had figured in the judges expenses scam exposed by M AIL T ODAY . According to the Union ministry of law and justice,...
RAHUL Mahajan kickstarted promotions for his upcoming reality show, Rahul Dulhania Le Jayega ( RDLJ), in New Delhi on Tuesday.
The show, in which the son of slain BJP leader Pramod Mahajan ...
P. CHIDAMBARAM wants Delhiites to change their behaviour and attitude before the city hosts the Commonwealth Games next year.
Pointing out that Germany and China had made enormous efforts t...
THE MUCH- HYPED Kylie Minogue number, chiggy wiggy in Blue , has backfired for filmmakers.
Critics, media, bloggers and music lovers alike have expressed their dislike for the song, for whi...
Somdev' s Davis Cup victory marks the arrival of GenNext of Indian Tennis AN EXCLUSIVE REPORT BY MAHESH BHUPATHI
WHAT A stage India's brand new tennis star Somdev Devvarman...
IIT profs to go on hunger strike for better salaries
LASHING out at the government for " forcing to take the extreme step", professors of all seven IITs have decided to go...
Rebel scientist wants more H- bomb tests
Former DRDO scientist K. Santhanam.
based on a special exemption given to India for all nuclear tests it carried out before May 13, 19...
Mehendi scare sweeps through four states in eastern India
Doctors blame spurious mehendi and fear psychosis
HUNDREDS of women fell ill on Monday in four states across ...
Immigration rackets must be busted
THE shocking story of four Punjabi youth dying on their way to Spain during an almost impossible journey through the Sahara Desert should make the ...
Issue should have been settled behind closed doors, but now it is out with very few constructive options available
GRAVE damage has been done to national security by the doubts tha...
UNLIKE many of his contemporaries who wear their dislike for English on their sleeves, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar sees no harm in promoting the language. He says that English simply cannot ...
THIS has nothing to do with the exit of Lalu Prasad from the Railway ministry. But the railways are facing one problem after another in Bihar these days. There were a few instances of torching of ...
PATNA has had a long tradition of hosting memorable musical nites during Durga Puja. Ask any maestro about the cultural programmes of yore in the Bihar capital, and they will all reminisce about t...
THE outcome of no other by- poll in recent times has altered the political scene in a state as radically as in Bihar. The byelections to the 18 state assembly seats which were considered rather in...
AT LEAST 12 students of Amity Law School in Noida are suspected to be suffering from swine flu.
One of those with flu symptoms is senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arun Jaitley's so...
NALINI, serving a life term in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, on Monday began an indefinite fast at the high security Vellore prison, demanding premature release.
She has refused to e...
Trading blows
THE TELUGU Desam Party ( TDP) has taken exception to the reported remarks of some Andhra Pradesh ministers that the Opposition was trying to scuttle the chances of Y. S...
THOUSANDS OF Muslims offered prayers during Eid- ul- Fitr on the Delhi- Gurgaon Expressway ( above) on Monday morning. For one hour, there was no traffic movement on the road.
Motorists wer...
The newborn's future uncertain with father in jail and mother's parents refusing to take the child home
A 13- YEAR- OLD girl, who returned home pregnant after being ki...
DID FAST- running electricity meters shoot up your monthly bills this summer? The city's power regulator wants to know.
The Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission ( DERC) has ordered ...
LADIES and gentlemen, live from Lakme Fashion Week 2009 in Mumbai, we present the Raspberry Awards for the Showstoppers.
These are given for the worst, the most bizarre, ineffectual and unn...
THE travails of CBI joint director Arun Kumar just do not seem to end.
First he was divested of the supervisory charge of the ' botched- up' Arushi Talwar murder case. And now, th...
THE MANILA- based International Rice Research Institute ( IRRI) is advising Saudi Arabia in its foray into agriculture outsourcing.
Though the top global rice research organisation's m...
PAKISTANI police on Monday restricted the movement of Jamaatud- Dawa chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed — the Mumbai terror attacks mastermind — and barred him from leading Eid prayers in Lahore citing se...
TOP MAOIST leader Koteswar Rao alias Kishenji on Monday night demanded the unconditional release of party leader Kobad Gandhi, who was arrested in Delhi.
Kishenji claimed Gandhi was a post-...
METRO'S FEEDER buses won't run on Tuesday. Drivers and conductors have gone on strike, demanding salary hike and bonus on Diwali. " We own the feeder bus fleet but these are operate...
MANY hot fashion trends made their way to the red carpet of the 61st Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday night.
Drew Barrymore added the Hollywood glamour in a delicate blush gown by Moniq...
CORRUPTION has either left the corridors of the Uttar Pradesh bureaucracy, or it has spread deep enough to silence every internal voice that rose against it.
As development work in much of ...
THE JUDICIARY is in the dock of people's court as never before, facing allegations of corruption.
Close on the heels of the declaration of assets controversy that engulfed Chief Justic...
Even as the Centre talks big and does precious little to tackle corruption in civil services and the judiciary, high- profile cases of fraud and bribery refuse to die
...The UPA has repeatedly failed to walk its talk on anti- graft laws
L AWS dealing with the corrupt are in need of an overhaul.
The government realises this but its actions a...
THE CENTRE has pulled all stops to prevent a 26/ 11- style attack following intelligence inputs from the US, UK and Israel about a possible Lashkar- e- Tayyeba ( LeT) strike this festive season.
Former DRDO scientist K. Santhanam.
based on a special exemption given to India for all nuclear tests it carried out before May 13, 1998. If India tests again, the US Atomic Energy Act kick...
You may take some wrong decisions this year, so do not start any new venture. But it will be a good year for those who are employed.
ARIES Mar 21- Apr 19
It may not ...
Shree 10.30 pm, Zee TV
The series takes a six year leap. The family is happy, because there has been no trace of Kangana for six years now. Nine poor girls are called home for navrat...
Places to visit, shows to check out &food to grab
The Gaming War
PVR presents a ' Gaming Night' with Xbox and Halo 3 at PVR Premier ( Gold Class), Select Ci...
With our critic's star ratings
THIS WEEK'S RELEASES
WANTED ( A)Directed by Prabhudeva.
* ing Salman Khan, Ayesha Takia Azmi, Mahesh Manjrekar, Asseem...
Shisha is another form of tobacco, soaked in fruity flavours ranging from rose, orange, apple to strawberry. This mixture is smoked through alarge water pipe
WHILE EVERYONE knows t...
Consuming too many energy drinks, dubious paanmasalas and an excessive amount of protein powder can have disastrous health consequences
IF A YOUNGSTER is not 'into' somet...
Asthmatic children avoid exerting themselves during sports, from fear that they may provoke an asthma attack. However, research shows that swimming inhibits such attacks and also helps reduce symp...
If you want to be able to lift more weights or run that extra mile, bet on beetroot juice.
Drinking beet juice boosts your stamina and could help you exercise for up to 16 per cent longer, ...
Normally our body tells us when wealt39ve eaten enough, but the brain often interferes when you eat food high in fat. Researchers have found that one particular type of fat — palmitic acid — is pa...
Narcolepsy is an overwhelming daytime sleepiness which disrupts people's lives
THERE'S NOT much dispute about the fact that a good night's sleep can fix almost any...
( Multiple Myeloma is one of the many causes of bone pain)
SHE SAYS her fatigue and achy bones led her to the doctor's clinic.
Canadian- Indian film star Lisa Ray, w...
THROAT? (CAREFUL, IT MAY DAMAGE YOUR HEART)
Seemingly minor throat infections may lead to heart valve disease, a condition that occurs in more women than men
AL...
WHEN it comes to dance, Prabhu Deva has always been considered India's answer to Michael Jackson. The South Indian star, who returned to Bollywood as a director with Wanted , says he always c...
ROADSIDE food, you would assume, is not something celebs would indulge in considering their fitness regimes and of course other preferences. However, Kim Sharma says she is very different from oth...
PREITY Zinta, who is doing a dance number Happening for the film Main Aurr Mrs Khanna , has said to have put a lot of effort in to the song.
But she hates it when people refer to the dance ...
ACTRESS Kalki Koechlin has always been very open about her relationship with her film director boyfriend Anurag Kashyap. She doesn't mince words while talking about his annoying habits.
THE MUCH- HYPED Kylie Minogue number, chiggy wiggy in Blue , has backfired for filmmakers.
Critics, media, bloggers and music lovers alike have expressed their dislike for the song, for whi...
billion spent by computer giant Dell to buy Perot Systems to beat rivals IBM & HP and expand biz
...POST offices would not limit its banking system to traditional technology and would adopt core banking system ( CBS), by the end of current financial year.
" All branches of post offic...
VODAFONE, the world's largest mobile services firm, will revamp its brand and marketing strategy in the UK for the first time in four years in a move to beef up its image, a media report says...
THE success of the G20 summit beginning at Pittsburg, US, on Thursday would depend on whether the UK, France and Germany are ready to give up their entrenched positions on clinging to their existi...
ELECTRONICS major LG India Pvt Ltd, which is targeting a turnover of Rs 13,000 crore by the fiscalend, is investing hugely on its research and development ( R& D) activity in the country.
T...
Lloyds under lens for tax case in China
BRITISH tax authorities are investigating claims that staff at Lloyds Banking Group encouraged rich clients to send money through China to avo...
THERE is one candid confession that the country's most celebrated venture capitalist Saurabh Srivastava isn't shy of making and that is despite all analysts' projections on the boom...
HERO Honda Motors Ltd on Monday launched its premium segment bike Karizma ZMR with a price tag of Rs 91,000 ( ex- showroom Delhi).
Pawan Munjal, managing director, Hero Honda Motors Ltd, sa...
Did you know that there are, literally, thousands of features in Microsoft Word that make writing or editing really simple? Here are three that could give some PC joy: 1) To change case, select th...
SONY ERICSSON says it is an innovation that could change mobile music forever. We will reserve judgement until we see the product, but the Japanese- Swedish conglomerate says that with its new ear...
CEMENT prices are expected to weaken as about 50 million tonnes per annum ( mtpa) of new production capacity is slated to be added in the next two years in India.
With the demand not likely...
The buzz on ex US VP nominee John Edwards' mistress
TELLING the simple truth is evidently something politicians in this post- George Washington era have to " consideralt1...
H- bomb revelation could harm us
THE CONTROVERSY over whether the hydrogen bomb that India tested in 1998 at Pokhran was a dud or not is needless and damaging. It is actually a stra...
IN AN unexpected move, explosive India opener stepped down as the captain of the Delhi Daredevils IPL team. Sehwag, currently out of international cricket after a shoulder surgery, said he wanted t...
HEINRICH Strydom, the financial manager of the North West Cricket Association (NWCA), was working in his office at the North West Cricket Stadium here on Monday when a big noise broke his concentra...
Ex-team boss Briatore banned indefinitely for 'fixing' crash at last year's Singapore GP
Briatore gets an indefinite ban.Symonds is out for five years
TH...
Rejuvenated Mohun Bagan will look to avenge their recent loss in the IFA Shield final
GOA giants Churchill Brothers will face Kolkata giants Mohun Bagan in the summit clash of the 200...
AS WORLD No. 1 South Africa and Sri Lanka clash in the opening match of the Champions Trophy here on Tuesday, Jagmohan Dalmiya in far away Kolkata will have a reason to feel proud of a tournament t...
INDIAN bowling was ripped apart while batting collapsed like a house of cards as New Zealand inflicted a humiliating 103-run defeat on Mahendra Singh Dhonialt39s men in a warm-up match of the Champ...
Shanthi hopes to get her medal back
SHANTHI Soundaraajan is keeping a close eye on South African athlete Caster Semenya's gender test result, hoping to get back her silver medal...
GOA giants Churchill Brothers will face Kolkata giants Mohun Bagan in the summit clash of the 2009 Durand Cup at the Ambedkar Stadium on Tuesday in a repeat of the IFA Shield final which saw both ...
The Champions Trophy begins today but people are more keen on the 2010 football World Cup
EVEN as the Champions Trophy, the most important cricket tournament after the World Cup, ...
Briatore gets an indefinite ban.Symonds is out for five years
THE Renault Formula One team were on Monday handed a suspended ban from the sport by the International Automobile Feder...
SOMDEV Devvarman is a rock star — quite literally. Long curly hair with a Yank accent and a guitar that is always part of his baggage, he gives an impression of a man who lives in the present and e...
WHEN sports minister MS Gill had at the start of the year come out with a decision that those who do not hold Indian passports will not be eligible to play for India, it seemed very harsh. The imme...
WHILE, Somdev Devvarman is being hailed for his win in the two crucial singles matches, Rohan Bopanna's win in the second singles on the first day of the Davis Cup tie against South Africa has...
WHAT A stage India's brand new tennis star Somdev Devvarman chose to prove himself. Winning away ties in the Davis Cup is never easy, but what stood out about this Indian team that beat South ...
THE BJP's lone Muslim MP, Shahnawaz Hussain, received Eid greetings from the Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Monday afternoon.
This is perceived as the first acknowledgement of a ...
FORMER French president Valery Giscard d'Estaing has written a novel about a passionate affair between two characters based on him and Princess Diana. The extraordinary book has caused a sens...
QANTAS Airways' ' austerity drive' has cost the airline dear.
Australia's national airline has been asked to pay Rs 60,000 to a New Delhi- based couple, who paid the car...
A STRONG 6.3- magnitude earthquake with its epicentre in Bhutan shook Assam and neighbouring Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim and North Bengal on Monday afternoon.
At least eight persons, i...
THE BJP on Monday fielded senior leader Gopinath Munde's daughter Pankaja Palave from Parli even as several partymen protested against giving ticket to late Pramod Mahajan's daughter Poo...
THE government has included Maneka Gandhi as a member of the reconstituted panel for tiger conservation, despite her opposition to a legislation that paved the way for setting it up three years ag...
PAKISTANI troops continued to violate the ceasefire, firing nearly 135 rounds at Indian positions in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district on Sunday night.
There was no casualty, though....
AN INDIAN student in Australia has allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself after being reportedly depressed over not finding a job.
Gurjinder Singh, who was in his early 20s and had ...
THE NGO that extended financial aid to Kalavati Bandurkar after Rahul Gandhi mentioned her in the Lok Sabha last year, has requested her not to contest in the Maharashtra assembly polls.
Su...
LASHING out at the government for " forcing to take the extreme step", professors of all seven IITs have decided to go on a day's hunger strike on Thursday.
But the teachers ...
Doctors blame spurious mehendi and fear psychosis
HUNDREDS of women fell ill on Monday in four states across east India as they developed skin rashes after applying mehendi on the e...
THE CENTRE may grant Sodha Rajputs, who travel to India from Pakistan every year, visas for six instead of three months.
Based in Pakistan's Sindh province, the Rajputs visit four dist...
Day 4: It's spring/ summer and fashion looks a lot like love
Three Gen Next designers from last season are all set to make their mark for the Spring/ Summer 2010 season at the o...
IF JUSTICE Dinakaran is not fit to be a Supreme Court Judge, why is he fit to be a High Court judge? Did the collegium slip up when they made him Chief Justice of Karnataka? Or, indeed, when he wa...
Don't lower guard in the festive season
THE festive season is upon us with Id, the Pujas, and Deepawali around the corner.
But this is also the season of great danger.
SPECULATION is rife in the Congress about Priyanka Gandhi reinventing herself to take on a more prominent public role in the years to come. This follows her frequent forays of late to Jawahar Bhav...
WITH the Supreme Court and Mayawati locking horns yet again, the political pot is beginning to boil. And not just in Uttar Pradesh. The BSP chief's " statue politics" has now spread...
THE FUTURE of chief ministers is seldom put on the line by the results of byeelections.
Too much should not be read into these which, while having a bearing on the future of individual cand...
SAMAJWADI leader Amar Singh, who kept the Capital's grapevine abuzz with his lavish lifestyle and political antics, dismisses the Congress' austerity drive as " a publicity- seeking...
THE OPERATOR of Delhi- Gurgaon Expressway has been asked to construct 12 new foot- overbridges and install escalators on the existing ones for the pedestrians.
One an average, a pedestrian ...
Raja's choice?
UNION communications minister A. Raja is set to select a new telecom disputes settlement appellate tribunal member.
There are two contenders — steel secret...
Day 3: Gandhi is in and so are pirates, magicians & Cuba
The third day of Lakme Fashion Week Spring/ Summer 2010 in Mumbai saw a parade of male models. Designer DigVijay Singh's...
PAKISTANI scientist A. Q. Khan, father of the country's nuclear weapons programme, has admitted to the Pakistani nexus in the controversial atomic programme of Iran and North Korea, a media r...
THE UNIVERSITY Grants Commission ( UGC) is in a hurry to execute a proposal to set up 374 model degree colleges in educationally backward districts.
It has gone ahead with the modalities of...
LIFE IN prison has not deterred Nalini Sriharan, convicted in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, from successfully clearing the Master of Computer Applications ( MCA) course.
Not only is ...
SITAR player Anoushka Shankar, daughter of legendary musician Pandit Ravi Shankar, was being blackmailed by a Mumbai based businessman.
The 29- year- old, who had accessed her personal phot...
THE national Capital will celebrate Eid- ul Fitr on Monday as the Ramadan moon was seen on Sunday.
" The moon was sighted in many places in Bihar and Madhya Pradesh on Sunday. However,...
Hindu families in Madhya Pradesh keep 'roza' with Muslim brothers
" IT'S ONLY a matter of faith which inspires me to observe roza ( fast). I will continue to d...
ADVOCATING that women should form 33 of our police force, Union home minister P. Chidambaram has issued a 30- point advisory to all states and Union Territories to curb crime against women.
...
AISHWARYA Rai- Bachchan's past is making news all over again. After Vivek Oberoi and Salman Khan, it is the turn of a Katrina Kaif impostor to make comments about Ash's love life.
...
THE RAJASTHAN Cricket Association ( RCA) split into two on Sunday, with a dissident group holding a meeting to " sack" RCA president Sanjay Dixit.
The rebels, led by chairman Subh...
POLITICS and cricket invariably intertwine when it comes to the Indian sub- continent.
If there is one common thread that runs across India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, it is how those running ...
Leaders hope to derive political mileage from the game's glamour
THIS IS one power play that doesn't end after five overs. The grip that leaders from across the politi...
NARENDRA Modi's " election" to the presidency of the Gujarat Cricket Association ( GCA) this week typifies the manner in which power politics is tightening its grip over provincial ...
Your professional life will bring you satisfaction and your business will expand at a satisfactory level. Try not to waste your valuable time in social activities with people who don't wish...
Bairi Priya 8: 30 pm, Colors
Amoli and her sister Tani spend a day having fun in the fields and try btheir hand at stealing a few eggs. Tukaram and Beturam go to Biaza's house o...
Places to visit, shows to check out &food to grab
Film Screening
Imago Wings directed by Jaime Fidalgo at the Festival La boca del Lobo at Instituto Cervantes, F- 4, ...
With our critic's star ratings
THIS WEEK'S RELEASES
WANTED ( A) Directed by Prabhudeva.
* ing Salman Khan, Ayesha Takia Azmi, Mahesh Manjrekar, Ass...
TWO YEARS ago, I had predicted that the property bubble would burst any time. I was off the mark by two years. High prices are not good for the housing sector or for the country's economy. By ...
The focus on affordable housing and a glut in supply is likely to bring down rents, especially in certain residential localities. We look at what this means for home buyers and what they should ...
Four ways to test whether to postpone home purchase
Returns from rent If difference between rental yields (rent as a percentage of the price of the house) and home loan intere...
A weekly section on persona finance brought out in association with
...Advance tax figures show that corporate India has shrugged off the slowdown and is back on track
WHEN the Nifty crossed the 5,000 mark last week, it was the fastest it had double...
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HIGH CAPITAL expenditure has been a drag on...
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THERE have been a flurry of pension products in the market of late. The latest entrant is the Smart Invest Pension Plus ( SIPP) plan from Max New York Life Insurance. The SIPP is a unit- linked pe...
The newly launched Metlife Monthly Income Plan (MIP) allows you to choose the income you want on maturity of the policy and guarantees that income for 15 years
VOLATILE markets and...
The growth in the retail industry is not only creating massive job opportunities at all levels, but has also launched awave of entrepreneurs
" WHEN I asked my father to lend ...
DEBUTANT director Prem Soni is amused that some idle minds are terming Main Aurr Mrs. Khanna as a tale based on extra- marital affairs.
Since Salman Khan and Kareena Kapoor play a married c...
R MADHAVAN is dying to be back in India. The poor chap has been living out of the suitcase for the past many months, shooting for his Bollywood films. He is also in talks with many Hollywood filmm...
ACTOR Emraan Hashmi has gone ahead and upset the team of Kunal Deshmukh's Tum Mile by revealing his look in the film much ahead of the planned strategy.
Sony Music and Kunal, along wit...
VASHU Bhagnani's Do Knot Disturb is all set for an October 2 release.
But a music video remains to be shot. And it is being said the video is a way to ' placate' Sushmita Sen...
DON'T be surprised if you see Amitabh Bachchan kicking off kavi sammelans ( poetry conclaves) in the near future. Apparently, lyricist Prasoon Joshi recently voiced an idea of having such poe...
AISHWARYA Rai- Bachchan's past is making news all over again. After Vivek Oberoi and Salman Khan, it is the turn of a Katrina Kaif impostor to make comments about Ash's love life.
...
takes India to Davis Cup World Group
Comes from behind to beat De Voest as visitors qualify after 12 years
SOMDEV Devvarman scripted a spectacular comeback win over...
Washington wanted a safe exit for ' Prez' Musharraf after he resigned last year
THE US has revealed, for the first time, that it wanted a safe exit for former Pakistan mil...
Leaders hope to derive political mileage from the game's glamour
THIS IS one power play that doesn't end after five overs. The grip that leaders from across the politi...
Four die, two lose sanity &60 detained trying to sneak into Spain
DESPERATE young men from Punjab are spending lakhs of rupees in search of a Spanish El Dorado, only to end up b...
Anoushka's blackmailer put behind bars
SITAR player Anoushka Shankar, daughter of legendary musician Pandit Ravi Shankar, was being blackmailed by a Mumbai based businessman.
FUTURE Group chief executive officer ( CEO) Kishore Biyani is looking to hive off hypermarket chain Big Bazaar and list it to unlock value as part of ambitious restructuring and growth plans to be...
THE increasing population of the higher- income group in the country will open a potential $ 8- billion market for multinational companies selling expensive drugs, including patented products, by ...
WHAT IS QIP?
QIP or qualified institutional placement is a capital- raising tool, primarily used in India, whereby a listed company can issue equity shares, fully and partly converti...
