Admitting that the government was taken by surprise by Trinamool Congress’ opposition to Lokpal Bill in Rajya Sabha, Home Minister P Chidambaram today said one or two amendments could be accepted to rope in the ally’s support for passage of the legislation in Budget session. Chidambaram defended the deferment of Lokpal and Lokayukta Bill, 2011 [...]
Pop star Britney Spears is planning a traditional Southern-style wedding to fiance Jason Trawick. The 30-year-old ‘Criminal’ hitmaker, who announced her engagement to her former manager earlier this month, is said to be keen to shun a lavish Hollywood wedding and opt for a close, country gathering with her friends and family, reported In Touch [...]
BJP leader L K Advani today hit out at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the Lokpal fiasco in Rajya Sabha, alleging that he had chosen “conspiratorial silence and acquiescence” while the government ran away from a vote on the Bill. In a statement issued today, Advani said, “For the UPA government, 2011 was annus horribilis [...]
The bullion market ended the year on a promising note as both the precious metals, gold and silver, gained on brisk buying by stockists and jewellers, driven by firm global trend. While gold spurted Rs 230 to Rs 27,640 per 10 grams, silver advanced Rs 850 to Rs 51,150 per kg on increased offtake by [...]
Sanjha Morcha list of Candidates for Punjab assembly elections 2012. Lambi Gurdas Singh Badal Giderbaha Manpreet Singh Badal Khanna Gurpreet Singh Bhatti Nawanshehar Abhay Singh Sandhu Dharamkot Kuldip Singh Dhose Roopnagar Amardeep Singh Brar Kharar Harnek Singh Gharun Bathinda Urban Sukhdeep Singh Bhinder Budhlada (Reserve) Bibi Ranjit Kaur Batala Yadwinder Singh Bhuttar Dasuya Advocate [...]
At Quetta in Pakistan, meanwhile, 13 people, including women and children, were killed and 36 injured when a powerful car bomb went off outside the home of the son of a prominent politician. The Baluch Liberation Army claimed responsibility for the attack…. the first by the organisation. The blast ripped through the residence of Shafeeq [...]
E. Sreedharan retires today as the DMRC chief tomorrow and will hand over reins to colleague Mangu Singh after a highly successful 16-year tenure. It’s a period during which he transformed the capital’s transport sector through Metro. 79-year-old Sreedharan, who joined the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation in 1995, changed the way Delhi travels by constructing [...]
Bollywood’s evergreen hero Dev Anand, who died here earlier this month, has been conferred with an unprecedented honour by the British Actors Union, Equity. In a gesture of sympathy and international solidarity, Equity, the British trade union for actors and entertainers, has issued a press statement expressing the union’s sadness at the passing away of [...]
Election Boycott. That’s the weapon people fed up with the politicians’ false promises are arming themselves with to teach the candidates a lesson. In Amritsar, residents of Rambani Chowk that falls in the holy city’s north constituency have declared that they would boycott the polls for there has been no trace of development in their [...]
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