23:52
UN Security Council has postponed till tomorrow a vote on a resolution on Syria amid efforts to get Russia and key Western nations to agree on measures required to end the violence and bloodshed in the troubled Arab nation. The 15-nation Council was scheduled to vote on the Syrian resolution...
23:40
The United States condemned a deadly attack today on a bus packed with Israelis in Bulgaria that the government in Israel blamed on arch foe Iran. Four people were killed and many more wounded today in the blast at a Black Sea airport in the city of Burgas, the first attack against Israelis on...
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One person was killed and at least 40 were injured today in a clash between workers and the managerial staff at the Maruti Suzuki India's Manesar plant here, forcing stoppage of work. One person died of burn injuries in the incident, Gurgaon Police Commissioner K K Sindhu told PTI. In...
22:20
AFP reports: Britain has drawn up contingency plans to deploy another 2,000 troops for the London Olympics after a private security firm said it could not provide enough guards, a minister said on Wednesday.Sports minister Hugh Robertson said that the government would ensure security giant G4S...
21:37
Law Minister Salman Khurshid, who met Anna Hazare recently, today rejected his charge that the government was trying to create a wedge between Team Anna members.No one is breaking Team Anna. You (media) don't break it...no one is breaking Team Anna, Khurshid told reporters at the sidelights of a...
20:32
President Bashar al-Assad's brother-in-law and Syria's defense minister were killed on Wednesday when a suicide bomber attacked a crisis group of senior ministers and security chiefs meeting in central Damascus, according to state television and activists. Read the full story here
19:17
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh saying, he was glad that cricket matches will resume between us. Matches will be a strong confidence measure building, he said. The BCCI announced recently that it had decided to resume cricketing ties by inviting the...
18:39
Anna Hazare writes to the PM saying he met Salman Khurshid, but it was not a secret meeting. Hazare says Khurshid asked him to keep the meeting a secret during which he told him to not to participate in the fast. Anna acknowledged the meeting at a press conference in his village of Ralegan Siddhi...
18:31
Which neta said what on Rajesh Khanna's death...Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar: Khanna's death was an irreparable loss for the Hindi cinemaMaharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan: Rajesh Khanna was a heartthrob of three generations. He had scaled unprecedented heights of popularity during his...
18:20
After having decided to abstain from voting in the Presidential poll, CPI today extended support to UPA's nominee Hamid Ansari for his re-election as Vice President. CPI will support Hamid Ansari in the Vice Presidential election, the party's National Secretary D Raja told PTI after a CPI Central...
18:08
The unofficial village council in Uttar Pradesh that put restrictions on women's behavior that have been compared to the tactics of the Taliban has been widely criticized by the media and officials as retrograde.Read
18:05
With only nine days left before the London Olympics kick off, here's a look at the high points and low points of Indian athletes at the Summer Games over the years. Although India has been competing in the Olympics since 1900, when it was still a British colony, its medal tally has been somewhat...
18:04
Honesty...@iDanPrakash RIP RAJESH KHANNA I never have watched a film of urs but i had heard of ur name.
17:39
Hollywood actress Halle Berry was rushed to hospital in Los Angeles last night following an accident on the set of her latest movie, it has been claimed.It is believed that Halle hit her head on some concrete after taking a nasty fall while shooting The Hive in the city. Read more on the Daily...
17:37
The Stardust magazine cover, probably from 1973, when Rajesh Khanna was already a superstar. The cover asks, Is Rajesh Khanna married? Khanna was dating girlfriend of seven years Anju Mahendru. After the breakup Khanna married Dimple Kapadia before the release of her first movie Bobby, on...
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In other news...Terming the Maharashtra government's objection to a CBI probe into the Adarsh scam as illegal and malafide, the Defence ministry today rejected the ruling by a state-appointed judicial panel that the land on which the controversial building stands belongs to the state. In an...
17:25
Vijay, a close friend of Khanna who had been interacting with the media since his illness, said, Kaka's food intake had gone down over the last few days making him very weak. The news of Khanna's death this afternoon spread like wildfire and hundreds of teary-eyed fans descended at his...
17:00
@iamsrk Mom & me use to sit & watch Mr.Khanna's films back to back.Whenever life felt tough u made us feel how love could change it all. will miss u.@ajit_ranade Dara Singh, Mrinal Gore, Rajesh Khanna...suddenly it's dark in Mumbai. The Stars have dimmed.Narendra Modi tweeted: With his...
16:51
Back and forth from Mr Khanna to tell you that ...The Delhi High Court has issued a notice to scam tainted former CWG boss Suresh Kalmadi on a PIL seeking to stop him going to the London Olympics. The Sacked CWG Organising Committee Chairman Suresh Kalmadi, accused in the...
16:42
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee pays homage to Rajesh Khanna.She said he was a symbol of romance and in his death the film world has lost a pole star. Rajesh Khanna was always a symbol of romance. His smiling face and the ability to connect with people at ease had made him...
