June 15, 2012
New Delhi: Former president APJ Abdul Kalam, who is being supported by the Trinamool Congress and the Samajwadi Party for a second stint at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, on Friday praised those backing him but said he will take a final call on it later.
June 14, 2012
India-born legendary Ghazal singer Mehdi Hassan died today at a private clinic in Sindh's provincial capital Karachi, Pakistan. He was 84.
Hassan, who had millions of fans in India and Pakistan, had been admitted to the Agha Khan Hospital in the southern port city of Karachi some days ago. He had been in a serious condition and was on ventilator.
June 14, 2012
Controversial godman Swami Nithyananda will be produced before the Ramanagaram district court for bail hearing on Thursday a day after he was remanded to one day judicial custody following charges of assault.
The disgraced godman surrendered before the Ramanagaram district court yesterday after remaining untraceable for nearly 48 hours.
June 14, 2012
Telugu movie heartthrob Ram Charan will be entering matrimony today with his childhood sweet heart Upasana Kaminneni. Proud father and superstar Chiranjeevi is all geared up make his son’s wedding the grandest affair of the season.
June 14, 2012
India's inflation moved up to to 7.55 percent, fastest pace this year in May, driven by higher food and fuel prices, impeding chances of a rate cut by the RBI at its review next week. Inflation, as measured by the Wholesale Price Index (WPI), was 7.23 percent in April.
Today's inflation number is the last economic data before the Reserve Bank of India's rate review on June 18.
June 14, 2012
With the countdown for the Presidential Elections beginning, veteran Bharatiya Janata Party leader LK Advani is expected to meet Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithha on Thursday to seek her support for APJ Abdul Kalam’s candidature for the highest post.
June 13, 2012
Bangalore: “You don’t need the weatherman to know which way wind blow.” This phrase fits very well in context of the recent survey by rating agency Standard & Poor that primed the position for a downgrade of India’s rating. S&P weatherman surely knows which way the economic wind is blowing.
June 13, 2012
PARIS: A plan to build the biggest land-based optical telescope in the world has cleared an important hurdle, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) announced late Monday.
Two-thirds of ESO's governing council gave full or provisional approval for the so-called European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), which opens the way to starting work on the project, it said in a press release.
June 13, 2012
KANNAUJ (UP): Dimple Yadav, the newly-elected MP from Kannauj, today said she would fight for women's rights in Parliament.
"I will use my position as MP to fight for women's rights," Dimple told mediapersons after collecting her victory certificate from district electoral officer Selva Kumari J here.
June 13, 2012
WASHINGTON: Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal liminary Srikanth 'Sri' Srinivasan has been nominated by President Barack Obama to what is "often called the nation's second-highest court", the US court of appeals for the American capital.
