New Delhi, Dec 17 The Rajya Sabha Tuesday passed the Lokpal and Lokayukta Bill, which provides for creation of an anti-corruption ombudsman. The most prominent of the group of anti-graft bills on the anvil, the Lokpal bill seeks to establish a Lokpal at the central level and asks states to establish Lokayuktas within a year’s […]
Singapore, Dec 17 Two more Indian nationals, aged 35 and 41, were charged Tuesday in connection with the riots in this city-state Dec 8, taking the total number of people charged to 35. If the men charged in the case are found guilty of rioting they could be jailed for up to seven years and […]
Oprah, 59, is confident that she made the right choice for her. “If I had kids, my kids would hate me,” Oprah told The Hollywood Reporter. ”They would have ended up on the equivalent of the Oprah show talking about me; because something [in my life] would have had to suffer and it would’ve probably […]
Leonardo DiCaprio says that he has never been tempted to try drugs because he grew up around them. He also saw how they can damage people’s mental state. DiCaprio said, “I had seen all the hedonism and insanity of the world of drugs. I grew up in a hardcore neighborhood.” “Then coming to Hollywood and […]
Dipesh Mehta, Salman Khan’s lawyer has filed a complaint at Bandra Police Station. On Monday two people threatened him by asking him to hand over Rs 2 crore. The lawyer was in his Bandra office in the afternoon, when the incident took place. Two men entered his office with a bouquet. One of the accused, […]
Dehradun, Dec 15 The BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi Sunday criticised the Uttarakhand government over the state’s under-development and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi over the Lokpal Bill, saying the ruling party was hypocritical on the issue. “I want to ask him (Rahul Gandhi) a question. If you are so worried about corruption, I […]
New Delhi, Dec 15 Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal Sunday said he would wait for a response from the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to the 18 points he raised before deciding on whether his party could form the government in Delhi. “We are waiting for their (Congress and BJP) reply on […]
Chennai, Dec 15 DMK president M. Karunanidhi Sunday declared that the party will not align with the Congress or the BJP for the 2014 general elections. He made the announcement at the DMK’s general council meeting held here, a party leader told IANS. Reacting to the development, state Congress leaders said they had warned their party […]
New Delhi, Dec 12 The Lokpal Bill is likely to be taken up in the Rajya Sabha Monday, said Satyavrat Chaturvedi, who chaired the select committee that looked into the anti-corruption bill. “The government has proposed a discussion on Lokpal bill on Monday,” Chaturvedi told reporters here. Six hours have been allotted for the discussion, […]
New Delhi, Dec 11 The Supreme Court Wednesday held consensual sex between adults of the same gender a criminal offence, leaving the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community dejected. But they vowed to fight on. Setting aside a Delhi High Court verdict of 2009 that decriminalised sexual relations between people of the same sex, Justice […]