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Just In: Actor Armaan Kohli has been arrested from the Bigg Boss 7 following a complaint by former house mate Sofia HayatShe has claimed that she was manhandled by Kohli in the Bigg Boss house during the show.Sofia was eliminated from the show last week. Sofia had earlier too told Salman she was...
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Clearing the decks for Chennai corporation to remove a temple built at the court entrance in memory of former Chief Minister M G Ramachandran, the Madras High Court today said courts cannot tolerate construction of religious structures by encroaching public road. Courts are concerned with...
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Russia has moved nuclear-capable Iskander missiles closer to Europe's borders in response to the US-led deployment of a disputed air defence shield, the defence ministry said today.The announcement is almost certain to irritate the former Communist states of Eastern Europe and add another layer...
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RSS today toed the line taken by BJP President Rajnath Singh in support of the Supreme Court judgement against homosexuality but maintained that the issue can be debated by the political parties. (Section) 377 (of IPC) is about unnatural relationship. There can be a debate over the Section...
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In a setback to singer Adnan Sami, the Bombay High Court today asked him and his relatives to vacate the duplex flats in a multi-tower building in posh Lokhandwala complex area of suburban Andheri within two months to facilitate the entry of his divorced wife Sabah Galadari.Adnan currently stays...
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The CBI has arrested four persons in connection with an incident during the 2012 ethnic violence between the Bodos and minorities in Assam in which over 100 people were killed and thousands displaced. CBI sources said four persons have been arrested in connection with the riots in Karigaon...
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Passengers had a harrowing time on Sunday after their Air India flight to Kolkata from New Delhi was delayed by almost 10 hours due to non-availability of a Dreamliner aircraft. The irate passengers staged a protest at the Air India counter at Delhi airport on Sunday. The flight, slated...
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Our Delhi correspondent reports: Senior Congress ministers from Tamil Nadu may decide not to contest Lok Sabha polls in 2014 as they are apprehensive of big loss since both DMK and AIADMK have washed off their hands from the party, AIADMK leader V Maitreyan reportedly told some his colleagues in...
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Sources tell PTI that the Communal Violence Bill has been cleared by the Union Cabinet.
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Harvard University has evacuated four buildings on campus Monday over unconfirmed reports of explosives, MyFoxBoston.com reports. More details awaited
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Our Correspondent in New Delhi: The faces of life size statues of Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Vallabhai Patel, Jayaprakash Narain and Maulana Abul Kalam inside the Parliament Azad were seen covered on Monday. The Lok Sabha secretariat organised a function on Monday in Cenral Hall to award the...
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Our Correspondent in Delhi: BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu was giving 'ideas' to Seemaandhra Congress MPs Aruna Kumar, Panapakkam Lakshmi and Sabbam Hari in Parliament on Monday. They had discussed bifurcation issue for more than one hour -- while senior Congress Union ministers watched...
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Union Law and Justice Minister Kapil Sibal on Monday said Justice AK Ganguly, who has been accused of sexual harassment by a law intern, should resign voluntarily from the chairmanship of the West Bengal Human Rights Commission, and added that he would not like to see the ignominy of a...
18:34
Abu Jundal, suspected Lashkar-e- Taiba's (LeT) terrorist and one of the masterminds of 26/11 attacks, today claimed before a Delhi court that the NIA and Maharashtra Police had forced him to sign some documents and blank papers. Jundal, who is also known as Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari, told this to...
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In a sharp rebuff to Arvind Kejriwal's criticism that the Lokpal Bill in its present form was incapable of sending to jail even a mouse, Anna Hazare today said the legislation was good enough to ensnare a lion.You are talking about mouse. I feel the Bill has provisions to trap even a lion,...
18:17
Mandatory and immediate reading for the VHP: Devdutt Patnaik on whether homosexuality existed in ancient India?
