Celebrated Indian industrialist Krishna Kumar Birla, better known as KK Birla, passed away on the morning of Saturday, August 30, 2008 at his Kolkata residence after a brief illness. He was 90 years old. He also served as a member of the Rajya Sabha.
 
KK Birla served as the chairman of ...

N Rangasamy, the chief minister of Puducherry has resigned from the post. By doing so, he has concluded a month-long political indecisiveness after Rangasamy's cabinet colleagues revolted against him. It was apparently after a directive from the Congress chief that N Rangasamy handed over his ...

Irked with the statement of UNCHR (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights) India has remarked that the statement was irresponsible and uncalled for. The Foreign Ministry is livid against the statement of UNCHR that there has been violation of human rights by J&K security forces in dealing ...

The spiritual leader of the Tibetans, Dalai Lama has been admitted to a hospital in Mumbai after he complained of stomach pains. On Wednesday, 27 August, the 73 year-old exiled Tibetan leader cancelled all his foreign trips citing exhaustion. A source said there was no cause for concern even though ...

Business magazine Forbes in its latest list of 100 most powerful women has listed UP CM Mayawati, and UPA Chairwomen Sonia Gandhi. Arguably, the UP chief minister's political success and prowess is being recognized nationally. Her latest moves in national politics are indicative of her becoming a ...

Telugu film superstar Chiranjeevi launched his political party ‘Praja Rajyam.’ The new party will aim to uplift downtrodden, and will work for the empowerment of poor and deprived. The famous superstar chose temple town of Tirupathi for the huge gathering and launch of political party. ...

First time in history of World Malayalee Council (WMC) some one from Gulf has become head of it. This time Soman Baby, who is an associate editor of Bahrain’s Gulf Daily News has been elected as head of the body at WMC’s sixth annual conference held in Singapore on Saturday. Election ...

Madhu Koda has resigned from the post of Chief Minister of Jharkhand. Submitting his resignation to State Governor Syed Sibtey Razi he pleaded that he was not confident of winning vote of confidence in the state assembly. With his resignation the path is carved for Shibu Soren to become CM of ...

Ex- CM of Madhya Pradesh and Bharatiya Janshakti Party president Uma Bharti received head injuries during a public meeting at Raisen, MP. The dais she was expected to deliver her speech collapsed; however, the injury is not a major one and she is out of danger. Evidently, she has got a Z-Plus ...

India Post, which has from time to time honoured great personalities by issuing commemorative postage stamps, has introduced new ones dedicated to the late Shehnai Maestro Ustad Bismillah Khan. The postage stamp was released by the Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh at his own residence. ...

Recognizing his relentless endeavor in promoting the ideals of Mahatma Gandhi, the Indian Government conferred upon noted social worker and writer Prof N Radhakrishnan the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana Award for 2007 on Wednesday, August 20, 2008.
 
It was senior Congress politician ...

RC Deka, currently in charge of examination department of AIIMS will likely be next director of the institute. According to sources Deka's name will now be forwarded to the Prime Minister's office by Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss. There has already been too much tussle between Health ...

The oldest person of India Habib Mian died at the age of 138 years. Factually, he was born on May 28, 1870 at Rajgarh in Alwar district of Rajasthan. Lately he had developed fever and a bout of dysentery which led to his death. Historically, he was a clarinet player and had joined the band of the ...

Ratan Jalan, the CEO of the Apollo Health and Lifestyle Limited (AHLL), was arrested by the Uttar Pradesh police on Tuesday, August 13 on charge of cheating, but was later released on bail by a city court. The case against Ratan Jalan was booked following a complaint filed by the promoter of Rex ...

Bal Thackeray is likely to be summoned by Lok Sabha Privilege Committee for his disparaging comments on MPs who had raised in Parliament the issue of his tirades against Hindi-speaking people living in Maharashtra. And, as per the procedure of the committee now Thackeray will have to deposit ...

