| Sonia joins Congress-BJP war |
New Delhi, Aug 28: The war over ‘coalgate’ escalated on Tuesday with the BJP refusing to give up its demand for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s ouster and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi charging the BJP with blackmail.
With Congress and BJP leaders taking on each other, the BJP’s adamant refusal to let Parliament function until Manmohan Singh bowed out crippled both... |
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| Lalu asks BJP about Reddy brothers |
New Delhi, Aug 28: BJP leader Sushma Swaraj's mota maal remark continued to reverberate with RJD leader Lalu Prasad on Tuesday accusing the party of having made mega-bucks from the mining barons, the Reddy brothers of Karnataka, while she instead accused the Congress of benefitting.
“With regard to the mota maal (mega-bucks) remark by BJP leader Sushma Swaraj, we want to know who ... |
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| 'Both Congress and BJP responsible for deadlock in Parliament' |
New Delhi, Aug 28: With proceedings in Parliament being disrupted for the sixth day on the coal blocks allocation issue, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) lawmaker and politburo member Sitaram Yechury on Tuesday held both the ruling Congress Party and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) equally responsible for the deadlock.
Yechury said it was a matter of great regret tha... |
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| Reshuffle to ease work of overburdened ministers: Dikshit |
New Delhi, Aug 28: A day after reshuffling portfolios of her ministers, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday said the step was taken to ease the pressure of some overburdened ministers and “infuse a little enthusiasm” in their work.
Dikshit on Monday reshuffled portfolios, divesting the senior most minister AK Walia of his two major departments - urban development ... |
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| SC to decide Mumbai attacker Kasab's fate today |
New Delhi, Aug 28: The Supreme Court on Wednesday is likely to pronounce verdict on a petition filed by the 2008 Mumbai terror attack convict and Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab challenging the Bombay High Court judgment upholding his death sentence. The high court upheld Kasab’s death penalty on February 21, 2011. Kasab was sent to the gallows by a Mumbai trial court on May 6, 2010. B... |
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| Geetika case politically motivated, Kanda tells court |
New Delhi, Aug 28: Gopal Goyal Kanda, accused of abetting the suicide of his employee and former flight attendant Geetika Sharma, told a court here on Tuesday that the case against him was politically motivated. He was sent to 14 days judicial custody. Metropolitan Magistrate Devender Kumar Jangala sent the former Haryana minister to judicial custody after the end of his interrogation in police cu... |
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| 'Government has taken up issue of Indian insurgents using Myanmar territory' |
NEW DELHI, Aug 28: Minister of State for Home Mullappally Ramachandran has, in a written reply to Parliament, said that the government is aware of reports that Indian Insurgent Groups (IIGs) have been using Myanmar territory for safe sanctuary.
“The presence of IIGs in Myanmar has been the single most important security issue for India at every bilateral negotiations, i.e. Nationa... |
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| Media spreading canard to hold market: Mamata |
Kolkata, Aug 28: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday continued her tirade against the media, accusing it of propagating “false news” to hold on to the market.
The Trinamool Congress supremo was speaking on the occasion of the foundation day of her party’s student wing, the Trinamool Chhatra Parishad. She had attacked the media on Saturday accusing it ... |
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| BJP doing drama to hide facts, says minister |
New Delhi, Aug 28: The government on Tuesday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of enacting a “drama” over coal blocks allocation to prevent a debate in Parliament as it would expose the party’s involvement. The ruling United Progressive Alliance’s (UPA) constituents and supporting parties, he added, had given notice for a debate in Parliament on coal blocks allocatio... |
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| BJP to take coal blocks issue to people |
New Delhi, Aug 28: After blocking Parliament functioning for entire week, the BJP on Tuesday said it will take the coal blocks allocation issue to the people and will continue to demand Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s resignation even beyond the monsoon session ending on September 7. “We are planning to take the issue to the people... party MPs have been asked to publicize it in their ... |
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| Chandrababu wants UPA government to quit over CAG report |
Hyderabad, Aug 28: Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief N Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday said the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government had lost moral authority to continue in office in the wake of the CAG report on allotment of coal blocks. The former Andhra Pradesh chief minister demanded Prime Minister Manmohan Singh immediately cancel the allotment of coal blocks and order a compre... |
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| Jayalalithaa asks PM to respect Tamil sentiments |
Chennai, Aug 28: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday expressed surprise at theCentral Government’s declaration that India would continue to train Sri Lankan defence personnel. Jayalalithha reiterated that the two Sri Lankan defence personnel being trained at Defence Services Staff College, Wellington in Tamil Nadu, should be sent back. In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan S... |
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| CBI to file charge sheet in Prajapati killing in few days |
New Delhi, Aug 28: The CBI told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that a charge sheet will be file in a couple of days in the 2006 alleged staged shootout killing of Tulsiram Prajapati in Gujarat. Senior CBI counsel Vivek Tankha told this to the apex court bench of Justice Aftab Alam and Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai in the course of the hearing of the agency’s plea challenging grant of bail to f... |
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| Spell out steps to plug leakage of phone taps: SC |
New Delhi, Aug 28: The Supreme Court on Tuesday pulled up the government for not stating the mechanism it had put in place to guard against leakage of telephone intercepts of people under surveillance.
“What is the mechanism to arrest the leakage,” the court asked the government.
The apex court bench of Justice GS Singhvi and Justice SJ Mukhopadhaya told Additional S... |
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| IIT-M develops nano-scale device to detect big explosives |
CHENNAI, Aug 28: Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, (IIT-M) have developed a novel device that can visually detect even a single molecule of TNT used in the making of powerful explosives.
