Even as politics engaged him more, he never hid his way of life. On one occasion, Morarji Desai pleaded with him to stop drinking publicly. "You stick to your pissky and I'll stick to my whisky'' he is supposed to have told him.
Seeking to allay any security related apprehensions of non resident Indians, Home Minister Shivraj Patil on Monday assured them that India was as safe as any other part of the world.
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An image of a child who is an opening act during Congress rallies.
'This novel format of diplomacy -- the informal summit -- will not only facilitate bilateral communication and reduce miscalculations at the very top level of the two governments, but possibly open the space for China and India to speak in one voice on various issues of mutual concern,' note Feng Renjie and Ding Kun Lei
Visva-Bharati Santiniketan invites applications for its two-year, full-time, residential MBA programme in Kolkata.
All India Radio and Doordarshan employees, affiliated to National Federation of Akashvani and Doordarshan, are holding a day-long demonstration in Mumbai on Tuesday, protesting the "denial" of benefits given to government employees.
Doordarshan would be deploying more than 20 hi-definition cameras for the coverage of the event on June 21.
MP: Gaur tenders resignation; Chauhan invited to form govt
The Indian ace and partner Katarina Kachlikova of Solvakia lost in the second round of the doubles event.
Nimbus executives say many of their partners are already talking about breach of contract (which states that the feed would be available exclusively to them) and this could lead to cancellation of agreements.
Irked by the Cabinet decision which asked television channels to share the cricket rights with Prasar Bharati, private sports broadcasting major ESPN Star Sports
The non-availability of transponders on satellites has hit the expansion plans of not only existing direct-to-home players such as DD Direct Plus and Dish TV but also new entrants such as Sun Direct, Reliance Bluemagic and the Bharti group.
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The catch here is that one has to buy the season tickets to get the discount of "about 60 per cent".
Union Minister Smriti Irani on Friday described the Congress-Dravida Munetra Kazhagam alliance for the May 16 Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu as an "unholy" one while bringing up the 2G spectrum allocation scam.
The FIFA Under-17 World Cup semi-final between Brazil and England has been shifted from Guwahati to Kolkata because of poor pitch conditions in the North-Eastern city.
Coming under flak by the Left parties for Wal-Mart's entry into the Indian retail market, Bharti Enterprises on Friday said its tie-up with the US firm was "as per the guidelines".
GCIG is a two-year initiative launched by the Centre for International Governance Innovation and Chatham House.
His songs were the anchor, the substratum, if you will, upon which life unfolded day after day, decade after decade -- across villages, towns, cities, and regions. Siva Sankar pays tribute to S P Balasubrahmanyam, the legendary singer who passed into the ages on Friday.
The hottest showstoppers at Lakme Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2016.
The High Court also gave the BCCI the freedom to engage any producer for the purpose of live feed except Zee Telefilms Ltd and ESPN Star Sports.
The Indian diaspora in the US can watch four more Doordarshan channels by March-end as public broadcaster Prasar Bharati is all set to make these channels available there.
Licence holders will be given a year to put channels on air.
Navratna and petroleum major ONGC will sponsor the ninth National Football League beginning in Kolkata on January 12.
The meeting with Advani comes a day after she met senior party leader and former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Siva Sankar looks at S P Balasubrahmanyam's fantastic repertoire.
New Delhi-based Samskrita Bharati has decided to take upon itself the task of cleaning up Indian languages and introducing Sanskrit as the mainstream language. Dinesh Kamath, the organisation's all-Bharat organising secretary, speaks to Vicky Nanjappa about the cause.
'I don't like any boy.' 'I want to be with Malini,' says Veronica.
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