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Pune civic polls: Kalmadi calling the shots from Tihar?

Behind bars for the Commonwealth Games mess, Congress MP Suresh Kalmadi may be down but does not seem to be out of Pune civic politics, allegedly calling shots from his cell in Tihar jail. A fresh......

Art of Living faces land-grabbing charge

A month after the alleged shooting at its Bengaluru ashram, the Art of Living Foundation now confronts charges of land grabbing. The allegation comes a day after AoL stated it had received......

Non-proliferation lobby critical of 'gag order'

The non-proliferation lobby in the US, which is strongly opposed to the US-India civilian nuclear agreement, is hopping mad over the State Department's obtaining a pledge from the Congressional......

PDP to continue alliance with Congress in J&K

Muzaffar Baig, deputy chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, said on Tuesday that his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, will join hands with the Congress to contest assembly elections to be held......

Lone Kanishka bombing convict may remain in jail

Inderjit Singh Reyat, the only man convicted of being involved in the 1985 Air-India bombing that killed 329 people, may remain in jail even after his current manslaughter sentence expires this......

Sensex tanks 280 points ahead of UP election results

The markets slumped nearly a per cent in trades on Monday, over political uncertainty ahead of Uttar Pradesh Assembly election results, scheduled to be announced tomorrow. The BSE Sensex slipped......

RBI may go for moderate rate hike

The Reserve Bank of India is likely to squeeze money supply and make borrowings costlier further in its monetary policy on Tuesday to tame inflation which has come close to ten per cent, say......

Greater Noida sees a major price spiral

Over the last 12 months, residential plot development in Greater Noida have appreciated by 80-120 per cent and the price hike in group housing projects over the last eight months is approximately......

Industrial growth dips to 4.9% in Feb

Negative growth in mining and electricity pulled down the industrial growth to 4.9 per cent in February this year, nearly half of 8.3 per cent growth recorded in the same month previous year.The......

EPF board may seek govt help

Faced with an additional burden of an estimated Rs 927 crore (Rs 9.27 billion) due to hiked interest rates, the Employees Provident Fund board will meet on March 20 to decide on whether it should......

Shekhar Kapur's Paani to finally take off

Shekhar Kapur is all set to revive his ambitious project Paani in March. The film will highlight the world's fast changing climate, and its adverse effects.Kapur, who was in New Delhi recently to......

'Emperor Akbar was Jodha's father-in-law'

A former minister in the Chandrashekhar government in the early 1990s, Lokendra Singh Kalvi, 54,has a new agenda. He has now taken up the issue of the distortion of history in Ashutosh Gowarikar's......

Did Jodhabai really exist?

Even as director Ashutosh Gowarikar is all set to release his film, Jodhaa Akbar, controversies dog the leading character.It is claimed by some historians that Jodha was not Akbar's wife, as is......

Protests against Jodhaa Akbar in Rajasthan

Activists belonging to an outfit calling itself the Sri Rajput Karni Sena haveprotested against the screening of Jodhaa Akbar in Rajasthan. "We shall not allow the filmmaker to distort history,"......

Gautam Ghosh-Scapgnini tie-up

Bengali director Gautam Ghosh will soon direct the first Indo-Italian co-production based on the first novel of a well-known Italian producer Sergio Scapagnini. The film Story Of Lala will go on......

Tsunami benefit tie postponed to April

The second tsunami relief match between a Rest of World and Asian eleven, scheduled to be held in Kolkata on Feburary 13, has been postponed to the second half of April due to non-availablity of......

FIDE deprives Anand of top ranking

The "double standard" adopted by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) became evidenton Sundayafter Indian Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand was deprived of the top ranking in its latest chart.The......

Kolkata tsunami match scrapped

The high-profile charity cricket match between Rest of the World and an Asian XI, scheduled to be heldin Kolkatain April to raise funds for tsunami victims, has been called off.Disclosing thisin......

East Bengal to play in England

Kolkata football giants East Bengal will leave for England on July 28 to take part in a four-team invitation tournament organised by Leicester City as part of the club's 120th anniversary......

East Bengal leave for Singapore tomorrow

National Football League champions East Bengal leave for Singapore late Saturday sans two of their star players to play Geylang United Football Club in the first round of the AFC Cup on February......

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Q. why only 28 days in feburary ?
Good Boy: A. more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/why-only-28-days-in-feburary-/24948060/answers/

Q. kya uchit hoga delhi is mousam main aana?
Anushka Desai: A. yes why.........:-( more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/kya-uchit-hoga-delhi-is-mousam-main-aana/22598714/answers/24948066

Q. mughal garden kab say aam janta kay liye khul raha hai?
Priya Sharma: A. garmi start ho chukee hain...waise agar aapko aana hai toh October aur Feburary may aaao toh mausam accha hota hai more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/mughal-garden-kab-say-aam-janta-kay-liye-khul-raha-hai/21899395/answers/22598757

Q. y feburary has only 28 days>?
Priya Sharma: A. nope. it has 29 days too... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/y-feburary-has-only-28-days/21899395/answers/20384892

Web results for Feburary

Damodaran, Bhave absent

Mumbai, May 24 (PTI) The glittering silver jubilee celebrations of Sebi, which had the PM, FM and a host of Union ministers in attendance, today... ...

http://news.in.msn.com/business/article.aspx?cp-documentid=253072922

There's a Jane Austen Club in Mumbai

umbai-based book club organises meetups to celebrate Jane Austen. Their next meet is going to be held in the city tomorrow The work of Jane Austen... ...

http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/1832091/report-there-s-a-jane-austen-club-in-mumbai

Smart investment pays off for Dortmund

Another week of football and another week of German dominance. Another week of football and another week of German dominance. We thought we were... ...

http://www.dnaindia.com/sport/1827518/column-smart-investment-pays-off-for-dortmund

Seva Cafe serves generosity on a platter

The milieu at Shantivan, a garden in Mumbai's tony Malabar Hill area, on February 17 was like a hangover from Valentine's Day. Placards displaying... ...

http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/features/seva-cafe-serves-generosity-onplatter_853362.html

India's industrial output declines to 0.6% in Feburary

Summary: NEW DELHI: Indias factory output grew only 0.6% in February, which was a considerable dip from the 2.4% growth seen in January. NEW DELHI:... ...

http://news.indiamart.com/story/poor-industrial-output-feb-signals-retarded-recovery-177611.html