Apart from national security, this ultra-sensitive and highly selective detection method will have applications in early identification of diseases and in radiation prevention, ... |
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| Shah Rukh film shoot rekindles Kashmir magic |
SRINAGAR, Aug 28: People have started calling it the Shah Rukh Khan factor, Kashmir perhaps could not have had better brand ambassador than the Yash Chopra film unit shooting in the valley.While Chopra has returned after a gap of three decades to the locales in Kashmir, this is Shah Rukh's maiden shoot in the valley.The Bollywood superstar's massive fan following could be seen with scores... |
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| Criminal case against Delhi-Jaipur highway builder |
Gurgaon, Aug 28: A criminal complaint was registered on Tuesday against the company constructing the 225-km Delhi-Jaipur Expressway for putting the life of commuters into danger and blocking emergency services. Traffic on the highway remained affected for the second consecutive day after heavy rains damaged a sizeable portion.
Traffic jam was caused on the Delhi-Jaipur-Mumbai highway du... |
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| Character actors are pillars of films: Anupam Kher |
MUMBAI, Aug 28: Actor Anupam Kher believes that character artists are the real pillars of any film."I think those whom we term as character actors in India, are basically the pillars of a film. You have to have a training or you have to be from theatre to be able to support the rest of the film," the 57-year-old said here on Monday at a function organised by Indian People`s Theatre Association ... |
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| It's play time for Poonam Dhillon |
MUMBAI, Aug 28: After working in films and TV shows, Poonam Dhillon has become active in theatre and is excited about U Turn, Ek Ajab Prem Kahaani. She said that she has made changes in the script of the play, which was earlier staged in Gujarati and Marathi."We had to bring about a lot of changes to the script. I don't believe that literal translations ever work. In fact, I have also written a... |
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| After 86 films, who cares about critics: Priyadarshan |
MUMBAI, Aug 28: There are two kinds of films, one for critics and the other for audiences, believes National Award winner Priyadarshan, who has successfully straddled two worlds and says candidly that his next Kamaal Dhamaal Malamaal is strictly masala.
Priyadarshan, whose 86 film oeuvre has been an eclectic mix of masala and serious cinema, says he will continue making both kinds of mo... |
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| Halkat jawani crosses 1 mn hits on YouTube |
MUMBAI,Aug 28: Kareena Kapoor's peppy number Halkat jawani from Heroine is grabbing eyeballs. It has crossed over one million hits on YouTube. The video was officially put on the site on August 16, and has received a stupendous response.From Ganesh Acharya's choreography to Kareena's svelte looks, viewers have praised the song for all its aspects."Heroine" will release on Sepember 21. (IANS)... |
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| Man beheaded in crowded train compartment, one held |
KOLKATA, Aug 28: A man was beheaded by a group of assailants in a crowded compartment of a train in West Bengal's Murshidabad district and an accused was arrested for the crime, police said on Tuesday. The incident took place on Monday when the Katwa-Azimgunj Passenger train was entering Bazarsau station in Murshidabad district. A group of assailants attacked Khokon Ghosh, 37, and to the hor... |
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| Mamata's humane gesture |
KOLKATA, Aug 27: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has made arrangements to pay the hospital dues of yesteryear's actress Dipti Roy, who passed away on Sunday. A private hospital refused to release Roy's body to her family unless they paid medical expenses of over Rs 11,000. Roy was recently awarded the newly instituted Uttam Kumar award for her contribution to Bengali films.(IANS)
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| Priyanka heads for London to promote Barfi! |
MUMBAI, Aug 28: After a busy schedule of working on her international music debut, Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra is off to London to promote her new film Barfi! "London bound! So excited about promoting Barfi!. The film and my single comes the same time, and such different vibes to both! Very grateful," tweeted the 30-year-old. In Barfi!, releasing on Sepember 14, the National Award-winn... |
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| Shahid Kapoor opts out of YRF film |
NEW DELHI, Aug 28: Shahid Kapoor has pulled out of a Yash Raj Films (YRF) project as his packed schedule is not allowing him to accommodate changes in creative aspects of the movie to be directed by Maneesh Sharma. The film was originally scheduled to go on floor this September. Shahid couldn't manage dates for the film, which has now been postponed. Both Sharma and Jaideep Sahni, who has wr... |
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| Showing up not the only way to show respect: Ghai |
MUMBAI, Aug 28: When Bollywood biggies gave veteran actor AK Hangal's funeral a miss, it raised many eyebrows. Filmmaker Subhash Ghai hit back at the criticism, saying the industry does not believe in showing off."See, you people can create a tragedy (controversy) very quickly if you want to. Every time whenever someone goes, those people who were close to him or have worked with the person come,"... |
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| Being part of 'Heroine' was my destiny: Kareena |
GURGAON, Aug 28: Actress Kareena Kapoor feels she was destined to do director Madhur Bhandarkar's Heroine and said the film is very close to her heart. Bhandarkar first offered the lead role to Kareena but she couldn't do it due to date issues and it went to Aishwarya Rai. However, Aishwarya subsequently opted out due to pregnancy. And the film once again landed in Kareena's lap and she said... |
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| Bhandarkar unhappy with bar on 'A' films on TV |
GURGAON, Aug 28: Filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar is disappointed with the censor board's decision to ban screening of adult films on television. He feels the producers will lose a lot of money due to this. "This is wrong as the major part of the revenue we get is from the satellite channels. Obviously the producers will lose a lot of money. Moreover, we can't make all the movies with U/A or U certific... |
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