Kathmandu, Dec 26 Bollywood star Aamir Khan-starrer action thriller “Dhoom:3”, which is expected to mint Rs.300 crore (about $48 million), is going so strong at the box office in Nepal that the local filmmakers have had to delay the release of their own films for the next three weeks fearing tough competition. “We do not […]
New Delhi, Dec 28 It was at 10.45 a.m. Saturday that Arvind Kejriwal stepped out of his Kaushambi residence in suburban Ghaziabad for his date with destiny. He was headed towards the metro station to take the oath of office for the chief minister of Delhi at Ramlila Maidan that was packed to capacity with […]
New Delhi, Dec 28 For years he championed the cause of the marginalised and fought for the rights of the voiceless, as he took up issues from transparency to corruption, but was not much known to the people of India. Arvind Kejriwal, whose fluent articulation of the cause and his motivated attitude catapulted him to […]
The politics of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is so convoluted that it has left its opponents, and perhaps the party itself, in a mystified state where no one knows what tomorrow may bring. If politics is supposedly the art of the possible, the new party is trying to achieve the opposite. For a start, […]
New Delhi, Dec 28 AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal, who took over as Delhi chief minister Saturday, would prove his government’s majority in the assembly Jan 2, an official statement said. In the Kejriwal government’s first cabinet meeting, it was decided that the first session of the new legislative assembly will be convened from Jan 1. […]
SanthoshBabu A political party established in November 2012 became a ray of hope for voters in Delhi. Kejriwal went on to defeat three-time Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. Delhiites disillusioned with corruption and poor governance put their faith in the AamAadmi Party (AAP) and Kejriwal, an engineer by training and a former joint commissioner with the […]
Bhubaneswar Wellknown sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik created a sculpture of NelsonMandela on the Puri beach in Odisha to pay tribute to the anti-apartheid icon who died on December 5th , at the age of 95. A large number of tourists and residents gathered on the beach to lay flowers near the five foot high sculpture Pattnaik created in […]
A Three-Day Celebratory Event to Commemorate 100 Years of Indian Cinema! December 10, 2013, Mumbai: Hundreds of Bollywood movie lovers and film enthusiasts will be transported to the biggest movie extravaganza this month as British Airways opens its doors to the ‘Silent Picturehouse’ in India. Taking place at the exclusive Four Seasons Hotel in Mumbai, from […]
Heath Minister Jillian Skinner today announced $500,000 to plan Stage 2 of the redevelopment of Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital. Mrs Skinner made the announcement as she joined Member for Hornsby Matt Kean to view progress on Stage 1 of the redevelopment, which is valued at $120 million. “Matt Kean has been a tireless advocate for a […]
New Delhi, Dec 18 India is hoping that its own regional navigation satellite, on the lines of China’s, will become operational by 2015, the government said Wednesday. Replying to a question on India’s space programme vis-a-vis China’s, Minister of State in the PMO V. Narayanaswamy told the Lok Sabha that the first satellite for the […]