Children should take the lead in making India a developed and prosperous nation by 2020 and inspiring their parents to fight against the menace of corruption, former President A P J Abdul Kalam said on Friday. The former President, who interacted with the children after inaugurating a science exhibition, asked them to take a pledge to fight against corruption.
'I don't think you will see too much of Rohit Roy as an actor now.'
Defence Minister A K Antony on Saturday reviewed the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir during his day-long visit to the Valley.
Former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee Thursday night announced his retirement from active politics saying henceforth he would not contest elections.
An enrolment of 25 lakh youths to mark the completion of 25 years and various other programmes have been drawn up for the celebrations that will end up with training camps in all 938 districts of the country in December, 2009. The outfit says that it would give an open call to the government at the Delhi rally to ban their outfit 'engaged in nationalist activities'.
Modi did not speak much about politics but made a reference to the agitation by the Patels for quotas.
Roudram, the second film scriptwriter turned director Renji Panicker starring Mammootty, is a typical cop tale with topical happenings of a hero taking on the system single-handedly.
Speaking at the silver jubilee function of the Indian Coast Guard Aviation at Daman, Antony emphasised the need for faster modernisation of the Coast Guard in view of emerging seaward threat.
The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is a functional commission of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). The 54-member ECOSOC, holding the first plenary meeting of its 2021 session in the General Assembly Hall on Monday, held elections for two seats in the Asia-Pacific States category with Afghanistan, India and China in the fray.
Radhika Rajamani talks about meeting the Telugu megastar and how she was bowled over by his simplicity and humility.
The Madras Christian College (MCC) Class of 1983 celebrates the Silver Jubilee of its graduation.
Image of Sri Sri Ravishankar at the AOL gala in Washington.
The Kapil Dev-led Indian team, which won the 1983 World Cup, left for London on Tuesday to celebrate the silver jubilee of their historic triumph at Lord's. The entire team, barring Ravi Shastri, left for the British capital where Sunil Gavaskar has organised a dinner to celebrate 25 years of the victory on Wednesday.
Former India wicketkeeper Syed Kirmani says the dream to hoist tricolour at Lord's inspired the team e 1983 World Cup triumph.
Three days after the June 22 felicitation in New Delhi by BCCI, Kapil Dev and rest of India's 1983 World Cup winning team would revisit Lord's, where they had scripted the most memorable chapter in the history of Indian cricket 25 years ago.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India will celebrate the silver jubilee of India's only triumph in World Cup by holding a felicitation function in New Delhi on June 22 and triumphant captain Kapil Dev will be invited for the function, its chief Sharad Pawar said in Mumbai on Saturday.
Tata Consultancy Services launched its enterprise-wide innovation programme to mark the silver jubilee of its research centre, the Tata Research Development and Design Centre.
It is an exciting time for Puneet Rajkumar. Not only is his latest Kannada film Bindaas doing well, his last film Milana too, directed by his cousin Prakash, just completed it's silver jubilee run a few days ago.
The BJP believed in a negotiated settlement through dialogue between representatives of the Hindu and Muslim communities, he said.
Mulyama's remarks came against the backdrop of marathon meetings Congress' poll strategist Prashant Kishor had with him in Delhi and Lucknow.
US Senator John Cornyn, the founder and co-chair of the Friends of India Caucus in the US Senate with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, has exhorted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh not to throw in the towel on the US-India civilian nuclear deal. Cornyn also urged Dr Singh to try and resurrect the deal from the life-support it is on now.
Because he knows Odisha; and Odisha knows him, observes Aditi Phadnis.
Vajpayee has also asked for the abolition of the NAC.
With Diwali failing to thaw strained ties in the Mulayam clan, a show of strength is on the cards as Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav takes out his 'Rath Yatra' on November 3, two days before ruling SP's silver jubilee show organised by his uncle Shivpal Yadav.
'A sense of sacrifice is what you want,' says Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.
He will meet Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf when the general visits New Delhi to watch the Indo-Pak one-dayer on April 17.
Software giant Infosys will scale up its operations, products and services drastically to emerge as a 'truly multinational corporate entity' in the next 25 years, its Chairman N R Narayana Murthy said.
A controversy erupted over the event as purported video clips emerged showing liquor cartons being ferried in ambulances and Russian dancers performing on stage.
Prasad can still influence the power play in Patna if not change it, reports Satyavrat Mishra.
A staunch Rajput leader, Singh had opposed the manner in which UP legislator Raja Bhaiyya and his father were arrested by the then Mayawati Government under POTA.
N R Narayana Murthy, Chairman, Infosys, has plans to turn the company into a bigger, stronger, and global player.
In its 25th year of operations, software major Infosys on Friday said it was seeking to become a 'much more' respectable and global company with a truly multi-cultural and multi-ethnic workforce.
Naidu says he is not in the race for BJP chief's post
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