Will support whoever Sonia chooses as prez: Karuna

As the moves to select the next incumbent of Rashtrapati Bhavan gain momentum, Dravida Munettra Kazhagam chief M Karunanidhi is believed to have conveyed to Defence Minister A K Antony that he......

Railway minister predicts possibility of early polls

Union Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi has said that there could be an early election in view of the mandate that Samjwadi Party got in Uttar Pradesh. Cabinet minister Trivedi is a senior leader of......

High time Cong understands Mamata is new Left in UPA

The hope for a better image for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh-led government has diminished drastically with realism setting in that 19 members of its principal ally Trinamool Congress will stall......

Trinamool, oppn for rollback of FDI in retail

The Trinamool Congress is not happy with the government's move to put on hold its decision to allow Foreign Direct Investment in retail and insisted that FDI should be rolled back.Railway Minister......

$1 bn aid for education project

Three multilateral agencies -- the World Bank, UK's Department for International Development and the European Commission -- will provide $1 billion for the government's education project 'Sarva......

Big B, Madhuri, Vidya, Salman: Bollywood's BUSY weekend

Here's what your favourite Bollywood stars were up to over the weekend.Amitabh Bachchan, who attended the opening ceremony of the 19th Kolkata Film Festival with actress and MP wife Jaya Bachchan,......

Three Indian archers make it to Athens Olympics

Tarundeep Rai, Satyadev Prasad and Dola Bannerjeehave qualified for the Archery competition in the 2004 Athens Olympics. In the process, Bannerjee became the first Indian woman archer to qualify......