Rushdie, who faced flak from Muslim leaders across the world for his 1988 book Satanic Verses, is presently in the city and staying at the residence of industrialist Adi Godrej in suburban Juhu.
Sources in the Congress say Kharge and Krishna will be in the fray and the final candidature would be decided on the results of the elections. Congressmen told rediff.com that if the party is able to form the government on its own, there is every possibility of Krishna being made CM. However, if the Congress has to enter into a pact with the JD-S, then they would have no choice but to make Kharge the CM.
The Assam police on Saturday claimed to have arrested a hardcore operative of the Pakistani Inter Services Intelligence in a special operation carried out in a Guwahati locality on Friday night.
Kumar joined KPMG in 1995 as a Finance Management Leader and from 2005 until his retirement in September 2013 he led the firm's West Coast Finance Management Consulting practice.
Ganderbal SSP Hansraj Parihar and DSP Bahadur Ram have been arrested for their involvement in the fake encounters.
Former India players and parents of rebel trio Chetan Anand, Jwala Guttu and Shruti Kurien said V K Verma has neither badminton expertise, nor administrative ability or commitment to justify his position as president.
Whether I have become a political untouchable now or not, will be decided by the people of Karnataka, says JD-S supremo H D Deve Gowda.
The history of professional Indian nursing in America started with the major migration of nurses in the early 1970s and 1980s.
Rio Olympics-bound shot putter Manpreet Kaur stole the limelight as Indians pocketed five gold medals from athletics on the opening day of the event at the 12th South Asian Games, in Guwahati, on Tuesday.
In a bid to put an end to housing crisis faced by members of Parliament in national capital New Delhi, the government is mulling construction of multi-storeyed flats at an estimated cost of Rs 60 crore in the heritage site Lutyen's Zone.
Meanwhile, the three-member committee constituted by the information and broadcasting ministry to examine the "ground situation" at Film and Television Institute of India submitted its report.
Last week, Maharashtra Governor S M Krishna cleared the state's proposal to raise Rs 16,000 crore (Rs 160 billion) through bonds to finance incomplete irrigation projects.
Police took the pilot Colonel K Mehta and co-pilot Colonel S M Sehgal into custody when they landed the helicopter for picking up Congress leader R K Dhawan even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was about to take off for Palampur to address an election rally, Additional Superintendent of Police Bimal Bupta said. The make-shift helipad already had three helicopters lined for the VVIP take off, sources said, adding that the Deccan Aviation crew virtually force-landed.
Mashrafe Mortaza will replace Pakistan's Shoaib Akhtar in Asia's squad for the Afro-Asia Cup.
The DVAC team, comprised members from Chennai and Coimbatore. However, the sources refused to divulge details of the raids.
Former Member of Parliament S M Lal Jan Basha, who served as a prominent Muslim face of Telugu Desam Party for close to three decades, was killed in a road accident at Narketpalli on the Hyderabad-Vijayawada National Highway in the wee hours on Thursday.
The deaths of Jayalalithaa and M Karunanidhi within months of each other neutralises any sympathy factor their parties may hope to gain from. What's more, by removing charismatic leaders from the fray, it also levels the field for others, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
Punjab trail Hyderabad by 163 runs, with seven wickets in hand, after scoring 216 for three in their first innings on the second day of the Ranji Trophy league match in Mohali on Friday. Hyderabad were all out for 379 earlier in the day.
Archana Dutta will take over from S M Khan, who served as the press secretary to former President APJ Abdul Kalam
The University of Mumbai and Times Foundation signed a memorandum of understanding on Thursday in Mumbai under which the foundation will construct a building dedicated to study how to handle disasters.
Banks Board Bureau chief Vinod Rai has proposed performance-linked incentives for bank employees, but the staff unions are dead against the idea.
Delivering the verdict in a packed court room, District Judge S M A Abidi said the murder of 27-year-old Manjunath on November 19, 2005, was planned because weapons of different persons residing in different localities were used.
Jayalalithaa had flown from Chennai in a last ditch effort to ask Kalam to contest the election as the joint candidate of the UNPA and National Democratic Alliance.
It is not clear if they discussed the Presidential polls.
Sunil Kulkarni, a Mumbai-based trader and an eyewitness to the incident in which Sanjeev is facing trial along with three others, also said that he had given a different version about a particular point under police pressure.
People who can adapt their skill set to different sectors always remain relevant, irrespective of the job scenario
Admiral S M Nanda on India stood up to America during the 1971 war.
Investigations carried out by police have revealed that this module was also responsible for the killing of policemen, police sources, political activists and lobbing of grenades in public places.
Put in to bat, Delhi Jets were all out for 271 in 45.1 overs and then dismissed Chennai Veerans for 196 in 43.4 overs to walk away with full points.
Janata Dal-Secular candidate Jamir Ahmed on Sunday won the Chamarajpet assembly seat in the byelection held in Karnataka on June 2.
But the grand finale of farewell parties would be on July 22 when the VVIPs would be invited for the last time by Kalam in the Moghul Gardens.
The court had concluded the arguments on quantum of sentence on Friday last week after taking into consideration submissions made by both the prosecution and defence lawyers as well as the lawyer of the victims.
The amount was handed over to Maharashtra Governor S M Krishna at a function by event partner Give India.
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