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Disappointed over the draft report of the Standing Committee on Lokpal Bill, Team Anna member Kiran Bedi has warned that going back on the commitment given by Parliament would encourage a mass movement again. When asked for her comments on the draft report which sought to keep lower bureaucracy out of the ambit of the ombudsman, Bedi said, "This is going back on the commitment and will call for mass movement again".
Sonam Malik (65kg) and Kiran (76kg) also lost their respective semi-finals in the women's competition to go out of the gold medal race as four of the five Indians in action fell at the last-four stage.
The daughter of a traffic police head constable in Meerut, Kiran Baliyan was an accidental shot putter as her name was entered in a junior tournament by mistake nine years ago.
Kiran Baliyan became the first Indian woman to win an Asian Games medal in shot put event in 72 years.
The story of Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is one of grit, self confidence and courage. If today she is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world, it is because of her determination.
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'I belong to the area of Krishna Nagar, but Bedi was an outsider.'
Supporters of Kiran Kumar Reddy say that since the Congress has made it clear that the Telangana issue will not be raised at the AICC meet there is no point in the chief minister attending. Vicky Nanjappa reports
The doctor husband of Union Minister S Jaipal Reddy's niece has been arrested by police and booked for murder following her suspicious death. Police said on Wednesday that Chaitanya Reddy allegedly killed 26-year-old Kiran Reddy, also a doctor, in "an inebriated" condition following a heated argument, and that the death four days back was due to "smothering and asphyxiation."
Former super cop and Magsaysay award winner Dr Kiran Bedi is all set to hit the small screen with her reality show Aap ki kachehri on Star Plus. The show replaces Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi.
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Biocon chairperson and managing director Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is in a firefighting mode, as the company she founded was forced to call off a blockbuster deal with global pharmaceutical major Pfizer.
India will go unrepresented in five categories at the upcoming Zagreb Open in Croatia as Bajrang Punia, Antim Panghal and three others didn't give consent for their selection to the ad-hoc panel that announced a 13-member team on Tuesday.
In a 73-minute battle, Ayush, who hails from Sanoor near Karkala in Karnataka, showed his grit as he recovered from a game down to outwit his Indonesian opponent.
The baby was born on December 1 through IVF-Surrogacy.
Yash Chopra's wife Pamela Chopra passed into the ages on the morning of April 20, and film folk made their way to her residence to condole with the family.
The filmmaker speaks up after Delhi Belly's hit song garners criticism from certain quarters.
Can you even imagine the fear that must have passed through Kiran Rao's mind, asks Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
The government decided to relieve Bedi, who was holding the post of the director-general of the bureau of police research and development, from her duties on Monday.
Mahesh Bhatt remembers his friend and colleague, Raj Kiran, as a committed actor whose career was cruelly cut short due to his mental illness.
Former IPS officer Kiran Bedi, who was the Bharatiya Janata Party's chief ministerial candidate for Delhi assembly polls held earlier this year, on Sunday said that she will not contest elections again.
According to IAF, the pilots were on a routine training sortie when the incident occurred.
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India-born novelist Kiran Desai's bestseller novel The Inheritance of Loss has bagged yet another literary honour -- the National Book Critics Circle fiction award.
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Nearly two months after her The Inheritance of Loss won the Man Booker Prize, the Indian community in New York finally celebrated Kiran Desai's awesome achievement.
Glimpses into Bedi's formative days as the precocious 'Kinni' before her eventual transformation into the 'tough-as-nails' figure of the no-nonsense IPS officer, is the subject of a comic book on the life of the top cop which was released in 12 languages on Saturday.
Judges for the 30,000 pound Orange award broke with a 39-year unspoken convention by choosing this year's Man Booker and Costa Prize winning books -- Desai's novel and Stef Penney's The Tenderness of Wolves -- on their long-list of 20.
Reddy, who was the Speaker of the Andhra Pradesh legislative assembly, takes charge as the chief minister, following the resignation of K Rosaiah earlier today.
There is an authenticity and sense of purpose about Dry Day which is appealing, observes Deepa Gahlot.
Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan feels that the sense of insecurity and fear has been growing in the past six or eight months.
Desai's book, which has won rave reviews, has already been awarded the 2006 Man Brooker Prize. The Nepalese movement for an independent state is the tumultuous backdrop for 36-year-old Desai's richly textured book.
In a book that documents his life, Aamir Khan: Actor Activist Achiever, author Pradeep Chandra gives us a closer look at the man himself.
Weeks after a Nicaragua-bound plane carrying Indians was grounded in France and later sent back to India, the Gujarat police have booked 14 agents on the charge of human trafficking for trying to send more than 60 persons from Gujarat to the US illegally via Mexico border, a senior official said.
Bedi made this offer to a private television network during an interview on why she lost out in the race.
The annual list of 'Heroes of Philanthropy', compiled by Forbes Asia magazine, features a total of 48 people from the the Asia-Pacific region, including countries like China, Singapore, Hong Kong and Indonesia.
Raising the pitch of his attack on Centre, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy today challenged it to place the AP Reorganisation Bill 2013 in Parliament in the same form it was referred to the state Legislature.
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