Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram says, no decision has been taken yet on Prime Minister’s visit to Colombo to participate CHOGM this month. He termed as incorrect media reports that the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh is likely to attend the meeting. He was talking to news persons after a meeting with DMK chief M […]
Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor said the political-drama series ’24′ was a risky project for Indian television as the audience is hooked to soap operas. “It was very risky to bring ’24′ to India as generally people watch soap operas on TV. But I knew that the script is good and so was confident that people […]
Syria’s entire declared stock of chemical weapons has been placed under seal. UN inspectors disclosed this at the Hague as international envoy Lakhdar Brahimi wrapped up a visit to muster support for peace talks. Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons spokesman ChristianChartier said all stocks of chemical weapons and agents have been placed under […]
The UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon has expressed concern about the latest wave of violence ahead of elections in Bagladesh and called on both the ruling and opposition parties to exercise restraint and express their views peacefully. A spokesman of the UN has said he is hopeful that the recent steps to initiate dialogue will […]
India’s women’s doubles pair of Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa crashed out of the Bitburger Badmintion Open Grand Prix Gold in Saarbrucken, Germany. Fourth-seeded Malaysian pair of Hui Ern Ng and Hui Lin Ng defeated the Indian pair 21-15, 21-16 in the second round last evening. In men’s singles competition, Anand Pawar lost to Ireland’s […]
Yuki Bhambri has reached the singles semifinals of the Traralgon tennis event in Australia.Eighth seed Yuki pipped fourth seed Japanese Tatsuma Ito 6-4 ,1-6,7-5 in the quarterfinal . Ito is 105 places above the Indian in the rankings chart. Meanwhile,Somdev Devvarman and Saketh Myneni reached the quarter-finals of the Charlottesville ATP Challenger event in the […]
The Sensex at the Bombay Stock Exchange gained 32 points, or 0.2 percent, to a new all-time closing high of 21,197, today, amid renewed optimism on the economic front. Earlier during the day, the Sensex had hit a record intra-day high of 21,294. The Nifty at the National Stock Exchange rose 8 points, or 0.1 […]
In Madhya Pradesh, the process of filing of nominations for the assembly elections began today with the issuance of notification. Our Bhopal correspondent reports that the nomination papers will be filed till 8th of this month. The scrutiny of nomination papers will take place on 9th November while last day of withdrawal is 11th November. […]
CBI has registered an FIR against Janata Dal (United) MP Anil Kumar Sahani for allegedly filing fraudulent Leave Travel Concession claims using forged air tickets and boarding passes. Official sources told AIR that the agency also carried searches at several places in Delhi and Muzaffarpur in Bihar. Searches were also carried out at Rajya Sabha […]
Finance P.Chidambaram says, there will be a bumber harvest this year and the economy is doing well. Addressing a press conference in New Delhi today he said current account deficit is well under control and it is likely to be 60 billion dollars against 88 billion last year. Fiscal deficit target will be met. He […]