West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, once the poster boy of development for the Communist Party of India-Marxist, has come under fire in the party's latest 'rectification' campaign.
If the International Cricket Council wants to eradicate corruption from the game, it should start tap the telephonic conversations of suspected players and monitor their movements, mysterious Pakistani wicket-keeper Zulqarnain Haider said.
Researchers at the University of Arizona in the US have created the first genetically modified mosquito, a strain incapable of passing on the parasite that causes malaria, Plasmodium.
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, India's biggest Muslim socio-religious organization, has finally taken the plunge in to politics and formed its own political party "Citizens for Welfare and Justice" (CWJ) with the agenda of eradication of poverty and corruption and ensuring justice for all.
The prime minister said the country would give befitting response to every terrorist.
The actor pay for smoking at a public place during the shooting of his upcoming film Golmaal 3 in Goa in May this year.
In an interview with a Turkish media house, Zardari, while raising concerns over the 30 per cent increase in India's defence budget following the November 26, 2008 Mumbai attacks, said South Asian countries should focus on humanitarian issues rather than building armies and piling up devastating weapons.
Akula may be much celebrated, but he is not alone. There are dozens of MFI success stories, all of whom have surfaced over the last five-seven years, with a common mandate to "eradicate poverty", profitably. With a turnaround time for MFIs at one or two years, competition among the top few MFIs is intensifying to attract equity investments. Interestingly, with barely 15 per cent of rural households currently MFI borrowers, there is sufficient leeway for growth.
The controversial Umpire Decision Review System will not be used during India's Test tour of South Africa next month, coach Corrie van Zyl said.
Proclaiming that prospects of a 'change' in the island nation were in the offing, Sri Lanka's presidential challenger Sarath Fonseka on Thursday vowed to restore democracy and eradicate corruption from the country.
Modi said he used the 'bitter medicine' of demonetisation to bring back money into banking system.
Veteran actor Mohan Joshi, Dasmodar Ganesh Bapat, who is working towards eradication of leprosy, and L Subadani Devi, Manipur-based weaver, were among those presented with Padma Shri.
The Income Tax Act might be amended to give effect to "jurisdiction-free assessment"
Sekhar Kammula scripts a political drama which is preachy in parts but relevant to contemporary times particularly in Andhra Pradesh.
Pakistan is working on the "leads" provided by India on the terror attack on the Indian Air Force base in Pathankot, the foreign office said tonight in a statement whose tone was conciliatory.
This Malayalam biopic of Sree Narayana Guru directed by R Sukumaran and starring Thalaivasal Vijay is over-the-top.
Sri Lanka's World Cup-winning coach Dav Whatmore says the 'fixing' menace can be curbed by proper education of youngsters. The former Sri Lanka and Bangladesh coach, who took charge of the junior Bengal cricket team on Monday, said: 'We need to educate the younger lot about this (fixing). There is a 'minority few' who are involved in this. I am sure we can reduce this, even if it's not totally eradicated.'
One of the most favoured duty reimbursement schemes among exporters - the Duty Entitlement Passbook (DEPB) scheme - is likely to be scrapped, as the government gears up to introduce the Goods and Services Tax (GST) from April 1.
C K Prahalad, one of the world's renowned management gurus, passed away on Friday. Associated with some of the top educational institutes around the world, the Harvard Business School graduate also was a consultant to many top global companies.
The resolution expressed concerns over the detention of Hurriyat leaders and human rights activists and urged the Indian government to release them.
Pala, the St Thomas College Old Students association, has put up posters at various places announcing that they would provide a 10 per cent discount on air guns to those facing hardships due to stray dogs and 25 per cent to those have a police case against them in connection with the menace.
Terming the 1984 riots as a "genocide", a meeting of five Sikh high priests convened by the Akal Takht, the highest temporal seat of the Sikh religion, said it was "regrettable" that justice could not be delivered to the victims even after 25 years.
Sharif is said to have given this indication during a meeting with his British counterpart David Cameron on the sidelines of Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Valletta, Malta on Friday.
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Dr M Madan Kumar, 45, shares some tips to sail through these troubled times.
The 2 countries signed 15 agreements including one on defence cooperation after Prime Minister Narendra Modi held 'productive discussions' with President Joko Widodo.
Yadav, who came in the limelight with his video on the quality of food being served to the Army, said that post revelations made by him, he is being subjected to torture and that no heed has been paid to the concerns raised by him.
In his final address, the president said that the soul of India resided in "pluralism and tolerance.
Former Indian diplomats on Thursday welcomed Pakistan's admission that the conspiracy for Mumbai attacks was partially hatched in that country and felt it was mainly due to international pressure garnered by India which should be maintained to take the matter to its logical end.
"Krishna was born in Uttar Pradesh but made Gujarat his karma bhoomi. I was born in Gujarat but Uttar Pradesh has adopted me," the PM said in Hardoi.
Breaking from opposition ranks, the JD-U chief had supported the demonetisation move taken by the PM.
An independent Task Force on Friday asked the G-20 nations to recognise publicly that the flow of illicit money out of poor countries, facilitated by the global shadow financial system, cripples the ability of these countries to work their way out of poverty.
Activist Narendra Dabholkar, who was in the forefront of a campaign to persuade Maharashtra government to pass an anti-superstition and black magic bill, was shot dead in Pune on Tuesday morning by unknown assailants.
He, however, did not make it clear what aspects he wanted Modi to admit as the "mistake"
On the eve of the first phase of polling in Rajasthan, Rediff.com spoke to some of the first time voters in Jaipur who form a considerable chunk of the voters. While some youth seek a sincere, development-oriented leadership which has zero-tolerance towards corruption, there are others who think communalism is the main issue. Shahnawaz Akhtar reports.
US President Barack Obama has said Pakistan must co-operate more fully with the United States to go after and wipe out al-Qaeda.
The bench observed that citizens should raise their voice against the menace of corruption and refuse to pay taxes by launching a non-cooperation movement.
Under attack from the global community for its inability in containing terrorism emanating from its soil, Pakistan said on monday that the country is not threatened by nations but by the "non-state actors" and sought China's help in eradicating the menace.
The statements made by the opposition parties after the preemptive air strike on terror camps have made only people of Pakistan happy, he claimed.
The president outlined the government's agenda in the coming financial year in his customary address to the joint sitting of both the Houses of Parliament.
