Filmmaker Roopa Iyer talks about her new film.
Voters in Himachal Pradesh have traditionally brought the Congress and the BJP in power alternately.
Pramod Bhagat clinched two gold medals as India's Para badminton players returned home with a rich haul of 10 medals from the Brazil Para Badminton International Championships, in Sao Paulo, on Monday.
IN PIX: The big WINNERS in Himachal Pradesh
Fund crunch may come in the way of infrastructure development; women's safety another issue that will be in focus.
Asian Games gold medallist Sudha Singh failed to live up to the expectations as India settled for two silver and two bronze medals on a rather disappointing day on Day 3 of the 20th Asian Athletics Championships in Pune on Friday.
Battle lines have been drawn for Sunday's poll for the 68-member Himachal Pradesh assembly where political heavyweights Prem Kumar Dhumal and Virbhadra Singh are jostling for the attention of voters, for whom the issue of price rise and corruption seems to have surpassed the anti-incumbency factor.
The Bharatiya Janata Party has cleared the first list of 45 candidates for the Himachal Pradesh assembly elections. Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal, five of his ten ministers and 15 sitting Members of Legislative Assembly figure in the list cleared by the Central Election Committee, chaired by party president Nitin Gadkari and attended among others by patriarch Lal Krishna Advani.
Unprecedented chaos erupted inside the Bihar assembly on Tuesday when police was called inside to assist the marshals in evicting unruly opposition members who tried to physically prevent the Speaker from taking his Chair.
Even as the government moves heaven and earth to free the Indians trapped in Iraq and Libya, Father Alexis Prem Kumar, who was abducted in Afghanistan on June 2, appears to have been forgotten.
The intersection of economics and politics will be crucial to assembly poll verdict in Himachal Pradesh, wites Aditi Phadnis
Punjab overcame a spirited challenge from West Bengal to carve out a 4-3 win in Group D to progress to the semi-finals of the 67th Santosh Trophy football tournament, in Kollam on Monday.
As soon as the day breaks, the silence in this VVIP segment is broken by slogans for Bharatiya Janata Party's re-election to power and leading the campaign is its chief ministerial candidate Prem Kumar Dhumal who is meeting locals with a tiny "induction chulha" in his hands.
Anurag Thakur, son of Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal and president of the Bhartiya Yuva Janata Dal, is confident that the Bharatiya Janata Party will return to power in the state with more than two-thirds majority.
Among the major political parties, chief minister Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal-United is contesting in 35 of the 71 seats, followed by its ally Bharatiya Janata Party (29), while the opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal has fielded its candidates in 42 and its coalition partner Congress is in the fray in 20 assembly segments.
The BJP's quest for dominance over the states political scene, evident from a seat-sharing deal as part of which it clinched nearly as many constituencies as the Janata Dal-United its senior partner so far- resonated during the election campaign.
The film although funny in places, defies logic and is just average.
Unseeded players, Lathika Prem Kumar of Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan's Udayan Bhakar, caused the biggest upsets in the girls' under-12 and boys' under-16 singles respectively, in the semi-finals of the Cricket Club of India (CCI) 6th Ramesh Desai Memorial All India Ranking National Tennis Championship 2012, played , at the (CCI) courts, Mumbai on Friday.
BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur is the hot favourite to take over as the new BCCI chief
The Himachal Pradesh government on Tuesday said it has not received any information from the Centre regarding any 'clean chit' given to Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorji in connection with the recovery of foreign currency.
Smriti Irani, actor-turned politician of the 'saas-bahu' TV serial fame, was on Tuesday appointed as head of Bharatiya Janata Party's Women's Wing while Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal's son and Member of Parliament Anurag Thakur will head the Youth Wing of the main opposition.
Prem Kumar Ravi was preparing for CAT when a phone call from a freind in November 2008 changed the course of his life. The friend asked him to talk to Sumanth Iyengar who was also preparing for CAT, but suffered from cerebral palsy. The conversation spurred Prem to start Spurthi, an academy that trains students with disabilities and from economically weaker sections to crack CAT and secure admissions to the famed IIMs.