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Terming as historic the Supreme Court decision upholding legal provision against same sex relations, VHP today said homosexuality was an imported disease which needed treatment. In a memorandum to President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Vishwa Hindu Parishad said government...
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The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) today said that as part of its 2014 Lok Sabha election campaign, it will launch a broom yatra in Gujarat to expose state government's corruption. The broom yatra will be launched on January 26. During the yatra, we will expose the Gujarat government's corrupt practices....
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Their campaign caught popular imagination in a manner that shocked Delhi's political grandees. Their post-poll tactic - asking BJP, Congress to agree to their demands before they form a minority government - has been equally unconventional. But now that Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party is...
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The issues mentioned by Arvind Kejriwal in the letters to the Congress and BJP include passing of the Janlokpal bill by December 29, empowering of mohalla sabhas to spend money on development works, audit of power discoms and eliminating the water mafia in Delhi. Kejriwal said AAP would ask...
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The Congress now says it never offered unconditional support to AAP. Shakeel Ahmed, Congress's Delhi in-charge has replied to AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal's 18 demands for government formation, saying the party has always maintained that it would only offer outside support.Meanwhile, Lt...
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Shobhaa De: 16th December. The day faith, hope and confidence died for the women of India.
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Terming senior BJP leader Narendra Modi as the most eligible person for the post of the Prime Minister, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today asked the Congress to declare its candidate for the top job ahead of upcoming Lok Sabha polls. In the event of formation of an NDA government at...
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A prayer meet is being held at Delhi's Constitution club for the young woman, the world calls Nirbhaya. Her parents and her brothers are at the venue. This day, last year, she was gang-raped, brutalised and thrown out of a bus. She died of her injuries, 13 days later, on December 29.
16:58
A lexicon of the Indian media's triumphs and tribulations in 2013.See more
16:55
The Supreme Court today sought the CBI's response on the bail plea of suspended Gujarat cadre IPS officer Rajkumar Pandian, who is in judicial custody in connection with the alleged fake encounter killings of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kauserbi.We are inclined to consider your bail petition....
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Narendra Modi speaking about Lokayukta is like Asaram talking about virginity, Union Minister Jairam Ramesh said on Monday, hitting back at the BJP prime ministerial candidate. Read
16:44
The United Nations is announcing its biggest ever appeal, seeking $6.5bn (4bn; 4.7bn euros) for humanitarian aid to Syria.The UN estimates nearly three-quarters of Syria's 22.4 million population will need humanitarian aid in 2014.The appeal coincides with a new study by the International Rescue...
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Comparison of Lokpal and Lokayuktas Bill, 2011 with the Bill as passed in the Lok Sabha.The Lokpal and Lokayuktas Bill, 2011 was introduced in Lok Sabha on December 22, 2011. Some amendments were made to the Bill. The following table compares the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Bill, 2011, as introduced,...
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Despite being banned for life by the cricket Board, former IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi today defiantly filed his nomination for the December 19 Rajasthan Cricket Association elections, prompting a livid BCCI to threaten suspension of RCA for letting him back.Modi's nomination papers for the post...
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The young woman who was raped on December 16, 2012 gave us courage. To stand up. To protest the crimes that had been committed against us. To fight back, says A Woman in Today's India. Read
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How life has changed for Delhi rape victim's family. Read
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As Anna Hazare's fast entered the seventh day, the governmment today declared that the Lokpal Bill is its highest priority and it is even ready to extend the current session of Parliament, concluding on December 20, for passage of the anti-corruption measure.Citing Hazare's backing to the Bill,...
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All eyes will be on Samajwadi Party to fight communal forces during the Lok Sabha polls as Congress has failed to do so in the recent Assembly elections, UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said today. Only SP and UP can stop communal forces, he said. Along with the development, checking communal...
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Samajwadi Party and BSP have said they will skip the all-party meet called by Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari on Lokpal issue. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath says parties which attend the meeting have agreed to pass the Lokpal Bill in Rajya Sabha tomorrow. NDA leaders have said that...
