'Tamasha' Review: Tale Of Tales
There’s something about the way Deepika Padukone smiles through her tears that hits one right in the gut. Director Imtiaz Ali, working with the actress for the second time, seems to know this all too...
View ArticleHaryana Minister Anil Vij Gets Into An Ugly Confrontation With Woman Police...
Haryana's health minister Anil Vij was on Friday involved in an ugly confrontation with a woman district police chief after she refused to obey the minister's order reportedly asking her to "get out"...
View ArticleRampur Resident Arrested For Conspiring His Own Kidnapping To Attain Sympathy...
A man has been arrested for allegedly conspiring his own kidnapping and blaming it on the rivals of his daughter-in-law, who is a candidate in the panchayat elections, so that she could garner...
View ArticleDelhi Government Approves Salary Hike Of MLAs
NEW DELHI -- The AAP government on Friday approved a hike in salary and allowances of Delhi MLAs. The decision was taken at a Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at his residence....
View ArticleSuicide Bomber Hits Shi'ite Procession In Nigeria, 21 Killed
A male suicide bomber hit a procession of Shi'ite Muslims in Nigeria's Kano state as they walked to the city of Zaria to pay homage to their founder in the country, security sources and a Shi'ite...
View ArticleIndian-American Offloaded From Qatar Airways At Islamabad Airport Over 'Bomb...
ISLAMABAD -- An Indian-American man on board the Qatar Airways flight to Washington via Doha was offloaded at the Benazir International Airport in Islamabad around 3 a.m. on Friday after he claimed...
View ArticlePM Modi Meets Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh To Break Deadlock Over GST Bill
New Delhi -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted opposition Congress party leader Sonia Gandhi for talks on Friday to try and break a deadlock over launching a new indirect tax, in a bid to put his...
View ArticleInfiltration Attempts From Pakistan Have Increased, Says BSF
NEW DELHI -- The Border Security Force (BSF) on Friday said the attempts to infiltrate from Pakistan side have seen a considerable jump this year. Talking to reporters in New Delhi ahead of BSF's...
View ArticleNestle India Slams Charges, Says Maggi 'Pazzta' 100% Safe
NEW DELHI -- Nestle India has slammed charges regarding the lead content in its Maggi 'Pazzta' products and said that the pasta was 100% secure and safe to consume. "MAGGI Pazzta is 100% safe. The...
View ArticleNew Delhi Under Threat Of Aerial Strikes From ISIS, Says Home Ministry
NEW DELHI -- New Delhi is under a serious threat of aerial strikes from different terror outfits including the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ( ISIS), the Ministry of Home Affairs said. The report...
View ArticleFormer Students Of Jamia Millia Islamia Want PM Modi's Invitation To...
Former students of Jamia Millia Islamia have written to the vice-chancellor of the university requesting him to withdraw the invitation extended to PM Narendra Modi to attend the institute's...
View ArticleRBI Governor Raghuram Rajan Meets FM Arun Jailtley Ahead Of Monetary Policy...
NEW DELHI -- Ahead of the monetary policy review next week, RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan met Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to discuss issues related to the monetary policy. The RBI, which is set to...
View ArticleWatch Arun Jaitley Make Mincemeat Of The Congress Over The Emergency
Finance minister Arun Jaitley is among the best orators in Parliament. On Friday, as the Rajya Sabha discussed the constitution and intolerance, Jaitley delivered a fine performance during which he...
View ArticlePM Modi Speaks On Non-Discrimination And Equality
NEW DELHI -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi today spoke of the message of non-discrimination and equality as he reached out to journalists at a 'diwali milan' at the BJP headquarters. Hailing Indian...
View ArticleVaranasi Village Councils Blame Coca Cola Bottling Plant For Water Scarcity
NEW DELHI -- Eighteen village councils in Uttar Pradesh are demanding a local Coca-Cola bottling plant be prohibited from extracting water from the ground, claiming its over usage has led to water...
View ArticlePrashant Bhushan Rips Apart AAP Govt's Jan Lokpal Draft Bill, Accuses...
New Delhi -- Activist-lawyer Prashant Bhushan today accused Arvind Kejriwal of pulling off the "biggest fraud" in India by diluting the Jan Lokpal Bill, whose primary provisions were drafted during the...
View ArticleJan Lokpal Row: The Bhushans Should Join The BJP, Retorts AAP
New Delhi -- Hitting back at Shanti and Prashant Bhushan, AAP today claimed that they were opposing the Jan Lokpal Bill at the behest of BJP and asserted that the proposed legislation was similar to...
View Article'Intolerance' Row: 3 Kannada Writers Withdraw From Bengaluru Literature Festival
Joining the protest against the alleged spike in intolerance in the country, three prominent Kannada writers have withdrawn from Bangalore Literature Festival (BLF) 2015 scheduled to be held on 5 and 6...
View ArticleRSS India's Number One Terrorist Organisation, Says Former Mumbai Police...
S M Mushrif, former Maharashtra inspector general of police, on Thursday described the BJP's ideological mentor, RSS as India's 'number one terrorist organisation'. According to a report in The Times...
View ArticleRajiv Gandhi Government's Decision To Ban Salman Rushdie's 'Satanic Verses'...
NEW DELHI -- Hours after former Finance Minister P Chidambaram termed the ban on Salman Rushdie's book Satanic Verses as wrong, the author yesterday asked how many more years it would take to correct...
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