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| SC notice to Mamata in adviser appointment case |
New Delhi, Oct 19: The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for removing her name as a respondent in a case questioning Sukumar Mukherjee’s appointment as chief adviser to the state health department.
A bench of Justice RM Lodha and Justice Anil R Dave issued notice to Banerjee on a petition that questioned why her name has been delet... |
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| Ombudsman to probe charges against IAC members: Kejriwal |
New Delhi, Oct 19: India Against Corruption (IAC) leader Arvind Kejriwal on Friday announced that a panel of three retired judges would probe allegations of corruption against three key members of his party.
“There have been allegations against Anjali Damania, Prashant Bhushan and Mayank Gandhi,” Kejriwal told reporters, adding that the cases against the three would be forwa... |
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| Congress hits out at Kejriwal, BJP |
New Delhi, Oct 19: The Congress on Friday described Arvind Kejriwal and his India Against Corruption (IAC) as the “B team” of the BJP and said the opposition party needs to introspect over its internal feud and its support to charges levelled by activists against Congress leaders.
Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari said the Bharatiya Janata Party was facing internal strife ... |
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| Notice to TV Today, others in Khurshid defamation suit |
New Delhi, Oct 19: The Delhi High Court on Friday asked TV Today Network and 13 others to file a reply on a defamation suit filed by the wife of Law Minister Salman Khurshid for broadcasting a programme alleging their NGO siphoned off lakhs of rupees meant for the disabled.
Seeking damages of Rs 1 crore, the lawsuit by Louise Khurshid was filed against TV Today for airing defamatory pro... |
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| 'I did no wrong in granting permission to Treasure Island' |
New Delhi, Oct 19: Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh on Friday said he was ready to face punishment if he had done anything wrong in permissions related to Indore’s Treasure Island Mall. His remarks came after the Madhya Pradesh High Court ordered a CBI probe into the case. Digvijay Singh said on microblogging site Twitter that Treasure Island was the first mall in Indore. Permission... |
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| Reports on ex-bureaucrat's deposition 'concocted': Parliament |
New Delhi, Oct 19: Media reports quoting a former top bureaucrat that the prime minister ignored his note to hike 2G spectrum’s entry fee to Rs 36,000 crore was “factually incorrect” and “concocted” and amounted to breach of privilege, the Lok Sabha Secretariat said on Friday. It also added that the bureaucrat’s comments amounted to contempt of the parliament... |
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| Virbhadra denies role in land deal with DLF |
Shimla, Oct 19: Congress leader and five-time Himachal Pradesh chief minister Virbhadra Singh on Friday denied the allegation that he violated land laws to enable his brother-in-law to sell land parcels to realty major DLF for an ultra-luxury housing project in the State. “It’s a smear campaign of (Prem Kumar) Dhumal, Arun Jaitely and Anurag Thakur to malign my image in the run-up t... |
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| Top Chinese filmmaker likes 3 Idiots, says it reflects change |
Mumbai, Oct 19: Zhang Yimou, one of China’s top filmmakers, is a fan of Indian films, especially 3 Idiots, and even wants to collaborate with Indians to overcome the dominance of Hollywoo. “I don’t get to watch a lot of Indian films because in the Chinese market, the majority is Hollywood movies. But I have watched a few and the most recent one is Aamir Khan’s 3 Idiots,&rdq... |
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| Simplicity of English Vinglish clicked: Sridevi |
Mumbai, Oct 19: Sridevi is happy with her new taste of success with English Vinglish. The veteran actress believes the simple story of a housewife stuck with the woes of the English language as well as expressive screenplay has helped the movie strike a chord with the audiences. Sridevi is especially glad that it didn’t take any melodrama to attract viewers. The 49-year-old, who has scorched... |
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| Six writers in 2,000-km roving lit fest rail journey |
New Delhi, Oct 19: Writers are on a roll. Six international writers will board the a train on October 31 on a 2,000-km journey to five cities in southern India with a nomadic library to meet readers, students, thinkers and lay people in the the first-such roving writers’ festival. The mobile festival, The Bookwallah, supported by the Asialink Writing Programme of Melbourne University, is a s... |
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