Smriti Irani, actor-turned politician of the 'saas-bahu' TV serial fame, was on Tuesday appointed as head of BJP's Women's Wing while Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal's son and MP Anurag Thakur will head
In a sigh of relief to the salaried class, the government on Tuesday dropped the contentious proposal to tax provident and pension funds withdrawals and decided to continue with the major tax incentive on housing
Facing flak, the principal of the prestigious school La Martiniere for Boys on Tuesday apologised for caning a 13-year-old student, who allegedly committed suicide. "It was a mistake. I have apologised to the school board
Despite voices of protest in India, a set of 12 paintings by Rabindranath Tagore went under the hammer today, sold off for a whopping 1.6 million pounds at an auction house in London. The 12
All the 116 Indians, stranded in violence-hit Southern Kyrgyz towns of Osh and Jalal-Abad, have been evacuated to capital Bishkek and will return in next two-three days as the death toll in five days of
The Madhya Pradesh government on Tuesday removed former Director General of Police (DGP) Swaraj Puri, who had played a key role in the release of the former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson, from the state-run
The government on Tuesday approved disinvestment of 10 per cent each in Coal India Ltd and Hindustan Copper Ltd, as it pushes its agenda to raise Rs 40,000 crore this fiscal through stake sales in
The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the interim orders of Karnataka High Court judge, Justice D V Shylendra Kumar, questioning the administrative decisions of Chief Justice P D Dinakaran, who is facing corruption and land
Ghajini director A R Murugadoss is going to direct his second Hindi film starring Akshay Kumar and he says the film will have never-seen-before action, says a media report. Murugadoss has taken his next script
Bollywood stars Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, director Mani Ratnam and other actors -- Ravi Kissen, Vikram, Nikhil Dwivedi etc—have decided to keep veteran actor Govinda out of publicity campaign of ‘Raavan' to avoid trouble from
Over 100 people on board an Air India plane had a close shave when two tyres of the left landing gear of the aircraft deflated soon after it landed at the IGI airport in Delhi on
The world's oldest mother Rajo Devi Lohan is dying 18 months after giving birth at the age of 70. She says, she is too weak to recover from complications after her IVF pregnancy, reports The
The reconstituted Group of Ministers (GoM) on the Bhopal gas tragedy will meet on Friday, Home Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday said, a day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asked the panel to submit its
Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren was on Tuesday acquitted by a local court in a 36-year-old murder case for lack of evidence, the last of the three cases of murder against him.Soren, who appeared
A day after a 19-year-old girl and her boyfriend were brutally tortured and electrocuted to death for wanting to marry against the wishes of her family, her uncle, who was arrested along with her father
A complaint has been filed in a local court on Tuesday in Bhopal for registration of a criminal case against former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Arjun Singh for allegedly releasing the then Union Carbide chief
Ahead of its engagement in the process of bridging "trust deficit" with Pakistan, India has asked it to "shed its insecurity" on asymmetries in sizes and capabilities between them, including the strategic leverage gained after
Armed Maoists on Monday night ransacked Islampur railway station in Bihar's Gaya district and abducted the station master and two other railway employees as their 48-hour bandh began in five states, railway officials said. The
Lyndon Monteiro, a close aide of former Goa minister Fransisco Pacheco and co-accused in the case relating to the death of a woman, on Monday withdrew his anticipatory bail plea from the Bombay High Court
As the political storm over the handling of Bhopal gas tragedy intensified today, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh intervened asking the nine-member Group of Ministers (GoM) headed by Home Minister P Chidambaram to meet immediately and
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