Former union minister Sukh Ram has been sentenced to three years of imprisonment by a Delhi court on Wednesday (February 25). The special CBI judge V.K. Maheshwari who was hearing the disproportionate assets case also ordered Sukh Ram to pay a fine of Rs.200,000 for amassing assets worth Rs ...

The 88-year-old noted radio journalist, columnist and film critic, Amita Malik passed away in Delhi on Friday (February 20). Malik was often described as the first lady of the Indian journalism and she attained the credit of writing for all three mediums including films, television and radio. The ...

While hinting at joining politics, the former United Nations diplomat and writer Shashi Tharoor on Friday (13th February) said that if provided an opportunity he would like to join Congress Party. Tharoor told reporters in Mumbai that, he has been thinking of joining politics and had some ...

ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair was presented with "Newsmaker--2008 award" of 'Manorama News' channel. The award was presented to him by Defence Minister A.K. Antony on Tuesday (10th February) in Thiruvananthapuram.
 
After giving the award, Antony praised the ISRO Chairman as the ...

Renowned Indian classical vocalist Pandit Bhimsen Joshi was conferred with India's highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna on Tuesday (February 10). An Additional Secretary of the Home Ministry presented the coveted award to 87-year-old Joshi at a simple ceremony held at his residence in Pune. The ...

Election Commissioner Navin Chawla is now at the centre of a land row in Rajasthan. Recently Mr Chawla was in the eye of a storm as the Chief Election Commissioner had accused him of being partisanship.
 
The recent controversy came to the limelight, when a lower court in Jaipur asked the ...

A special CBI court on Monday (2nd February) convicted and sentenced stamp paper scam kingpin Abdul Karim Telgi for his alleged connection with cases dealing in counterfeit currency and a case of forging visas.
 
He was pleaded guilty in 9 of the twelve cases and sentenced to 5-years of ...

The IBN network has named renowned Indian scientist G. Madhavan Nair and Team Chandrayaan as the CNN-IBN Indian of the Year 2008. Commenting on the Indian of the year title editor-in-chief, IBN network, Rajdeep Sardesai said that the award has been instituted to recognise the contribution of the ...

According to official sources a memorial in honour of revolutionary freedom fighter Bhagat Singh will come up in his native Khatkar Kalan village in Punjab. Official sources gave this information to the media on Friday (30th January).
 
The memorial would be built at a cost of Rs.168 million ...

Ex-president of India R. Venkataraman breathed his last at the Army Research and Referral Hospital on Tuesday (January 27). The eighth president of India was 98 years of age. He served the nation as a president from 1987 to 1992. Apart from being a member of the Congress party, the veteran offered ...

133 eminent personalities from different fields have been conferred with the country’s most important civilian awards, the Padma Awards. This includes 10 Padma Vibhushan, 30 Padma Bhushan and 93 Padma Shree.
 
Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anil Kakodkar, ISRO Chairman G Madhavan ...

The health condition of former president of India, R Venkataraman is in critical state, informed a spokesperson of Army's Research and Referral Hospital. Venkataraman was hospitalised on January 12 after suffering from delirium and dehydration. As per the spokesperson, after the initial medical ...

Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma has been conferred with highest Ivory Coast's civilian award “Commander of the National Order of Merit" in recognition of his distinct role in strengthening India's relationship with the African countries.
 
President of Ivory ...

Radha Vinod Raju, Special Director General of Police in Jammu and Kashmir, was today (15th January) appointed as Director General of the newly established National Investigation Agency. A 1975-batch IPS officer, 59-year-old Raju, who heads the vigilance department in the militancy-hit state, ...

Gautam Goswami, former Patna district magistrate and a key accused in the Rs.170 million ($3.86 million) Bihar flood relief scam of 2004, died on Tuesday (6th January) morning after losing his battle with cancer.
 
Goswami, who was named Time magazine's Asian hero in 2005, was admitted ...

Mendu Rammohan Rao who is the Dean of Indian School of Business (ISB) has withdrawn from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Deputy Governors’ selection committee. He has also resigned from the selection panel of the chairman of Securities Exchange and Board of India (SEBI), a week ago. Rao ...

The prestigious Newsweek magazine has ranked Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan among the 50 most powerful people in the world. The number one slot in the list has been bagged by US President-elect Barack Obama. While commenting on the 17th spot captured by Sonia ...

John Dayal has been nominated for the coveted Human Dignity Award 2008 in recognition of his services in the field of human rights. The member of the National Integration Council, Dayal will receive one lakh rupees as a part of award at Geneva later this month. The Human Dignity Award or the Maanav ...

A railway announcer named Vishnu Dattaram Zhende and RPF head constable Jullu Yadav have received Rs.10 lakhs each for their act of bravery during the 26/11 Mumbai terror atrocities. Zhende helped hundreds of people to escape the terror attack on the Chhattrapati Shivaji terminus on that ...

Indian author Upamanyu Chatterjee has been awarded with the prestigious Officier des Arts et des Lettres (Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters) Awards by the French government in recognition of his exemplary contribution to the contemporary literature. 
 
Chatterjee received the ...

The 45-year-old Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MP Chaudhary Munawwar Hasan was killed in a road mishap on the outskirts of the national capital early Wednesday (December 10). According to media reports, Hasan was on his way to the capital when a speeding truck hit his car near Haryana’s Faridabad ...

US Senator John McCain, on Tuesday (December 02) opposed a military strike against Islamabad since there was no hard evidence against Pakistan in the Mumbai terror attack. He was hopeful that the government of Pakistan would cooperate in probing the heinous attack on India’s financial ...

An agreement to build four new reactors for the Kudankulam nuclear power plant will be signed between Russia and India during Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s visit to India starting Thursday (December 4), said, Sergei Kiriyenko, head of the state nuclear power corporation ...

VP Agarwal becomes the new chairman of the Airports Authority of India (AAI). According to a civil aviation ministry official, Agarwal will take the charges of the AAI chairman office from the outgoing chairman K. Ramalingam on January 1, 2009. Earlier, the member (planning) of AAI, V P Agarwal has ...

A day after the Congress Working Committee showed “the exit” to anti-incumbent Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister R R Patil on Monday morning (December 01) resigned from his chair. Patil termed the abdication as a decision taken as per his conscience ...

Former Indian prime minister V P Singh passed away on Thursday (November 27) after suffering from a kidney ailment for several years. According to family sources, the veteran leader died in the afternoon at Apollo Hospitals. V P Singh was also suffering from blood cancer since 1991. The 77-year-old ...

Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia received the prestigious 'Sikh of the Year' award from Viscount Slim, a pro-India cross bench peer at London. Montek Singh Ahluwalia has been conferred with the title for his outstanding contributions to the growth of modern ...

In an effort to prevent the destruction of the Gulf of Mannar, one of the last remaining intact ecosystems on earth and home to the controversial Ram Sethu, prominent ecologists, academics, scientists and religious leaders from around the world will gather in London next week.
The meeting, called ...

The Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mohammad ElBaradei, has been selected for the 2008 Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development. ElBaradei’s role was instrumental in India clinching the Safeguards Agreement with the IAEA, a pre-condition for ...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi has once again raised the issue of ceasefire between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). While speaking at a conference in Coimbatore on November 16, the DMK chief alleged that the bullets, otherwise meant to kill the ...