Guru completes seven years of its release on Sunday (January 12, 2014). Doesn’t time fly, says actor Abhishek Bachchan. Directed by Mani Ratnam, Guru was an important film for Abhishek for both personal and professional reasons – he proposed to Aishwarya Rai after the off-shore premiere of Guru and married her, and it was also […]
The Shiv Sena will observe “Pratigya Divas” (Pledge Day) on Jan 23, its founder-patriarch Bal Thackeray’s birth anniversary, at a mass rally in the Maharashtra capital, the party president said Monday. Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray said this year he has appealed to all party workers to join the mega-rally at Somaiya Ground in central […]
The Kalapakavadi family was informed Monday around 2 p.m. that Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi would be over for lunch. “I asked my wife Susheela to see that a Syrian Christian lunch be ready in 45 minutes. She and the others set about getting the meal ready,” said Kalapakavadi. Gandhi was on a day’s visit […]
Two members of an inter-state gun smuggling racket have been arrested here and 16 sophisticated pistols recovered from them, Delhi Police said Monday. Dinesh Dabur, 25, and Sunil, 27, both residents of Khargone in Madhya Pradesh, were arrested Sunday from Sarai Kale Khan area in south Delhi and Agra in Uttar Pradesh, respectively. “Police recovered […]
Union minister Sachin Pilot was Monday appointed chief of the Congress’s Rajasthan unit, a party statement said. “Congress president Sonia Gandhi has appointed Sachin Pilot as president of the Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) with immediate effect,” the statement said. The 36-year-old Pilot is corporate affairs minister and a close associate of party vice president […]
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday said one of the biggest achievements of the UPA government was increasing the country’s power generation capacity to meet growing power needs. The prime minister said this after laying the foundation stone of a nuclear power plant in this village in Haryana’s Fatehabad district. The first phase (1,400 MW) of […]
The Indian Army needs to stay in Jammu and Kashmir “under the present circumstances”, a top military commander said Monday. “Armed forces need to stay on in Kashmir under the present circumstances. We should wait for conditions to improve before making changes to the national strategy regarding the army deployment in Jammu and Kashmir,” Indian […]
Indian security forces killed three foreign guerrillas Monday in a gun battle in Jammu and Kashmir, police said. The gunfight took place in Dooru (Dangerpora) village near Sopore town, 60 km from here, Inspector General of Police Abdul Ghani Mir told IANS. The dead reportedly belonged to the Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) outfit. A defence ministry spokesman […]
The Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party Monday clashed over a remark by BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi that under Jayanthi Natarajan, the environment ministry charged a “tax” to clear files. The first to lead the attack on Modi was Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh. “Modi’s comment on Jayanthi Natarajan is in a very […]
Customs officials in Goa have been unable to carry out anti-narcotics raids in the last two years because no one is coming forward with information on drug deals, state Customs Commissioner V.P.C. Rao said Monday. Goa is one of the top narco-tourism destinations in the country. Narcotics activity reaches its peak among tourists and locals […]