WITH the market soaring to new highs month after month over the last six months, and the economy showing signs of recovery, the number of companies opting for qualified institutional placements ( ...
YOU must have seen a newspaper ad or heard of an SMS doing the rounds offering ' Super luxury apartments in the heart of Delhi'. Ever wondered why apartments on offer have been attached ...
THE US jobs situation could worsen slightly over the coming few months, US President Barack Obama said on Sunday.
" I want to be clear, that probably the jobs picture is not going to i...
THERE are early signs of an upturn in the number of air passengers travelling in business class worldwide but fares have remained low due to intense competition and airlines have seen a sharp drop...
FOR more than 60 years, the family feud has divided two of the world's biggest sporting brands.
It was sparked by an Allied bombing raid and has taken in the Nazi party, Olympic skulld...
Nokia to focus on add- on services
NOKIA said it would focus more on enhancing its services portfolio.
" An average customer expects more from a mobile phone," Nokia...
NIRULA'S, Delhi's fast food chain, was directed by a District Consumer Forum to pay Rs 50,000 as compensation to a complainant because it charged Rs 35 for a bottle of Coca- Cola, then p...
Every complaint is not a consumer complaint. Read MAIL TODAY's weekly column on consumer affairs to know how to protect your rights laws not for
...Naukri. com boss Bikhchandani says talented people across sectors can still get jobs if they lower expectations
THE global economic meltdown might have curtailed job opportunities ...
INDIAN footwear retailer Metro Shoes Limited is looking to expand its footprint into the value category, catering to a larger number of customers in the mid- level segment in terms of price.
Finmin not PRIME Minister Manmohan Singh and leaders of emerging countries like Brazil, China and South Africa are expected to make a big push for more space and a stronger voice in global financi...
SHEDDING earlier reservations over some aspects of the controversial new foreign direct investment ( FDI) guidelines, the finance ministry now says it does not have any objection to new rules that...
Cong- Lalu- Paswan alliance inevitable
APROPOS of the news report ' Bihar by- poll win may bring Lalu & Congress together' ( September 19), it can be said that by winning ...
The buzz on an al- Qaeda terror suspect in the US
MULTIPLE news agencies report an Afghan- born Denver- area resident has admitted ties to al- Qaeda and is negotiating a guilty pl...
Graeme Swann takes five wickets as England avoid becoming the first team to lose an ODI series 0- 7
SPINNER Graeme Swann proved the match- winner, taking five wickets for 28 runs fro...
A SHAME SAYS MANAGER Ugandan cricket authorities on Sunday said the disappearance of seven under- 19 players in Canada last week was disgrace leaving a negative impact on cricket
...OFFICIAL documents relating to the dispute between the Pakistan Cricket Board and the ICC over the shifting of 2011 World Cup from the country has revealed the background drama that took place dur...
RELIANCE 1 was formed not only to scout young talents in the country but also to develop the infrastructure of the sporting facilities, the owner of the company, Mukesh Ambanialt39s wife Nita Amba...
PAKISTAN'S disgraced pace bowler Muhammad Asif left for South Africa, via Qatar, to join the national team for the Champions Trophy commencing in the rainbow nation from Tuesday.
The P...
Indians 122/ 4in 25 overs chasing 302 against the Kiwis at Potchefstroom
THE Indian batting flopped once again as they were reduced to 122 for 4 after 25 overs, chasing a huge 302 a...
FORMULA One legend Alain Prost is the man Renault are poised to summon to restore their damaged reputation following the biggest scandal in motorsport history.
If the team is not banned fro...
Equals Randhawa's feat of five successive PGTI titles
GAGANJEET Bhullar forced a role reversal from the last edition when he outclassed the field to win the DLF Masters golf t...
Lin Dan annexes China Masters
LIN Dan claimed the menalt39s singles title at the China Masters on Sunday, completing a clean sweep of the titles for the all- powerful host nation.
MICHAEL Owen struck six minutes into stoppage time to give Manchester United a dramatic 4- 3 victory over Manchester City on Sunday, halting the crosstown rival's perfect start to the Premier...
Defeat Mahindra United to set up title clash with Churchill Brothers
MOHUN Bagan beat Mahindra United 2- 1 in the second semi- final of the Durand Cup football tournament on Sunday...
LIONEL MESSI netted twice to help leader Barcelona defeat Atletico Madrid 5- 2 on Saturday and continue their perfect start to the defense of their Spanish league title.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic,...
ROGER Federer secured Switzerland's spot in next year's Davis Cup World Group with a 6- 3, 6- 0, 6- 4 win over Italy's Potito Starace in a rain- affected match on Sunday.
His...
Comes from behind to beat De Voest as visitors qualify after 12 years
SOMDEV Devvarman scripted a spectacular comeback win over South Africa's Rik De Voest in a high- voltag...
It was a gritty play by Somdev and a great effort by the team.
I am very happy that we have qualified for the World Group after 12 years. I totally believe that we are ready for the World G...
IT'S NOT just Kalawati Bandurkar who is going to contest the Maharashtra assembly elections.
Ten more widows of farmers who had committed suicide in Vidarbha are in the poll fray.
<...THE DEATH of six commandos in an offensive against Naxalites in Chhattisgarh should not be seen as a reverse. The Centre feels security forces for the first time stormed the Maoist stronghold, set...
SOUTH Africa's athletics chief must be fired over his handling of Caster Semenya's gender test, the ministry of Sport said. Head of Athletics South Africa ( ASA) Leonard Chuene on Saturd...
Ethiopian clocks 2hours 6minutes to claim victory in Berlin Marathon
HAILE Gebrselassie won the Berlin marathon for the fourth straight year on Sunday but the Ethiopian failed to b...
Gaganjeet Bhullar outlasts Anirban Lahiri to win DLF Masters
Equals Randhawa's feat of five successive PGTI titles
GAGANJEET Bhullar forced a role reversal from...
LAW MINISTER M. Veerappa Moily is hard at work every morning from five to six. This one- hour slot is not for department files or contentious petitions, it is reserved for Draupadi.
Moily i...
MARATHI film, Harishchandrachi Factory , by theatreveteran Paresh Mokashi has been selected as India's official entry to this year's Oscars in the foreign film category.
The two- ...
IT WAS a gesture designed to show the world how in love they were, but Mariah Carey didn't think much of Nick Cannon's attempts to kiss her on The Oprah Winfrey Show live from New Yorkal...
THE TROUBLE for Sarobjot Singh, the son of Buta Singh, seems to be far from over. Hawala operator Shamlal Chaudhari has claimed in his confessional statement the bribe money of Rs one crore was to...
MEMBERS of a temple management committee at Banda in Uttar Pradesh chopped off a priest's tongue on Sunday when he warned them against pocketing Rs 70 lakh worth of offerings made to the shri...
IIM and IIT professors have come together for the first time to reject the latest proposals of the human resource development ( HRD) ministry on pay scales and autonomy.
They described thes...
RJD chief Lalu Prasad, who met Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Sunday, said the two parties had strong bonds and that like- minded secular forces should come together to keep the NDA at bay.alt...
I WAS in my second year of B. Com when I decided to immigrate to Spain. I got in touch with a travel agent and on November 27, 2005, boarded a flight to the African republic, Togo.
On reach...
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detained at a UN detention camp in Melilla, a Spanish urban enclave on north Africa's Mediterranean coast.
Across the waters was their destination.<...
SYED PERVEZ Musharraf's new career is at loggerheads with his former job where his declarations had such a tone of finality about them. In his previous life he was a tough- talking general, a...
Washington wanted a safe exit for ' Prez' Musharraf after he resigned last year
THE US has revealed, for the first time, that it wanted a safe exit for former Pakistan mil...
TEN DAYS after the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh stopped construction in the Ambedkar Samajik Parivartan Sthal area also known as Ambedkar Memorial, work started again on Sunday on a pyrami...
THIS year's Oktoberfest is Munich's 176th! The annual beer bash kicked off on Saturday to a round of applause in southern Germany.
A throaty cheer went up from the onlookers as Ch...
L. K. ADVANI has done yet another Kandahar on Jaswant Singh.
The outcry, even within the BJP, against Jaswant's ignominious sacking has turned popular opinion against it in the same ma...
Neena Gupta's daughter now a winsome designer
THE HIGHLIGHT of the the Day 2 of the Lakme fashion Week was the debut collection of actor Neena Gupta and West Indies cricketer Vi...
City police upset with no response to its list of 104 bad roads
IT'S NOT just Delhi's private citizens who are upset about the potholed roads in the Capital. Now, even ...
ACTRESS ROOPA Ganguly's confessions marked the concluding episode of Star Plus's hit reality show, Sach Ka Samna , on Friday night.
The controversial show, in news ever since it s...
THE FAMILIES of Saqib Nissar and Zia- ur- Rehman, the two young men arrested last year from the Batla House area in connection with the Delhi and Ahmedabad serial blasts, have all but given up hop...
Trial yet to begin ayear after serial blasts rocked the Capital
EVEN A year after the Delhi blasts, the trial in the case is yet to begin with many of the accused also wanted by the...
AZAMGARH DISTRICT in UP raised the pitch on Saturday for a judicial inquiry into the Batla House encounter. Two young men from the village were killed in the encounter.
Wearing black ribbon...
SONIAIS TRYING TO GETHER PARTYTO UNDERSTAND THE CODE OFAESTHETICS OFTHE NEHRU- GANDHI LIFESTYLE
WILL this démodé establishment ever get it, an irate Congress President Sonia Gandhi...
Handle medical issues competently
THERE is a reason why there is a whole different branch of science called clinical pharmacology, the study of how drugs act on humans. As part of a ...
It's been a year of reality shows on TV – and also a series of unending reality shows in politics.
Sometimes, the lines seem to blur between the two genres.
MTV Roadies : ...
IT'S the fashion season — but not just any other one. This year marks ten years of the first ever India Fashion Week. Industry people — PR persons on speed, warring designers, front row divas...
N OT TOO long ago, Salman Khan taking to sharp suits was about as unthinkable as the pope in distressed jeans.
Yet, high fashion's endorsement of the new suave Salman Khan at the Menal...
SHE MUST have thought she had plotted the perfect murder.
What she didn't bargain for is that the police can sometimes be masters at cracking the most difficult of cases.
Ninete...
CRICKETER Yuvraj Singh's father, Yograj Singh, will contest in the Haryana assembly elections from Panchkula as an Indian National Lok Dal ( INLD) candidate.
The former cricketer'...
Karuna's desire
Priding himself as ' Thamizhina Thalaivar' ( leader of the Tamils), DMK patriarch Karunanidhi could never digest that his bête noire, Jayalalithaa, has...
THIS year's Oktoberfest is Munich's 176th! The annual beer bash kicked off on Saturday to a round of applause in southern Germany.
A throaty cheer went up from the onlookers as Ch...
CONTROVERSIES and the high- profile Delhi Gymkhana Club have become fast friends over the past two years. Election time is when emotions run high and loyalties are established or broken in this el...
THE RAJASTHAN Board of Secondary of Education is in a fix.
The government has directed it to hold up the tutoring of chapters and passages in 11 school textbooks that a panel has found to b...
IT'S TOUGH enough mugging up textbooks one time. But Rajasthan's high school students will have to do it twice this year, with the Congress state government deciding to " de- saffro...
GIRL Power was in the air on Friday as Geri Halliwell led an impromptu Spice Girls reunion in London.
Melanie Brown, Melanie Chisholm and Emma Bunton were in high spirits as they joined Gin...
TOP GOVERNMENT officials on Saturday stressed that the number of Chinese transgressions into Indian territory hasn't risen significantly. The situation at the Line of Actual Control ( LAC) wa...
NINE days may not appear to be much for Mumbai's die- hard party animals, who start preparing for the Dandiya carnival at least a month before the festivities kick off. And the Dandiya fever...
GONE are the days when the size of the idol or the ferocity of her looks drew large crowds during Durga puja in Kolkata.
Theme puja now rules the roost.
Bosepukur Association — which...
THE suggestion to visit Kolkata during Durga Puja seems blasphemous to this group of men, all aged 70- plus. Unlike many Bengalis outside Bengal who head to Kolkata for the Pujas annually, these g...
THE word satvik has taken on a whole new meaning this Navratra season. The usual vrat fare — kuttu roti and aloo sabzi — is passé. Fasting women can now gorge on inventive Chinjabi cuisine and Medi...
Wannabe actors convinced Delhi shows are stepping stone to tinsel town
EXCEPT for the calendar date, nothing changes at the Red Fort area in Old Delhi, especially during the fest...
L. K. ADVANI has done yet another Kandahar on Jaswant Singh.
The outcry, even within the BJP, against Jaswant's ignominious sacking has turned popular opinion against it in the same ma...
THE US seems to be looking for an alternative strategy to duck international pressure to ease global warming.
The Obama administration has proposed to junk the Kyoto Protocol deadlines on c...
SOME senior officers of Delhi Home Guard and Civil Defence are under the scanner after a colleague accused them of corrupt dealings.
The whistleblower, a divisional staff officer ( DSO), sec...
TO PROVIDE a seamless travel for truckers across the country, the Union road transport and highways ministry has mooted a proposal to widen the scope of national permits for trucks.
The pro...
Just how important is whisky in India was borne out by an event at the Sheraton New Delhi in Saket on Friday evening.
Teacher's, the well- known purveyor of fine whiskies, chose the ca...
THE METRO'S bad run continues. Not a day passes now when the Metro is not in the news for the wrong reasons.
A Metro contractor is under probe after a metal sheet being used at one of ...
FRIDAY evening, it seemed, was dedicated to whisky. If India Today Originals was the venue for the launch of a new Teacher's brand, A Life in Melody was a 100- minute tribute the late Ustad V...
THE main argument against astrology is that there is no rationale for the assumptions it makes to cast horoscopes and make predictions.
Advocates of astrology cannot account for the underly...
LEEPAKSHI CHOPRA, Practising astrologer
Most of the banners you see on the roads by people announcing themselves as astrologers are fakes. All that these people do to become ' ...
With the wedding season waiting in the wings, we set out to test astrologers and they proved us right by getting all their predictions wrong
If you were to switch on your TV o...
Catching up with the unfolding action in the literary world
TWEET POWER
A tweet nothing can make a bestseller.
And in this lifetime itself.
So discovered ...
In this delightful novel inspired by Kuch Kuch Hota Hai ,kitsch is given asuper cool twist
IT'S all about loving your parents. And seeing mundane life in 70mm technicolor.
...THE DEFENCE industry is the tail that wags the dog of national security. Common sense may have led you to believe arms and ammunition are produced or procured to make sure your country remains secu...
HUNGOVER WITH THE RECESSION
The recession seems to be well and truly over, but the publishing industry is still not in a mood to party. Take for instance the scaled-down sales confer...
Shah Jahan finally gets a biography that was overdue
SOMETIMES, the legacy of a ruler becomes more powerful than the man himself. Shah Jahan, the fourth of the Great Mughals, gave ...
A realist-idealist duality explains the seemingly idiosyncratic foreign policy inconsistencies
IF YOU want to know why India waited 34 years after China's first nuclear test i...
ARCHANA's companions on the bookshelf this week are —acrusader from Nepal, achild psychologist, noted TV journalist Karan Thapar and amanagement guru
A BOY FROM SIKLIS: T...
THE BIGGER FOOLS
Mullah Nasruddin had already become a sort of attraction at the main market in the town. Whenever he went there to beg, people would show him a large coin and a smal...
Aseeker is like acustomer at asweets shop, checking out the different goodies before selecting the best
THE Benedictine monk, David Steindl- Rast, speaks of his experience at the ...
THE NANAVATI Commission has refused to summon Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi for his alleged role in the Gujarat riots.
The commission has also asked Modi's former personal assis...
THE HIGHLIGHT of the the Day 2 of the Lakme fashion Week was the debut collection of actor Neena Gupta and West Indies cricketer Vivian Richard's daughter Masaba Gupta.
Masaba, whoalt1...
With our critic's star ratings
THIS WEEK'S RELEASES
WANTED ( A)
Directed by Prabhudeva.
* ing Salman Khan, Ayesha Takia Azmi, Mahesh Ma...
Anticipatory bail is aterm not to be found anywhere else in the world, except in the Indian subcontinent. So are some words like godown and stepney. This week, we present to you some special In...
Aries
Clear your mind of all preconceived notions and expectations as you head into a week of intense spiritual learning.
Follow your intuition to reap prosperity but avoid sp...
Seedhi Baat ,Aaj Tak, 8pm. Tonight, watch India Today Group Editor Prabhu Chawla in conversation with yoga instructor and spiritual guru Baba Ramdev as he discusses finances and politics. Ra...
This festive season make the best use of the year's longest weekend by heading out of the capital
THIS festive season, the long weekend has only gotten longer — starting from...
The website looks cluttered at first glance, but that's what gets it noticed. It offers comprehensive information on the first page and then there are links to take you to detailed stories. Th...
MELBOURNE'S SIGLIO: The club provides amazing views of the Parliament House and attracts slightly older crowd. Wine loves should settle for oldworld wine such as Hervé Seguin Pouilly-Fu...
Do: The Original Coffee Crawl
There's a reason why Seattle is called the Capital of Coffee, and it's not only because it is the headquarters of Starbucks. To know more abou...
The Best of Kerala: Swan Tours has announced a six-night itinerary that covers Munnar, Alleppey , Kumarakom and Kochi at Rs 19,999 per person. The package includes return air ticket and rail...
BELGIUM'S PRETTY little capital, Brussels, has all the elements of a 'typical European town' — cobbled streets; quaint boutiques, cosy pubs and a gorgeous horse-drawn carriage that g...
From ocean-like Lake Michigan to a doll store as big as a mall, the Windy City has a number of big surprises for the traveller
WE ARE approaching Chicago, folks," the captain...
ONE OF my favourite memories of New Orleans is the warmth and friendliness of the people who live and work there. I got my share of it on my way from the Louis Armstrong airport to my hotel, the C...
South Park Street Cemetery
It is home to one of Bengal's bestloved rebel poets — Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, who played a significant role in the Bengal Renaissance.
Most...
Crazy mood lighting is just one of the sights that will wow you at Dream Cochin. All the rooms have a blue- and- white colour scheme with blue LED mood lighting on the ceiling and around the bed, ...
FIVE GREAT SOLO VACATION IDEAS
MUSICAL PRAGUE:
It comes as no surprise that Prague wins hands down if you're looking for a groovy twist to your holiday. Therealt1...
TRAVELLER'S GUIDE TO THE WORLD
MY ONE and only snapshot of Sun City, South Africa, is one from the 42nd Miss World pageant held there in 1992. Strangely, I have vivid memories ...
The buzz on the US Federal Reserve controlling salaries
THE proposal is in the works, requires Fed board approval, but get this one, the proposal does not require Congressional appr...
Cong men did not die of shock. Why?
I COMPLETELY agree with and commend M AIL T ODAY 's reporting from Andhra Pradesh in the story regarding the 640 deaths due to the shock a...
' BADMAN' Gulshan Grover is looking forward to his next film, Acid Factory , because he is not playing a baddie but a good guy — a rare instance for him. " Sanjay Gupta didn't ...
L ARA Dutta is playing peacemaker.
She denies having any tiff with Do Knot Disturb co- star Sushmita Sen, as reported by the media.
The actress insists the two Miss Universes never h...
GOVINDA has been trying to stay out of trouble. He has found a way to avoid controversies — by not talking about them. He refuses to answer questions on his personal life and instead says, " ...
CHILDREN belonging to Scheduled Castes ( SCs), Scheduled Tribes ( STs) and other lower castes still suffer from caste- based discrimination with poor access to health services and nutrition scheme...
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secretary — will monitor the phasewise implementation of the plan.
The CM said she would visit various roads to monitor the progress.
According to...
INDIA has agreed to play against Pakistan in a bilateral series in a revised draft of the Future Tours Program that would be discussed at ICCalt39s chief executive committee meeting in Johannesburg...
BACK in the national team after missing the tri-series in Sri Lanka, Indiaalt39s Gautam Gambhir said his opening partner Virender Sehwagalt39s absence will play on his mind but he would take the on...
THE Indian Government on Saturday reaffirmed its commitment to global anti-doping laws and said it fully accepted the new WADA Code, including the contentious whereabouts clause which has been reje...
Caster Semenya was tested before the World Athletics meet but the results are not known
SOUTH Africa's top track official apologised on Saturday for denying knowledge of gender ...
Odafe does a star turn as Churchill Brothers win 2-1 in the Durand Cup semi-final
CHURCHILL Brothers pipped Dempo SC 2- 1 in the first semi- final of the Durand Cup football tournam...
INDIAN skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni conceded that his sidealt39s fielding standard needs to improve considerably for them to do well at the Champions Trophy starting in Johannesburg from September ...
IN A two-decade long career, the only bouncer Sachin Tendulkar found tough to negotiate came from his own son, who would refuse to speak to him on phone during tours out of sheer annoyance over his...
SIX years have passed since their humiliating loss to India in Johannesburg in a World Cup match but Pakistan captain Younus Khan says the defeat still hurts and his team would be eyeing revenge w...
Andrew Flintoff says Rachael gave him moral support after England lost Ashes in 2006- 07
MUSICIANS will know that the initials FF mean fortissimo. That's play as loud as you ca...
THOMAS Vermaelen's double led Arsenal to a 4- 0 victory over Wigan, returning the side to winning ways after two straight losses. The Belgium center back struck in each half, while capt...
CHURCHILL Brothers pipped Dempo SC 2- 1 in the first semi- final of the Durand Cup football tournament on Saturday at the Ambedkar Stadium.
Captain Odafe Onyeka Okolie single- handedly chan...
Gay ready for Bolt challenge in 2010
SPRINTER Tyson Gay said on Saturday that he will challenge Jamaican rival Usain Bolt's 100 metres world record when he recovers from a groin...
SOUTH Africa's top track official apologised on Saturday for denying knowledge of gender tests done on champion runner Caster Semenya in South Africa, saying he lied to protect the athletealt...
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8th Prem Lata Trophy CL Gupta memorial T20 tournament, St. Stephens college ground Ravinra Academy bt Vijay Dahiya Academy by 3 runs in the league match Captain Naveen Dahiya...
CHILDREN in India have found a new golfing hero and it's not the local pro Jyoti Randhawa. As Kapurthala lad Gaganjeet Bhullar hit a birdie on the seventh hole, six children came running down...
A FEW months ago, sports minister MS Gill had compared hosting the 2010 Commonwealth Games with a traditional Indian wedding, where even a day before the baraat is to come, there is utter confusi...
