Hyderabad: A crisis of sorts has developed at the GHMC after the Congress leader and mayor Banda Karthika Reddy has not yet shown inclinations of quitting to pave the way for the MIM as per agreement on sharing mayoralty. The ruling partners — the Congress and the MIM — had agreed upon to share the [...]
They are a confused lot. The dwindling of YSR Congress consisting of 27 MLAs to 20 now is the least worry of the party chief Jagan Mohan Reddy. The question in his mind, say sources close to him, is how many will be there when the Winter session begins on December 1 and what will [...]
NEW DELHI: India Inc on Thursday welcomed the cabinet’s decision to allow 51 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail and said it would help bring down inflation, reduce wastage and improve farmer productivity. The cabinet, at a meeting Thursday evening chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh also allowed 100-percent equity in single [...]
Sudeshna Koka & D Sree Charan English Foreign Languages University (EFLU) — earlier known as the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages (CIEFL) — is a deemed university sans basic amenities. Ever since its formation in 1974, it has been embroiled in a slew of controversies with no respite. This university, whose claim to [...]
New Delhi: Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar had just taken a step ahead after answering questions from mediapersons when a hand came from among the crowd and slapped his cheek. A nonplussed Pawar later said that in his 50-year political career he has never had any personal enmity with anyone. The NCP chief also said [...]
Petr Cech delivered a damning assessment of Chelsea’s current failings, pinning the blame on the players and absolving manager Andre Villas-Boas Goalkeeper Cech accused his team-mates of failing to defend aggressively enough during their current slump, of repeating the same mistakes over and over again, and of being persistently wasteful in front of goal, before [...]
Kolkata: Tall and slim, the AK-47 assault rifle wielding Mallojula Koteshwar Rao alias Kishanji was the field general and media savvy leader of the banned Maoists.He invoked fear as well as curiosity through his television interviews with his face covered with a cloth and his audio taped messages. A senior member of the politburo or [...]
Islamabad: The appointment of former minister Sherry Rehman as Pakistan’s ambassador to the US comes as a surprise, a daily said while warning that ‘the government should not see this as an escape-route’ to bury the controversy over a secret memo. Rehman was appointed the envoy after Husain Haqqani quit on Tuesday over the memo [...]
Shruti Haasan has become a soft target for gossip mongers in the media. Ever since she opted out of NTR’s Dammu citing date issues, numerous stories have been woven around her ongoing stint in Tollywood and the actress is having a tough time clarifying on several issues. She even made it a point to inform [...]
It’s David vs Goliath as Rajasthan take on Mumbai’s might
Kolkata: They have shown remarkable fighting spirit despite the demoralising spot-fixing scandal and the Rajasthan Royals will now look to upstage the mighty Mumbai Indians in the second qualifier here tomorrow to book, what would be, a dream final berth in the Pepsi IPL. On paper, Mumbai Indians may appear stronger but Rajasthan will be [...]
21 lawmakers back Chandigarh-born as top US judge
Washington: Ahead of an expected Senate vote on the nomination of Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan to a top US court, 21 lawmakers have penned their support for him. Srinivasan, 46, currently principal deputy solicitor general of the US last week won unanimous approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee for his nomination as [...]
It was like bereavement: Dravid on spot-fixing
New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid says dealing with the turmoil caused by the spot-fixing scandal, which has left his team’s reputation in tatters, has turned out to be as tough as handling “bereavement in some ways”. “I would not lie it was a very tough phase for us. It was a blow to [...]
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A footage is doing the rounds on TV channels where apparently two constables in UP are sorting matters out between them the hard way, raining each other with blows, not verbal, but with their lathis. One look at the video will tell you there seems to be something seriously wrong with the discipline among the [...]
So the thief is in the ship after all. The Mumbai police revelation that Gurunath Melyappan, son-in-law of BCCI Chief Srinivasan, was in constant touch with Vindoo Dhara Singh, now in police custody over betting, leaves no scope for imagination. Little wonder such brazen betting prospered over IPL. It now raises the question: was the [...]
Humorist Jaspal Bhatti, had he been alive, would have found stunning material for a flop show in the BJP’s behaviour of late. How the ‘national opposition party’ turned into a ‘notional’ party is a story worth caricaturing with potential for record viewing-rate.
Chinese president Xi Jinping is a chemical engineer. No wonder he knows the chemical formula to pursue his country’s global ambitions. If anybody in India believed Xi would extend a warm friendship to this country, he should be naive. He has been on a global Sino initiative to widen the Chinese visions of the century. [...]
“India is China’s important neighbour. (The purpose of) my current visit to India is three-fold — to increase mutual interest, intensify cooperation and to face the future,” said Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during his visit to India. To this the Indian prime minister’s response could n0t have been more fitting that “the rest of the [...]
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