Mumabi:Sunny Leone has entered in the Bigg Boss house yesterday night and her entry making sure that it would be very entertaining. She entered in the house with very famous song Chaliya Chaliya and in Hindi traditional attire. She entered the house carried by eight men on the shoulders on a traditional Indian attire sitting  [ Read More ]

New Delhi:  The nation today remembered former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her 94th birth anniversary with President Pratibha Patil and Vice President Hamid Ansari among prominent personalities who paid rich tributes to the leader. The leaders offered floral tributes at her memorial Shakti Sthal on the banks of Yamuna. Besides Patil and Ansari, UPA  [ Read More ]

New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) A Delhi court Saturday sentenced former telecom minister Sukh Ram, 84, to five years rigorous imprisonment for misusing his official position when he was in the P.V. Narasimha Rao cabinet in 1996. Pronouncing the judgment, Special CBI Judge R.P. Pandey said: ‘The accused has been awarded five years of rigorous  [ Read More ]

MUMBAI (Reuters) – The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday conducted searches at Vodafone’s Indian unit and Bharti Airtel’s offices seeking details on spectrum allocation by the government to operators between 2001-02. The searches were in regard to possible irregularities in allotting spectrum during the previous government led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),  [ Read More ]

New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) Sports Minister Ajay Maken Saturday hinted that his ministry will have to probe former India player Vinod Kambli’s charge that the controversial 1996 World Cup semifinal between India and Sri Lanka at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens could have been fixed, if the cricket board does not do it on its own.  [ Read More ]

New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) Former India captain Mohammad Azharuddin rubbished claims by his ex-teammate Vinod Kambli that the 1996 World Cup semi-final against Sri Lanka at the Eden Gardens could have been fixed. Azharuddin was backed by his former teammates Sanjay Manjrekar, Nayan Mongia and Venkatpathy Raju and the then team manager Ajit Wadekar  [ Read More ]

New Delhi:Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare and his activists will have a busy winter as they fight for their version of the Lokpal Bill to be made a law. Salman Khurshid, the Law Minister, said today that the anti-corruption bill will be introduced in the winter session of parliament. Team Anna had warned that if the  [ Read More ]

Hyderabad:  The cotton farms in Andhra Pradesh have turned into killing fields for farmers. At least 90 farmers have committed suicide in the last two months; the reason – monsoon failed them and so did the government. “Should I cry for my son or for the debts? He has left me only with tears and  [ Read More ]

Kolkata:  In signs of what appears to be a strain in the alliance in West Bengal, activists of the Youth Congress today took out a silent rally in Kolkata in protest against the violent attacks on its supporters by the Trinamool Congress (TMC). Led by Congress MPs Deepa Das Munshi and Mausam Noor, the protestors  [ Read More ]

Bali (Indonesia):  The issue of sovereignty over the South China Sea should be resolved under international law, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao today. Dr Singh, who brought up the issue during a 55-minute meeting on the sidelines of the Association of South Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Bali, said India’s  [ Read More ]