THE Czech Republic reached their first Davis Cup final in 29 years on Saturday after securing an insurmountable 3-0 lead over Croatia by winning the doubles. Radek Stepanek and Tomas Berdych defeat...
RUSHMI Chakravorthi played some great tennis this week and wrapped it up in style crushing an ailing Sanaa Bhambri in the final of the ITF Futures tennis tournament at the DLTA Complex. Rushmi didn...
INDIA'S fate in the Davis Cup World Group play-off tie against South Africa is still hanging in balance as the visitors conceded the doubles rubber owing to Mahesh Bhupathi's groin injury...
Thomas Vermaelen's double leads the Gunners to a massive 4-0 victory over Wigan in Premier League
THOMAS Vermaelen's double led Arsenal to a 4- 0 victory over Wigan, retur...
Gaganjeet Bhullar takes a one-stroke lead over Jyoti Randhawa in the penultimate round of DLF Masters golf
CHILDREN in India have found a new golfing hero and it's not the local ...
AHEAD of the talks with Pakistan next week in New York, India on Saturday upped the ante saying it was Islamabad's responsibility to address India's concerns on terror emanating from its...
SIX personnel of the elite Commando Battalion for Resolute Action ( CoBRA) were killed during an anti- Naxal operation in Dantewada, the Chhattisgarh Police confirmed on Saturday.
The men w...
He was with afriend in the car parked inside agarage Man chokes
An evening of " secret" rendezvous in a car parked inside a garage turned fatal for a 23- year- old man a...
SHE BECAME the face of Vidarbha's distress when Rahul Gandhi talked about her plight in Parliament. But a year later, Kalavati Bandurkar has ditched the Congress and decided to contest the up...
THE DELHI Police arrested a lawyer on Friday for allegedly stealing a laptop and debit cards of Indira Jaising, the additional solicitor general of India, from a Supreme Court chamber on Wednesday...
UNION LAW minister M. Veerappa Moily on Saturday welcomed human resource development minister Kapil Sibal's plan to introduce new courses in law but had reservations on stripping the Bar Coun...
A DELHI court sentenced a National Panther's Party leader and his associate to life imprisonment for waging a war against the country and possessing RDX and illegal money when they were caugh...
CHIEF Justice K. G. Balakrishnan on Saturday said Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P. D. Dinakaran, whose proposed elevation to the Supreme Court was being opposed from various quarters, would n...
PARTS OF the National Capital Region ( NCR) may face a dry festive season this year. Water supply to several areas in the NCR is likely to be hit between Dussehra and Dhanteras because of the clea...
THE SHIV Sena- Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP) alliance is the first to get off the block in the run- up to the Maharashtra assembly elections. The two announced a seat- sharing formula on Saturday....
Day 2: A dash of Indian with a sprinkling of the western...
It was the day to cheer young designers as they wowed audience with their collection on the second day of the Lakme Fas...
Norman Borlaug gave the world a way out of the cycle of hunger despite the flaws in his model
THE day Norman Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970, the 56- year- ol...
To Kill A Mocking Bird
BY HARPER LEE
It is one of the early powerful books that I read as a child and so it left an everlasting impact on me.
The impact was ...
Somdev shows the way for India in Davis Cup
Somdev and Bopanna win their singles matches as visitors take a2- 0lead in Johannesburg
SOMDEV Devvarman and Rohan Bo...
SO MANY clothes, so little chance to wear them. But for lucky women with a huge wardrobe of designer dresses at their disposal, Eva Longoria Parker has hit upon an easy solution — wear seven on on...
MAIL TODAY takes alook at Kapil Sibal's plan to 'detraumatise' students caught in multiple tests
CALL IT the agony of impending adulthood.
Raghav Anand, a C...
SHASHI Tharoor's job looks safe now, with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh coming to his rescue over his Twitter remark on economy class travel.
" It was a joke," the PM said, r...
AS INDIA and the US mounted pressure, Pakistan on Friday filed two cases against Lashkar- e- Tayyeba ( LeT) chief Hafiz Saeed, who New Delhi blames for masterminding the 26/ 11 attack.
The ...
Parents of students in the dark as school flouts norms &kids pop pills
A TOP Delhi school is under fire for allegedly administering Tamiflu doses to its students without any medi...
Indian voters are not easy to predict
THE outcome of the by- elections shows that the Indian voter remains feisty and independent. The biggest shock has been reserved for Bihar Chief...
FACTS have consequences, especially verities that are inconvenient.
The fact that Indiaalt39s hydrogen bomb failed in its first and only test is one such truth.
It has consequences f...
THE tragic thing about actor Patrick Swayze losing his battle with pancreatic cancer was not just the death, but the fact that hundreds of virus- creators used this opportunity to set up fake webs...
NOT exactly sure if you can say goodbye to your regular digital camera or not your expensive SLR, but Samsung has placed a monster 12 megapixel camera in its latest M8910 mobile phone. Called Pixo...
GOOGLE believes — rightly so — that reading news on the Web at present can be quite a pain. In a broadband- hungry country such as India, even more so, thanks to the phenomenally slow speeds at wh...
IT WAS a disaster waiting to happen.
The Twitter post that minister of external affairs Shashi Tharoor wrote online about how he is also travelling cattle class in solidarity with the holy ...
THE human resource development ( HRD) ministry's vigilance section has asked the CBI to inquire into complaints against the brass of the Council of Architecture in New Delhi.
There are...
UTTAR Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati had thought the Taj Corridor case, in which she was charged with corruption, had been settled once and for all.
But in a surprise move on Friday, the A...
No conspiracy
CPI leader Gurudas Dasgupta recently had an hour- long meeting with Sushma Swaraj, the deputy leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, at her New Delhi bungalow. The meet...
Day 1: Blast from the past adds class to the contemporary
Gitanjali Lifestyle opened the Spring/ Summer 2010 Lakme Fashion Week yesterday ( on till September 22 at Hotel Grand H...
THE DELHI High Court on Friday slammed the Delhi Police for harassing a 13- year- old pregnant girl on the pretext of carrying out investigation in a case related to her kidnapping.
The gir...
THE DELHI High Court upheld the conviction and life terms of 10 former policemen, including a senior officer, for killing two Haryana- based businessmen in a fake encounter at the Capital's C...
PRIME MINISTER Manmohan Singh on Friday said he was in touch with the highest levels in China and appeared to play down reports of Chinese incursions across the border.
Talking to reporters...
IF PAYING more for electricity is pinching you, here's some more bad news.
You could end up shelling out more for cooking gas too. The reason: subsidy on LPG cylinders in Delhi could be...
THE REPORT in M AIL T ODAY on Wednesday exposing the sham in the alleged " shock deaths" in Andhra Pradesh following the death of Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy has shaken the pro- Y. S. Jaganm...
A CENTRAL Reserve Police Force ( CRPF) officer attached with the Commando Battalion for Resolute Action ( CoBRA) was killed in a major anti- Naxalite operation in southern Chhattisgarh.
Fri...
JENNIFER Lopez can have her pick of designers. But it seems that she didn't have to look too far when deciding on what to pack for her trip to Washington.
The A- lister chose a dress f...
THE DELHI Police are planning to induct a robocop in their ranks. The Mini Remotely Operated Vehicle ( MROV), which looks like a small robot, will allow the bomb disposal squad ( BDS) to defuse ex...
ISRAEL has issued an advisory to its citizens against travelling to India, saying the country faced a " very high concrete threat" of terrorist attacks from the Lashkar- e- Tayyeba.
<...PERVEZ Musharraf has admitted it was a mistake to have sacked Pakistan's chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry nearly two years ago.
The former Pakistan president and military dicta...
AS INDIA and the US mounted pressure, Pakistan on Friday filed two cases against Lashkar- e- Tayyeba ( LeT) chief Hafiz Saeed, who New Delhi blames for masterminding the 26/ 11 attack.
The ...
THE DELHI Police's crime branch registered a case against MP and animal rights activist Maneka Gandhi and her NGO for harassing and threatening the owner of a pet shop in south Delhi.
...
HE HAS written and directed two of the best contemporary love stories to come out of Bollywood, but Imtiaz Ali declares he doesn't like love stories at all.
And even as he insisted he w...
REDUCING the number of entrance examinations is definitely better than having a vast number of them, which builds up more pressure on the applicants. But the move to rationalise the number of entr...
Here are two students who're juggling the loads of regular exams with multiple entrance tests...
RAGHAV ANAND
Class XII, Springdales School, Dhaula Kuan PCM with co...
FOR Anuradha Agarwal, a second- year English Honours student at Miranda House, the career clock is ticking away.
She has reconciled herself to cutting down on her social life to prepare for...
MAIL TODAY takes alook at Kapil Sibal's plan to 'detraumatise' students caught in multiple tests
CALL IT the agony of impending adulthood.
Raghav Anand, a C...
EVER since compulsive twitterer Shashi Tharoor's hobby and political career combined, commentators have feared that he might leak sensitive information.
They needn't have worried....
SHASHI Tharoor's job looks safe now, with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh coming to his rescue over his Twitter remark on economy class travel.
" It was a joke," the PM said, r...
You will achieve a high degree of success in new ventures as well as existing projects. You will find the time to enjoy the finer things of life all through the year.
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Weighty issues is the theme on the show, and Karan Johar and Sonam Kapoor reveal their secrets to host Farah Khan.
10 Ka Dum 9 pm, Sony...
Places to visit, shows to check out &food to grab
Ram Lila
Ram by Shobha Deepak Singh at Shriram Bharatiya Kendra Lawns, Copernicus Marg; 6.30 p. m.
Book Read...
With our critic's star ratings
THIS WEEK'S RELEASES
WANTED ( A) Directed by Prabhudeva.
* ing Salman Khan, Ayesha Takia Azmi, Mahesh Manjrekar, Assee...
Hollywood stars are mostly confined to Twitter. Very few have blogs. Here are the most prominent names among Beverly Hills Tweeters.
OPRAH WINFREY
PERHAPS the most f...
From launching blogs to profiles on Facebook and Twitter,Bollywood celebrities are going all out to directly interact with fans.Here's taking stock of the ones who have made maximum impact<...
Two foreign beauties gunning for Bollywood glory reveal in first person what their stints in Hindi films so far have meant Two foreign beauties gunning for Bollywood glory reveal ...
THE promos of Up gave me a kick for a very unusual reason. I couldn't help noticing how the reclusive little old man hero of this toon flick somehow looked like a hero from real life — iconic...
RANI'S actually funny in that turbaned get- up. She's cute too while romancing Shahid. And watch her go flirty — decked as a Sardar — with Rakhi Sawant in a raunchy item gig. That takes ...
BOLT is a lovable pup who plays superhero in a TV series. The problem is, Bolt actually believes he has superpowers. So one day when he is yanked off his comfort zone, he must face the real world....
THE good thing is, all that beef Salman Khan has piled on his frame has been put to good use in Wanted . Over the years, Bollywood's Pocket Hercules was yanking off his shirt for no reason in...
REMEMBER Byomkesh Bakshi, the Bhadralok sleuth who busted crime in exquisite pre- Independence Kolkata backdrop on TV during the Doordarshan days? New- gen viewers have probably never heard of him...
AT a time when art prices are generally quoted in seven- and eight- digit figures, the prospect of owning a painting by top- line artists for Rs 2.5 lakh sounds too delicious to be ignored. Thatal...
WHY should a book launch always be a starch- stiff affair with decorous untying of the red ribbon followed by speeches that praise the author because the speaker is expected to do only that? Why c...
SRI Lanka evokes contradictory images – bomb blasts in Batticaloa ( fortunately, it now seems like a blast from the past), beach holidays in Bentota and a doosra from Muttiah Muralitharan — but De...
THREE international groups have come together to present a resolution to the Pope against the use of the word ' leper', especially in sermons. They will submit their petition to Pope Ben...
SO MANY clothes, so little chance to wear them. But for lucky women with a huge wardrobe of designer dresses at their disposal, Eva Longoria Parker has hit upon an easy solution — wear seven on on...
The buzz on the discovery of a new dinosaur species
MEET Raptorex, the " king of thieves". It's a new species of dinosaur that looks, for all intents and purposes ¸ l...
MAIL TODAY is biased against YSR family
I AM convinced after reading the story on how families were allegedly paid by Jaganmohan Reddy's supporters to fake the cause of their ...
GET AN ATTRACTIVE DIAMOND ENCRUSTED PHONE AND SEE HOW YOUR FRIENDS REACT, SAYS KAUSAR FIRDAUSI
Mobile phones have evolved from a communications tool to a fashionable consumer product...
JEAN- CHRISTOPHE BABIN, President/ CEO, TAG Heuer, chats with Shuchi Jain
You presented the Monaco V4 at Basel World 2004. Why has it taken five years for its launch?
<...ANIL Ambani- led Reliance Natural Resources Ltd ( RNRL) on Friday asked the Supreme Court to dismiss the government's petition on the Ambani gas dispute, saying it had no locus standi to seek...
TATA Motors announced on Friday that its wholly owned European subsidiary, Tata Motors European Technical Centre, has received a loan of £ 10 million from the UK government for its Indica Vista el...
THE Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority ( IRDA) will come out with disclosure norms applicable during initial public offerings ( IPO) of insurance companies by this month- end. However,...
ANTICIPATING increased sales in the upcoming festive months, consumer electronics manufacturers are set to roll out discount offers along with new product launches.
LG Electronics India Ltd...
LACK of proper domestic triggers forced the market to remain rangebound on Friday, but the main indices ended marginally up with gains of 0.2 per cent. This is the fourth positive session in a row...
TILL late- 2007, most developers were optimistic about the growth prospects of the hospitality sector.
But as the recession set in, developers were forced to go slow with their plans and di...
DESPITE a second consecutive victory at this year's Miss Universe, even Venezuela's hugely successful beauty factory is feeling the global pinch.
The local " Miss Venezuelaal...
GOOGLE on Friday said it is launching a new version of an online ad exchange, enabling advertisers and publishers to buy and sell advertising space.
" We are excited to announce the ne...
Bharti's 50p calls
BHARTI Airtel said it would charge 50 paisa per minute for local and national calls on its network, heating up competition in a market that already has some ...
Comat Technologies offers single- window e- service in villages
A LITTLE over an hour's drive from Bangalore to Mysore, the silk town of Ramanagaram shows no trace of the gla...
Pakistan all- rounder is struggling to digest his exclusion from the Champions Trophy squad and made it clear that he does not fancy following the team on television
...Doping body chief Fahey asks Indian government about its stand on whereabouts clause CHANGE FOR BCCI
THE World Anti- Doping Agency ( WADA) has asked the Indian government whether...
FREELANCE England allrounder Andrew Flintoff will coach the United Arab Emirates national team while he recovers in Dubai from a knee surgery, his agent revealed.
Andrew Chandler told The T...
THE sports ministry on Friday stated emphatically that work at the Dr Karni Singh ranges in Tughlakabad is going on at a fast pace and shooters will be able to train there by the first week of Nov...
Federer fined $ 1,500 for US Open argument
SWISS superstar Roger Federer was slapped with a $ 1,500 fine by the United States Tennis Asssociation for a heat- ofthe- battle argument w...
TIM Paine scored his first One- day International century and Ricky Ponting pulled off two brilliant run- outs as Australia beat England by 111 runs to lead the seven- game series 6- 0 on Thursday...
MOHUN Bagan outclassed JCT 2- 0 in the quarter- final league match of the Durand Cup football tournament on Friday to set up a semi- final clash against Mahindra United.
Jose Marcio Barreto...
ASTON Villa midfielder Nigel Reo- Coker is in hot water with Martin O'Neill after being sent home from training following a bust- up with the Premier League club's manager.
Report...
TWO little boys walked through the DLF golf course — one holding a bag too big for his stature, and the taller one writing down the scores, following their idol Gaganjeet Bhullar. The two were uti...
Kolkata giants down JCT 2- 0in Durand Cup football
MOHUN Bagan outclassed JCT 2- 0 in the quarter- final league match of the Durand Cup football tournament on Friday to set up a semi...
Tim Paine scores maiden ton as Australia beat England to lead ODI series 6- 0
TIM Paine scored his first One- day International century and Ricky Ponting pulled off two brilliant ru...
UNHERALDED Chinese qualifier Sirui He gave Sanaa Bhambri the fight of a lifetime in the semi- final of the ITF Women's Futures. However, Sirui was unlucky as it was Sanaa who finally emerged ...
Somdev and Bopanna win their singles matches as visitors take a2- 0lead in Johannesburg
SOMDEV Devvarman and Rohan Bopanna won their singles matches to put India in a commandi...
AFTER Rakhi Sawant, it's Rahul Mahajan's turn to have a television swayamvar . The man who courted controversies before becoming the star of reality show Bigg Boss 2 last year will hunt ...
THE CENTRE has informed the Delhi High Court that it cannot grant permanent commission to women Army officers because the government had decided to reduce the number of permanent commissioned offi...
DELHI University students and teachers on Friday held a rally demanding that the campus be made a sexual harassmentfree zone.
They have apprised vice- chancellor Deepak Pental about areas o...
THE environment ministry has proposed to establish the National Environment Protection Authority ( NEPA).
This will help the ministry to come down heavily on firms which flout environment n...
WHEN you think of Tyrannosaurus rex or T. rex, you probably imagine a fearsome predator with a large skull and tiny forearms attached to a tremendous body.
But researchers have discovered a...
UNDER PRESSURE to get houses vacated for allotment to newly elected Parliament members, the Directorate of Estates ( DoE) has evicted two former Lok Sabha MPs from their official residences in the...
UNION chemical and fertiliser minister M. K. Alagiri doesn't want to remain tongue- tied in Parliament. The Prince of Madurai, as Karunanidhi's son is known in Tamil Nadu, has requested ...
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Concerned, the school authorities consulted Delhi's swine flu nodal officer Dr Anjan Prakash, who gave them the medicine to be distributed among the childr...
PRESIDENT Pratibha Patil is also a cyber crime victim. The Delhi Police Cyber Cell has arrested a man on charges of creating a fake profile of the President and uploading it on a social networking...
INDIAN Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation has roped in over 80 quality control professionals to inspect pantry cars and base kitchens. This followed several complaints about the quality of f...
A BOMB packed with 25 kg explosives and three hand grenades were found in a car on the Raj Bhavan premises in Imphal.
Governor Gurbachan Jagat was present during the time.
The explos...
A DOMESTIC help tried to burgle a senior police officer's house on Friday in Haryana's Yamunanagar. He had drugged the residents.
The help drugged the son and daughter- in- law of...
THE Citizens Forum Against Corruption has alleged that the Central Vigilance Commission ( CVC) has failed to live up to the expectations of functioning as an institutional bulwark against corrupti...
THE ' unexpected' results in the Bihar bypolls may well pave the way for a reunion of the RJD- LJP combine with the Congress ahead of the Bihar assembly elections due next year.
T...
THE Supreme Court collegium on Friday failed to arrive at a decision on the contentious issue of elevation of Karnatka Chief Justice P. D. Dinakaran to the apex court.
Dinakaran has been ac...
Hollywood actress to shoot film at an ashram Julia to 'pray'
MORE THAN 1,000 students of the Hare Krishna World School in Pataudi, 40 km from Gurgaon city, have been aske...
DRDO, R& AW reports saying H- Bomb was afizzle were disregarded
THE GOVERNMENT is choosing to ignore evidence that India's 1998 hydrogen bomb test at Pokhran was a failure.
Saturday is the anniversary of the 'encounter'. MAIL TODAY revisits Ground Zero
A YEAR after the alleged fake encounter at L- 18, Batla House, doors are still slammed ...
THE NITISH Kumar government on Thursday suffered a big setback as rival Lalu Prasad and his ally Ram Vilas Paswan registered a surprising win in the assembly by- elections.
The Opposition R...
THE CENTRE has asked the Central Bureau of Investigation ( CBI) to probe allegations of land grabbing against former railway minister Lalu Prasad . The department of personnel and training ( DoPT)...
THE CENTRE has asked the Central Bureau of Investigation ( CBI) to probe allegations of land- grabbing against former railway minister Lalu Prasad.
The department of personnel and training ...
PAKISTANI TROOPS fired at an Indian post along the international border in Jammu on Thursday evening, injuring two Border Security Force ( BSF) personnel.
Pakistani Rangers opened fire on I...
METRO SERVICES between Indraprastha and Yamuna Bank stations in East Delhi were disrupted again on Thursday night, hassling commuters.
A Metro official said, " Trains couldn't go ...
Sunny days
SOME BJP leaders seem to be doing well for themselves even in this era of uncertainty.
Dissident leader Yashwant Sinha is one such example.
His initial murmu...
THE Central Vigilance Commission ( CVC) has put on its website the names of 19 " tainted" officers against whom it has recommended prosecution.
The list also includes a separate s...
" YOUR 90TH birthday is as good as your rebirth. So, by that count, I've turned four today and am ready to go to school. I want school books as my birthday gift," laughed M. F. Husai...
THE ASSEMBLY polls in Maharashtra are barely a month away but the two major alliances, the Congress- NCP and the Shiv Sena- BJP, are yet to formalise their alliance.
The seat- sharing talks...
THE HRD ministry has acceded to some of the demands of the faculty members of the Indian Institutes of Technology ( IITs) and abolished the entry- level lecturer's post. It has also increased...
SENIOR IAS officer Jagadanand Panda, who killed four members of his family before shooting himself on July 30 at his village in Bargarh district in Orissa, might have been drunk.
Sources sa...
THE DELHI government is exploring the possibility of having concrete roads in the Capital as they are more durable and cost effective in comparison to bitumen ones.
Noting that bitumen surf...
TRAIN SERVICES on the Yamuna Bank- Noida line will start by the last week of October. The 13.1- km long line from Yamuna Bank in East Delhi to the City Centre in Noida will be the first Metro line...
" I NEVER planned anything. I moved, constantly. And in my bones, a typhoon coming," writes Lisa Ray.
No one can argue that. She never planned that Bombay Dyeing advert that, shal...
TROUBLES for Karnataka High Court chief justice P. D. Dinakaran grew ahead of the Supreme Court ( SC) collegium meeting in New Delhi on Friday.
Advocates in Bangalore urged him to keep away...
THE HARYANA Police on Thursday arrested two minor boys for allegedly pelting stones at the Swarn Shatabdi Express in which Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi was travelling.
The police...
A SEARCH engine designed for devout Muslims is fast becoming one of the hottest property on the Internet.
Designed by the Netherlandsheadquartered AZS Media Group, the site, www. imhalal. c...
Hollywood actress to shoot film at an ashram Julia to 'pray'
MORE THAN 1,000 students of the Hare Krishna World School in Pataudi, 40 km from Gurgaon city, have been aske...