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Accusing Congress of not being committed to passing Lokpal bill in winter session of Parliament, BJP today said UPA government had the responsibility to convince its ally Samajwadi Party about it. Samajwadi Party is an alliance party of the UPA.So it is upto the Congress-led UPA to convince them...
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Delhi's women investigators. Meet the women who take on the untamed Delhi. Read
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Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath said today that the session could be extended to ensure the bill is passed. Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, Hamid Ansari, has called an all-party meeting tomorrow to discuss the way ahead on the Lokpal Bill.The winter session of parliament session is set to...
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The Supreme Court today ordered the Jaipur Police to unite the daughter of a judge in the Rajasthan High Court with her boyfriend.Sidharth Mukherjee had alleged that though Supriya Rathore is in love with him, her father, a judge named RS Rathore, had imprisoned her at home because he...
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The Aam Admi Party has been setting conditions for the Congress and the BJP for government formation in Delhi. One of the conditions he has set forth is that there should be no VIP culture in Delhi. But this picture, tweeted by Sucheta Dalal, shows AAP followers possibly tying Arvind Kejriwal's...
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We are stuck. We are still struggling through the same problem. What is apparent is what we have lost and that we are still struggling to overcome it.Her voice resonates in my ears. Somewhere in my heart there is a hope that she will come back. I know this won't happen, but I don't feel...
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Priya was raped by her father and brother for nine years -- and her mother knew all along -- till she saw on television the protests against the 16 December gang rape. Read
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RIL's move to exit the non-vegetarian food business is in deference to the wishes of a large section of consumers, shareholders and investors who had requested Mukesh Ambani to get out of the meat segment as it hurt their religious sentiments. The non-vegetarian foods business, said to be...
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The former Bihar Chief Minister was released after he completed the bail formalities in a Special CBI court here as directed by the Supreme Court. Yadav came out of the main gate and paid obeisance to the tribal icon statue in jail premises.I will go around the country to strengthen the secular...
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Suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev heard voices in his head for years and a doctor feared he might be schizophrenic. The story of a family together, yet terrifyingly apart told so well in the Boston Globe. Have a look.
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An elegy to Nirbhaya... Read
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It takes a miracle to get me to smile for a photograph. Friends have had to crack jokes, cajole, and finally given up. Well, the miracle happened in Karachi. When I was in school in the '60s, everyone in Mumbai had a 'gaon', a 'native place' to which they went during the holidays. I would...
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Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje Scindia today met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on her first visit to Delhi after winning the state assembly polls earlier this month. The meeting was described as a courtesy call. This is her second stint as the Chief Minister of the desert state....
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Rubbishing as fabricated a report that it may relent, Samajwadi Party today said it will oppose the Lokpal Bill when it is taken up in Rajya Sabha tomorrow. Our party will continue to oppose the Lokpal Bill in Rajya Sabha and our stand on it has not changed, SP leader Ram Gopal Yadav said outside...
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Kiran Bedi's snide tweets continue: The broom also works unconditionally. Because it is for cleansing and performing not threatening!
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This is like a nasur (a weeping wound) which will never heal. Time hasn't changed anything. At work, at least my thoughts are not with my daughter.But she (pointing to his wife) spends all her time at home thinking about what happened to our daughter. We don't have the strength to go on...
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Money is yet to start flowing from the Rs 1,000-crore Nirbhaya Fund, one of the Centre's first initiatives for women's safety announced in the bus gang-rape victim's memory, a year after the incident. Officials of at least three ministries said they had sent comprehensive' proposals...
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Joyous day for Mrs Yadav in Ranchi. Husband Lalu Prasad Yadav has been released on bail from the Birsa Munda jail. The Supreme Court on Friday granted him bail in a fodder scam case in which he was sentenced to undergo imprisonment for five years by a trial court in Jharkhand. He was lodged in a...
