The second Nuclear Security Summit opens in Seoul on Monday. Will it confront the dangers posed by Pakistan's unsecured nuclear programme, asks Nikhil Lakshman, currently in the South Korean capital.
The committee probing the porn scandal in the Karnataka assembly has recommended action against Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Lakshman Savadi.
At first, I think it is the same young lady, confused as I am by the numbers of women with identical nasal injuries that I encounter. Then, I realise that these ladies would need to be tele-mobile to be in different Tehran locations at almost the same time. It is thus that I stumble on the Case of the Bandaged Nose.
As the NAM summit opens in Tehran on Thursday, Nikhil Lakshman, who is traveling with the prime minister, captures the mood in the Iranian capital.
Being caught surfing porn online is, perhaps, the most embarrassing moment in a lifetime. But how does one explain lawmakers caught in the act, that too in office?
There was some more embarrassment for the government in Karnataka when a minister was caught watching a pornographic clip when proceedings were on in the legislative assembly in Bengaluru.
The reconciliation commission studying Sri Lanka's ethnic war and its aftermath is ready with its final report and may present it to President Mahinda Rajapaksa over the next 15 days. Officials said on Monday that the report of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission is being readied for presentation to the President who will then decide on making it public. LLRC spokesman Lakshman Wickremasinghe said the report could be presented to Rajapaksa before the November 15
Seeking an interim stay on the high court order, Joshi's petition said it was the top court's duty to ensure that all constitutional authorities act within the 'Lakshman rekha' drawn for each one of them.
Nikhil Lakshman reports from the United Nations General Assembly, which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh addressed on Saturday.
Three former Karnataka ministers on Monday sought a week's extension to file reply to the show-cause notices issued by Speaker K G Bopaiah on the porn-watching episode in the legislative assembly.
Bhushan said as an officer of court he believes as a duty to speak up when he believe there is a deviation from its sterling record.
A lawyer who filed a case against Lord Rama has been charged with hurting Hindu sentiments.
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'If the trial succeeds, it will become the success of Ayurveda.' 'If it's a failure, it's my failure alone.'
Noted Pakistani writer ,journalist and grand daughter of former Pakistani President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Fatima Murtaza Bhutto has said that the people of Pakistan and India are not enemies and there is no enmity between the common people of both the countries. She spoke with rediff.com's Arun Lakshman on the sidelines of the Kovalam literary festival, which she inaugurated on Saturday.
"The Opposition is getting prematureless restless," Dr Singh said, "The Opposition would like to make the weak points of the government the focus of attention and hope to force an election. But that is not going to happen! The Opposition will have to wait for two-and-a-half years. We have a mandate from the people of India to rule for five years, and we will stay the course. And we will do things, when you look back, might well surprise the country."
"The Opposition is getting prematureless restless," Dr Singh said, "The Opposition would like to make the weak points of the government the focus of attention and hope to force an election. But that is not going to happen! The Opposition will have to wait for two-and-a-half years. We have a mandate from the people of India to rule for five years, and we will stay the course. And we will do things, when you look back, might well surprise the country."
India's attempts to make some headway in the Great Game in Central Asia may be the reason behind Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Kazakhstan, says Rediff.com's Nikhil Lakshman, who is travelling with the PM to the Kazakh capital of Sanya
Rediff.com's Nikhil Lakshman, who is travelling with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to the BRICS Summit in the Chinese town of Sanya, reports that the next BRICS Summit will be held in India in 2012 even as the five BRICS nations pledged to jointly work towards peaceful transformation of the world order.
Rediff.com's Editor-in-chief Nikhil Lakshman, who is traveling with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to the BRICS summit in the Chinese town of Sanya, reports that the two Asian giants have agreed to set up a working mechanism to resolve irritants that have led to a deterioration in relations
Rediff.com's Editor-in-chief Nikhil Lakshman, who is traveling with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to the BRICS summit in the Chinese town of Sanya, offers an insight into what the Indian delegation can expect during the visit
The panel is expected to suggest various relief measures to put economy back on track as soon as possible, the sources said.