WHEN Shagufta had a baby during Ramzan last year, she thanked God for blessing her with a girl and not a boy.
She is not a feminist – just an Azamgarh mother who does not want her child to ...
COMMENTARY
THE National Human Rights Commission's ( NHRC) clean chit to the Delhi Police in the controversial Batla House ' encounter' has not allayed the fears in th...
NO AMOUNT of controversy over the Batla House ' encounter' can diminish the fact that inspector M. C. Sharma died a brave death in the service of the nation. Yet, his family continues to...
Saturday is the anniversary of the 'encounter'. MAIL TODAY revisits Ground Zero
A YEAR after the alleged fake encounter at L- 18, Batla House, doors are still slammed ...
DELHI chief minister Sheila Dikshit's charm failed to win over voters in the assembly bypolls.
The party lost the Okhla seat in south Delhi to the RJD and the Dwarka seat in west Delhi...
THE NITISH Kumar government on Thursday suffered a big setback as rival Lalu Prasad and his ally Ram Vilas Paswan registered a surprising win in the assembly by- elections.
The Opposition R...
It would be better to avoid initiating any new business activity this year, as the planets do not favour you much. It's better to go slow on implementing any innovative ideas.
SNEAK PEEK
Wanted ( A)
Cast: Salman Khan, Ayesha Takia Azmi, Mahesh Manjrekar, Asseem Merchant, Sajid, Vinod Khanna, Mahek Chhal, Prakash Raj Direction: Prabhudeva Rad...
Places to visit, shows to check out &food to grab
Tribute to Vilayat Khan
' A Life in melody', a 100- minute tribute to Ustad Vilayat Khan at the FICCI Audi...
With our critic's star ratings
THIS WEEK'S RELEASES
WANTED ( A) Directed by Prabhudeva.
* ing Salman Khan, Ayesha Takia Azmi, Mahesh Manjrekar, Assee...
JUSTICE delayed is not always justice denied. Shamlal realised that at the age of 60, after 13 years of a lengthy legal battle.
The former driver with the All India Radio ( AIR) met with a ...
THE Central Bureau of Investigation ( CBI) on Thursday sent a nine- member team to Jammu and Kashmir to investigate the controversial Shopian rape and murder case.
The team — which will be ...
THE women and child development ministry is set with its plans for expansion of the Integrated Child Development Services ( ICDS) but critics of the plan are not too happy about it.
Experts...
A MASSIVE suicide car bomb ripped apart NATO vehicles on Thursday, killing six Italian soldiers and 10 Afghan civilians, officials said.
The explosion took place just after midday about 1.5...
RANI Mukherjee's weight loss seems to have made her chirpier. Maybe her bubbliness of her character in her muchawaited next film, Dil Bole Hadippa , has rubbed off her in real life. But Delhi...
IS IT a roman à clef? This was the question on everyone's lips at an evening of beer and book reading at The Park set against a splendid skyline dotted by the Jantar Mantar, Parliament House ...
THE RAMLILA that begins from September 19 to October 15, has a slightly different treatment of Sita's role on stage, than has traditionally been the case. Her character- sketch is more femini...
As malls discover the magnetic power of music shows, rockers aren't convinced that they get audiences they'd want to have
LAST WEEKEND, if you'd have tried negotiatin...
THE RADISSON'S best-kept secret is an appetising walk away from the lobby, which may explain why The Med did not have many occupied tables when we trooped in with a hunger level that matched o...
This weekend, KARANJEET KAUR is Blue after listening to the soundtrack of All The Best and Indipop artiste Raghav's latest outing, as he searches for his Identity
Identity;...
THAT they were not at the same event must have led Mallika Sherawat and Reshma Shetty to heave a sigh of relief. But it's still small consolation. It was different red carpets, but still the ...
THE relentless rise in food prices pushed up the country's rate of inflation based on wholesale prices to 0.24 per cent for the week ended September 5, according to the weekly data released o...
Public sector banking giant State Bank of India ( SBI) is keeping a war chest of over Rs 4,800 crore ($ 1 billion) for buying out a bank overseas. However, it is yet to identify its target lender,...
REFINERY and petrochemicals major Reliance Industries Ltd ( RIL) on Thursday raised Rs 3,188 crore of war chest by disposing off 1.50 crore of its own treasury stocks lying with a trust. This make...
DESPITE inflation rearing its ugly head, the Indian market continued its rally, albeit with marginal gains. It gained strength from the huge investments made by the foreign institutional investors...
DESPITE a slowdown in the real estate sector, developers have plans to play Santa this year, too.
But this time the share of freebies will be more in comparison to price discounts.
P...
A weekly round- up of news and developments in government and public sector enterprises. Every Friday…
...BUCKING the economic slowdown, power equipment maker Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd ( BHEL) has recorded an all- time high turnover of Rs 28,033 crore in 2008- 09.
" The state- run compa...
PUNJAB State Lotteries recently distributed prizes worth of Rs 4 crore. Director H. S. Nanda gave away prizes to the winners of the Baisakhi Bumper 2009 and Monthly Lotteries for March, April, May...
HIMACHAL Pradesh forest minister J. P. Nadda, irrigation and public health minister Ravinder Singh Ravi and horticulture minister Narinder Bragta have congratulated chief minister Prem Kumar Dhuma...
PUNJAB National Bank ( PNB) won the Indira Gandhi Rajsabha Shield for promotion of the national language Hindi in its day- to- day work. The bank bagged this award for the second year in a row.
NATIONAL Fertilisers Ltd ( NFL), the leading producer of nitrogenous fertilisers in the country, has recorded its bestever sales turnover of Rs 5,127 crore with a profit before tax ( PBT) of Rs 15...
UNDER the ongoing drive to install bulk flow meters by the Delhi Jal Board ( DJB), meters would be installed at Escorts for direct supply to Maharani Bagh on Friday, DJB said. As a result, water s...
GRAPPLING with the effects of the economic downturn, the organised book retail market is struggling to maintain a strong presence in the country.
While traditional issues like piracy exist,...
India's edge in IT
INDIA and China enjoy a significant advantage among emerging markets due to a large pool of skilled IT employees but lack of IT infrastructure remains a dampe...
The buzz on Obama killing the Poland missile defence shield
I KNEW this administration was going to be trouble, but I didn't think they would sink to this depth of lunacy. Yet...
Why discredit a true Andhra hero?
I WAS shocked to read in this newspaper that families were paid by Congress party functionaries in Andhra Pradesh to lie about the real cause of dea...
Tim Paine's maiden international hundred was the cornerstone of Australia's 296 for eight against England in the sixth One- dayer at Trent Bridge on Thursday.
World champions Aust...
Dhoni welcomes southpaw's return at top of the order for Champions Trophy in SA
INDIAN cricket team heaved a sigh of relief as opener Gautam Gambhir cleared a fitness test o...
Andrew Flintoff rejected the England contract as it barred him from indulging in events such as bungeejumping which was to be a part of his television show
...THE National Rifle Association of India ( NRAI) has possibly jumped the gun and told the international shooting federation ( ISSF) that it does not want to host the World Cup in March 2010 at the ...
Returns a card of 5- under 67. Randhawa tied 11th
JUST when everyone thought the tournament would go on expected lines with Gaganjeet Bhullar taking the early lead of 4- under, a...
FORMER Pakistan captain Wasim Akram on Thursday admitted that the fire that is raging across international cricket— freelance players — was an inevitable development.
In the Capital to unve...
CHURCHILL Brothers were held to a 1- 1 draw by Assam Rifles in the quarter- final league match of the Durand Cup but still managed to qualify for the semifinal at the Ambedkar Stadium on Thursday....
INDIA'S top player Somdev Devvarman has his task cut out when he plays Izak Van Der Merwe in the opening singles of the Davis World Group play off tie against South Africa in Johannesburg on ...
TOP- SEED Poojashree Venkatesha survived a late charge by Israeli sixth seed Keren Shlomo to reach the semifinals of the ITF women's Futures on Thursday.
The Indian, who was 2- 5 down ...
Singapore officials are confident the race- fixing scandal surrounding Renault will not impact next weekalt39s F1 Grand Prix in the Southeast Asian city- state.
Renault will appear before t...
Flamboyant team boss now says he had stepped down hoping it would help Renault
FLAVIO Briatore said he quit as Renaultalt39s team principal to save the team in the fallout from...
Midfielder Xabi Alonso will be out of action for ten days with a muscle injury in his right leg. He had to be substituted during Real's 5- 2 win over Zurich in a Champions League match...
UTTAR Pradesh chief minister Mayawati on Thursday warned that any move to demolish statues and memorials of Dalit icons will lead to a serious law and order problem across the country, warranting ...
FORMER national security adviser ( NSA) Brajesh Mishra has dismissed ex- Defence Research Development Organisation ( DRDO) scientist K. Santhanam's contention that the 1998 meeting to ascerta...
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On Tuesday, the Atomic Energy Commission ( AEC) upheld the figure of 45 kiloton yield for the hydrogen bomb test of May 11, 1998. But, the Karnal seismic array ...
THE UNION cabinet on Thursday decided not to oppose the Delhi High Court verdict on decriminalising homosexuality when the Supreme Court considers the case next month.
After looking at the ...
THE ' SOCIALISTS' have finally come up with their take on the ongoing ' austerity drive', dubbing it a " drama" staged by the Congress and the UPA government.
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Change the way we appoint judges
IN OUR neighbouring country China, corrupt public officials are sometimes executed by the state. While we don't bat for such extreme measures, t...
India must move to position itself strategicallywithin the newworld order
THE COLLAPSE of Lehman Brothers on September 15, 2008 set in motion a global economic crisis the likes of...
THIS year's anniversary of 9/ 11 is particularly significant from the point of view of Pakistan, America, Afghanistan and India for many reasons. One, for the first time since that fateful da...
I HATE my kitty group. I hate Mulloo, Bobo, Flopsy, Furry, Nina, Farkhanda and Sunny. But most of all I hate Mulloo.
You know what she did? That double dealing, two faced, backstabbing, hip...
THE BAR associations of the Supreme Court ( SC) and the Delhi High Court on Wednesday jointly demanded a change in the existing collegium system of appointment of judges.
The move comes aft...
RUSH on the Metro trains is expected to ease with the Delhi Metro Railway Corporation ( DMRC) augmenting its fleet with 83 new trains.
The first train will be inducted in the first week of ...
UNDER fire for yet another racial attack on three Indians in Melbourne, the Australian Police on Wednesday said they have launched a probe into the incident.
It also denied covering it up e...
THE DELHI High Court on Wednesday directed the Delhi Police to provide appropriate medical facilities to a minor ...
IT SOUNDS like a new book in the Harry Potter series, but Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey will be a high- tech ride at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, a new theme park area at Universa...
"WHEN the government talks of austerity, keep your hand on your wallet" they say. This could well ring t...
UNION HRD Minister Kapil Sibal's decision to make the Board Examinations after Class 10 " optional" is easily the most significant change in the Indian education system since the 10...
A MAIL TODAY expose has now established that many of the reports of people dying or killing themselves after hearing of Y S Rajasekhara R...
IF YOU want to take the plunge into wedlock in the Dravidian land, you better get certified virile and potent or else it might prove difficult.
The criteria for matrimony appear set for a c...
FOR long, whenever teenage beauty was conceived it was with the elegant dhavani as the attire. It was no mere three- metre piece of cloth, but a mark of advent of youth till the beginning of the 9...
ONE HUNDRED days of solitude and still counting. Though far from the madding crowd and enjoying her self- imposed exile in the cool environs of the blue mountain, AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa'...
THE CPM on Wednesday decided to provide 90 acres of land to IT giants Infosys and Wipro at Rajarhat near Kolkata at a cost of Rs 1.5 crore. The current market rate of the land there is Rs 800 cror...
THE CENTRAL Bureau of Investigation ( CBI) on Wednesday gave a clean chit to Ram Bhool and his sister Kusum after conducting lie- detector tests on them.
Ram and Kusum had picked Arushialt1...
BJP's dilemma
AFTER disgruntled insiders, the BJP has nagging problems with three political outfits in electionbound Maharashtra, Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh.
Raj Thack...
THE CONGRESS'S austerity drive may appear to have emerged out of the blue, but it has stemmed out of a harsh ground reality. The party doesn't want its ministers and MPs to be seen as in...
CONGRESS heir apparent Rahul Gandhi was recently seen at an event to celebrate Danny Boyle and Co's success with Slumdog Millionaire at Manre, an upmarket South Delhi restaurant. Though Rahul...
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atmosphere among the voting public for harsher economic measures to follow.
" Too much is being made out by the cost calculation of economy- class t...
BIHAR is planning to impose a collective fine on the mob that torched a train at Bihta station near Patna last month.
Ticketless travellers had set ablaze four air- conditioned bogies of Sh...
UNDER fire for yet another racial attack on three Indians in Melbourne, the Australian Police on Wednesday said they have launched a probe into the incident.
It also denied covering it up e...
IT SOUNDS like a new book in the Harry Potter series, but Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey will be a high- tech ride at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, a new theme park area at Universa...
THE SUPREME Court ( SC) is the final court of appeal and its decisions are final but the majesty of the institution lies in admitt...
POLITE CONV...
FINANCE officials of the cashstrapped Delhi government have been pushing for it without success.
Now, a letter from the Congress high command could put elected representatives in Delhi on t...
THE BAR associations of the Supreme Court ( SC) and the Delhi High Court on Wednesday jointly demanded a change in the existing collegium system of appointment of judges.
The move comes aft...
Guns N' Roses, one of the most famous successful rock bands in world history, will be performing in India this November.
Delhi, as always, will miss out on this high- profile act as th...
Breaking the Magicianalt39s Code 10 pm, AXN
More than ten years ago, the Masked Magician concealed his face to reveal the jealously guarded secrets behind some of the most baffling il...
Salad Festival
Soups, salads and unlimited pasta to Eggspectation, Jaypee Siddharth, Rajendra Place. Lunch: 11.30 a...
With our critic's star ratings
THIS WEEK'S RELEASES
9 (U/A) Directed by Shane Acker. *ing Christopher Plummer,Martin Landau, John C. Reilly, Crispin Glover. A...
Dinesh Dagar has done a BSC in Yoga and is also a gold medalist from the Himalayan Yoga Olympics. He is currently an instuctor with Bharat Thakur Artistic Yoga. In a wellness series for LIFEST...
At VHIMW, pants remained the most reinterpreted silhouette. Here we track down some of the top trends spotted on the runway.
By Zofeen Maqsood
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WOULDN'T it be ironic if the market topped in the day that the Fed Chairman signals the world that the recession is o...
YSR myth exposé a service to nation
ONE of the troubles with politicians is that they are more interested in one- upmanship than real service to the people.
According to peop...
GURU GYAN VIBHAS PRASAD | Director, Leisure Hotels Ltd.
With 23 properties across India and more coming up , the Leisure Hotels Group has ambitious plans for the industry, Suhita R...
Oh, come on! Everyone's dead here," shouts Sandeep Jain from Ad Vo...
FOR A Hollywood singleton famous for enduring heartbreak, attending the premiere of a movie called Love Happens may not hold great appeal.
But plucky Jennifer Aniston proved her strength an...
GURU GYAN VIBHAS PRASAD | Director, Leisure Hotels Ltd.
With 23 properties across India and more coming up , the Leisure Hotels Group has ambitious plans for the industry, Suhita R...
ANIL Ambani group company Reliance Natural Resources Ltd ( RNRL) on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to make National Thermal Power Corp ( NTPC) a party to its ongoing case against Mukesh Ambanil...
US FEDERAL Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said the worst recession since the 1930s is probably over, although he cautioned that pain, especially for the nearly 15 million unemployed Americans, will...
GLOBAL investment banking major Goldman Sachs has estimated a requirement of Rs 82 lakh crore ($ 1.7 trillion) to finance India's infrastructure needs in the decade ending 2020. It also said ...
TVS MOTOR Company on Wednesday got a breather with the Supreme Court allowing it to make and sell 125- cc Flame motorcycles with twin- spark plug technology on which arch rival Bajaj Auto claims t...
IDFC Private Equity ( PE), the country's largest infrastructurefocused PE fund, will now invest in the field of renewable energy.
Through an independent power producer, Green Infra Ltd...
CALL it the downturn blues but Reliance Retail Limited, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries, is taking a relook at two of its formats. While the company is still hopeful of its expansion plans, it...
BELYING fears of stretched valuations, the benchmark indices spiralled for the second day on the back of strong advance tax numbers from companies.
The National Stock Exchange ( NSE) index ...
THE states have veered around to the view that there should be two rates for the proposed goods and services tax ( GST) scheduled to be introduced in the country from April 1, 2010.
" ...
Bharti Retail plans
BHARTI Retail said it is on course to become a billion dollar company by 2015, and will open 40 more stores in the next three months. " We have now 28 small ...
RECOVERING from a shoulder injury, opener Virender Sehwag will return to action in the Irani Cup and will lead the Rest...
SPIN great Shane Warne and Australia captain Ricky Ponting expect more cricketers to follow in the footsteps of English all- rounder Andrew Flintoff and turn freelancer.
According to the Au...
AUSTRALIA captain Ricky Pontingalt39s superb century paved the way for the world champions to beat England by four wickets in the fifth Oneday International at Trent Bridge.
Victory saw Aus...
FOR last year's winner Jyoti Randhawa, the DLF Masters golf tournament is a special event. What ma...
AUSTRALIAN opener Phillip Hughes did not share the details of his meeting with Sachin Tendulkar but said it was one interaction he would never forget.
The 20- year- old opener met Tendulkar...
BRENDON McCullum and not Andrew Flintoff was the first who wanted to turn freelancer to play in the entire Indian Premier League II and the Kiwi had in the process inadvertently jeopardised the En...
IF YOU thought there was dissent among members in the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee with the way preparations are happenin...
IN A significant development, Hockey India on Wednesday named a new selection panel which comprises members from both the men's and women's sections and have represented the country.
...UNSEEDED Sheethal Goutham took revenge of her last month's defeat to Isha Lakhani, when she stunned the fourth seed in the second round of the $ 10,000 SAIL ITF women's tennis tournament...
CRISTIANO Ronaldo scored twice on his Champions League debut for Real Madrid to lead his new team to a 5- 2 win at FC Zurich, while the Manchester United side he left after last season's fina...
Bagan rout match ONGC 5- 1 in the league
UNDERDOGS Lajong FC stunned East Bengal 1- 0 in their quarter- final league match on Wednesday and knocked them out of 2009 Durand Cup footba...
DEEKSHA Sports Management ( DMS) has for the first time in the history of Indian football roped in an Italian professional coach Antonio Saviano, the founder and president of Soccerkix — a premier...
TIMELINE after Renault boss Flavio Briatore and engineering director Pat Symonds left the F1 team and said they would not contest charges of fixing the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix by ordering a driv...
Renault split with team principal Flavio Briatore on Wednesday and said it would not contest a charge that N...
FOR last year's winner Jyoti Randhawa, the DLF Masters golf tournament is a special e...
Lajong FC upset Kolkata giants in Durand Cup
UNDERDOGS Lajong FC stunned East Bengal 1- 0 in their quarter- final league match on Wednesday and knocked them out of 2009 Dur...
THOSE with a keen sense of history remember well the breathtaking view of the Capital the Qutub Minar in Mehrauli offers.
Access to the staircase and balconies of the historic monument was,...
THE DELHI High Court on Wednesday directed the Delhi Police to provide appropriate medical facilities to a minor ...
CONGRESS leaders in Andhra Pradesh are beginning to reconcile to the fact that the party high command will not succumb to any pressure tactics in making Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy the chief minister o...
THEY PROMISED him a job that would have paid Rs 4.50 lakh in three months and flew him to Nigeria on July 19 this year.
A month later, 22- year- old Jainullah Mehndi Hassan, a resident of V...
CHARIOTS race around a huge arena at break- neck speed... a vast Roman army wields swords and spears . . . two gladiators fight to the death. Yet this is no scene from ancient Rome but a version o...
THE MINISTRY of health is working on an ambitious idea — to issue multi- purpose electronic health cards for all newborns in the country.
Minister of state for health Dinesh Trivedi spoke a...
AN EXPERT committee has been formed by the government to review the Motor Vehicles Act to synchronise it with the changed transport and road conditions.
One of the proposals the panel will ...
A COMPLAINT was filed in a Delhi court on Wednesday against industrialist and Rajya Sabha MP Rahul Bajaj. His group's partner company Allianz has been accused of portraying Jammu and Kashmir ...
ALLOWING mosquitoes to breed in and around your house may attract a fine of Rs 500 fine in Madhya Pradesh. The state's health department has decided to penalise people if mosquitoes are found...
A NEW traffic plan approved on Wednesday could end the congestion on a major road connecting east Delhi, Ghaziabad and Noida to New Delhi.
Chief minister Sheila Dikshit gave the green signa...
A YOUNG British woman, allegedly molested by a plumber last month, has complained to the Gujarat High Court chief justice that she was humiliated in the open court during hearing of the case.
<...RUSH on the Metro trains is expected to ease with the Delhi Metro Railway Corporation ( DMRC) augmenting its fleet with 83 new trains.
The first train will be inducted in the first week of ...
INDIA'S close ally Singapore has presented a distorted historical view of Tibet's role in Sino- Indian relations.
Singapore's foreign minister George Yeo has claimed in a rec...
AS AN actress Drew Barrymore knows the value of good advertising. But dipping the bottom half of her hair in black dye was a bold move, even for Drew.
The 34- year- old appeared in a funky ...
THE BABY born with his heart protruding from his chest died at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences ( AIIMS) on Wednesday.
The 22- day- old infant from Bihar developed a blood infect...
IT SEEMS the Vishwa Hindu Parishad ( VHP) does not believe in practicing what it preaches.
Barely a week after its leader Ashok Singhal said L. K. Advani took out a rath yatra in 1990 to us...
THE HEALTH ministry is developing a new set of pictorial warnings for tobacco products to be put in place from next year. This move came after the ministry was flooded with complaints that the cur...
FORMER Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday backtracked from his statement that the US military aid meant for the war on terror was diverted to bolster defences against India.
I...
RANI Mukherjee attended the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada to promote her upcoming Dil Bole Hadippa, and was overwhelmed by the turnout of fans. After obliging fans with the usual p...
KATRINA Kaif loves it natural — her hair we mean.
She knows how beautiful, long hair compliments the figure and face of a girl.
And being one of the top actresses, she takes extra ca...
PINK seems to be the dominant colour in Bollywood these days with many films being made with all- woman casts.
We had Rupali Guha's recently released Aamras that dealt with the ups and...
