It was a mixed outing for super rich candidates as five of them emerged victorious and an equal number suffered defeat in the Lok Sabha polls.
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.
In a major embarrassment to the Andhra Pradesh government, the State Human Rights Commission has held it responsible for the murder of Julakunti Srinivas Reddy alias Muddu Seenu, who was killed in the Anantapur jail last week, and ordered the government to pay compensation of Rs five lakh to his widow. APHRC chairman Justice B Subhashan Reddy passed the landmark order after the Director General of Police Lokendar Sharma admitted that the jail staff had been negligent.
An astute advertising professional, he took Ogilvy & Mather India to the number one position after coming on board as managing director in 1994
The prime accused in the murder of Telulgu Desam Party legislator Paritvala Ravindra was brutally murdered in the Anantapur district jail in the wee hours of Sunday by another inmate. While Andhra Pradesh Home Minister K Jana Reddy described the murder a result of a fight between two undertrials locked in the same barrack, the opposition has alleged that Julakunti Srinivas Reddy alias Muddu Seenu's murder was a political conspiracy.
The improved changes aim to help students prepare and perform better in the test, says ARKS Srinivas.
In an interview, author and columnist Steve Hamm shared his thoughts on the Satyam episode, World Bank ban on Wipro et al.
"We were not given to understand by any party, explicitly or implicitly, during the valuation exercise about Satyam's plans to acquire Maytas Properties," an Ernst & Young spokesperson informed Business Standard by e-mail.
In an hour-long chat on rediff.com on Monday, Ganesh Natarajan, chairman of National Association of Software and Service Companies, replied to many queries on the Satyam scam.
'When you looked at him even at that age, you could make out he was special.'
Shane Warne's midas touch to minnows Rajasthan Royals in the inaugural IPL season may be a part of cricketing folklore but a new book reveals that the Australian spin legend was not the original choice for captaincy.
Aamir Khan was in Chennai to receive the Gollapudi Srinivas Memorial Endowment Award for the best debutant director.
His first Telugu film, Grahanam fetched Indraganti Mohan Krishna 11 awards including the Indira Gandhi Award for the Best First Film by a director. The National and Gollapudi Srinivas award-winning director then made his second film, Maya Bazar. Now, the filmmaker is ready with his latest film, Ashta Chamma (the original version of the game ludo). Well, the title is a metaphoric one though there are references to the game.
Punjab looked on course for a crushing victory after bundling out Uttar Pradesh for a paltry 95 in their second innings, on the third day of the Ranji Trophy Group A match in Hyderabad, on Monday.
The bodies were discovered by N Hanumantha Rao, Sasikala's husband who is also a software professional, on Thursday evening after he returned from work.
The Uddhav Thackeray-led party was told that the MNS and the NCP are not politically untouchables for the BJP
The resignation letter states he is resigning as MLA of Mandya constituency, without assigning any reason.
He is one of the seven living 2008 inductees and has now joined the ranks of Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Alva Edison at the NIHF. He is also the founder, chariman and technical director of the globally renowned Bose Corporation.
Iran hurt India's pride in kabaddi yet again as it delivered a second straight knockout punch to the sport's most successful nation in the women's gold medal match of the 18th Asian Games, in Jakarta, on Thursday.
After Saturday's bomb explosion damaging the court hall in Hubli, the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court, hearing the cases of terror suspects of banned SIMI, on Monday held its sitting in a different hall as two teams of investigators began the probe into the blast.
Joker, Thithi, Maheshinte Prathikaram and Pelli Choopulu bag the big awards of the night!
A Hubli court issued warrants to secure the custody of four terror suspects currently lodged in Indore jail for interrogation by the Karnataka Police. The order was passed after after the Corps of Detectives, probing the terror network in Karnataka, sought the warrants to take Mohammed Yaseen, Mohamammed Ansar, Munroz Zama and P A Shadili into its custody for questioning them.
The meeting between Jaishankar and McMaster gains significance as the top military leader was appointed as the National Security Advisor by US President Donald Trump ten days ago.
While the brand did step into cities such as Delhi in the last few years, it is now stitching up an expansion strategy aimed at partaking of growth in areas where consumption of ice cream remains strong.
The party has not applied the "one-family, one-ticket" formula for the Karnataka polls which it followed in the Punjab polls held last year.
The deceased has been identified as Manas Das, an active local committee member of CPI-M, East Midnapore district Superintendent of Police G Srinivas told reporters in Nandigram.
TVS Motors is exploring LPG and CNG enabled two wheelers. It is also ready to launch electric scooters.
K Srinivas, editor of the Telugu daily Andhra Jyothy, was released from the Chanchalguda jail on Friday evening, along with two other journalists from the same newspaper, 24 hours after a local court had granted them bail. Though the surety of Rs 10,000 each was submitted to the court and necessary documents were handed over to the jail authorities in the morning, the release was delayed till evening due to the non-completion of formalities by the officials.
The alternative fuel fever has caught up with Chennai-based TVS Motor Company, synonymous with 'TVS Scooty'. Having entered the electric scooter segment, the company is exploring LPG and CNG two wheelers.
Infy to cast wide net in CEO search, may go back to 'alumni'
The Committee of Administrators (COA) on Friday assured that all six north eastern states will be playing Ranji Trophy as individual units next season with Board of Control for Cricket in India GM (Game Development), Ratnakar Shetty, given charge of their smooth integration.
Greenpeace today came down heavily on leading refrigerator manufacturers, accusing them of failing to embrace environment-friendly technologies, thereby causing global warming and climate change.
Siva Sankar looks at S P Balasubrahmanyam's fantastic repertoire.
Fadnavis paid tribute at his official residence 'Varsha' to the revered artist.
The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister also wrote fresh letters to the Lok Sabha members of other opposition parties seeking their support for the no-trust vote.
TVS Motor Company launched its first electric scooter, Scooty Teenz Electric, in Bangalore on Wednesday. Run on the Valve-Regulated-Lead-Acid (VRLA) battery, the vehicle is powered by a 800 watt motor and can carry up to 130 kg of load. It can deliver an average range of 40 km per nine hours of battery charge. The maximum speed the vehicle can clock is 40 kmph. It is targetted at is teenage girls who use vehicles to travel short distances ranging between 15 and 25 km per day.
The two groups resorted to firing and hurled bombs from Satenganbari village and Takapura in Nandigram and from the adjacent CPI-M stronghold of Khejuri since Friday night, Superintendent of Police G A Srinivas said.
Do not make the mistake of watching this Nagaram. This painful film is not worth sitting through despite hordes of comedians and an item number by Manisha Koirala.
"What is the hurry," Modi said, while referring to Gandhi's hand gestures when he came across to PM's chair.
The boy jumped in front of a train in Peddapalli area on Wednesday.
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