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Policewoman Preeti Dhaka had been married nearly a month when she returned to a city pulsing with crowds of angry women last December protesting the brutal gang rape of a student on a bus.Dhaka's regular beat was to protect women from crimes, and her heart was with the demonstrators her bosses...
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With Additional Solicitor General Indira Jaising making excerpts from the law intern's affidavit public, former Supreme Court judge A K Ganguly, accused of sexually harassing the intern, today questioned how could a confidential statement be made public. That is supposed to be confidential as it...
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A 17-year-old high school student in the US has been suspended for a year for alleged sexual harassment after he hugged his teacher. Sam McNair, a student at Duluth High School in Georgia was suspended last week after he was found to have violated the school's rules on sexual harassment. A video...
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The Directors General of Military Operations of India and Pakistan will meet each other when they feel the need for it, Defence Minister AK Antony said in New Delhi today. The two DGMOs are talking and let them talk. Whenever they feel, they will meet. It is up to them, he told reporters on the...
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Nationalistic outrage aside, the arrest of an Indian diplomat in New York for giving false information to obtain a visa for her domestic worker, and paying her less than the local minimum wage, has shone well-deserved light on a troubling practice that many Indians unfortunately think is normal....
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Peter O'Toole, the willowy and mesmerizing actor who became an overnight sensation in the 1962 film epic Lawrence of Arabia,' died Saturday in a London hospital. He was 81. His death, which was confirmed by his agent, came after a prolonged, unspecified illness. See his life in pictures.
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The onion mania of the last month has by now settled into a fatalistic acceptance of onion prices at Rs 70 a kilo as one of those facts of life that must be endured because they cannot be cured. Meanwhile, dire predictions have been made of governments toppled by the Onion Revolution, packs of...
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The Delhi police have taken a raft of measures on womens safety since the fatal bus gang rape on December 16 last year, yet gender crime figures have skyrocketed this year. Read more
12:57
Five months after 23 children died from eating poison-laced school lunch, the tragedy has resulted in the construction of a new school, a creche, a health centre, roads and drainage system. The long forgotten village is finally being turned into a model village, but the grief of its loss is...
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The Prime Minister and Sonia Gandhi will attend a Congress Core Group meet ahead of the Parliament taking up Lokpal Bill tomorrow.
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Kiran Bedi, a staunch Anna Hazare takes a dig at AAP and Arvind Kejriwal: The broom is to sweep away the dirt and not the good! Broom if used for other purposes loses its utility!The broom or the jhadu is AAP's poll symbol. Anna is on fast at Ralegan Siddhi for the Janlokpal Bill. This is what he...
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The number of rape cases this year is highest in the last 13 years, but Delhi police has attributed it to greater awareness and registering of cases which otherwise would have gone unreported.According to Delhi police data, a total of 1,493 cases of rape were registered in the national...
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The AICC meeting in Delhi on January 17 has been called at a time when the Congress is facing an uphill task with the emergence of Narendra Modi and UPA appears to be shrinking. The AICC meeting was due since the last meeting was held in Jaipur in January this year along with the 'Chintan...
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Anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare's indefinite hunger strike to press for passage of the Jan Lokpal Bill in Parliament entered the seventh day today. Anna has lost 4.3 kg since the fast began, his aide Suresh Pathare said. Hazare has been on fast since December 10. While Hazare praised the amended...
12:16
The Additional Solicitor General shares what the law intern who has accused ex-SC judge A K Ganguly of sexual harassment told a court panel.Read Indira Jaising's column for the Indian Express.
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Siddharth Dube writes of his experience of being gay in India, of how the country is now more accommodative of differences in sexual orientation than it was three decades ago, and why the Supreme Court judgment on Section 377 came as a major disappointment. Read more
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Our sources in Delhi tell us that the All India Congress Committee will hold a two-day meeting from January 17 in Delhi. Party president Sonia Gandhi is likely to announce Rahul Gandhi as the prime ministerial candidate. On the day of huge four-state defeat, last Sunday, Sonia Gandhi had said,...