HOLLYWOOD star Megan Fox has been branded " dumb", " ungracious", " rude" and an " unbearable" actress by crew members on the bigbudget films.
The st...
Breaks into tears after beating defending champion to win his first Grand Slam title
ROGER Federer got a dramatic view of the future of tennis when his five-year reign as US Open cha...
EXACTLY one year after the US investment banking major Lehman Borthers collapsed, India Inc has shown firm signs of revival by paying up a bounty as advance tax and pushed the major indices — Sens...
Superstar Patrick Swayze loses two- year battle with pancreatic cancer
HE MADE millions swoon with his line: " Nobody puts Baby in a corner" in the 1987 cult movie Dirty D...
Jagan's men persuaded families of people who died of other causes to say the deaths were areaction to the ex- CM's tragic copter crash
ANDHRA Pra...
AT the meeting of the National Security Council Advisory Board last week, a senior member argued for strong measures to control the media — especially the 24- hour news channels. He was reacting t...
Sibal deserves praise for his initiatives
OUR earlier remark that Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal appeared to be in a tearing hurry to get his plans implemented were,...
NOW that the Congress high command has decided to maintain status quo in the Andhra Pradesh affairs, Chief Minister K Rosaiah is gradually consolidating his position in the government.
Appa...
THE death of then Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy has, no doubt, brought a lot of grief and sorrow to millions of people across the state, but it has also fetched business for many people.
SELLING pani poori or pav bhaji , or for that matter, vegetables on the roadside is no more a mean job. The Andhra Pradesh government has decided to recognise their business as " natural mark...
THE tragic death of then Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy in a helicopter crash on September 2 is all set to alter the political landscape of the state.
The Opposition parties are ke...
PROFESSIONAL experts are now training the Congress leadership on how to reach out to the masses.
Experts from a Bangalore- based consultancy — Institute of Leadership and Institutional Deve...
Loose cannon?
JAIRAM Ramesh's recent visit to Bhopal ruffled many feathers.
First, the environment and forest minister upset the 1984 gas leak survivors when he commented...
Congress leader and fellow travellers unhurt
CONGRESS general secretary Rahul Gandhi had a narrow escape on Tuesday in Haryana as some miscreants pelted stones on the train he wa...
THE Trans- Asian Railway Network's southern corridor through India, Bangladesh and Pakistan has received a boost.
Islamabad has partially approved New Delhi's proposal for a goods...
THE Army will hold its operations alert next month on the country's Line of Actual Control ( LAC) with China.
Following reports of Chinese intrusions into Indian territory, officials a...
IT WAS a terrific Tuesday at Sydney's mega- jamboree — 30 Days of Fashion and Beauty, a month- long event in September — as the stunners showcased the boldest of lingerie in style.
The...
PRIYANKA ( name changed), a victim of dowry torture, isn't battling burns at a city hospital.
When she refused to meet the dowry demands of her husband and in- laws, they did not set h...
SWINE FLU claimed another life in the national Capital on Tuesday.
Debashish Kar, 26, who was undergoing treatment at the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, succumbed to the viral infection.
A BOMB from an IAF fighter aircraft fell on a vacant land 15 km off the Pokhran firing ranges near Jaisalmer on Monday night and exploded, leaving behind a huge crater and causing panic among resi...
RIDING ON rising anti- Left Front sentiments in West Bengal, the Congress- Trinamool Congress alliance handed yet another resounding defeat to the Left on Tuesday. It won the municipal elections i...
A PIL was on Tuesday filed in the Bombay High Court seeking a ban on the film Babarr, released last week, for alleged negative portrayal of Muslims.
Questioning the censor board's clea...
A 50- YEAR- OLD man has been arrested for raping his teenage daughter repeatedly for three years at a village near Patna.
The girl, now 19, finally sought the help of the sarpanch ( village...
THE US has said it views very seriously former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's statement that assistance meant for the war on terror was diverted to boost defences against India during ...
HE MADE millions swoon with his line: " Nobody puts Baby in a corner" in the 1987 cult movie Dirty Dancing . On Monday, Hollywood and millions around the world mourned the death of heart...
A SERIOUS mismatch has surfaced between Union law minister M. Veerappa Moily and the government's highest echelons.
Moily and the government don't see eye to eye on various measur...
MUNTAZER al- Zaidi, the Iraqi television reporter jailed for throwing his shoes at former US president George W. Bush, was freed on Tuesday. Soon after his release, Zaidi claimed he had been tortu...
THE LOST Symbol , Dan Brown's longanticipated follow- up to The Da Vinci Code , was tipped to smash sales records as it went on sale worldwide on Tuesday.
Six- and- a- half million cop...
WHAT could the capital's Khirki mosque have in common with Catel Maniace in Sicily? If the panel discussion at the opening of The Gothic Mediterranean, an online exhibition that focuses on th...
ADOOR Gopalakrishnan's creative halo glows so brightly that anyone with an interest in films with substance could not have afforded to stay away from Stein Auditorium at the India Habitat Cen...
FORCED to stop construction work at many of her projects by a Supreme Court order, Mayawati is planning to take the battle to the people's court.
The Bahujan Samaj Party ( BSP) chief w...
AFTER a brief lull in attacks on Indians in Australia, three members of the community were brutally assaulted by a group of 70 youths, including women, at a bar in Melbourne.
Victims Sukhdi...
You will focus on bringing about positive changes at home and at work. You may get lucky with real estate, but only if you take some risks. Take care of your health.
ARIES Mar 21...
Entertainment Ke Liye Aur Bhi Kuch Karega 10 pm, Sony
From beharupiya to a dancing hair stylist, Rubik's cube solver to ghadhka dancers, many interesting contestants try their b...
Places to visit, shows to check out &food to grab
Photo Exhibition
Sewa Bharat presents ' Hands of Hope', an exhibition of photographs by Sanjay Kumar, at 4...
THIS WEEK'S RELEASES
9 ( U/ A) Directed by Shane Acker. * ing Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau, John C. Reilly, Crispin Glover.
AAMRAS ( U) Directed by Rupali Guha.
THEY BRING a freshness to documentary film- making — with themes that are bold and unconventional, they are pushing the boundaries of this medium with their passion for story- telling.
Now,...
The tables have turned as tech- savvy kids teach parents how to become gadget- friendly
THE NEW millennia had some shocks in store for us. Privileged children are no longer born ...
Swarovski over French manicure, gelled nail extensions that don't chip or fall off... cuticle care was never so easy, smooth &in vogue
WE ALL try our best to avoid stereotype...
Radiate beauty & youth this festive season
WHAT CAN outshine your gold jewellery and the sparkle of your zari borders? Your gleaming, healthy skin. The festive season is the time...
RICHA Chaddha caught everyone's eye when she made her debut in Oye Lucky Lucky Oye along with Abhay Deol as the loud mouth Dolly.
Now, the actress has bagged another plum project, Benn...
JUST last month, Kareena Kapoor celebrated beau Saif Ali Khan's birthday on August 16 by throwing a lavish party at posh Mumbai hotel, Four Seasons.
But Saif is disappointed as he wona...
RANBIR Kapoor has finally woken up to competition.
The actor seems to have opened his eyes to the competition around. But he claims he has learnt to handle it. He shrewdly says one must kee...
IF YOU love rice and miss it when you travel, consider carrying some in a packet. Just soak it in water for an hour and have it with yogurt for breakfast — or with pickle for lunch.
Indian ...
FIVE Indians have made it to the list of America's top 35 young innovators. They are Ranjan Dash, Ashoke Ravi, Vik Singh, Pranav Mistry and Shwetak Patel.
Mistry, a graduate student at...
HOLLYWOOD star Megan Fox has been branded " dumb", " ungracious", " rude" and an " unbearable" actress by crew members on the bigbudget films.
The st...
SOUTH Africa's communications regulator said on Tuesday that it might not grant approval for the proposed tie- up between mobile phone group MTN and Bharti Airtel this year.
Paris Mash...
THE production of food grains in the country is likely to decline by 10- 15 per cent in the current financial year due to deficient rainfall, according to a top government official.
" ...
EXACTLY one year after the US investment banking major Lehman Borthers collapsed, India Inc has shown firm signs of revival by paying up a bounty as advance tax and pushed the major indices — Sens...
UPA chief gives politics amiss to launch world's top corp training hub
CALLING it a phenomenon enabled by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's " temples of modern India" ...
WITH festival season round the corner and the economy showing signs of recovery, the consumer durables manufacturers have a reason to spend. Anticipating a good growth, white goods manufacturers a...
Auto sales have plunged, General Motors has emerged from bankruptcy, Chrysler has been taken over by Italy's Fiat and job- cutting plans at German car maker Opel — the past year's turbul...
ONE YEAR after the start of the economic contraction, there is one segment of industry which is actually pretty thankful that the downturn happened when it did — the value retail segment.
A...
Gopinath offloads stake in Kingfisher
KINGFISHER Airlines vice- chairman G. R. Gopinath has further reduced his stake in Vijay Mallya- led Kingfisher Airlines and has sold shares wor...
THE iconic ' Liril Girls' will no more splash through a fountain to lure you with lime and lemony freshness.
The likes of Karen Lunel, Preity Zinta, Tara Sharma and Deepika Paduko...
BANK of England governor Mervyn King said on Tuesday that the British economy is slowly emerging from the deepest recession since World War II but that inflation, which fell in August to a near fi...
THE Union textiles ministry has expressed its concern over inadequate use of fire- retardant textiles in multiplexes and hotels in the country which exposes the public to a higher risk unlike west...
The buzz on Microsoft's new visual search for Bing
IT'S a pretty clever feature that displays results as thumbnail images of stuff– cameras, handbags, movies, U. S. presi...
Just who are they kidding?
I READ with great interest the front page report titled ' We are on track for 2010 Games' ( September 15) in which both Delhi chief minister Shei...
TEN-TIME Grand Slam doubles champion Leander Paes pulled out of India's Davis Cup team which plays South Africa in the World Group play-off that starts in Johannesburg on Friday. Paes complain...
BATTING maestro Sachin Tendulkar returned to the top 10 of the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for ODI batsmen for the first time in 10 months after the latest rankings were released on Tuesda...
ANDREW Flintoff is set to become world cricket's first freelance player after rejecting the offer of a contract with the England national team.
The England and Wales Cricket Board last...
Spinner silences critics with a magical spell in the Compaq Cup final in Colombo
FOR many years his critics had one complaint against Harbhajan Singh.
Despite possessing...
EOIN Morgan's maiden One- day international fifty for England gave the hosts hope of avoiding a series whitewash against Australia as they made 299 at Trent Bridge on Tuesday.
In reply...
CWG technical committee meets THE 10th meeting of Commonwealth Games Technical Conduct Committee ( GTCC) was held on Tuesday in the Capital.
All the members of the GTCC including the concer...
TOURNAMENT favourites Churchill Brothers crawled past Sporting Clube de Goa 1- 0 in their quarter- final league match of the Durand Cup football tournament at the Ambedkar Stadium on Tuesday.
<...Yuvraj and Sehwag are other Indians who are also in the reckoning
INDIAN captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and opening batsman Gautam Gambhir notched up a double when they were s...
JUNIOR shotgun shooter Sangram Dahiya of India was declared the best shooter for his performance in a series of junior Word Cups.
The 19- year- old was also awarded the inaugural Junior Sho...
THE 2009 Hero Honda Indian Open golf tournament will see an increase of $ 0.25 million in prize money and a new venue in DLF Golf and Country Club in Gurgaon this year.
The 46th edition of ...
Future of drivers Nick Heidfeld and Robert Kubica still uncertain
FORMULA One team BMW Sauber has been bought by Swiss firm Qadback Investments Ltd for around € 80 million ($ 116....
TEN-TIME Grand Slam doubles champion Leander Paes pulled out of India's Davis Cup team which plays South Africa in the World Group play-off that starts in Johannesburg on Friday. Paes complain...
WINNING a doubles title brought some closure on Monday to what has been an awkward, tumultuous US Open for Serena Williams. Time to celebrate. Time to move on. Maybe even time to make amends with t...
DESPITE needing just a month to hurtle from nowhere to 19th in the world rankings, US Open champion Kim Clijsters has no intention of racking up the air miles to pursue a rise to the top of the st...
LOSING his US Open title and 41- match winning streak was a huge blow, but Roger Federer says he will spend no time brooding over it. The Swiss star was finally beaten at Flushing Meadows for the f...
Breaks into tears after beating defending champion to win his first Grand Slam title
ROGER Federer got a dramatic view of the future of tennis when his five-year reign as US Open cha...
Future of drivers Nick Heidfeld and Robert Kubica still uncertain
FORMULA One team BMW Sauber has been bought by Swiss firm Qadback Investments Ltd for around € 80 million ($ 116....
BRAND YSR has been a carefully orchestrated campaign that began well before then Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy's death in a helicopter crash. His horrific end added le...
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cynical local Congress leaders, and in one case allegedly a state minister, had paid the families of those who had died from natural causes since September 3 to...
HAJ PILGRIMS with a temperature more than 38 degrees Celsius or 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit will not be allowed to proceed for the pilgrimage.
A letter in this regard has been written by the C...
UNION agriculture ministry's move to appoint a new director- general ( DG) of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research ( ICAR) has stirred a controversy.
A leading scientist has cri...
A SOCIETY beauty who had a drunken romp with a male passenger while his girlfriend slept caused mayhem on a flight from Bangalore to London, a UK court heard on Monday.
Clare Irby, 30, who ...
NARENDRA Modi opened a new inning on Tuesday after he was elected the president of the Gujarat Cricket Association ( GCA).
The Gujarat chief minister wrested control of the organisation, ba...
JUST A week after the Prime Minister had a word of praise for HRD minister Kapil Sibal, it was the turn of home minister P. Chidambaram to get the bouquets.
" I compliment the home min...
' Build trust with minority communities'
MANMOHAN Singh on Tuesday asked the heads of state police forces to build trust with minorities.
This comes a week after a m...
SEVEN members of a family were found murdered inside their house at a village in Haryana's Rohtak district.
The victims are the family members of a retired teacher — Takdir Singh — stay...
THE decrepit New Delhi railway station, which stuck out like a sore thumb in the vicinity of the swank Connaught Place, now dons a majestic look.
Regal white pillars will give embarking pas...
FOR more than half a century, Crazy Horse has been one of Paris's most famous nightspots known for its cabaret. This year's show " Desire" has opened to rave reviews with da...
FAMILY members and Dusshera villagers never imagined a mobile phone could land Ram Bhool in trouble. The 30- yearold's snazzy phone was the talk of the village ever since he acquired it. Ram ...
THE CENTRAL Bureau of Investigation ( CBI) may be relieved at having found some crucial lead i. e.
Arushi's cell phone. But the phone must have changed hands several times since it wen...
ARUSHI Talwar's Nokia N72 phone was finally traced to Ram Bhool, a villager in Bulandshahr district of Uttar Pradesh 16 months after her murder. But the agency now has to fend criticism about...
Case cracked if it's proved the accused had tried to dispose of Arushi's mobile
EXCITED by the chance discovery of Arushi Talwar's missing mobile phone, the Central ...
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...THE YEARS of toil for science students will soon be over. Union human resource development minister Kapil Sibal said on Monday that class XII students will be able to take a common entrance examin...
Scores his 44th ODI ton &Bhajji takes 5wickets as India win by 46 runs Scores his 44th ODI ton &Bhajji takes 5wickets as India win by 46 runs
SACHIN Tendulkar's bat chose ...
Sheila trashes criticism by C'wealth Games boss &claims venues will be ready by March
A SCEPTICAL nation has got the answer it was looking for.
Delhi chief minister...
Says states treat cops like football by transferring them whimsically
A CARELESS reply from the Mayawati government over rampant police transfers in Uttar Pradesh reportedly prompte...
THE DRUG to treat H1N1 flu will now be available at select chemist shops across the country.
Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad approved the order to allow the retail sale of the drug, ...
Cuckolded US is the one that must act
THE revelation made by former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf that Islamabad diverted American aid to shore up its defences against India ...
FEWER STATUES, SMALLER SECURITY DETAILS, ENDING CORRUPTION ARE ALSO WAYS OFPROMOTING AUSTERITY
THE debate regarding austerity is a funny one. Gandhi lived in the huts of the poor ...
TRINAMOOL Congress leaders are oozing confidence that Mamata Banerjee will become the chief minister after the 2011 assembly elections in the state.
Her ascent to Writers' Buildings is...
UNION finance minister Pranab Mukherjee has not only advised his own cabinet colleagues that avoidable costs must be cut. On Sunday, he also discussed the issue with state finance minister Asim Da...
DURGA puja is less than two weeks away. But unlike in previous years, tourists are hardly to be seen this time in the Queen of the Hills — Darjeeling. The reason: a fresh Gorkhaland agitation is r...
IS CHIEF minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee gradually isolating himself from his party and his government? Or is he being sidelined by a section of his own comrades who put the blame for the Leftalt...
THE austerity bug has bitten the Congress's first family.
Sonia Gandhi practised what she preached when she flew economy class to Mumbai on Monday.
The Congress president attend...
THE budgetary allocation for foreign travel by Supreme Court ( SC) judges was reduced from Rs 2.25 crore in 2008- 09 to Rs 1.95 crore this fiscal.
Despite this, the apex court judges have a...
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THERE was a time when whatever emanated from the Red bastion made banner headlines. After the nuclear deal threw a spanner in the works, the Left has almost become ...
LIFE existed in the oceans for hundreds of millions of years while the Earth's air was not fit to breathe, research suggested on Monday.
Plant- like bacteria evolved at least 200 milli...
HER career has been blighted by drama and controversy, but it seems Mischa Barton is at last bouncing back stronger than ever.
The actress, who rose to fame in the US teen drama The OC, app...
IT TOOK a sting operation to unravel the rampant practice of ' transfer' money Delhi students are being forced to pay to migrate to other colleges.
The Delhi government's dir...
EVEN COURTROOMS are not out of bounds for thieves. Thieves made away with cash and other items from a purse left by a metropolitan magistrate inside a courtroom.
Rohini court's metropo...
TREES ARE making way for concrete in Ghaziabad localities.
Once tree- lined neighbourhoods are looking barren overnight as civic authorities go on an overdrive to pave sidewalks with concre...
ONE-FOR-THE-ROAD won't pinch anymore. Two Delhi University pass-outs have hit upon a brilliant business peg. Now you can enjoy your drink and even get sozzled without losing your driving licen...
MEN TELL twice as many lies as women, it emerged on Sunday.
Researchers found they tell six fibs a day on average to their partner, boss and work colleagues, but women come out with just th...
COME September and art activity around the world gets on an overdrive — this month marks the opening of the post- summer season.
As for Indian art, three important auctions are lined up thi...
HE HAS been at it since 2002. Year after year, Natu Patel has been organising marriages for widows, divorcees and senior citizens apart from regular marriages. All for free.
On Sunday, Natu...
THE MINISTRY of Indian overseas affairs ( MOIA) is finalising details of the India Development Foundation ( IDF). The endeavour aims to draw overseas Indians for philanthropic activities in the co...
AT 31, she has already ' married' 15 men, only to ditch them one after the other.
' Marry and abscond' — often with the paramour's jewellery and cash — seems to hav...
THE DRUG to treat H1N1 flu will now be available at select chemist shops across the country.
Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad approved the order to allow the retail sale of the drug, ...
THE COUNTRY needs new high- yielding seeds, better infrastructure and proper marketing facilities to pave the way for a much- needed " second green revolution". This was the consensus th...
Sheila Dikshit says the takeover of MCD by the Delhi government will help speed up projects
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Both Reddy and Dikshit were reacting to a letter ...
Punjab topped India Today's State of the States awards for the seventh year in a row by being named the 'Best Big State' at a function attended by a galaxy of dignitaries in the capi...
THE government is likely to double or even quadruple its spending on flagship programmes aimed at reaching the benefits of growth to the poor, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said in New Delhi o...
THE YEARS of toil for science students will soon be over. Union human resource development minister Kapil Sibal said on Monday that class XII students will be able to take a common entrance examin...
THE UPA inadvertently delivered a gift to the beleaguered BJP on Monday. After months of infighting following the Lok Sabha defeat, the BJP won seven assembly seats in the bypolls in Gujarat, Madh...
AFTER a not- so- impressive performance in the Lok Sabha elections and a debacle in the Junagadh civic polls, Narendra Modi has regained his winning streak in Gujarat.
In the by- elections ...
Agronomist Norman Borlaug, the Father of Green Revolution, passed away on September 12, at the age of 95. His research lead to the development of high- yielding varieties of wheat, saving millions...
Do not aim for high goals this year and avoid taking risks. Life will be stable if you don't complicate it. A good year to improve interpersonal relationships.
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Shree 10.30 pm, Zee TV
The boy has powers which veer towrads the negative side. But the girl child, a form of the devi, stops him from causing any harm. Shree wants to take her chi...
Places to visit, shows to check out &food to grab
Mughlai Cuisine
Zaffarani Zaika, a new Mughlai restaurant in Delhi presents traditional Indian cuisine at Yashwant ...
THIS WEEK'S RELEASES
9 ( U/ A) Directed by Shane Acker. * ing Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau, John C. Reilly, Crispin Glover.
AAMRAS ( U) Directed by Rupali Guha.
Our feet are the most neglected and abused part of our body and pain in them may signal health problems that we can't afford to ignore
HISTORICALLY, the feet are regarde...
Recent research shows that the brain can reorganise itself to compensate for the blurring caused by macular degeneration of the eye
THE EYES, they say, are the windows to onealt1...
THE THERAPEUTIC use of water has many takers in naturopathy. Water increases the blood circulation and stimulates the nervous system.
SPINAL BATH: Given on the backbone, this bath soothes t...
Doing some nature cure therapy can restore equilibrium to the body and also pave the way to ahealthier way of life
SKIP breakfast, and then pick up a fat- laden chicken patty a...
Ameal plan that will shrink your gut even while it creates afeeling of satiety
A LOT CAN happen in six minutes. It's enough time to make or break a job interview or have gre...
KATRINA Kaif, who recently returned from long vacation with her family in London and Italy, is in a holiday mood again.
After landing in India, she got to know that her shooting schedule ha...
KAREENA Kapoor's birthday is still a week away ( on September 21) but she has already started getting gifts.
As a kid, Bebo used to love it when she got an early gift from dear friend ...
LOOKS like young star Maradona Rebello is spreading his wings! After his controversial role in Sudipto Chattopadhyay's Pankh , in which he played Bipasha Basu's alter ego, Maradona has n...
DEEPIKA Padukone seems to be turning into a possessive girlfriend. After she returned from a long shooting schedule of Housefull in London, Deepika reportedly went to Bhopal with boyfriend Ranbir ...
