London, Nov 30 – Singer Rihanna who cut ties with her father Ronald Fenty when he showed up drunk at one of her concerts last year has said she doesn’t want to reconcile with him, as he is as stubborn as a teenager. ‘He has too much pride (to get in contact). It’s almost like [...]
New York, Nov 30 – French fashion designer Pierre Cardin has been released from hospital after he was admitted for emergency medical treatment. The veteran style icon fell ill at a Paris airport shortly before he was due to board a flight to Greece, and was taken by ambulance to the city’s American Hospital, reports [...]
Kolkata, Nov 30 – Asserting that no state was free of clashes, the West Bengal government Monday said that it always took prompt action to defuse political violence, even as a central team arrived on a fact-finding mission regarding the recurrent political clashes in the state. On a day a union home ministry team reached [...]
Dubai, Nov 30 – The Dubai government will not back the debt of Dubai World holding group, a senior official confirmed Monday. Though the government is owner, ‘the company has multiple activities and (is) prone to risks. So from the day one it was indicated that the government is not a guarantor,’ said Abdul Rahman [...]
London, Nov 30 – Colombian pop star Shakira has revealed her boyfriend has urged her to tone down her raunchy image. The singer admits her beau Antonio de la Rua – the son of former Argentinian president Fernando de la Rua – was shocked the first time he saw her revealing outfit for the video [...]
Jalandhar, Nov 30 – Former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh Monday said that the Congress, when it comes back to power, will take ‘strict action’ against the police officers found guilty of atrocities against the public, including Congress party workers, at the behest of the Akali Dal government. ‘We will constitute a high-power committee to [...]
New Delhi, Nov 30 – An army court of enquiry has indicted a serving Lieutenant General in a land scam in Darjeeling in West Bengal, an official said Monday. The court of enquiry, which concluded Saturday, was constituted to look into allegations of subverting rules to give a no-objection certificate to an educational institution to [...]
Beirut, Nov 30 – Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said Monday that the role of the US in the region is diminishing and thus weakening the Jewish state. ‘We are amid historical transformations that signal the retreat of the US role and the demise of the Hebrew State,’ opposition leader Nasrallah told journalists via a [...]
Geneva, Nov 30 – The United Nations said Monday it aimed to study the legality of the ban on the building of new minarets in Switzerland as a result of the country’s referendum on Sunday. A spokesman for the UN High Commission on Human Rights said in Geneva that experts would study whether the ban [...]
Kolkata, Nov 30 – Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Monday said the central government’s decision to send an expert team to West Bengal to asses the law and order situation was tantamount to warning the state government under Article 355. ‘The decision to send a central team to assess the situation in West Bengal is [...]
Lucknow, Nov 30 – Mystery continues to surround the suicide by Uttar Pradesh IAS officer Harminder Raj Singh two days after he allegedly shot himself dead with his licensed revolver. He was on anti-depressants for the past six months, sources close to the family said. Some of Singh’s friends in the bureaucracy are still shocked [...]
Chandigarh, Nov 30 – Punjab will make recruitments to fill nearly 2,500 vacant posts in various government departments in the coming months, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal said here Monday. ‘We will recruit around 2,500 people in the departments of food and supplies, local government and in the mandi board. It will ensure efficient and [...]
Panaji, Nov 30 – Don’t believe in rumours – it is wisely said. Hours before Sir Ben Kingsley was to arrive in Panaji for the 40th edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), the venue was abuzz with rumours of Shah Rukh Khan dropping by at the IFFI venue at the same time. [...]
Bangalore, Nov 30 – Upinder Singh, 50, history professor at Delhi University who is also the second daughter of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, is the joint winner of the inaugural Infosys Prize for social sciences. ‘Yes! Upinder Singh is the prime minister’s daughter. But we have not highlighted her parentage while announcing the prizes, as [...]
New Delhi, Nov 23 – As many as 48 candidates with a criminal record are contesting in the second phase of Jharkhand assembly elections scheduled Dec 2, an analysis by a voluntary organisation said. The study was conducted by National Election Watch (NEW). Of the 259 candidates contesting for 14 seats in the second phase [...]
Kolkata, Nov 30 – Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) general secretary Prakash Karat Monday said there was no need to send the central home ministry team to West Bengal to review the law and order situation there. ‘As far as we’re concerned, we think such a visit was not required. There was no need to [...]
Raipur, Nov 30 – Maoist militants killed two of their cadre Monday in Chhattisgarh, accusing them of spying for police. The incident took place in Gangloor area in Bijapur district of the restive Bastar region, some 450 km south of capital Raipur. The youths – Ramu and Ramesh – whom police had arrested last week [...]
New Delhi, Nov 30 – Less than five months into the job, US Ambassador Timothy J. Roemer has learnt one of the basic tenets of Indian culture – respect for the mother-in-law. Speaking to reporters, Roemer recalled that he shared President Barack Obama’s table with his mother-in-law Mary Jonston at the state banquet in honour [...]
Shimla, Nov 30 – The investigations in the alleged theft of the George Cross medal from a Himachal Pradesh village took a twist Monday with police saying that the witnesses have admitted that the thumb impression on an affidavit was that of the soldier’s widow. Brahmi Devi, the widow of Naik Kirpa Ram of the [...]
New Delhi, Nov 30 – The discussion in parliament on the Liberhan Commission report, slated for Tuesday, has been postponed. Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Basudeb Acharya told IANS that the discussion on the Liberhan panel report was postponed because the Hindi translation was ‘not made available’. ‘It is an utter failure on the [...]
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