'Modi's speech was like one of our sour food preparations; Rahul's was sweet.'
The ban on television channels is limited to Ahmedabad district while no other collector has taken such step, the sources informed.
Kher wished that the community would take the challenge of preserving their identity by focusing on Kashmiri language.
The film will be directed by Manish Jain, and will star Bhojpuri heavyweights.
Self-styled chief of Hindu Rashtra Sena Dhananjay Desai was on Tuesday arrested for his alleged involvement in the June 2 murder of an IT professional at Hadapsar in Pune.
The most experienced administrator in the country seems to have sat back and allowed bureaucrats and policemen to manage the lockdown, observes Jyoti Punwani.
Amitabh Bachchan-starrer Hindi feature film Eklavya, India's official entry for the Oscar award, on Friday got into a legal tangle with the Bombay High Court observing that prima facie the selection of the movie appeared biased.
he one-and-a-half-month-long Kumbh Mela ended on Monday with devotees from different walks of life and parts of the country taking a holy dip on Mahashivratri.
The Institute of Cost and Work Accounts of India is working on updating its syllabus to suit the modern day requirements of the profession.
There are eight fan clubs devoted to underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and one each dedicated to Chhota Rajan, Chhota Shakeel and Abu Salem on Orkut.com alone.
Kamlakar said Qayyum is also wanted for the 1993 bomb blasts in Mumbai that killed 257 people and it is up to the CBI, the agency investing the case, to get his custody and interrogate him.
Three persons -- Vishal Verma, Rajesh Chouhan and Govind Verma -- engaged in collecting fossils as a hobby found the eggs.
In a major setback to the Mumbai police, a court here today dropped the charges under stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act against the 23 persons arrested for having links with terrorist group Indian Mujahideen.
The group had damaged the Star News office after the channel aired a report about a minor girl from Surat allegedly eloping with a boy from a different community.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Wednesday
A new complaint was on Wednesday filed at the suburban Borivali police station in Mumbai against 'godwoman' Radhe Maa alleging her involvement in promoting superstition.
The seventh anniversary of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, which had claimed lives of 166 people and left hundreds injured, would be observed on Thursday.
The 26/11 handler has demanded to be shifted from 'anda' cell to a normal prison.
Yakub Memon, who was convicted for helping finance the serial blasts in Mumbai in 1993 in which 257 people were killed, was hanged at the Nagpur Central Jail on Thursday morning shortly before 7am.
Braving freezing cold, the protesters also brought along sandals to give them to the Pakistani embassy officials.
This analysis is based on the quarterly earnings for 724 companies.
Mumbai Police spokesperson Deputy Commissioner of Police Dhananjay Kulkarni said the decision has been taken to maintain law and order during the festival season.
India set to become hub for clinical trials
'The people who were assigned the role to look after the affairs of the Congress in Maharashtra have failed.'
'People should see it as a victory for India.'
Hazare began his fast on January 30 at his native Ralegan Siddhi village in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra, demanding appointment of anti-corruption watchdogs at the Centre and in Maharashtra and resolution of farmers' issues.
The toppers among other categories were: Backward: Umesh Prakash Swami 94.66 percent; Disabled: Karishma Mahendra Sharma 88.26 percent and Night School: Yedba Saibu Thorat 62.40 per cent.\n
The Hinduja Group, Mukesh Ambani, Murugappa, and the Adani groups were the other gainers in the Modi regime, while Naveen Jindal and Sun Pharma groups saw the most erosion in their m-cap in the last five years, reports Krishna Kant.
The Bharatiya Janata Party-Shiv Sena alliance looked set to return to power in Maharashtra while Haryana could be a cliffhanger with no clear majority for the BJP or the Congress, Election Commission trends indicated.
BJP made inroads into the Congress and NCP strongholds, winning 851 seats. Shiv Sena won 514, NCP 638, Congress 643, MNS 16, BSP 9, unrecognised parties 119, local coalitions 384, CPM 12 and Independents 324 seats.
In a gruesome double murder, artist Hema Upadhyay and her lawyer Harish Bhambani were found dead in Kandivali on Sunday.
In January 1994, the Calcutta high court had sentenced him to be hanged until death for raping and then murdering teenager Hetal Parekh on March 5, 1990 in Kolkata's Bhawanipur area.
Friends, relatives and some jail inmates have pleaded that Chatterjee's death sentence be changed to life imprisonment.
Counting of votes is underway in assembly byelection to 58 seats in 11 states including Madhya Pradesh where the results will decide the fate of the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government.
India held off a later rally by the Dutch to win their opening match in the four-nation junior hockey tournament in Spain.
The public broadcaster was ordered to telecast 'Father, Son and Holy War', a National Award winning documentary, within 12 weeks.
It has restrained private engineering and medical colleges in Maharashtra from going ahead with the admission process and stopped them from collecting money from students.
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