Stunning singers put their best foot forward at New York gala
WHILE nominees battled it out on stage for best music videos, the ladies on the red carpet were competing for a very d...
KANYEWest stormed on stage to unleash an astonishing rant during an acceptance speech by country starlet Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night.
The rapper ruined the 19...
MADONNA opened the awards in New York with a personal tribute to Michael Jackson, accusing herself and the world of " abandoning him". The Queen of Pop described her early friendship wit...
WHAT saved India from free- falling into recession amid the global financial meltdown? While most of the world's developed economies, as well as emerging ' tiger' economies, faced s...
THE bankruptcy filing by Lehman Brothers Holdings was one of the most cataclysmic events to have hit the global stock markets in recent history. Post- September 15, 2008, the contours of stock mar...
THE forecast for the industrial hot spots in Punjab has turned pleasant again. Having suffered the impact of a severe global meltdown for months, the industrial towns of Punjab — Ludhiana and Jala...
HE'S the new kid on the blog laughing his way to the bank.
Just over a year ago, certified financial planner Dushyant Bhatia, 23, left his Rs 6 lakh- plus per annum job at JPMorganalt1...
AT a time when the major global economies were slipping into recession in late 2008, Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, said, "… if America had a central bank chief like Y. V. Reddy, the US econ...
EIGHT months that taught me a lot about life." That is how Bhaskar, 25, an engineer with an MBA, describes his slowdown experience. Sales manager in a mid- level software firm, Bhaskar stoppe...
PUBLIC sector oil marketing companies ( OMCs) are still facing an under- recovery of Rs 3.95 on sale of a litre of petrol, Rs 2.71 on diesel, Rs 16.36 a litre of kerosene and Rs 162 per cylinder o...
URANIUM- rich Mongolia on Monday became the sixth nation with which India inked a civil nuclear agreement.
The nuclear agreement and four other pacts were signed after wide- ranging talks i...
AIR India has signed a bilateral agreement with the Singapore Airlines ( SIA), which will enable the frequent flyer programme ( FFP) members of both airlines to earn and redeem mileage points on f...
REAL estate developer Housing Development and Infrastructure Ltd ( HDIL) has agreed to pay tax on an additional income of Rs 350 crore following raids by the revenue department, the company said i...
No marketing margin on gas
THE petroleum ministry has informed the power ministry that no marketing margin was approved for sale of gas by firms like Reliance Industries Ltd ( RIL)...
The buzz on the death of scientist Norman Borlaug
NORMAN Borlaug, the man who saved more human lives than anyone else in history, has died at age 95. Borlaug was the Father of the ...
Corruption at the heart of India's woes
CORRUPTION is eating into this country's soul like a termite (' CJI says govt is shielding the corrupt', September 13)....
Scores his 44th ODI ton &Bhajji takes 5wickets as India win by 46 runs Scores his 44th ODI ton &Bhajji takes 5wickets as India win by 46 runs
SACHIN Tendulkar's bat chose ...
THE centuries just keep flowing from the blade of Sachin Tendulkar and after scoring his 44th ODI century in the final of the Compaq Cup against Sri Lanka here on Monday, the opening batsman calle...
In a battle between estranged partners, Leander shows Mahesh who is the boss
Leander Paes got the better of compatriot Mahesh Bhupathi when he and Czech partner Lukas Dlouhy won the...
ANDREW Flintoffalt39s plan to reject England contract and turn a freelancer may not materialise with Indian Premier League ( IPL) chairman Lalit Modi making it clear that the all- rounder would re...
Kiwi bowler defends his decision to join ICL calling it a'break' which came at the right time
THERE are many players who lost out on a lot of international cricket d...
' No Indian is good enough for FI'
KARUN Chandhok can kiss his Force India ambitions goodbye, at least for the time being, after chairman of the resurgent outfit Vijay Mall...
DEMPO SC put up a clinical performance to ground Air India 4- 1 in a quarter- final league match of the Durand Cup football tournament at the Ambedkar Stadium on Monday.
Having demolished A...
World No. 2 Bhiwani boxer says bronze at the World Championships is astepping stone to glory
DESPITE winning a bronze medal at the World Championships in Milan, India's t...
HOW does a player stay motivated after 375 straight singles victories? Yoga, perhaps.
Esther Vergeer of the Netherlands won her fourth U. S. Open women's wheelchair championship on Sun...
British tennis supremo Roger Draper believes Heather Watson can emulate Andy Murray's climb to the top of the sport in the wake of the 17- year- old's triumph in the US Open juniors. Wat...
JACK Kramer, a three- time Grand Slam winner and a major US tennis star in the 1940s, died at his Los Angeles home on Saturday, the Los Angeles Times reported. Kramer was 88. Kramer was world numb...
NOVAK Djokovic believes he sees a refreshed Roger Federer now that the Swiss great has gotten married, become a father and broken the record for career Grand Slam titles. " The way he stands ...
SERENA Williams' profanity- laced, finger- pointing tirade at a US Open linesperson drew a $ 10,000 fine, and more punishment could follow from a broader investigation into what the head of t...
SUPER mom Kim Clijsters scooped up her US Open championshiop's trophy in one arm and her 18- month- old daughter Jada in the other on Sunday night, overjoyed by both treasures but still stunn...
ROGER Federer punctuated his latest U. S. Open victory on Sunday with a shot he described, quite simply, the greatest of his life: a between- the- legs, back- to- the- net, crosscourt winner from ...
In a battle between estranged partners, Leander shows Mahesh who is the boss
Leander Paes got the better of compatriot Mahesh Bhupathi when he and Czech partner Lukas Dlouhy won the...
DEMPO SC put up a clinical performance to ground Air India 4- 1 in a quarter- final league match of the Durand Cup football tournament at the Ambedkar Stadium on Monday.
Having demolished A...
CENTRAL trade unions came down heavily on the UPA government for its " anti- worker" policies on Monday.
The unions, including the Congress- backed Intuc, Sangh Parivar's BMS...
THE DELHI High Court acquitted on Monday alleged Laskhar- e- Tayyeba operative Maqsood Ahmed.
Maqsood, who was awarded death sentence by a trial court in 2004, had given the Uttar Pradesh P...
A PASSENGER jet made an emergency landing on a protective layer of foam at Germany's Stuttgart airport on Monday.
" One passenger was slightly injured and a stewardess was taken t...
THE STATE government is set to lord over the Municipal Corporation of Delhi ( MCD), as powers ranging from appointing the corporation chief to dissolving the agency are proposed to be transferred ...
THE DELHI High Court on Monday gave a green signal to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi ( MCD) for the beautification of Jama Masjid. Justice Mukul Mudgal and Justice Reva Khetrapal directed the ...
THE Arushi murder case took a new twist on Monday with the recovery of the murdered girl's mobile phone.
The hand set was recovered a week ago by the Delhi Police's crime branch f...
Arushi's cell phone IN A dramatic development in the sensational Sister Abhaya murder case, Malayalam TV channels on Monday aired the contents of the narco- analysis test done on the three ac...
WATER supply to some South Delhi areas will be affected on Tuesday morning after the Bhairon Marg pipeline burst on Monday. The pipeline burst around 5 pm and the Delhi Jal Board ( DJB) had to clo...
THE SIKH shrine in Kurukshetra — Gurdwara Chhati Patshahi — forcibly occupied by a section of the Sikhs on Sunday was restored to the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee ( SGPC).
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A SIX- YEAR- OLD boy on his way to school was kidnapped by three persons in Patna on Monday.
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has asked the police to rescue the child at the earliest.
<...IT WAS a scene which would have made any masala filmmaker of Bollywood proud.
Actress- turned- politician Jaya Prada went into hysterics on Sunday as she toured Rampur, her constituency, fi...
THE public servant- government servant stand- off in Rajasthan shows no signs of abating. The Ashok Gehlot- led state administration's decision to transfer Chittorgarh's district collect...
CHAUDHARY Mahendra Singh Tikait, chief of Bharatiya Kisan Union ( BKU) and leader of Baliyan Khap, had issued a ' fatwa' on Sunday against marriages within the same Hindu gotra.
B...
THE ALLEGED nexus between Bineesh Kodiyeri, the NRI son of Kerala home minister and CPM politburo member Kodiyeri Balakrishanan, and Omprakash, a gangster and an accused in the Paul M. George murd...
THOSE willing to travel to the US can now expect shorter visa queues and better consular services with the inauguration of a new consular section at the American embassy in Delhi on Monday.
...
A 20- YEAR- OLD Indian asylumseeker in Austria died on Monday in a Vienna detention centre, the police said.
Gaganpreet Singh, a Sikh, had been on a hungerstrike since August 7 in protest a...
Says states treat cops like football by transferring them whimsically
A CARELESS reply from the Mayawati government over rampant police transfers in Uttar Pradesh reportedly prompte...
FOR THE first time since 26/ 11, P. Chidambaram acknowledged the role of Indian outfits in supporting Pakistani terror groups like the LeT and JeM. " We were able to bust 12 terrorist modules...
AL- QAEDA leader Osama bin Laden warned US President Barack Obama that he is powerless to halt the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and must rethink his policy on Israel, in his first message in three...
The three action legends will star in afilm together
ARNOLD Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis are to star together in a new blockbuster Hollywood action film title...
Michael Fennell seeks meeting with Manmohan
MIFFED with the Capital's tardy preparation for the 2010 Commonwealth Games, Commonwealth Games Federation ( CGF) president Micha...
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Vol. 2 No. 302 | Pages 40 | Rs 2.00
...THE CONTROL of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi ( MCD) is all set to pass into the hands of chief minister Sheila Dikshit after the Centre gave the proposal its ' in- principle approvalalt1...
Second seed disqualified for yelling at a line judge in the semi- final against Clijsters
SERENA Williams was booted out of the US Open on Saturday after hurling threatening abuse...
THE GOVERNMENT could reduce the protection enjoyed by public servants against action in corruption cases to a bare minimum and bring in the private sector within the anti- corruption laws.
...
Ex- Pak Prez confirms U. S. fears &says he used anti- terror funds against India
We diverted US weapons against threats to our security
The fear of a US- Indian s...
SC confusion clouds signal to Mayawati
DIFFERENCE of opinion in an institution can be an indicator of its healthy functioning, but in the case of the Supreme Court of India it has ...
THERE is little doubt that the Congress in Andhra Pradesh faces a Hobson's choice. Whichever way it chooses to go, it will have to deal with the conflict between organisational coherence and c...
THE balance of post- retirement power is gradually shifting and superannuated bureaucrats are beginning to feel a sudden sense of loss. All along, most IAS and IFS officers approached retirement k...
FOR three days, starting today, DGPs and IGPs from all states will meet in Delhi. As usual, when they return after their deliberations, no one will be the wiser. And nothing will ever change.
<...FINANCE minister Pranab Mukherjee's recent reiteration of a circular on adopting austerity measures is slowly finding more takers among the high- flier ministers.
Union agriculture min...
WHEN the Indian Ex- servicemen's Movement held their meeting on Sunday afternoon in the Capital, the crowd was much smaller than the February rally.
Though Major- General ( retired) Sa...
Saffron facelift
IS THE new RSS boss trying to change the image of the Sangh in keeping with the times? Though cast in the same mould as his predecessor K. S. Sudarshan, he seems t...
UNION law minister M. Veerappa Moily wants to " correct" a perceived subversion of the judicial process in Gujarat over the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case. He has asked the attorney ge...
DELHI chief minister Sheila Dikshit asked power companies on Sunday to be transparent and get their act together soon or face action.
The dressing down came after representatives of the Del...
Michael Fennell seeks meeting with Manmohan
MIFFED with the Capital's tardy preparation for the 2010 Commonwealth Games, Commonwealth Games Federation ( CGF) president Micha...
A MASSIVE landslide triggered by the spate of torrential rains blocked the Kalka- Shimla toy train track near Kaithlighat, 31 km from Shimla, on Saturday night. Hundreds of passengers were strande...
THE CBI has informed the Centre about its reservations on taking up the case of the alleged rape and murder of two women in the Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir. The investigative agency has ...
THE BOMBAY High Court has ruled that complaints can be filed against female relatives of a husband under the Domestic Violence Act.
Reversing a sessions court order, the high court in its d...
A former BJP MLA was arrested on Saturday for carrying alcohol by the special operations group of police near Vanthali town in Rajkot. This comes close on the heels of the son of a BJP MP getting ...
AN employee of a financial institute has been arrested for using his position to cheat people. A sales manager with a private bank has been arrested along with two associates for stealing customer...
THE IRAQI journalist who became famous worldwide when he threw his shoes at then US President George W. Bush, is likely to get a hero's welcome if he is freed from jail, as expected, on Monda...
THE speed of finger and toenail growth has surged by nearly a quarter over the past 70 years, a new study has revealed. And the modern diet — rich in protein from readily available fish, meat, eggs...
RAMPANT violation of building norms in Gurgaon has provided a commercial opportunity to Rajesh Chauhan.
He comes to the aid of residents whose houses tilted because of flaws in techniques.<...
A SECTION of Sikhs, who have been demanding a separate gurdwara panel for Haryana, forcibly occupied a historic shrine in the state on Sunday.
The Gurdwara Chhati Patshahi at Kurukshetra wa...
CONGRESS leaders in Andhra Pradesh are taking their hero worship of former chief minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy to divine heights. At least three temples are being built in honour of Reddy, or Y...
THE ANDHRA Pradesh government has proposed to construct a memorial dedicated to former chief minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy at the spot where he died.
A helicopter carrying YSR crashed at...
WE HAVE seen many ingenious ways to promote a film, but this was surely a first.
The much- awaited Acid Factory 's actors Dino Morea, Aftab Shivdasani and producer Sanjay Gupta walked ...
ANIL Kapoor seems to be in need of anger management classes.
The actor, who is staying at the same venue where the men's India week is taking place, got into an argument with an overze...
EVEN as male models fail to impress at the fashion week, designer Rocky S seems to have taken the responsibility of looking chic.
With a new hairstyle, Rocky is getting attention as he seem...
MODEL Muzammil Ibrahim seems to have learnt his Bollywood lessons well. After delivering a flop debut with Pooja Bhatt's Dhoka , he comes up with a typical B- town explanation — that he wante...
THIS ENSEMBLE is from Rajesh Pratap's show on the final day of VHIMW. The colours are wintery, though the ensemble itself is ideal for early autumn or even spring summer.
The colour pa...
FLORAL patterns. Check.
Fruity colours. Check. Cleavage and leg show. Check. You'd think this is just what you need to slip into for your girls' night out? Well, the venue was Van...
FOR QUITE some time, we have been demanding the transfer of control of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi ( MCD) to the state government. The main aim is to have a common chain of command and achi...
THE Centre's proposal to bring the BJP- run Municipal Corporation of Delhi ( MCD) under the rule of the Congress- led state government may have more implications than meets the eye.
Th...
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi ( MCD) is among the largest municipal agencies in the world.
In terms of area covered, it is second only to Tokyo
The MCD was established on April...
THE CONTROL of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi ( MCD) is all set to pass into the hands of chief minister Sheila Dikshit after the Centre gave the proposal its ' in- principle approvalalt1...
AGAINST the general perception that former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had adopted a liberal posture on Ram Janmbhoomi- Babri Masjid while his deputy L. K. Advani wanted a Ram temple in Ay...
THE GOVERNMENT could reduce the protection enjoyed by public servants against action in corruption cases to a bare minimum and bring in the private sector within the anti- corruption laws.
...
Yesterday, India's first fashion week dedicated to men, concluded in New Delhi.
Fashion weeks are held all over the world and give us an opportunity to look at well- sculpted bodies do...
There is likely to be a noticeable increase of energy flow and activity in your life this year. This is a good year to accept new and challenging ventures that you would not have considered...
Entertainment Ke Liye AUR Bhi Kuch Karega 10 pm, Sony
After the success of Sony Entertainment Television's Entertainment Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega , Season 1, the show makes a com...
Places to visit, shows to check out &food to grab
Painting Exhibition
Recent works of Suniyata Khanna and Sandeep Passan at AIFACS Art Gallary, 1, Rafi Marg; 11 a. m...
THIS WEEK'S RELEASES
9 ( U/ A) Directed by Shane Acker. * ing Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau, John C. Reilly, Crispin Glover.
AAMRAS ( U) Directed by Rupali Guha.
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Arun Thukral talks about the importance and limitations of credit information reports
Arun Thukral, Managing Director, Credit Information Bureau (India) Ltd (Cibil), talks to Sush...
Travel services are now becoming user-friendly & offer better facilities for differently abled
India's travel service providers are waking up to the plight of the differently ...
Postal Life Insurance is open only to employees of government bodies
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Rivajit Kalita, a 38- year- old Guwahatibased builder, first heard of the term credit report when his bank, along with three others, rejected his home loan application on the grounds that he had a ...
Arun Thukral, Managing Director, Credit Information Bureau (India) Ltd (Cibil), talks to Sushmita Choudhury about the importance &limitations of credit information reports
THE HIGH cost of medical care means that even a few days in hospital can leave you with a huge bill. That's why the importance of health insurance cannot be stressed enough.
Cashless cl...
India's travel service providers are waking up to the plight of the differently abled as they become more user- friendly and offer better facilities
PRONITA Misra is your ave...
MAHESH Bhatt loves reality and it isn't surprising to hear him make announcements of launching a film whenever a controversial incident takes place.
With Ekta Kapoor already making a s...
SALMAN Khan will soon play the role of a farmer from a small Uttar Pradesh village in his brother Arbaaz Khan's production Dabangg.
This comes as a surprise because of late, the actor ...
MANOJ Bajpayee has finally got his labour of love. After slaving over his war drama, 1971, which got neither a decent promotion nor the right audience or reviews, he is thrilled that the movie has...
EVERYBODY wants to cash in on a hit song.
And Priyanka Chopra is no different. If the buzz is to be believed, PC has asked Kaminey director Vishal Bharadwaj to have a female version of the ...
THAT Priyanka Chopra will be playing 12 different roles in What's Your Rashee? is old news now. But people still don't know which one of her characters will Harman Baweja marry at the en...
EIGHTY- one per cent Indian mothers consider their children picky eaters and 70 per cent of them feel their offsprings display a lack of energy because of this, a new study has revealed.
Th...
Wild child Lohan says Britney taught her how to handle fame
HOLLYWOOD actress Lindsay Lohan has revealed the example set by pop princess Britney Spears taught her how to manage fa...
SOUTH African communications minister Siphiwe Nyanda has expressed reservations over MTN's proposed deal with Bharti, raising doubts whether the multi- billion dollar transaction will get the...
THE government will hold the much- awaited 3G spectrum auction for GSM operators on December 7 and invite bids from October 26 to November 13.
It will hold the auction for EVDO ( CDMA versi...
WHILE the Jet Airways pilots' strike came to an end on Sunday, the hangover of the five- day stir appears to have prevented the airline's flight operations from returning to normal.
<...JET Airways and Jet Airways Konnect are offering promotional fares that reflect a 50 per cent discount on its total fare in the economy class across all domestic flights till September 18.
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THE Delhi High Court has admitted an application by Anil Nanda seeking that the public offer of Fortis Healthcare be declared illegal on the ground that the Escorts Heart Institute and Research Ce...
US PLANE manufacturer Boeing has forecast that the Asia Pacific region, including India, will rank as the world's largest aviation market over the next 20 years, requiring as many as 8,960 ne...
STUNG by reports that it sold dud home loans, ICICI Bank has decided to seek a probe by government agencies and market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India ( Sebi) into what it called ...
AMID claims from various quarters that Indians have stashed away thousands of crores in secret bank accounts in Switzerland, the Swiss banks have asserted that any statistics about black money sim...
Farmers now also find solace in growing sugarcane
WITH the monsoon picking up momentum recently, farmers who were not able to sow paddy and groundnut due to the dry spell earlier, ...
GOLD prices are set to surge with the onset of the festive season. The yellow metal is likely to touch Rs 18,000 per ten grams, said a study by industry body Associated Chambers of Commerce and In...
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The buzz on the US- China trade war over car and truck tyres
PRESIDENT Barack Obama slapped punitive tariffs on all car and light truck tires entering the US from China in a decisi...
Mayawati puzzle foxes many Indians
I AM unable to understand that though the Supreme Court had ordered the stoppage of work on all parks that UP chief minister Mayawati is buildin...
SUNDAY was optional as far as practice went for the Indian players, still smarting under the heavy defeat of Saturday against Sri Lanka. Most of the players chose to stay at the hotel, despite hav...
THE defeat at the hands of the Sri Lankans on Saturday might be a blessing in disguise for the Indians ahead of the final of the Compaq Cup. With there being no possibility of performing any worse...
The father of modern cricket became the 44th inductee on Saturday before the start of the fourth One- dayer between England and Australia at the Lordalt39s.
...Amandeep pips Ashok for PGTI title
AMANDEEP Johl of Chandigarh was crowned the champion at the PGTI Players Championship after he pipped Ashok Kumar in a playoff at the Chandigarh ...
GAGANJEET Bhullar's sensational late charge could not topple Thaworn Wiratchant as the in- form Indian finished second best in the Macau Open golf tournament in Macau on Sunday.
After ...
Pakistan official says the formula will revive popularity of the format and could be used at domestic level
ENDORSING Sachin Tendulkar's view of splitting One- day internat...
GABRIEL Agbonlahor gave Aston Villa the bragging rights over bitter rivals Birmingham as his late goal clinched a 1- 0 win at St Andrews on Sunday.
A dour struggle looked set to end with th...
FAVOURITES JCT failed to impress and struggled past ONGC 1- 0 in the quarterfinal league of the Durand Cup football tournament in the Capital on Sunday.
Baljit Sahni's goal turned out ...
FORCE India boss Vijay Mallya celebrated another great weekend's work by his team after Adrian Sutil finished fourth in Sunday's Italian Grand Prix - and then pledged there is more to co...
Force India's Adrian Sutil finishes fourth in Italian GP
BRAZILIAN Rubens Barrichello won the Italian Grand Prix in a Brawn one- two on Sunday to trim team mate Jenson Butto...
THE wheelchair semi- finals were completed before rain scrubbed out the afternoon session. Top- seeded Esther Vergeer defeated Aniek van Koot of the Netherlands, 6- 0, 6- 1, for her 374th straight...
KIM CLIJSTERS, herself just back from a two- year retirement, says the tennis world will miss her former doubles partner Ai Sugiyama, the 34- year- old Japanese veteran who has announced her retir...
TOP SEED Yuki Bhambri's title hopes went up in smoke after a stunning straight- set defeat to unseeded local favourite Chase Buchanan in the boys' singles quarter- final of the US Open. ...
