New Delhi : Virtually the entire UPA cabinet and several Congress MPs including Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi could not prevent Rajya Sabha MP from Assam, Dr Manmohan Singh from boarding the New Delhi-Guwahati Express on Friday night. A panic-stricken Dr Singh, who also has been India’s prime minister since 2004, said he was fleeing … Continue reading
London : (Excerpts from the match commentary) Big match coming up today is the quarter final between Saina Nehwal of India and Tine Baun of Denmark. Saina who is world number 5 to Tine Baun’s 7, will be the firm favorite to win the match but as we all know, it is not over … Continue reading
Islamabad : Pakistan has welcomed the entry of China into the Match-Fixers Club. On Wednesday, the Badminton World Federation disqualified the Chinese women’s doubles team from the London Olympics, on charges of playing to lose deliberately with an eye on the knockout stage. Calling China its natural ally in match-fixing, a spokesperson of the Pakistan … Continue reading
Guwahati : Chief of the Health Service in Guwahati, Dr Tarun Gogoi has denied that his patient is in ICU with severe burns on her body. Releasing a health bulletin, an angry Dr Gogoi accused the media of spreading misinformation. “My patient, Assam, has only 10 per cent burns. That is, only in three spots … Continue reading
Hyderabad : Even as `Eega’, a Telugu-Tamil-Malayalam film that has a housefly as the protagonist, is set for release this Friday, director Shyam Gopal Varma has decided to do one better with a tale of two cockroaches. Varma disclosed that it will be a revenge tale, with lot of action scenes and the Varma staple … Continue reading
New Delhi : Pakistan Interior minister Rehman Malik has strongly refuted charges by India that state actors from across the border had a definite role to play in the 26/11 terror attack. “We totally deny this. The only state actor who is active in Hindoostan, is Veena Malik. And yes, we admit there is an … Continue reading
New Delhi : In breaking news just in, the office of the Home ministry in North Block in New Delhi has caught fire. Coming close on the heels of the fire at Mantralaya, the seat of the Maharashtra government, this raises disturbing questions about the state of safety in our government offices. This is how … Continue reading
New Delhi : With Mahesh Bhupathi refusing to partner Leander Paes in the men’s doubles tennis at the London Olympics, the All India Tennis Association (AITA) has decided to field a surprise player. Emerging from a meeting with AITA secretary general Anil Khanna, West Bengal tennis official M Banerjee let the cat out of the … Continue reading
June 7, 2012 The day began bad. As usual. PC’s election in Sivaganga constituency caught the eye of the Madurai bench of the Madras High court. I overheard someone in the PMO saying Chidamba-RAM ki Siva-Ganga maili ho gayi hai PC ke paap dhote dhote. I frankly do not understand all these jokes. They call … Continue reading
New Delhi : There is cause for cheer, if the Planning Commission is to be believed. At a press conference, where sweets were served with tea, Deputy chairman of the Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia announced that no official working at Yojana Bhawan – the office of the Commission – was now in the BPL … Continue reading
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