Moved by the plight of a poor student, Dr M S Sunil reached out and provided him with a roof above his head. But this was just the beginning for the zoology professor from Pathanamthitta, a town in Kerala. Today, she has constructed 15 houses for the needy, transformed the lives of tribes from Sabarimala and started her own literacy campaign for the orphans, all by herself. Rediff.com's Arun Lakshman catches up with Pathanamthitta 'home maker'.
The prime minister on Anna Hazare, China, Pakistan and whether he has changed after all these months of attack by the Opposition and media. Rediff.com's Nikhil Lakshman listens in
Far away from New Delhi and twitter, what do people in Thiruvananthapuram say about their beleaguered MP Shashi Tharoor? Arun Lakshman listens to the voices.
Abdul Nasser Madani, chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, who is facing an imminent arrest in the 2008 Bengaluru blast case claimed that the National Investigating Agency (NIA) and the Intelligence Bureau (IB) have hatched a conspiracy to finish him off politically. Madani spoke to rediff.com's Arun Lakshman from Anwarassery,in Kerala's Kollam district on Wednesday.
The film is named after a song from the late Akkineni Nageswara's film Raamudu Kaadu Krishnudu.
In an interview with rediff.com's Arun Lakshman, scholar, writer, teacher and social activist Professor Hameed Chendamangalur says that the people of the state have given a befitting reply to such organisations in the recently held local body polls.
The fight for chief ministership in the next United Democratic Front government has begun in the Congress party ,albeit in a subtle and subdued way. The recent report of the Intelligence Bureau that the Congress-led UDF would win around eighty five seats and head the ruling coalation has set the ball rolling in the Congress party for the post of chief minister.
Google+, with a little over three million users in October, offers a mixed view of its popularity. But social media experts and brands seem to believe in Google+.
Sri Lanka's new Foreign Minister Gamini Lakshman Peiris, who visited Washington, DC last month, feels the tensions that existed in the United States and Sri Lanka during the height of the conflict with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, when Colombo refused to acquiesce to a ceasefire, have been repaired.
The prime mission behind the new Sri Lankan Foreign Minister, Professor Gamini Lakshman Peiris' meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is to repair the strained relations between the US and Sri Lanka, which took a beating last year when the Sri Lankan forces were crushing the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. The US had alleged that there were large scale human rights violations during the military offensive against the tigers.
Mahto and Yadav, who were reportedly charged with minor offences, were claimed to be serving Lalu as helper and cook.
Appearances can be deceptive. He is short, dark-complexioned, a dropout from a polytechnic college -- and also the mastermind behind the deadliest Naxal attack that killed 75 CRPF men on Tuesday.
The effort made to define the larger picture by focussing on history and the wish not turn differences into disputes and conflicts is welcome. In the obtaining circumstances today, nothing more could have been possible, observes Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.
'Manthara wants Kaikeyi to make her son Bharat king of Ayodhya, instead of Rama.' 'She fuels hate and mistrust in her queen, much like what many modern-day viziers are doing, whipping up venom and frenzy among an entire nation,' notes Arundhuti Dasgupta.
In a defiant stance, Sri Lanka said on Thursday that it would not allow a United Nations panel to enter the country to investigate alleged human rights abuses during the last stages of the country's civil war, which could put the country in a confrontation course with the world body.
'There are several minds which are polluted by certain groups and people who get pleasure in creating tension and war in the country, and these people are handpicked for spreading terror.'
Industry at Haldia, a major port and commercial hub, has been caught in the middle of this power transition. Consider this: RPG's power utility, CESC, is unable to erect evacuation towers due to land issues and the third phase of its ongoing expansion of 250 Mw has already been delayed by seven-eight months.
However, Patil, in a video message on a social networking site, said no one had kidnapped him.
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