11:48
In upholding the constitutionality of Section 377 of the IPC the Supreme Court has made a judgment that is value-laden, based on a particular worldview that many disagree with. Read
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At 4:30 pm today, Nirbhaya's family will hold a memorial meet at the Constitution Club in Delhi. If you're in the city, try and be there and lend your support. Or light a candle for a woman who was instrumental in changing rape laws in India. Do it here.
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Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday rubbished the government's version of lokpal as weak and ineffective even as social activist Anna Hazare endorsed the revised anti-graft legislation placed before Rajya Sabha. Kejriwal said he was saddened by Hazare's support for...
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The draft Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill-2013, that provides for creation of a new state of Telangana, was finally tabled before the legislative Assembly today amid uproar by legislators favouring and opposing it. On the instructions of Speaker Nadendla Manohar, Legislature Secretary S Raja...
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This day, a year ago, a young woman was brutally gang-raped in a moving bus by six psychopaths. She died of her injuries 13 days later. Her family says they haven't found closure. They can't stop thinking about her and what happened to her and miss her at every moment. Read: 'How can we find...
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Ties between Anna Hazare and his former protege Arvind Kejriwal reached a new low on Sunday with Hazare associate Kiran Bedi accusing the Aam Aadmi Party chief of trying to keep the issue of the Lokpal alive for political gains even though most of their demands regarding the...
11:13
Waiting to see when and how the Supreme Court rises to the occasion to deal with Justice Ganguly, Law Minister Kapil Sibal tweets.
11:12
The details of allegedly transpired between the law intern and Justice AK Ganguly was released by Indira Jaising, the Additional Solicitor General of India.Jaising wrote an open letter to Justice AK Ganguly who is currently accused of sexually harassing an intern in December last year.The open...
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This is what the law intern said happened between her and Justice AK Ganguly. Spelling more trouble for the retired Supreme Court judge in the sexual harassment case, the victim has alleged that he asked her to share his room and said that he loved her. The law intern, who has made sexual...
10:03
Delhi witnessed the first fog of the winter season today which delayed the schedule of over 25 domestic and international flights at the IGI Airport in New Delhi.The flights were delayed as the runway visibility dropped to less than 50 metres, bringing landing and take-off to a halt for over an...
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In further embarrassment for Justice AK Ganguly in the sexual harassment case, the woman has alleged in her affidavit that the judge had asked her to stay in the same room as his and kissed her arm. She also alleged that he said that he loved her.
09:53
Accoprding to reports, Delhi Congress in-charge Shakeel Ahmed is likely to reply to AAP party chief Arvind Kejriwal today.Kejriwal had written to Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Bharatiya Janata Party president Rajnath Singh asking them for their take on the AAP's manifesto and the Jan Lokpal...
09:45
Utharadom Tirunal Marthanda Varma, head of Travancore Royal family, died here this morning following a cardiac arrest, a palace spokesperson said. Ninety-one-year-old Marthanda Varma was admitted in a private hospital here few days ago. He was successor of the last Maharaja of the princely state...
09:29
Former IPS officer Kiran Bedi, who had joined Anna Hazare's fast on Saturday in Ralegan Siddhi in Maharashtra, will end her fast today. She will also return to Delhi today.
09:23
Oscar-nominated actor Peter O'Toole died yesterday, his agent confirmed Sunday. He was 81.Often called the Hamlet of his generation, his death comes only about a year after retiring from a 54-year career in both stage and film highlighted by his turn as T.E. Lawrence in David Lean's...
08:27
Many Indian-Americans paid their respect to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on his 63rd death anniversary and braved freezing winds here to participate in the Run for Unity to mark the occasion.Comparing Sardar Patel with Abraham Lincoln, scientist Anju Preet from the event's organiser, Hum Vatan,...
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