Lucknow, May 17 (IANS) BSP supremo Mayawati Saturday blamed the Congress for her party’s rout in Uttar Pradesh in the Lok Sabha polls. She said supporting the Congress-led UPA was suicidal and her party paid the price for it. The Bahujan Samaj Party’s state tally was reduced to zero in the just-concluded general elections. She blamed […]
After the perceived corrupt practices in the run-up the 2010 Commonwealth Games, both the government and the sports administrators will think twice before bidding for another sporting extravaganza. Yet, the reconstututed Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has the gumption to ask the new government, likely to be installed next week, to consider bidding for the 2019 […]
Cannes, May 17 (IANS) The importance of co-productions in the business of filmmaking turned out to be a vital point of discussion at the India Pavilion during the ongoing 67th Cannes International Film Festival here. On Friday, the second day of activities at the India Pavilion – organized by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, in […]
New Delhi, May 17 (IANS) Narendra Modi is man of the moment. If his agenda and vision led to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s triumph at the hustings, his influence is looming large over the nation’s fashion scene too and yielding rich dividends for designers. In the highly volatile fashion world, where style statements change with changing […]
Mumbai, May 17 (IANS) On Saturday, actor Arshad Warsi started the “action” for Subhash Kapoor’s “Guddu Rangeela”, and he is geared up to face the heat and dust during the 10-day schedule. “Goodmorning. Action for ‘Guddu Rangeela’ starts today…10 days of heat, dust, dirt, pain,” tweeted the actor, who shares the frame with others like Amit […]
London, May 17 (IANS) You may have some images of the dreaded Dracula’s castle in your mind – the 13th-century fortress in Transylvania called Bran Castle. It is another thing the castle did not actually belong to Dracula but to the Habsburg royal family. The Romanian government has now placed an $80 million (Rs.470 crore) bid […]
Agartala, May 17 (IANS) Despite the Left parties’ devastating defeat in West Bengal, the CPI-M, a dominant partner of the Left Front, held on to its two Lok Sabha seats in Tripura, thanks to good governance and an able leadership in the state. The ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist candidates – Sankar Prasad Datta and Jitendra […]
Dharamsala, May 17 (IANS) Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama Saturday congratulated BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi for his party’s decisive victory in the Lok Sabha election. The Nobel Peace Laureate in a letter to Modi said India was the world’s largest democratic nation and the most stable in South Asia with a tradition of […]
London, May 17 (IANS) Celebrities are forever inspiring wardrobe choices of commoners — and the latest trend that people have picked up for this season is a white top! Fashion icons like Jennifer Lopez, Kate Upton, Cameron Diaz and Leslie Mann have all flaunted the look in the morning, evening and night, reports femalefirst.co.uk. Upton, Diaz […]
Mumbai, May 17 (IANS) Lawyers in Mumbai Saturday welcomed the Supreme Court judgment acquitting all six convicts, including two on the death row, in the 2002 Akshardham temple terror attack in Gandhinagar. Lawyer Gulzar Aazmi of the Jamiat Ulama-E-Maharashtra (JUeM) (AM) said: “The prosecution failed to establish the guilt by the accused beyond reasonable doubt and […]