New Delhi, Oct 22 – Indian readers of contemporary English fiction are reaping a rich harvest as top British and American authors head to India to promote their books. Best-selling names Ken Follet, Peter James and Wilbur Smith are the latest to chart out trips to the country. India has one of the biggest English [...]
Patna, Oct 22 – Three mobile phones were recovered early Friday from the Siwan jail ward housing former Bihar MP Shahabuddin, who has been convicted in seven criminal cases, police said. Three SIM cards and two chargers were also seized, a police official said. A team of district officials carried out the raid in jail [...]
Patna, Oct 22 – Against only 36 multi-millionaires in the last assembly elections, there are over 100 multi-millionaires in the second and third phases of the ongoing Bihar polls, a report by two NGOs has said. It adds that 219 candidates have criminal records. The Association of Democratic Reforms and the National Election Watch said [...]
Mumbai, Oct 22 – She has stopped her riyaz and spends time catching up on her favourite TV programmes, including Amitabh Bachchan’s ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’ and popular crime series ‘CID’. Melody queen Lata Mangeshkar, 81, is enjoying her well-deserved leisure time after more than 60 years of singing. The Nightingale also prefers to be extremely [...]
Agra, Oct 22 – Three people have been arrested here with nine sacks of coins that were to be melted illegally in Delhi, police said Friday. The coins were in the denominations of rupees one, two and five. The melted coins would have been mixed with silver for making statues and other items, officials said. [...]
New Delhi, Oct 22 – Larger than life characters on Indian TV soaps have always cast a spell on women. But with star-studded reality shows now clashing at prime time they are finding themselves sidelined as viewers. To the dismay of most single TV households, there’s not much that television channels are willing to do [...]
Kolkata, Oct 22 – A Maoist leader wanted in nine murder cases has been arrested in West Bengal’s Bankura district, police said Friday. ‘Acting on a tip-off, security personnel late Thursday raided Paradihi forest in Bankura district and arrested Haren Singh Sardar,’ a police official said. ‘Haren was wanted in at least 21 cases, including [...]
New Delhi, Oct 22 – It would be a warm day again in Delhi, the weather office said Friday but also held out the possibility of rains. ‘Skies will be partly cloudy with possibility of light rainfall or thundershower in the afternoon or evening (Friday). The humidity may rise again if it rains,’ said an [...]
Bangalore, Oct 22 – Wipro Ltd Friday projected $1.33 billion from its global IT services business in the third quarter (October-December) of fiscal 2010-11. In a regulatory filing, the IT bellwether said Q3 guidance would be in the range of $1.32-1.34 billion, which is $65 million higher than its projection of $1.25-1.28 billion for the [...]
New Delhi, Oct 22 – Desperate to erase the shame of having won only nine seats in 2005, the Congress hopes its fortunes in Bihar will improve this time because it has fielded more Muslim candidates and also tried to expand the party’s social base. Congress leaders said Muslim candidates were contesting in about 50 [...]
Bangalore, Oct 22 – Wipro Ltd Friday posted a net profit of Rs.1,285 crore (Rs.12.85 billion) for second quarter (July-Sep) of this fiscal 2010-11, registering an increase of 10 percent year-on-year (YoY). In a regulatory filing, the IT bellwether said its total revenue for the quarter under review was Rs.7,731 crore (Rs.77.31 billion), an increase [...]
Mumbai, Oct 22 – It pays to be the director’s wife, specially if you happen to be as spirited as Pakhi who makes her debut as a leading lady in Abbas Tyrewala’s ‘Jhootha Hi Sahi’. Pakhi’s character was to enter the narrative after more than 30 minutes. The debutante actress felt that was way too [...]
New Delhi, Oct 22 – Indian fashion designer Ritu Beri, who heads a French fashion brand, has been honoured with the Chevalier Des Arts et Des Lettres award, one of the highest civilian awards by the French government, for her contribution to the enrichment of Indo-French cultural relations. The designer was confered with a medal [...]
New Delhi, Oct 21 – India Thursday sought an ‘open, balanced and inclusive’ global security architecture to fight modern threats like hi-tech terrorism and cyber warfare in the wake of a possible limited war in a nuclear world. ‘What India seeks is a new security architecture… an open, balanced and inclusive architecture to correspond to [...]
New Delhi, Oct 21 – The environment ministry Thursday decided to stall the six-fold expansion of London-based Vedanta’s aluminium refinery and captive power plant in Orissa citing violation of environment laws and asked the state government to take legal action against the company. The ministry had issued show cause notice to the company under the [...]
New Delhi, Oct 21 – Hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani, at a seminar repeatedly disrupted by Kashmiri Pandits, said Thursday the sale of liquor would be allowed in an ‘independent’ Jammu and Kashmir where Islamist militants have banned alcohol since 1989. Speaking at a seminar ‘Azadi – The Only Way’, Geelani, who flew in [...]
Kolkata, Oct 21 – The National Commodity and Derivative Exchange (NCDEX) has seen a jump in Average Daily Trading Volume (ADTV) of non-agricultural commodities over the past two months following rise in steel and crude oil contracts, its chief said Thursday. NCDEX managing director and chief executive officer R. Ramaseshan told media persons here that [...]
Chandigarh, Oct 21 – Shiromani Akali Dal legislator Manjinder Singh Kang Thursday accused his party of harassing him and pressuring him to stop supporting former finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal and also alleged the Punjab government had withdrawn the extra security provided to him as mandated by court. However, the state government late in the [...]
New Delhi, Oct 21 – The India-US relationship is moving beyond the subcontinent as the two are looking for cooperation in the Asian context, a former US state department official said here Thursday. ‘The relationship is now Asian and less South Asian,’ said Evan Feigenbaum, who left the US state department in 2009 as deputy [...]
New Delhi, Oct 21 – A group of Kashmiri Hindu activists Thursday heckled and tried to prevent hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani and author-activist Arundhati Roy from speaking at a seminar in the capital, prompting police to arrest a dozen of the slogan-shouting protesters. The activists, mainly from a Hindu group that is demanding [...]
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