New Delhi: The Prime Minister’s Office today rubbished the claim by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi that Rs 1,880 crore were spent on overseas visits of UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, saying it was “untrue and misleading”. The PMO underlined that the government had spent no money on Gandhi’s overseas visits or her medical treatment abroad [...]
Mumbai: A flash 900-point crash in NSE Nifty index for a brief period this morning and concerns over the fate of big-ticket reforms like raising the FDI cap in insurance, cut short a four-day rally in stock markets with BSE Sensex falling 120 points to end below 19,000 level today. After gaining around 480 points [...]
Mumbai: Shiv Sena Chief Bal Thackeray has said Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi would lead his party to a third consecutive victory in the Assembly elections to be held in December. “Modi has shown his grip on Gujarat and is going to win the polls for the third time in a row,” Thackeray said in [...]
Bangalore: Former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa today launched an attack on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for asking Karnataka to release 9,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu daily “without assessment of ground reality” on water storage levels in this state. Yeddyurappa, who began a day-long dharna to protest the CRA order, demanded that the [...]
New Delhi: The National Stock Exchange index Nifty crashed 800 points this morning, halting the trade, which the bourse blamed on erroneous orders worth Rs 650 crore by a broker Emkay Global for one of its clients. The NSE said it is investigating the matter and the abnormal orders that resulted in multiple trades at [...]
Bhubaneswar: India Friday tested its nuclear-capable ballistic missile Dhanush from a naval ship in the Bay of Bengal in Odisha, an official said. The missile was fired from a naval ship somewhere between Puri and Visakhapatnam as part of the training exercise of the Indian Navy. “The test was successful,” Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) [...]
New Delhi: As Kingfisher Airlines extended its partial lockout by a week till October 12, Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh today said the debt-ridden company will have to satisfy airline regulator DGCA on safety before it gets permission to fly again. “There are a lot of factors involved in it. That includes the salaries of the employees, their disgruntlement issues [...]
Bangalore: Protests over the Cauvery water dispute gained momentum today with Kannada outfits planning several high-voltage rallies in the city even as the state government briefed a Central team on the water storage levels in reservoirs. Former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa is scheduled to begin a day-long dharna against the Prime Minister-chaired Cauvery River Authority’s order to Karnataka to release [...]
Srinagar: Backing Centre’s decision to allow FDI in multi-brand retail, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has said the decision will help farmers prosper by removing middlemen from the supply chain and generate new jobs. Addressing the national executive of Indian Youth Congress here last night, Rahul said FDI in retail will help farmers store their produce safely for a longer duration, thus ensuring [...]
New Delhi: Key 26/11 suspect Abu Jundal was Thursday sent to Tihar Jail by a Delhi court here. Sending Jundal to judicial custody, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Vidya Parkash directed jail authorities to present him in two different courts on Oct 8 and Oct 12. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) told the court that Jundal [...]
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Kubra Fatima Ask any Hyderabadi what they love about the City and they will have many things to say — food, greenery and people being the usual suspects. On the contrary, if you ask them what they hate and ‘travelling in an auto’ will be the first response. Even though going around the twin cities [...]
Expecting a Sunday feast, I went to the dining table eagerly looking forward to the best of my mother’s cooking. I lifted the lid on the big casserole and found pulao with corn. I didn’t know what to make of it. I believe my mother makes the best peas pulao. But to have corn replacing [...]
Shraddha Jahagirdar-Saxena Just a few days ago, when Mumbai Indians played the Sunrisers in Mumbai, I found myself standing on Marine Drive, outside ‘D’ road, along with my brother, waiting for our sons to amble out after the match (which to the pride of this city’s dwellers, MI won). It took several moments for the [...]
No one kills the goose that lays the golden egg
There is a ridiculous debate going on after the reports on spot-fixing emerged: should IPL be scrapped? Even if IPL were the first sporting event to be tainted by spot-fixing, it would be senseless to even suggest that it be scrapped. Since that is not the case, talking of scrapping is, pardon the coarse expression, [...]
This must be the greatest moment of crisis that Barack Obama has faced till now in his entire time at the White House. There’s the tax agency scandal, 100 emails regarding the Benghazi attacks have been released and also the scandal of the justice department hacking the phones of reports of the nation’s biggest news [...]
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