Articles: Army Chief Loses Battle in Supreme Court
Region: IndiaThe Supreme Court (SC) on Friday the 10th Feb’2012 refused to entertain a petition from Army Chief General V.K.Singh seeking alteration of his date of birth from 10th May 1950 to 10th May 1951 (so that he could continue in the army for another year as army chief). He is to retire from Army on 31st May this year on the basis of his birth day as 10th May 1950. On the contrary had the court accepted the plea of General Singh’s plea of birthday correction, the general could have cont... more
Views: 1243Bengal Election 2011: Why Mamata Shy Of Contesting Assembly Polls?
Region: IndiaMamata Banerjee has declared not to contest herself in the coming assembly polls to West Bengal Assembly going to be held beginning April’2011. This is surprising given her thumping wins at the several important elections like the panchayat polls 2008, parliamentary polls 2009 and municipal polls including Calcutta Municipal Corporation in 2010. If the Parliamentary polls 2009- which she fought with Indian National Congress (INC) as alliance partner- is any indicator she won as many as... more
Views: 3474Will John Abraham Marry Bipasha...........
Region: India
Will John Abraham Marry Bipasha........... Bollywood Actor John Abraham passed the lie detector test when he said he is ready to marry his girlfriend Bollywood Actress Bipasha Basu. Is he truthful to us or the actor was promoting his Forthcoming Bollywood film ‘Jhootha Hi Sahi’, where the media asked him questions and he would have to answer “truthfully”. more
Views: 2679IIT Kharagpur to Open Medical School in Partnership with US University
Region: IndiaIndia’s oldest IIT is all set to open an in campus Medical School in collaboration with California University, San Diego and would offer Bachelor, Masters, Doctoral and Post-Doctoral degrees along side its Engineering degrees. As per Damodar Acharya, the director of the Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur), the project is likely to kick off with the opening of a 350-bed hospital in 2011. A memorandum to this effect was signed between the IIT and California University (CU) on 18th... more
Views: 3214No Headway in Tripartite ’Gorkhaland’ Meet but Solace for Gurung
Region: IndiaAs was expected, the tripartite talks on ‘Gorkhaland’ issue in New Delhi on 11th Aug’09 could not produce any tangible results. However Bimal Gurung and Co scored a moral and notional win over their archrival Subash Ghisingh by forging a consensus on abandoning the bill on sixth schedule and scrapping the existing Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council (DGHC), created in 1988 after an agreement with GNLF supremo Subash Ghisingh. It was learnt that the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) ... more
Views: 2249SBI Announces Cheapest Home Loans to Improve Market Share
Region: IndiaThe State Bank of India- a public sector and the largest of all Indian banks- announced a home loan (Hi-Five Loan) at 8% of Rs. 5 lakhs for a period of 5 years. It also announced home loans up to Rs.50 lakhs with interest rates of 8% for the first years and 8.5% for the next two years, making the offers the cheapest in the market now. The Bank also announced that no processing fees would be charged for a period up to 7th November’09 as a promotional offer to facilitate the buyers in th... more
Views: 3438India: Private Airlines Proposed Strike Grounded Before Take Off
Region: IndiaFederation of Indian Airlines (FIA), an association of four big and six smaller airlines, announced today (2nd Aug’09) withdrawal of ‘protest suspension of flights on 18th August’. Bowing under pressure from smaller airlines, which operates low cost carriers, the planned protest strike has to be withdrawn within a couple of days of announcement. FIA officials quoted public inconvenience and governments willingness to enter into dialogue as the reason for withdrawal of the pr... more
Views: 1906Indian Student Protests Racial Attacks in Australia
Region: AustraliaOutraged over the spate of racial attacks in Australia, hundreds of Indian students on Sunday took out a massive rally here demanding justice for the victims of recent assaults, including 25-year-old Shravan Kumar who is battling for life in a local hospital. The 'peace rally' organised by bodies like Federation of Indian Students in Australia (FISA) and National Union of Students kicked off from outside the Royal Melbourne Hospital, where Kumar is in a critical condition in the intensive ca... more
Views: 1982Railway Protection Force Registered 204 cases
Region: IndiaDuring a check conducted by the Railway Protection Force (RPF) in trains running between Alappuzha, Kottayam and Ernakulam stations, as part of the safety week observance, 204 cases were registered for various offences and Rs.75,500 was collected as fine. The cases registered and the fine collected were as follows: as many as 45 cases of unauthorised vending on railway premises (Rs.9,100); 28 unauthorised parking (Rs.13,050) cases; 56 footboard travel (Rs. 23,500); three for pulling the chai... more
Views: 2252Left Front Poll Debacle in Bengal: An Objective Analysis
Region: IndiaThis year’s parliamentary election results has been extremely surprising for the Left Front (LF), which has been decimated to 3/7th of their strength of last parliamentary elections in 2004, when the LF won as much as 35 seats compared to 15 in this election. Just three years ago in May’06 the LF won the assembly elections by a thumping margin scoring 235 seats out of 294 seats. Statistics says the LF has lost as much as 191 assembly segments of the 294 and has lost more than 5% i... more
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