| 'A democracy must debate, Parliament disruptions no option' |
New Delhi, Sept 9: Parliamentary debate is the only option in a democracy but this can happen only if the house is allowed to function, political leaders across the spectrum - barring one - say after 13 of the monsoon session’s 20 days were washed out due to BJP’s raucous protests over alleged irregularities in sale of coal mining blocks.
The only lone voice in favour of the... |
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| Thackeray bats for Sushma Swaraj as PM |
Mumbai/New Delhi, Sept 9: Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Sunday expressed his admiration for BJP leader Sushma Swaraj and said she was best suited to becoming the next prime minister but her party played down his remarks and said any such decision would be taken at an appropriate time.
Thackeray said in the third part of his marathon four-part interview published in the party mouthpie... |
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| PM, Sonia, Advani pay tributes to Kurien |
New Delhi, Sept 9: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Vice-president Hamid Ansari, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and BJP leader LK Advani on Sunday joined others in paying tributes to Verghese Kurien, the force behind the white revolution in India.
Kurien (91) died on Sunday at a hospital in Nadiad city in Gujarat following prolonged illness.
Manmohan Singh said in a condolence me... |
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| Mukherjee's priority-to return Rashtrapati Bhavan library to pristine glory |
New Delhi, Sept 9: Books, books and more books - over 15,000 of them stacked in wooden and steel almirahs, gathering dust and grime due to disuse and neglect for over 20 years in one of the corners of Rashtrapati Bhavan, the magnificent presidential house. But all that is set to change. President Pranab Mukherjee, who assumed charge as the 13th constitutional head on July 25, is known to be a bibl... |
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| PM's assets around Rs 10.73 crore |
New Delhi, Sept 9: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has assets worth around Rs 10.73 crore (around $2 million), nearly double from last year. Many of his cabinet colleagues, like Sharad Pawar and Praful Patel, are far richer than him, shows an updated list of assets of ministers posted on the PMO website. Patel has declared assets of around Rs 52 crore and Pawar has declared property worth around Rs ... |
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| Congress out to malign me: Ramdev |
New Delhi, Sept 9: Yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Sunday condemned Congress leader Digvijay Singh for levelling allegations against him and said it was all part of a concerted attempt to malign him. Ramdev criticised Singh for dragging his name into the case of yoga guru Shanker Dev, who went missing from Uttarakhand in July 2007. Ramdev, without actually naming Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh... |
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| India, China, Pakistan dialogue on Afghanistan? |
New Delhi, Sept 9: With the prospect of regional rivalries intensifying over Afghanistan, China is thinking of proposing a trilateral dialogue among New Delhi, Beijing and Islamabad on Afghanistan, a tricky proposition given the rivalry between India and Pakistan in the Afghan theatre.
“Many Chinese scholars have proposed the idea. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China is keen ... |
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| 'Thakerays are infiltrators in Maharashtra from Bihar' |
Patna, Sept 9: Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad on Sunday said Bal Thackeray, Uddhav Thackeray and Raj Thackeray were originally Bihari, and that they were “infiltrators” in Maharashtra. Lalu, former chief minister and central minister, said this country belongs to all and every one is free to visit, stay and work anywhere within the country, whether Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai ... |
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| Advani rakes up Ram temple issue |
Lucknow, Sept 9: Raking up the controversial Ram temple issue in Uttar Pradesh, senior BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani has linked it with the identity of Hindus and said that its construction was essential to usher Ram Rajya (ideal state) in the country. Releasing a set of books on Mahant Avaidyanath (94) at a function organized at the Gorakhnath temple premises in Gorakhpur, 270 km from here on Sat... |
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| Kapil Sibal paints BJP 'black' |
Lucknow, Sept 9: Union Human Resource and Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal has assailed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by saying that the Chief Ministers of States ruled by it should resign as they endorsed the final allotments of coal blocks. Sibal told media here that the BJP had a black ideology; a black mindset and they should stay away from commenting on the coal blocks allocation. &l... |
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| 'Will cooperate with CBI on probe into iron ore scam' |
Bellary (Karnataka), Sept 9: Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar on Sunday said his government will “fully cooperate” with CBI in its probe into massive illegal export of iron ore from the State which took place during his predecessor BS Yeddyurappa’s regime. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the scam was ordered by Friday by the Supreme Court which slamm... |
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| Anna's cartoonist supporter sent to police custody |
Mumbai, Sept 9: A Mumbai court on Sunday remanded Aseem Trivedi, an Anna Hazare supporter and political cartoonist, to seven days police custody for drawing an allegedly derogatory sketch and uploading it on his web portal, an activist said. Trivedi (25) an activist of India Against Corruption, was picked up on Saturday evening by Mumbai police from Bandra-Kurla following a non-bailable arrest war... |
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| Indian space agency scores a ton, ready for more |
Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh), Sept 9: An Indian rocket on Sunday successfully put into orbit two foreign satellites, marking Indian space agency ISRO’s 100th mission in the presence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Exactly at 9.53 am, Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-C21 (PSLV-C21), 44 metres tall and weighing around 230 tonne, with a one-way ticket, hurtled itself towards the skie... |
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| India's next moon mission depends on Russia: ISRO chief |
Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh), Sept 9: India’s second moon mission will depend on Russia’s decision after a failed inter-planetary mission with China, ISRO chairman said on Sunday, a day when the Indian space agency launched its 100th mission.
