Mere compliance with rules or carrying out welfare initiatives for the staff does not fall in the ambit of corporate social responsibility (CSR), a senior functionary said here Wednesday. Under the new Companies Act, CSR will become mandatory for companies with profit of Rs.5 crore and more, said Bhaskar Chatterjee, director general and chief executive […]
A court here Wednesday recorded the statement of Bollywood actor Salman Khan in the Arms Act case against him in connection with poaching of blackbucks. “Salman, in his statement, has denied all the allegations and said he neither was carrying illegal arms nor did he poach blackbucks,” Salman Khan’s counsel Hastimal Saraswat told IANS. The […]
The civil services officers’ body in Goa Wednesday requested Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar to order the release of a bureaucrat arrested over a building collapse in which 31 people were killed earlier this month. The Association of Goa Civil Service Officers’ has accused the government of harassing and needlessly arresting Prashant Shirodkar, the chief officer […]
At least eight passengers were killed and 11 injured when a private luxury bus rammed into an oil tanker and caught fire on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway early Wednesday, police said. The accident took place when the Ahmedabad-bound bus was near Kuregaon village in Thane district’s Manor town, said Investigating Officer Sudhakar Yenare. According to preliminary […]
The AAP, BJP and the Akali Dal Wednesday demanded an SIT probe into the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Delhi after Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi admitted some party members’ involvement in the violence. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal met Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung Wednesday morning to submit his request for a Special Investigation Team (SIT) […]
Forty-three kg of gold and 57,000 kg of silver offered by devotees at the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi temple in Jammu and Kashmir have been found to be fake, an RTI application has revealed. The RTI query elicited the information that 193.5 kg of gold and 81,635 kg of silver was offered at the shrine […]
A conference attended by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi was disrupted here Wednesday by a man who said none of the government schemes for the minorities were reaching the beneficiaries. As soon as the prime minister concluded his speech at the launch of the National Waqf Development Corporation Limited (NAWADCO) in […]
‘Jai Ho’ starring Salman Khan is getting strictly mixed response at the box-office and the actor is also confused about it because the response at the theatres and the collections are not “matching up” Salman says, “This time we are also confused because the reactions inside the theatres and the collections are not matching up. […]
sunExpensive jewellery and costumes getting stolen from film sets is a common thing, but an uncommon thing took place with Sunny Leone recently. Sunny’s undergarments got stolen from the sets of her upcoming movie, ‘Ragini MMS-2’. Report further states that Sunny was wearing grey coloured lingerie for a shot, and after the garment got missing, […]
Hrithik Roshan was on a break from acting because of his head injury. In between, he even had a rough phase in personal life as he got separated from his wife Sussanne Roshan. But, now the actor is all set to start the shooting for ‘Bang Bang’. He flew down to Shimla yesterday for the […]