Second seed disqualified for yelling at a line judge in the semi- final against Clijsters
SERENA Williams was booted out of the US Open on Saturday after hurling threatening abuse...
AFTER two consecutive years of raindelayed singles finals, the U. S. Open is not committed to adding a roof. And despite grousing by players about the men's semi- finals and final on back- to...
ARGENTINA'S Juan Martin del Potro wrecked Rafael Nadal's US Open title aspirations with a bludgeoning 6- 2, 6- 2, 6- 2 victory in the semifinals on Sunday.
The giant sixth seed wa...
CAROLINE Wozniacki of Denmark beat error- prone Belgian Yanina Wickmayer 6- 3, 6- 3 on Saturday to advance to the women's final of the U. S. Open against former champion Kim Clijsters.
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GAGANJEET Bhullar's sensational late charge could not topple Thaworn Wiratchant as the in- form Indian finished second best in the Macau Open golf tournament in Macau on Sunday.
After ...
TWENTY- FOUR minor girls were rescued on Sunday following a raid on an orphanage in Bhubaneswar.
The police claimed a sex racket was being run there.
A managing trustee of the trust ...
THE CONGRESS and the Nationalist Congress Party ( NCP) hammered out a seat adjustment deal for next month's assembly polls in Maharashtra.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi's confid...
A CHINESE military expert has accused India of violating Beijing's diplomatic rights and spying on its military ware during inspection of the cargo plane of the UAE Air Force which was detain...
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with India. And all the weapons they have in Waziristan, they will carry them to their next posting no matter where these weapons come from," Musharraf s...
THE CBI has appealed to the public to lodge complaints on its website regarding corruption in the All India Council for Technical Education. The AICTE grants approval to technical and management i...
THE WATER level in the Yamuna remained above the danger level on Sunday as Haryana continued to release water into the river, flooding low- lying areas in the national Capital.
The water le...
Train carrying 14 commuters derails near Yamuna Bank station in E. Delhi
A METRO train carrying 14 passengers derailed on Sunday moments after pulling out of the Yamuna Bank sta...
THREE boys were killed and a dozen injured in an explosion in Haryana's Panchkula town on Sunday.
The blast occurred when the kids were trying to extract copper from a bomb at a scrap ...
NOBEL laureate Norman Borlaug, father of the Green Revolution, has died.
He had contributed to developing high- yielding and disease- resistant wheat that doubled India's output and pr...
THE victims of last year's serial blasts in the Capital are still waiting for justice. A year later, the trial of 12 suspected terrorists arrested in the case is yet to start.
On Sept...
THE police are yet to nab 14 suspected IM terrorists believed to be behind the serial blasts in Delhi.
The terror outfit had claimed responsibility for the violence.
A senior police ...
THE Uttar Pradesh government has suspended seven employees of Kanpur zoo after the death of 13 spotted deer and one swamp deer within an interval of six hours on Saturday.
It was found that...
Actress seems to have got aface job for her new film
SHE may have had a lifelong fear of needles. But her phobia doesn't seem to have stopped Kristin Davis from doing all she ...
HAVE you wondered why the Capital's roads cave in, develop potholes or are washed away when it rains? Potholes have surfaced on hundreds of roads following the heavy downpour over the past fe...
Photoshoot reminds fans of her bold pose for Guess in early modelling days
CLAUDIA Schiffer may be more supermum than supermodel these days but she found time to strip off for a ra...
Govt delays &even trips CBI's attempts to probe tainted officials
THE CHIEF Justice of India, K. G. Balakrishnan, on Saturday opened a can of worms by accusing the governme...
Standing kharif crops can only be salvaged to some extent now
CITY dwellers may be complaining about incessant rain and the resulting traffic chaos. But there are smiles writ large...
KAREENA Kapoor is all set to tie up with an international fashion house to launch her personal clothing line.
She will be the first Bollywood celebrity to go for a global alliance.
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THERE were two quirky little cultural moments this past week. As often happens, both occurred on relatively small stages — not Bollywood, not the idiot box, not the national media. Both moments pr...
I LOVE to dig The Hungry Beast, the food section of The Daily Beast, which is one of the most followed news sources on the Web. And I just took its quiz to test my knowledge of what US presiden...
I MUST have had a lobotomy in my sleep, or how else will you explain my excitement over that scene from Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds where the German ' Jew Hunter', Colo...
THE other day I got the flyer of a ready- to- eat chicken chain promoting its seekh kebab hot dogs. I think that's a nifty idea that all of us can follow at home when our little ones badger u...
THE wine world is in a state of delirium ever since a Greenpeace report sounded the " rouge alert," saying France's iconic wine industry may find the going hot because of greenhouse...
THE NORTHERN Railway has topped all other divisions of the Indian Railways in revenue earnings in the first five months of the current fiscal.
In doing so, it posted an 11.97 per cent incre...
Karuna's war cry
A DAY after Congress crown prince Rahul Gandhi commenced his tour of Tamil Nadu with a mission to rejuvenate the party and redeem it from the stranglehold of ...
SAFDARJUNG Hospital's medical superintendent Dr Jagdish Prasad is under the Delhi Police scanner. One of the city's leading cardiac surgeon and Padma Shri awardee faces a host of charges,...
An ex- additional director general to the Union government, he ushered in revolutionary changes at Safdarjung Hospital after taking over as its medical superintendent nine years ago
Credit...
THE HIGH- pitch campaigning for byelections in Bihar took an interesting turn on Friday, when archrivals Lalu Prasad and Sharad Yadav landed to address election rallies — at the same venue and the...
JET AIRWAYS is set to fly again after the five- day- old strike by its pilots that severely crippled the carrier's services ended on Saturday night. The airline management and the striking pi...
Rockets from across the border explode near Amritsar
VILLAGERS along the border in Punjab are in panic after four rockets fired from Pakistan landed 2 km inside Indian territory on...
A WATCH has always been an object with a high sentimental value, but only a few old timepieces get people excited, such as the one Mahatma Gandhi wore and Vijay Mallya bought at a New York auction...
KAREENA Kapoor is all set to tie up with an international fashion house to launch her personal clothing line.
She will be the first Bollywood celebrity to go for a global alliance.
W...
Standing kharif crops can only be salvaged to some extent now
CITY dwellers may be complaining about incessant rain and the resulting traffic chaos. But there are smiles writ large...
WEATHER reports have so far been positive, showing that the whole of north- west and central India received higher rainfall compared to last week. The country as a whole has received aboveaverage ...
A SPELL of late monsoon showers has brought mixed relief in agriculturally driven states such as Punjab, Bihar and Andhra Pradesh.
Incessant rainfall over the past three days may be welcome...
GIDAMALLAPPA, a middleaged farmer in Bijapur in north Karnataka, keeps his mobile phone handy and safe even while watering his fields.
He does not want to miss all those voice messages, whi...
FOR MUCH of this year, Rochak Sinha, a third- year electronics and communication engineering student at Delhi Technical University ( DTU), has denied himself every diversion that you'd expect...
AUSTERITY fever caught up with Union cabinet ministers when a host of them vowed on Saturday to cut down on travel and other expenses.
Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, who is in the midst...
JYOTI Kumari was on cloud nine the day she got married. But little did she know that her ' happily ever after' dream would shatter soon after.
Her husband, Surendra Prasad Gupta, ...
THIRTY- FIVE years ago, TV writers thought it would cost $ 6million ( Rs 29 crore) to create a bionic man. However, these days, scientists claim they could knock a real one together for about Rs 1...
WITH the Congress high command showing no signs of relenting over not making Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy Andhra Pradesh chief minister, his loyalists are getting restive. Some of Jagan's supporters ...
MODEL Jesse Randhawa was spotted at the beginning of day two and we found it a bit surprising.
Now we know the Khatron Ke Khiladi girl is probably over with the shoot of the show, but it se...
WE know that in celeb- starved Delhi even a wannabe is welcomed as a megastar. But we don't get it when designers decide to push sometimecricket stars as showstoppers.
How else do you ...
ROHIT Bal's after- show party had familiar gatecrashers.
The party at his restaurant Veda got rudely interrupted by the men in khaki. While we understood this signalled it was time to ...
MANY may have thought a men's only fashion week will be about boring straight jacket suits or elaborate wedding couture.
But trust showman Rohit Bal to prove them wrong.
The las...
THE ensemble is from Siddartha Tytler's Spring Summer ' 10 collection, titled Love ( he showed an Autumn Winter collection too, killing two birds with one stone, eh!). It combines the ba...
We know the Van Heusen Men's Fashion Week is the first men's only fashion week in India. Now, read about what makes it different from a regular fashion week
1 A qu...
DAY TWO at the PSBT Open Frame Festival dawned on a sombre note — all the screenings focused on stories from conflict- riddled areas in south and west Asia. From the unrest in Kashmir to the Maois...
FOR the average Indian, Brazil had meant little more than the soccer legend Pele and the Carnival.
Till the Dutch band Vengaboys came along and made the entire world sway to its 1998 hit si...
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Kalra co- founded the Pedal Yatri group with a mission.
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As part of his passion for all sorts of sports, Gahlaut was a keen cyclist throughout childhood.
But he got...
Bicycling enthusiasts in Gurgaon have launched India's first off- terrain event
WHEN the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope ha...
Even as Twitter comes close to the million users mark, Orkut remains miles ahead
IT MAY be like scrap in your online space but you would be surprised to know how many Indians a...
The Shopaholic author's new novel shows signs of fatigue —what worked in 2000 can't sell in 2009
HERE'S something we will all agree with. Rebecca ' Becky' ...
Even as Twitter comes close to the million users mark, Orkut remains miles ahead
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I enjoyed reading the Booker Prize- winning novel by Aravind Adiga becaus...
WHEN the name of your great grandfather is a part of the country's cultural legacy, then the weight of expectations can be immense.
Sahana Gupta, eldest greatgranddaughter of Ustad Ala...
The biographies and memoirs that are selling at discounted rates in American bookstores
The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe
J. R. Taraborrelli; Grand Central Publishin...
TO THE uninitiated, William Bissell talking of making India work sounds suspiciously like a Johnny- come- lately Orientalist. Add Nanda for a middle name and the plot gets curioser and curioser, g...
Fear, hope and love in the world's youngest republic
MANJUSHREE Thapa has done a huge service to her country and her people with this book. She brings together the best voices ...
The Shopaholic author's new novel shows signs of fatigue —what worked in 2000 can't sell in 2009
HERE'S something we will all agree with. Rebecca ' Becky' ...
NEHA TARA MEHTA gets the dope from behind the scenes in the high- octane world of big- ticket publishers and their high- profile authors
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This is the opening title of the Inspector Singh crime series by a Malaysia- born, Singapore- based author. A 38- yearold corporate lawyer,...
From a murder mystery to a primer on anger management, HR transformation and Indian art and visual culture since 1857, ARCHANA's bookshelf is quite crowded.
...The writer shares with us the importance of serving others and the message of life's toughest challenges
IN the Mojave desert one often comes across the notorious ghost towns...
After the bamboo seed is plated, you don't see anything for approximately five years, other than a tiny shoot. All of its growth happens underground; a complex root system that extends vertic...
A UNIQUE series of Andy Warhol pieces — portraits of Muhammad Ali, Jack Nicklaus, Pele, Dorothy Hamill and other athletic superstars worth $ 10 million ( Rs 48 crore) has been stolen from a collec...
Photoshoot reminds fans of her bold pose for Guess in early modelling days
CLAUDIA Schiffer may be more supermum than supermodel these days but she found time to strip off for a ra...
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The significance of the star shows us there is hope after a period of constant struggle. You are now r...
Dogs aren't what you get to dig in the Korean capital. That's just astereotype.
THOUGH Samsung, LG and Hyundai may have become household names for the Indian middle clas...
As the Mongolian president arrives here on his first official visit to India, abird's eye view of the country that's so close to our history
ELBEGDORJis the name he was g...
PEOPLE'S IDEA of London is cliché that stretches from shopping at Oxford Street to a meal at Soho, to a day spent soaking up the cultural side of Covent Garden.
But there's a tota...
LEADING ecologists, adventure- seekers and travel specialists came together at the Taj Mahal Hotel on Thursday afternoon to announce the launch of an expedition down the Ganga highlight the enviro...
If you're planning a holiday in the US, you'd be better off taking the road less travelled
AMERICA IS every footloose Indian's dream destination. But it's no...
As the Mongolian president arrives here on his first official visit to India, abird's eye view of the country that's so close to our history
ELBEGDORJis the name he was g...
Living Can't Get Any More Luxurious
I WAS A bit zonked out from a late night flight and the long drive into town from the now notso- new Bengaluru airport.
Having live...
IT'S a hotel in the middle of the sea, almost a mile from the nearest dry land. That explains why we have Angsana's InOcean Villas on this page. Considered a world first, this exclusive ...
FIVE TIMELESS TOWNS FOR ARCHITECTURE BUFFS
NARA, JAPAN: Nara was Japan's first capital in the 8th century. Modelled on Chang'an, the capital of the Tan...
HUNDERTWASSERHAUS
One of Austria's most acclaimed and flamboyant artists, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, has designed everything from buildings to coins, stamps and paintings. I...
The buzz on whether Caster Semenya is a hermaphrodite
IF AN African descended female athlete excels in spectacular fashion, we get accused of cheating or have ' that's a ...
Austerity must begin at home
THE absolutely unnecessary debate over ministerial austerity highlights how our top- rung political class is obsessed with saving money when it does n...
Austerity must begin at home
THE absolutely unnecessary debate over ministerial austerity highlights how our top- rung political class is obsessed with saving money when it does n...
AFTAB Shivdasani, who was recently seen in a rather hilarious role in Daddy Cool , says his plans of turning producer are very much on.
" I will be making an announcement soon," h...
BUSYBEE Kareena Kapoor is always running around working on films and advertisement deals. Guess how she de- stresses herself? No, not by spending time with beau Saif Ali Khan.
Bebo gets de-...
NOW that Imran Khan has time on hand with Delhi Belly releasing next year and shooting of his Karan Joharproduction, I Hate Love Stories, starting in a few months, he is planning to use it well...
PRIYANKA Chopra is surely enjoying the second leg of her vacation in southeast Asia, awaiting the release of her next film What's Your Rashee ? She is hoping to get a mention in the Guinness ...
D EEPIKA Padukone has a big heart.
The actress says she did the muchhyped item song in the Telugu film Love 4 Ever because of the newcomers in the film, Ranadeep and Mridula.
" ...
ROADS HAVE been washed away at as many as 80 places across the city following incessant rain over the past week, exposing the farce civic agencies carry out in the name of cleaning stormwater drai...
Pacer Mathews takes six wickets to break the visitors' back
THERE have been many occasions when the Indian batsmen have disappointed.
Saturday's performance against...
Defending F1 champion Lewis Hamilton of McLaren will start from the first row in Monza
Force India come good again, Sutil is second
LEWIS Hamilton of McLaren wil...
IT IS hard for any captain to forget his first Test win. More so if that win happened to be his country's first ever win in the five- day game.
Former Sri Lanka captain Duleep Mendis h...
There is a piece of history tucked into a nice corner at Queen Street in Colombo that time has, thankfully, not bothered to touch. For any cricket devotee, a trip to the Cricket Club Café is a tic...
JOINING the debate on the future of one- day internationals ( ODIs), former India captain Anil Kumble has suggested that the 50- over version be shortened to 40 overs a side to save it from extinc...
The Spaniard demolishes Fernando Gonzalez in final set to win his match in three days
SPANISH third seed Rafael Nadal, trying to complete a career Grand Slam, advanced to the US O...
BRETT Lee routed England as Australia won the fourth Oneday international at Lord's on Saturday by a crushing seven wickets to take an unbeatable 4- 0 lead in the seven- match series.
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RAJ SINGH Dungarpur, one of the most colourful cricket administrators and the man who introduced Sachin Tendulkar to the Test match arena, died in Mumbai on Saturday following a protracted illness...
RAJ SINGH Dungarpur's friendship with the legendary playback singer Lata Mangeshkar a folklore of sorts in Bollywood.
Raj Singh was a bachelor all his life and is said to have been clo...
MANCHESTER City's determination to break into the top four of English football was underlined in stunning fashion with a 4- 2 win over Arsenal on Saturday. It was the first significant test f...
Sporting Club de Goa shrugged off a rugged performance to beat Assam Rifles 2- 0 in the quarter- final league of the Durand Cup football tournament here on Saturday.
Junior Elijah Obagbemir...
MIDDLEWEIGHT boxer Vijender Kumar's chase for the gold medal at the World Championships came to an end on Friday night when he had to be content with a bronze medal after losing 3- 7 to Abbos...
THE contract- row between Olympic and World Championship bronze medallist Vijender Singh and Infinity Optimal Solutions Pvt Ltd took an ugly turn on Saturday with the sports management firm threat...
IN VIEW of Fiji's recent suspension from the Commonwealth, the general assembly of the Commonwealth Games Federation ( CGF) in New Delhi next month is likely to be stormy.
Although the...
SOUTH African sports officials met on Saturday to decide how best to help a world champion runner whose sex has been questioned — and how to respond to the circus created by alleged leaks from the...
TALK OF thrills and spills in the world of tennis, the topic invariably veers around to the rivalry between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. This time around, there has been a big change in the scr...
JOHN McEnroe said the USTA ( U. S. Tennis Association) can't be serious about going much longer without a roof over Arthur Ashe Stadium. Friday's unrelenting rain drowned any hope of see...
SPANISH third seed Rafael Nadal, trying to complete a career Grand Slam, advanced to the US Open semi- finals on Saturday by defeating Chilean 11th seed Fernando Gonzalez 7- 6 ( 7/ 4), 7- 6 ( 7/ 2...
Bhullar tied sixth after third round
GAGANJEET Bhullar turned in his second successive card of two- under 69 to soar to the tied sixth spot just before darkness dropped early curta...
Force India come good again, Sutil is second
LEWIS Hamilton of McLaren will start the Italian Grand Prix from pole position after leading qualifying on Saturday, and Giancarlo Fi...
PIQUET Jnr has alleged that Briatore ordered him to crash in last season's Singapore Grand Prix so as to help teammate Fernando Alonso win the race.
But Briatore, the flamboyant Renaul...
FERRARI'S wish to have three cars in Formula One next season is a fantasy, outgoing International Automobile Federation ( FIA) president Max Mosley said.
Ferrari boss Stefano Domenical...
INDIAN drinks and aviation tycoon Vijay Mallya plans to gather his Formula One, cricket and soccer interests into one company and float it on the Mumbai stock exchange early next year.
So m...
THREE policemen and a woman were killed and 15 others wounded after a blast rocked in Srinagar on Saturday.
Terrorists blew up a vehicle of the Pulwama district police carrying detainees ba...
DELHI'S swine flu death toll rose to seven on Saturday after a 34- year- old man succumbed to the infection.
Ajay Aggarwal was a resident of Ghaziabad and was undergoing treatment at R...
SENIOR diplomat Vivek Katju has been appointed as secretary ( West) in the ministry of external affairs ( MEA).
Katju will replace Nalin Surie, who has been named as India's envoy to t...
THIRTEEN deer and a stag died under mysterious circumstances in the Kanpur zoo early on Saturday, zoo officials said in Kanpur.
The officials are clueless about the cause of their sudden de...
THE International Commission of Jurists ( ICJ) has expressed concern over the arrest and sentencing of Sri Lankan journalist J. S. Tissainayagam, saying the " integrity of the country's ...
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CBI officials. Intriguingly, the statement, which was part of his prepared speech, was not uttered when the speech was actually delivered. However, since it wa...
WHAT THE LAW SAYS
For public servants booked for corruption, an investigating agency needs to take sanction from the ' competent authority' — the head of the concerned min...
DOCTORS at a government hospital put a man's wrong finger in plaster instead of the broken one.
Thanks to their blunder, Digambar Mandal has been suffering pain in the fractured finger...
CHHOLEGATE kingpin Ashok Malhotra's attempts to get back his luxury cars was set back again. The Delhi High Court recently ruled that the cars could be released only if Malhotra deposited ade...
MOBILE phones may have become ubiquitous in rural areas and popular among farmers. But electromagnetic radiation emanating from them may be stunting the growth of agricultural crops and plants, pr...
Construction at Lucknow parks stops after apex court gives awarning
THE SUPREME Court on Friday warned the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh against " playing with fire"...
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...FORMER Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE) leaders Daya Master and George were on Friday released on bail by a court in Colombo.
The two were arrested after they surrendered to Sri Lan...
DIFFERENCES between the Jet Airways management and striking pilots persist, but the warring parties hope for a decisive tomorrow.
Though reconciliation talks between the pilots and the mana...
PROMPT PRANAB TO FLY ECONOMY AND CANCEL CYPRUS TRIP
A DAY after he drew flak from some partymen and cabinet colleagues for pushing austerity measures to tide over difficult times, f...
TORONTO returned to the spotlight of the cinema world on Thursday as the Toronto International Film Festival opened to a rush of celebrities and filmmakers vying to get media attention and generat...
Allahabad high court acquits him in one Nithari case but five more still to go
MONINDER Singh Pandher, accused of some of the most heinous crimes that include rape, murder and c...
Pranab must practise what he preaches
SINCE today's Congress party is only most tenuously connected to the party that Mahatma Gandhi led, we will not hold its members and alli...
Restrictions on reporting casual observations and repartee will harm the judicial process
MEDIA should take serious note of the concern expressed by Justice Markandey Katju, a libe...
A FEW days ago, Indian hockey suffered a setback when Spanish trainer Jesus Garcia Pallares suddenly terminated his contract in the middle of an ongoing camp in Pune and left the country. It'...
WHILE it is heartening to note that Indian boxers are performing well at the international level, the condition of those who want to emulate the likes of Olympic medallist Vijender Kumar and Ji...
THE new, supposedly purpose- built building that houses the Sports Authority of India ( SAI) headquarters is a classic case of poor planning, careless designing and amazing lack of sensitivity on ...
AMID calls for withdrawal of security cover to former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, a leading British newspaper on Friday revealed that the UK government was spending around £ 25,000 ( Rs 2...
INDIA on Friday lodged twin protests with Pakistan over the latter's recent order aimed at giving Northern Areas " full internal autonomy" and efforts to construct Bunji Hydroelect...
ISI CHIEF Lt General Ahmed Shuja Pasha's presence at an 'iftar' hosted by the Indian High Commissioner made it to the front pages of most Pakistani newspapers on Friday — with one da...
Respite for Jaswant
THE BJP's efforts to build a consensus for the ouster of its expelled leader Jaswant Singh as the public accounts committee ( PAC) chairman has hit a wall ...