Guidelines have been issued by the Commission for safe conduct of the electoral exercise in the midst of the raging COVID-19 pandemic. These guidelines include lowering the maximum number of voters for a polling booth from 1,600 to 1,000, staggering the polling hours and extending postal ballot facility to those above 80.
Two cases were on Thursday filed in Bihar seeking sedition charges against AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi for his refusal to chant Bharat Mata Ki Jai.
The Himachal Pradesh government has no plans of banning expelled Bharatiya Janata Party leader Jaswant Singh's controversial book on Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal said. "Thousands of books hit the stands everyday. ... Why should the state government bother about those," he told reporters. Of the six BJP ruled states, including Himachal Pradesh, only Gujarat has banned the book so far.
The Jesuit priest thanked the government for its efforts to secure his release
The British era Gaiety theatre -- the only theatre in Victorian Gothic style in Asia -- was formally dedicated to the people by Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal after its renovation in Shimla today.
Prof U B Desai, Prof M K Surappa, Prof Sudhir Kumar Jain, Prof Prem Kumar Kalra, Prof Madhusudan Chakroborty and Prof Anil Bhowmick will head the IITs at Hyderabad, Ropar, Gandhinagar, Rajasthan, Bhubaneswar and Patna respectively. The search committee of ministry of HRD had earlier selected these academics to head the new IITs.
The Himachal Pradesh government has decided to honour World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) wrestler Daleep Singh Rana alias Khali. "The state will honour Khali, a native of Sirmaur district," Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal's office told PTI on Tuesday.
Prem Kumar enacts well in an emotional role in Gauththam, a remake of the Tamil film Aahaa. Fine performances by veteran artists and good music by Guru Kiran are the appealing points of the film. A good family entertainer despite a rather lengthy second half.
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal denied phone tapping charges levelled against him by Union Minister Virbhadra Singh and urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to order a probe into the allegation on Friday.
The Congress said on Sunday that the name of former cricketer Madan Lal is under consideration for the presitigious seat to take on Bharatiya Janata Party's Anurag Thakur, son of Himachal Pradesh chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal
As counting is underway in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh, we take a look at who's leading and who's trailing.
Alarmed by the Naina Devi temple tragedy, the Himachal Pradesh government on Monday constituted a three-member panel to formulate guidelines for regulation of pilgrim movement in the state's major shrines and said it will consider introducing the 'Vaishno Devi model' for the purpose.Mandi Divisional Commissioner Ashwani Kapoor has been asked to probe Sunday's stampede at Bilaspur district that claimed over 140 lives.
A week after the death of a medical student allegedly due to ragging, the Himachal Pradesh government says it is preparing to bring in a new ordinance to check the menace since the one issued in 1992 was neither revalidated nor replaced by a legislative enactment.
Kumar had made comments against the Prem Kumar Dhumal government in Himachal Pradesh before the election.
Reader Sairam R sent us a picture of Leander Paes from the USA.
Prem Kumar Dhumal, who led the Bharatiya Janata Party to a spectacular victory in the Himachal Pradesh Assembly polls, was sworn in as Chief Minister of the state for the second time on Sunday. Governor V S Kokje administered the oath of office and secrecy to the 63-year-old veteran BJP leader at a public ceremony at the historic Ridge Maidan in Shimla.BJP stalwart L K Advani, party vice-presidents Shanta Shanta and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi attended the function.
Neither Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi nor Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal will be present at the occasion. "We have received an encouraging response from all the states and over two lakh participants would be taking part in the rally. Besides L K Advani, BJP president Rajnath Singh would be present, along with other leaders. We are not sure who all are coming. We can let you know only by tomorrow," said the coordinator of the rally.
India U-16 football team mauled West Virginia Olympic Development Team 10-0 at Charleston in their training-cum-exposure tour of United States.
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