The Chandrayaan 2 is planned for 2014 with India’s heavier rocket -- Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV).
K R... |
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| 'Need joint efforts to save Himalayas' |
New Delhi, Sept 9: Concerned over the threat to natural resources in the Himalayas, environmentalist here on Sunday said there was an urgent need to preserve its ecology and the country’s States benefitting by the mountain’s resources like water should step up effort to protect them.
Observing the ‘Himalaya Day’ for the third year consecutively, the environment a... |
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| 'Investing in newcomers not a risk' |
New Delhi, Sept 9: In his four-decade career, Mahesh Bhatt has never shied away from giving chance to fresh talent in his films - whether it was Anupam Kher in Saaransh, Rahul Roy in Aashiqui, or Sunny Leone in Jism 2. The filmmaker says he doesn’t see any risk in investing in newcomers.
“Filmmaking is all about ideas. It is the idea that sells. And if you have a unique stor... |
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| India's second school of mines to come up in Northeast |
New Delhi, Sept 9: Even as irregularities in coal mining hits the headlines, India’s second school of mines is being set up in the country’s Northeast in collaboration with the government of Queensland, Australia to provide skilled manpower for the growing needs of the mining industry.
“We now have an understanding specifically on setting up a school of mines in India,... |
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| 'My enthusiasm was misrepresented' |
New Delhi, Sept 9: Actor Ranveer Singh exuded enthusiasm after a successful Bollywood debut with Band Baaja Baaraat. But his eagerness and frankness didn’t go well with the industry and the actor has now mended his ways and become cautious. The 27-year-old believes one cannot pretend for a long time and added: “At some level you have to be who you are and show who you are. If you will ... |
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| 'Both commercial, serious films important for me' |
Mumbai, Sept 9: Emraan Hashmi, who has done films like Murder, Jannat, The Dirty Picture and Shanghai, says success in both commercial and off-beat cinema is important for an actor. The 33-year-old, who made his acting debut with 2003 film Footpath, never thought of taking up acting as a career. “After getting in the industry, I made mistakes and was learning in the first four years. Then I ... |
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| Balki is a supportive homemaker: Gauri Shinde |
Mumbai, Sept 9: Ad filmmaker Gauri Shinde, who is bringing the story of an Indian housewife battling language problem in the US in her directorial debut English Vinglish, feels blessed to have a husband like R. Balki who shares household chores. “I’ve an obsession with perfection even at home. But for now I’ve transferred my penchant for perfection to my movies... Thankfully, the... |
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| Delhiites throng Pragati Maidan on last day of book fair |
New Delhi, Sept 9: It was a packed house at Pragati Maidan here on Sunday as crowds thronged the venue on the last day of the 18th Delhi Book Fair with books on spiritualism, religion, fashion designing and novels selling like hot cakes. The nine-day book fair that began on September 1 had “e-books” as its theme and played host to 300 publishers -- both regional and international, incl... |
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| Fame comes with a price, feels Delnaaz Paul |
Mumbai, Sept 9: Delnaaz Paul feels celebrities have to pay a price for being in the limelight - their private lives become public after becoming famous. “There are so many things that happens in the outside world, but people don’t know anything about them because they are not famous. And out here, even if you sneeze, people get to know. I feel private lives of stars and celebrities are... |
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