MUMBAI: Heralding their support to veteran social activist Anna Hazare, the famed dabbawalas (lunch box carriers) of Mumbai, have declared that they would lend their support to his crusade by observing a strike today.
NEW DELHI: Although social activist Anna Hazare has accepted the police condition of fasting at Ramlila Ground for two weeks, he will stay put in the Tihar jail till the MCD has made the ground all right.
NEW DELHI: After Anna Hazare’s refusal to walk out, Tihar jail authorities allotted him a room to spend night in the jail, TV channels reported. Anna is continuing his fast in the jail.
BANGALORE: He’s a graduate of Harvard Business School. And he proves he’s worth that tag. Amuleek Singh Bijral runs a tea stall in Basavanagudi, the hub of South Indian filter coffee fans, and is still making a profit.
NEW DELHI: The finance ministry, in response to a Parliament question, has not ruled out that a lot of black money is flowing into the stock market. Suspicious transactions reported by mutual funds, depository participants and stock brokers have shown a 40% growth in the last one year, with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) simultaneously carrying out investigation in many such cases.
NEW DELHI: Anna Hazare courted arrest after being detained by Delhi Police at his residence in Mayur Vihar ahead of his indefinite fast on Tuesday. Senior officers of Delhi Police reached Anna Hazare’s flat early in the morning and informed him that he could not leave his home.
LONDON: India has protested against the British ‘All-Party Parliamentary Group on Kashmir’ being hand-in-glove with Justice Foundation, one of the three think-tanks funded by Pakistan’s ISI along with Ghulam Nabi Fai’s Kashmir American Council. The third one is in Brussels.
As India completes its 64th year of Independence, a lot of the baggage it used to be identified with has stayed on.
India’s real estate sector, which soared as the country’s economy took off and higher incomes led to increased demand, is facing turbulent times as interest rates push up the cost of home loans.
PATNA: With a motto to save trees, environment and the Earth, chief minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday utilized the occasion of ‘Raksha Bandhan’ to tie rakhi around trees here. “Protection of trees is the need of the hour to save environment and protect the world from natural disasters,” he said while appealing to people to plant at least one tree during their lifetime and protect trees from felling.
An eight-city TOI-Synovate survey of young Indians shows that while they cherish the many freedoms our country offers, they also have rather clear-cut concerns about what ails it. The survey also throws up several city-level surprises.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A group of priests who conducted an astrological examination or ‘devaprasnam’ at the Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple here has concluded that family members of those who open its yet untouched vault B would die, said an expert on Thursday. They also warned against videography of the treasure discovered so far.
LUCKNOW: Dalit leader Mayawati spent Rs 20,12,60,000 of public money over the past one year to renovate her bungalow at 13, Mall Avenue, in Lucknow. She needs Rs 2 crore more. Recently, Mayawati moved out of the chief minister’s official residence and shifted to her home, ostensibly because she considers 13 to be her lucky number.
Nineteen per cent of the 39,000 people surveyed across the country, feel that Rahul Gandhi is the most suitable choice for prime minister. His ratings have jumped three-folds from a mere six per cent in 2009 and has overtaken that of Dr Singh and Sonia Gandhi, for the first time. Clearly, he is a favourite but he’s still far behind his mother’s rating in 2004 (26 per cent).
There are many families where the children are working abroad. However, the parents stay back in India. Having made a good amount of money, many of these non-resident Indians (NRIs) and persons of Indian origin (PIO) intend to come back to India later.
The market witnessed a sharp one-day fall in the opening trade on Monday. Sensex plunges over 500 points and Nifty also fell by over 143 points.
NEW DELHI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi has been moved out of the ICU in a US hospital where she underwent a surgery.
NEW DELHI: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report on the 2010 Commonwealth Games, which was tabled in the Parliament on Friday, indicts the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) for the appointment of Suresh Kalmadi as the Organising Committee Chief. The report also indicts Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit for mis-spending in the Games’s preparation.
Mumbai, India – The BSE benchmark Sensex plunged by over 387 points to hit a nearly 14-month low on major sell-off by funds, driven by melting global markets amid fears over the US economy moving towards recession.
MUMBAI: Tata group chairman Ratan Tata has rejected allegations of giving bribe to former telecom minister A Raja to secure 2G spectrum allocation and said charges being made in the court proceedings were an attempt at diversion.
NEW DELHI: Unfazed by the allegations of irregularities in Commonwealth Games projects, Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Wednesday asserted she or her government has “not done anything wrong” and said everything was done keeping in mind the “national interest and prestige”.
BIKANER: A MiG-21 fighter aircraft on Tuesday crashed soon after taking off from Naal airfield in Rajasthan’s Bikaner district killing the pilot.
“The pilot ejected but died due to injuries sustained by him,” defence spokesperson S D Goswami said.
New Delhi: An Indian version of Slut Walk was enacted in New Delhi on July 31, 2011 during a protest against sexual harassment of women. Hundreds of women and men marched to join the country’s first “Slut Walk”, a protest against the alarming rise in sexual assault cases and to curb the growing sense of insecurity among women.
New Delhi: One morning last month, Dubai resident Raj Kanodia fished out a used bedsheet from the laundry basket while his wife was away. He then swiped his mouth with a cotton bud to collect saliva, sealed it in an envelope, and couriered it to a Hyderabad laboratory along with the used bed linen.
Delhi: Delhi designers have found a new muse in Pakistan foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar after Michelle Obama and Carla Bruni. While the opposition is crying hoarse over her meeting Kashmiri separatists after landing in the Capital, the fash frat in Delhi is going gaga over Hina Rabbani Khar’s graceful sense of dressing.
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