Taslima Nasreen, the controversial writer, came back to New Delhi after spending four months in Sweden. After her arrival at Indira Gandhi International Airport, she was right away taken to the house of foreign diplomat by security agencies. In March, she was asked to leave the country following ...

Citing duress the main reason Akal Takht chief jathedar Giani Joginder Singh Vedanti has quit his post. However, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) was quick in refusing that charges have to do any thing with his resignation, rather personal reasons are behind ...

C Rangarajan, Chairman, Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council has speculated that GDP may grow at 7.5-8% this fiscal. Basing his opinion on certain factors responsible for slow growth he said that unless there is a change in price situation, monetary policy stance would ...

Ruling out any likelihood of Tata’s pullout from Singur, Bengal Industry Minister Nirupam Sen has said that Nano will roll out before Puja. Interestingly, there were reports in media that owing to perpetual opposition and protest from Trin Mool Congress (TMC), Tata Motors has wished for ...

Son of Pilibhit MP, Maneka Gandhi, Varun Gandhi has been accused by local trader Bharatveer Gangwar. Gangwar even has filed an FIR, and has named Varun a prime accused. The issue has come into limelight for Virendra Mohan Singh, Congress candidate from Pilibhit has shown his interest in this entire ...

Narendra Modi in his effort to fight terrorism in the state delivered some exciting and encouraging speeches, and, now these speeches have been uploaded on YouTube for public watching. Numbering 380, these speeches challenge terrorism and terrorists and call them ‘Merchant of ...

Shah Rukh Khan is the top taxpayer among actors; he paid Rs 34.2 crore as income tax in 2007-08 and came at number 13 among top tax payers. Similarly, Akshay Kumar with Rs 13.5 crore as income tax ranks 40th in the list, on the other hand cricketer Sachin Tendulkar with payment of Rs 8.8cr as tax ...

Veteran Marxist leader Harkishan Singh Surjeet died on Friday, August 1 following prolonged illness. In 1996, he was instrumental in keeping the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) out of power and eight years hence helped the Congress form a coalition government at the Centre. He was 92 years old. ...

In a move that came as a shock to many, the police chief of Himachal Pradesh Ashwani Kumar was appointed as the CBI director on Thursday, July 31 by the government as it was widely believed that the plum posting would be offered to ML Sharma, designated as special director in the investigating ...

India’s science and technology minister Kapil Sibal has said that India will be able to wrap up nuke deal with US by September end. He affirmed that India is confident of getting the support of the Nuclear Suppliers’ Group. His comments have come in the eve of his visit to Finland and ...

Indian foreign minister Pranab Mukharjee has said that India is committed for nuclear non-proliferation. Talking about the issue of resistant voices coming from Pakistan opposing Indo-US nuke deal, he said that every country is sovereign and is entitled to have its own view, and so has ...

M Vyasa, a very prominent name among Kannada short story writers, passed away at around 3 p.m. on Wednesday, July 23. He was 67 years old. It was while he was resting after lunch at his residence in Madhur Mannippadi in Kerala’s Kasargod district that he experienced a chest pain, which was ...

Highly acclaimed Bengali film director Tapan Sinha, it was decided on Monday, July 21, will be presented with the coveted Dadasaheb Phalke award for the year 2006. Tapan Sinha, who is 84 years old, is presently recuperating from a heart attack in a Kolkata hospital and has expressed his gratitude ...

J K Dutt a 1971 batch IPS officer of W. Bengal cadre is widely expected to become next chief of CBI. The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has recommended his name for the post after the superannuation of Vijay Shankar on July 31. Other than J K Dutt, special director of CBI ML Sharma of Rajasthan ...

Former Army Chief Field Marshal, Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, more popularly known as Sam Manekshaw passed away on Friday, June 27 at Military Hospital in Wellington, Tamil Nadu. He was the first of only two Indian military officers to hold the highest rank of Field Marshal of the ...