DESIGNER Himmat Singh got noticed not only for the Indian silhouettes showcased in full regalia, but also for the royal attendee at his show — Maharaja Arvind Singh ji of Mewar ( right) . Visibly ...
GUESS what made the audience yawn in exasperation? It was Aslam Khan's show in which colourful bermuda suits, best suited for kids, were displayed under the garb of menswear.
The desig...
PERHAPS for the first time in the history of fashion weeks in India, the first day of the men's fashion week actually saw a generous attendance of male members in the front row.
For a ...
CLEVER twists are taking place on the runway at India's first men's fashion week. If the first day of the three- day Van Heusen India Men's Week ( VHIMW) 2009 is anything to go by, ...
THE CBI is mysteriously silent about two of the 18 Nithari killings cases — in which the whereabouts of Moninder Singh Pander are still in doubt.
Nearly three years after the shocking seria...
THE ALLAHABAD High Court's acquittal of Moninder Singh Pandher in the rape and murder of Rimpa Haldar came as shock to the family of the victims.
The relatives of Pinki Sarkar, one of ...
THREE YEARS after the Noida house saw relatives of Nithari victims vent their ire against the alleged killers of 18 young women and children, D- 5, Sector 31 experienced their fury again.
O...
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verdict of Ghaziabad's special trial court, which had awarded the death sentence to both Pandher (52) and Koli (38). The court described the murder as alt...
How the September 11, 2009 ruling of the Allahabad High Court has differed from the February 13 verdict of the CBI trial court
WHERE WAS PANDHER?
Trial court: Pandh...
THE DELHI government plans to launch a slew of walking tours ahead of the Commonwealth Games.
Visitors will be taken to the Capital's historical landmarks tucked away in narrow bylanes...
THE leadership crisis in Andhra Pradesh continues as Kadapa MP Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy has made it clear that he is not prepared to compromise on becoming the chief minister in place of his late fa...
A B. Tech student of Amity College was killed when the car in which he was travelling rammed into a divider on the Greater Noida Expressway.
The police gave the name of the deceased as Gurn...
A 38- YEAR- OLD woman died of swine flu in the Capital on Friday, becoming the deadly virus' sixth victim.
" Raj Bala was a resident of Faridabad. She had been admitted to the Ram...
SPECIAL teams of the Delhi and UP Police working in tandem rescued an abducted a Maharashtra paper merchant, who had been in kept in captivity at a paper mill in Muzzafarnagar, UP, for the past 65...
FORMER Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE) leaders Daya Master and George were on Friday released on bail by a court in Colombo.
The two were arrested after they surrendered to Sri Lan...
THE Delhi government sounded a flood alert on Friday after heavy rains lashed northern India for the third consecutive day, throwing road and rail traffic out of gear.
State flood control m...
THE posters of the PSBT Open Frame film festival declare ' Gender. Politics.
Conflict. Peace.' But the themes the documentaries touch upon are far more varied.
From the fut...
The Sari Soldiers — September 12, 4.45 pm: Directed by Julie Bridgham, it focuses on the the efforts of six women in Nepal, who nurture the dream of shaping the Himalayan republic's future.
In denial mode, she says Adi Chopra played 'influential' role in her life
SHE has been in the film industry for 14 years even after not wanting to be an actress when she...
Our panel of judges pick five Khatron Ke Khiladi girls who have made an impact in the early rounds and weigh their chances of winning the game show
AKSHAY Kumar returned to...
SANDIP SOPARRKAR is a choreographer who has worked with Britney Spears and is dating contestant Jesse Randhawa.
Being a dance ace he knows the nuances of physical strength.
TAPUR CHA...
DESPITE Central Empowered Committee's ( CEC) recommendations, the Supreme Court on Friday refused to stop the Mayawati government from constructing a park in Noida. The CEC had recommended ag...
Construction at Lucknow parks stops after apex court gives awarning
THE SUPREME Court on Friday warned the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh against " playing with fire"...
One of the most talented actresses of our times, Rani Mukerji, is finally going to be back on the big screen after a long gap.
Her new film, Dil Bole Hadippa , releases on September 18. The...
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BOLLYWOOD loves real- life gangsters.
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The Ugly Truth Cast: Katherine Heigl, Gerard Butler Direction: Robert Luketic
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NEIL NITIN Mukesh has recorded a song for Madhur Bhandarkar's Jail . The song is called Saiyan Ve and has been composed by music director duo Sharib- Toshi....
SHAH Rukh Khan knows how to show respect to his elders and he didn't shy away from showing that at a public platform.
He was invited as a guest along with other celebrities such as ...
BOLLYWOOD actors are known to be an extremely superstitious lot but Salman Khan is not one of them — or at least, that's what he wants everyone to think. The actor has had no releases in the ...
SONAM Kapoor is going through a bad spell these days. A few days back, she was down with flu while she was shooting for her next film, Aisha, in Delhi.
" I have the flu, I hate it… Tha...
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However, the public sector oil companies will have to bear the losses on petrol and diesel sales
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WHILE the public sector oil companies will have to bear...
Only 17% customers return to buy these goods
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About 55% will be sold to the Canadian- Russian team but GM will retain 35% stake
Offloading Opel
GENERAL Motors (GM) Corp will sell its European unit O...
PROFIT- booking took centrestage on Friday as investors seemed uncertain about the near- term prospects of the market. However, the main indices continued their upward run for the sixth day in a r...
AS SIGNALS of economic revival gather strength in the country, real estate companies are firming up plans to enter the primary market.
" Within the next six to nine months, I expect ar...
CLOSE on the heels of signing a nuclear pact with Namibia, India is expected to firm up nuclear cooperation with Mongolia, another uranium- rich country, during its President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj...
FINANCE minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday said industry output has picked up and there are visible signs of recovery in various sectors, particularly steel and cement, but maintained that overal...
THE Supreme Court on Friday asked a school in Madhya Pradesh ( MP) to allow a Muslim student to sport a beard in the school.
A bench of Justices B. N. Agrawal and S. N. Singhvi served a not...
TORONTO returned to the spotlight of the cinema world on Thursday as the Toronto International Film Festival opened to a rush of celebrities and filmmakers vying to get media attention and generat...
THE Supreme Court on Friday expressed displeasure over the Centre seeking to take back land allotted to the Gandhi Peace Foundation on Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Marg.
The Centre claims the found...
WB says India stood crisis well
WORLD Bank on Friday said India has done extraordinarily well in tackling the global economic crisis with sound fiscal and monetary policies.
...
FORD Motor is upbeat about its prospects as GM sells its Opel in Europe.
" Our ability to compete worldwide remains intact and we feel very good about it," chairman William Clay F...
THE European Commission ( EU) warned on Friday that German financial incentives to ease GM sale of Opel must not favour German factories at the expense of plants in other EU countries.
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RUSSIAN Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday hailed the choice of a Russian- Canadian consortium to buy GM unit Opel, saying it brought Moscow closer to true integration with Europe's econ...
GENERAL Motors (GM) Corp will sell its European unit Opel to Canadian auto parts maker Magna International and Russia's Sberbank in a deal that preserves GM's ability to develop new cars ...
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WHILE the public sector oil companies will have to bear the losses on petrol and diesel sales, the government will foot the subsidy bill for cooking gas and kerosene, petroleum secretary R. S. Pan...
Ever growing infrastructure of Chandigarh has paved way for development of real estate in neighbouring areas like Mohali, Panchkula and Zirakpur.
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REDCO - Haryana launched
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APROPOS of the editorial comment in M AIL T ODAY ( September 11), wherein you have blamed Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi while defending ...
THE last time Ashish Nehra played at the Premadasa Stadium, he picked six wickets against Sri Lanka. That was four years and many injuries ago.
On Friday, the left arm pacer renewed his lov...
Starved of cricket at home, a new beginning will be made as the two countries will play Tests at Lord's and Headingley in July 2010 says the English cricket board
...Nehra's three- wicket burst fetches him the man- of- the match award
THERE were fears that the Indian team, coming back to international cricket after a fairly long break, mig...
INDIAN boxer Vijender Kumar's winning streak at the World Championships came to an end on Friday night when fourth- seeded Abbos Atoev of Uzbekistan stunned the topseeded Indian with an impre...
Richardson says South Africa may be first country to try the new format
WHEN Sachin Tendulkar speaks, the world listens and International Cricket Council ( ICC) is now planning t...
A HIGH- POWERED Pakistani investigation team will travel to Sri Lanka next week to probe reports that elements in the island nation were linked to the terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan cricket te...
DESPITE the soggy and slippery underfoot conditions, Air India took off smoothly in the 122nd Durand Cup, gunning down Army XI 3- 0 in the opening game of the quarter- final league here on Friday....
French team reacts to fixing charges which will be probed by FIA
RENAULT has taken legal action against Nelson Piquet and his son over race- fixing claims that could lead to the F...
Bhullar five shots off lead in Macau
GAGANJEET Bhullar brought home a two- under 69 to lie five shots off lead after the midway stage of the $ 500,000 Macau Open golf tournament.
MAYBE they should just hand the Williams sisters the trophy. A victory on Thursday put Venus and Serena in their 10th Grand Slam doubles final.
Their career record thus far: 9 wins, 0 losse...
FORMER world doubles champion Ai Sugiyama of Japan expressed mixed feelings after returning from her penultimate tournament at the US Open on Friday. The 34- year- old Sugiyama, who announced her ...
LED by the pairings of Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde, and Gigi Fernandez and Natasha Zvereva, doubles specialists dominate the list of nominees for the 2010 class at the International Tennis ...
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AS JADA Lynch was lovingly lifted on to a horse carriage ride in Central Park by her mother, the toddler collapsed into a fit of giggles. Her blondehaired mum joined in the laughter as she looked ...
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A standard gauge coach meant for Delhi Metro rolls out of Bharat Earth Movers Ltd in Bangalore on Friday. BEML will supply 196 coaches worth Rs 1,365 crore for Metro's second phase. The Delhi...
TWO GIRLS grievously injured in a deadly school stampede were battling for life at a city hospital on Friday.
Ruchi, 15, and Usha, 12, remained in critical condition and are on ventilator, ...
NEARLY TWO months after they were arrested, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Friday granted bail to four police officials, including suspended superintendent of police ( SP) Javed Iqbal Matoo, ...
WHEN THE Indian Space Research Organisation told the world on August 20 it had successfully conducted a joint experiment with the US space agency to look for signs of water on the moon, Chandrayaa...
US PRESIDENT Barack Obama led a moment of silence on Friday to launch the eighth anniversary commemorations of the September 11 attacks in 2001 when 3,000 people died in the world's deadliest...
NEPALESE Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal on Friday courted controversy after receiving a kiss from former Spice Girl Geri Haliwell, who was in Kathmandu to raise awareness about violence against...
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Enter the ...
DO YOU use only your first name in official papers? Are you too careful about what you type in and take your time to complete online forms? If the answer to either of these questions is a ' y...
KRISHNA Tirath wants all parents to insure their daughters before weddings.
It will protect the brides against exigencies such as widowhood and domestic violence, the Union women and child ...
Women BSF personnel guard the barbed wire fence near a checkpost in Punjab along the Indo- Pak border. The first batch of 175 women commenced patrolling and frisking duties in the sensitive areas ...
DIFFERENCES between the Jet Airways management and striking pilots persist, but the warring parties hope for a decisive tomorrow.
Though reconciliation talks between the pilots and the mana...
A NON- RESIDENT Indian took recourse to ' sting operation' to nail some Delhi Police officers, who had refused to register an FIR till he paid them Rs 1 lakh.
Vikas Bharti, 28, a ...
THE DELHI Police have arrested a thief who used to target doctors to style himself after his idol, Sri Lankan cricketer Lasith Malinga.
Amandeep Singh, who is in his early twenties, used to...
WITH fashion's elite descending on the Big Apple for New York Fashion Week, it seems Victoria Beckham was determined to make an impression.
And she certainly pulled out all the stops f...
THE CONGRESS high command may offer the post of deputy chief minister to Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy, the 37- year- old son of the late chief minis...
SHE IS famous for her love of short skirts and small dogs — not for her wit or wisdom. But Paris Hilton has somehow joined the ranks of the quotable notables such as Oscar Wilde and Stephen Hawkin...
THE DELHI Medical Council ( DMC), which deals with complaints of medical negligence from the public, is...
SEVEN GIRLS were killed and at least 30 others injured in a s...
AS THE first signs of the possible end of the global recession appear in the world economy economists can stop hiding behind their desks and begin to wonder why they got it all so wrong. Among the...
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FARAHNAZ ISPAHANI, the President's spokesperson, says that Mr Asif Zardari has " proved his mettle as President of Pakistan". His major achievements in his first year in office are ...
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UNIDENTIFIED arsonists vandalised a church and damaged statues of Jesus and Mary in Bangalore on Thursday.
The BJP government dubbed the incident as a conspiracy to taint its image.
...
Helping out Modi
THE UPA, it seems, is slipping up every time it decides to file an affidavit.
The ruling coalition had needlessly dragged itself into the Ram Sethu controver...
THE prestigious Doon School on Thursday suspended its classes and other activities like assemblies and sports till September 21 in the wake of some students testing positive for swine flu.
...
THE anti- tobacco lobby is thrilled about Bollywood actress Bipasha Basu's refusal to smoke or even hold a cigarette during a recent shoot.
While shooting the Hindi film Pankh , direct...
FOR ALMOST a decade it has led the portable music revolution with its iPod range.
But in the ever- e...
AMID REPORTS of a rise in transgressions into Indian territory by its troops, China on Thursday called for restraint among sections of the media in both countries.
An opinion piece titled a...
JET AIRWAYS and its pilots hammered out a broad understanding late on Thursday to break the deadlock over the pilots' stir raising prospects of a quick return to normalcy following a massive ...
PAKISTAN President Asif Ali Zardari has reiterated his stance that Osama bin Laden, the man who tops the international ' most wanted' list, is already dead.
On completing his firs...
ON AUGUST 4, Shashi Tharoor had tweeted to his 20,000- plus followers on the micro- blogging site Twitter , " Thnx for all the retweets abt crossing 20,000 followers. But I fully expect to be...
WHO SAYS Tweeting is all about chitchatting and social networking. A Kerala slum girl who lost both her l...
LAW MINISTER Veerappa Moily on Thursday came out in support of Metropolitan Magistrate S. P. Tamang. Tamang's report, which said the Ishrat Jahan encounter was fake, had irked the Gujarat Hig...
THE GUJARAT Police had issued itself a licence to kill anyone from the minority community in fake encounters in the aftermath of the 2002 riots to serve the political agenda of the saffron brigade...
THE HUMAN resource development ( HRD) minister Kapil Sibal wants to reform legal education and bring in a " new vision" to keep up with the changing times. " Why not a BA in law so ...
HEAVY RAIN lashed the Capital on Thursday bringing the maximum temperature down to 26.4 degrees Celsius.
The city received 112.9 mm of showers in 24 hours till 5.30 pm on Thursday, much to ...
INCESSANT rain bared the civic wounds of the Capital yet again on Thursday. An overnight downpour unleashed massive traffic snarls on equally waterlogged roads — exposing the ' preparednessal...
AS THE skies suddenly opened up on the capital on Wednesday evening, all that one needed to wrap up the day was a warm, really warm, evening. And those who'd been invited to Walking On Broken...
IT MAY have been a stand- up comedy festival, but it nearly turned out to be a bit of a joke on the organisers. The Big Laugh had been marketed superbly by Percept D'Mark — it promised people...
The Supreme Court in April this year ruled that the right to education was a fundamental right, which required that a " child studies in a quality school and a quality school certainly should...
PARENTS OF injured students who were admitted at the Guru Tegh Bahadur ( GTB) Hospital here on Thursday said the authorities kept them in the dark about the condition of their children.
At ...
NAWAB Nagar, the father of stampede victim Lalita, is still confused about the tragedy that took the life of his daughter.
He cannot understand what led to the Thursday morning incident.
"ALLAH cannot do this to my daughter," wailed the mother of Afroz, one of seven students who died in a stampede in Government Senior Secondary School in northeast Delhi.
Shamshari...
SEVEN GIRLS were killed and at least 30 others injured in a s...
THE CONGRESS high command may offer the post of deputy chief minister to Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy, the 37- year- old son of the late chief minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy.
The party brass ap...
BHAIRON Singh Shekhawat crawled out of the woodwork this afternoon with a bit of prompting from Jaswant Singh to unleash himself on the beleaguered BJP. He was provoked by the treatment meted out ...
The sizzling Lisa Ray has now made it to the news for a reason that nobody would want to be in — she is suffering from a rare bone marrow cancer. But she is being talked about because she is livin...
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DEEPIKA Padukone wants to help talented sportspersons in their careers and goals.
The dimpled beauty is supporting her father former badminton ace Prakash Padukone's foundation for the...
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VIDYA Balan has not just acting talent and a beautiful face, but also a voice that is highly in demand.
While among the actors it is Amitabh Bachchan's baritone that is much in demand,...
BRIAN Ratcliffe, a former government adviser on nutrition, accused the £ 600million ( Rs 4,838 crore)- ayear vitamin pill industry of preying on the fears and finances of people who are essentiall...
ITALIAN Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi professed his love for beautiful women — as he pointed to his high popularity rating to brush aside a new sex scandal.
Berlusconi said he was the vi...
Maruti Suzuki first launched the Zen...
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Honda launched the new Civic in the Indian auto market recently. It comes with five- point metallic grille and features a sporty look with its re- styled front bumper. There are also dark smoky he...
BMW Z4 two- seater roadster will be launched in India this Octob...
THE Centre is planning to introduce a rating system for private developers involved in building residential and commercial projects in order to streamline the pricing and principles of the ' ...
HIGHER prices of food items pushed up the country's rate of inflation based on wholesale prices to (-) 0.12 per cent for the week ended August 29.
The wholesale price inflation remaine...
NATIONAL Thermal Power Corporation ( NTPC) on Thursday accused Mukesh Ambani- led Reliance Industries Ltd ( RIL) of seeking unilateral changes in the 2004 gas supply contract which had fixed the p...
INDIA'S huge pool of scientific talent has caught the eye of Finland, home to tech major...
THE country's exports shrank for the eleventh month in a row in August falling by as much as 19.7 per cent on a yearly basi...
MAHINDRA Two Wheelers ( formerly Kinetic Two Wheelers), the twowheeler arm of automaker Mahindra and Mahindra ( M& M), on Thursday expanded its portfolio of gearless scooters with the launch of tw...
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The real reason for Jinnah's praise
EVEN though former BJP leader and Union minister Jaswant Singh's book on Mohammed Ali Jinnah has caused ripples, banning it by the Guja...
INDIA haven't yet begun their campaign and things are going from bad to worse. Already reeling under the loss of Virender Sehwag and Zaheer Khan, the team received another setback on Thursday...
TRUST India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni to make the best of a seemingly bleak scenario.Opener Gautam Gambhir was ruled out of the Compaq Cup triseries on Thursday and his replacement — Virat Kohl...
CAMERON White hit his first One- day century on Wednesday to lead Australia to a six- wicket wi...
INDIAN cricket team will play a warm- up match against New Zealand on September 20 at Potchefstroom, South Africa, before going into the eightnation event.
The International Cricket Council...
FORMER India pacer Javagal Srinath on Thursday asked the special three- member panel of the cricket board to review the domestic umpiring standards and said that he wanted the match officials to b...
AFTER a three- year hiatus, top clubs of the country will return to action in the world's third oldest football tournament, the Durand Cup, which begins here on Friday. Kolkata giants Mohun B...
GIANT- KILLING unseeded pair Carly Gullickson and Travis Parrott of the US defeated second seeds and defending champions Leander Paes and Cara Black of Zimbabwe 6- 2, 6- 4 in the mixed doubles fin...
Top seed and defending champion Roger Federer reached the US Open semi- finals on Wednesday by...
Pranab lambasted INDIA and Bangladesh have agreed to sign pacts that will provide for transfer of terrorists and criminals, including those who have been sentenced.
The move could help Indi...
FINANCE minister Pranab Mukherjee came in for criticism from his cabinet colleagues for lecturing them on their lavish spending.
In the cabinet meeting on Thursday, the finance minister rep...
EXTERNAL Affairs Minister S. M. Krishna on Thursday said the foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan would meet in New York later this month to review Islamabad's action against the perpetr...
PARAGUAY reached their fourth successive World Cup finals and plunged Argentina into further disarray with a 1- 0 win in their qualifier on Wednesday.
Striker Nelson Haedo scored just befor...
A year after he clinched the bronze at the Beijing Olympics, middleweight Vijender Kumar has assured at least a bronze at...
AFTER a three- year hiatus, top clubs of the country will return to action in the world's third oldest football tournament, the ...
INDIA haven't yet begun their campaign and things are going from bad to worse. Already ree...
THE MAYAWATI government on Thursday claimed it had stopped construction on all disputed properties, in consonance with its undertaking before the Supreme Court.
Denying media reports that h...
THE VAGINAL swabs of Arushi Talwar, a crucial piece of evidence in the murder of the Noida teenager, could be lost forever.
The Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics ( CDFD), Hydera...
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It claims to be the first such service in India a " providing specialized, prompt and experienced advice on all such matters exclusively for medical profes...
AN Indian Air Force ( IAF) MiG- 21 crashed in Punjab's Muktsar district on Thursday, killing the pilot.
The plane crashed at Bhaliana village on the Muktsar- Bhatinda road. The pilot o...
THE CENTRAL Bureau of Investigation ( CBI) on Thursday recorded the statement of Buta Singh, chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes ( NCSC), in connection with the Rs one- crore ...
A SCHOOLTEACHER allegedly pierced a pen into a Class VIII student's thigh in Bhopal.
The school run by BHEL Shiksha Mandal, however, denied the incident. The parents have registered a ...
A DELHI court has awarded a compensation of Rs 44.83 lakh to a doctor couple whose 22- year- old son, an engineering student, was killed in a road accident seven years ago.
The Motor Accide...
THE Union cabinet on Thursday approved an interest rate subsidy of one per cent for housing loans up to Rs 10 lakh. Home loan borrowers can save up to Rs 10,000 on their monthly repayments for one...
IT'S ELECTION time and a different kind of poaching is taking place in Maharashtra.
On Thursday the Nationalist Congress Party ( NCP) announced that three BJP MLA's had resigned f...
SHE IS famous for her love of short skirts and small dogs — not for her wit or wisdom. But Paris Hilton has somehow joined the ranks of the quotable notables such as Oscar Wilde and Stephen Hawkin...
CONFUSED by the ever growing number of housing projects being launched and property developers promising impressive deals? Some respite may be on the way.
The draft Real Estate Regulation B...