New Delhi:  A movement towards a decision on the Telangana issue will take place after the Eid-ul-Zuha festival, Home Minister P Chidambaram said today. He said Congress General Secretary in charge of Andhra Pradesh and Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad had conveyed to different groups in the state that since the festival season was  [ Read More ]

New Delhi:  Three persons were sentenced to life imprisonment by a Delhi court today for their involvement in the April 2010 killings of a 70-year-old Dalit and his physically-challenged daughter at Haryana’s Mirchpur village. While sentencing Kulwinder, Ramphal and Rajender to life term, Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Kamini Lau sentenced five others to varying jail  [ Read More ]

Ranchi: Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda was today beaten up in jail, allegedly by prison officials. Mr Koda, who was admitted to the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences, alleged that the jail staff had attacked him when he went to “check the quality of food”. “When I went to check the quality of food,  [ Read More ]

New Delhi:  In a move that could hit Air India’s international operations, over 100 pilots have threatened to quit the airlines, charging the management with adopting discriminatory attitude against them and stalling their career progression. The development comes four days ahead of the launch of a training programme for pilots to fly the Boeing 787  [ Read More ]

Audi, the German luxury car manufacturer, has introduced the top version of its flagship model – the new Audi A8 L W12 quattro. Equipped with a powerful 6.3 FSI petrol engine, the newest variant of Audi’s flagship sets new standards of luxury, dynamism and efficiency, accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in 4.7 seconds to  [ Read More ]

Mumbai:Vida has been the calmest contestant on reality show, Bigg Boss, despite the negativity and violent fights that her housemates have engaged in She did have a tiff with Pooja Missra over a trivial misunderstanding but she was mature enough to look beyond it soon enough. So in a recent episode she reveal the secret  [ Read More ]

New Delhi:  Underlining the urgency to fight corruption in public life, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said it is the right time to move decisively in this direction. “Our efforts for rapid progress and development can have their full impact only if we curb corruption in public life and improve the processes of governance. I  [ Read More ]

New Delhi:  In a surprise announcement, controversial corporate lobbyist Niira Radia, the owner of the PR firm which has Tata group and Mukesh Ambani-led RIL as its top clients, has decided to exit from the communication consultancy business. 51-year-old Radia, the owner and promoter of Vaishnavi Group, who is at the centre of a controversy  [ Read More ]

Ralegan Siddhi:  Three Team Anna members, Arvind Kejriwal, Prashant Bhushan and Kiran Bedi met Anna Hazare in Ralegan Siddhi today to apprise him about the deliberations at the Core Committee meeting. The meeting which was held on Saturday evening, in Ghaziabad had decided that there was no need for “dismantling” the team. Team Anna had  [ Read More ]

New Delhi:  Rajya Sabha MP and former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh was discharged from the All India Institute of Medical sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi on Sunday morning. From the hospital, the politician, out on bail in the cash-for-votes-scam, went to his residence in the Capital. Speaking about his health to reporters, Singh said, “If  [ Read More ]