16:40
Other stories, then...Odisha-based sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik's sculpture of Hindu god Ganesha has won two gold medals at the just-concluded Solo International Sand Art Contest in Marbella, Spain, the artist said on Wednesday. Pattnaik's 3.5-metre sand sculpture bearing message - Save The...
16:23
And another one... @iamsrk To live with intention & walk to the edge. Play with abandon, choose with no regret. Smile & made us do the same. Sir, u defined our era. RIP
16:22
RIP Rajesh Khanna, Babu Moshai, Amar Prem, Kati Patang and Pushpa -- trending on Twitter. That's 50 per cent of India trends are for Mr Khanna. And he's trending on worldwide as well.But as said Tushar Gandhi (great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi) tweeted, @TusharG: Rajesh Khanna does not need...
16:16
Returning to Rajesh Khanna, senior journalist Kanchan Gupta tweets...@KanchanGupta: I interviewed Rajesh Khanna after famous New Delhi LS constituency election in which he contested against LK Advani, and lost narrowly. Rajesh Khanna said, with great flourish, Kya kisi ko maloom hai Waterloo ke...
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On to other news...The National Commission for Women today submitted a list of recommendations to Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on the July 10 molestation of a girl in the city. We submitted a list of recommendations including steps for rehabilitation of the victim, punishment of the...
16:07
Aise attan button aate jaate rahenge, lekin Rajesh Khanna ko koi chhoo bhi nahi sakta. Main kya aise aire gaire logon se darr jaaunga?Rajesh Khanna on the new actor on the block -- Amitabh Bachchan -- after Zanjeer's release.
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Success got into his (Rajesh Khanna's) head. And the first victim of this was his girlfriend of seven years Anju Mahendru. After the breakup Khanna married Dimple Kapadia before the release of her first movie Bobby, on the rebound. The story goes that he got his baraat to go in...
16:01
Sometime in March this year I was taking a Tamil aunt of mine around Mumbai. As we went around on the Carter Road in Bandra I showed her Rajesh Khanna's bungalow, Aashirward. My sister even named her son after him,' she told me. Such was his craze'.Rajesh Khanna died today after years of...
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British broadcaster Jack Pizzey in a 1973 BBC documentary Bombay Superstar' described Khanna as having the charisma of Italian actor Rudolph Valentino and the arrogance of Napoleon.
15:51
The NDTV story... 1. Before he married Dimple Kapadia, Rajesh Khanna bought a lavish bungalow called Dimple from actor Rajendra Kumar and renamed it Aashirwad. The house had proved unlucky for Jubilee Kumar, but Rajesh Khanna delivered 15 hits in a row, a record still unbroken by any actor.2. As...
15:45
BJD Lok Sabha MP Jay Panda says it was Rajesh Khanna (the film Aradhana) who inspired him to become a pilot. Condolences keep pouring in, his fan following remains unabated, it seems. And we're not talking of the Havell's ad. .
15:37
A woman physical education teacher was sentenced to one month's imprisonment by a Coimbatore court on Monday for forcibly cutting the hair of a 10-year-old girl four years ago. The teacher was enraged when she saw the girl's hairstyle, which was not in conformity with what was...
15:27
Rajesh Khanna's son-in-law speaking to the media confirms the death and says the actor has gone to a very nice and heavenly place and asks his fans to say their prayers for the star.
15:25
Despite repeated requests from the Visva-Bharati university here to resume classes, the parents of the traumatised girl who was made to drink her own urine today got her admitted to another school. The girl's father Manoj Mistry said the ten-year-old girl has got admission in Bolpur High School....
15:22
HSBC's staff in India have come under the scanner for deficiencies in their role as offshore reviewers of the global banking giant's compliance to safety mechanism against money laundering and terrorist financing. A probe by the US Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations found that...
15:19
The area around Aashirwad, Carter Road, Rajesh Khanna's bungalow, has been cordoned off with people in their thousands thronging the place. The actor passed away this afternoon. He was 69. The cremation will take place at 11.30 am tomorrow. Moving on from Rajesh Khanna to other news...
15:13
The Mint on the utterly corny and weirdly feelgood nostalgia. Read
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Dr Manmohan Singh '@PMOIndiaPM: I convey my heartfelt condolences to the members of the bereaved family and countless fans and admirers of Shri RajeshKhanna.Derek O'Brien '@quizderekI bunked school for him.I bought 'dow ka char' tickets in black to see his...
14:55
If you've been reading everything there is to read about Rajesh Khanna, take a break. And here's why. Lack of exercise is now causing as many deaths as smoking across the world, a study suggests.The report, published in the Lancet to coincide with the build-up to the Olympics, estimates that...
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Karan Johar '@kjohar25the magic...the mannerism...the mania of RAJESH KHANNA is inscribed in every archive of indian cinema...forever....RIP SIR!!!Anupam Kher '@AnupamPkherRajesh Khanna gave us a crash course in Romance. He introduced us to a special twinkle in the eye that made us feel good...
14:36
Rajesh Khanna was in a long-term relationship with Anju Mahendru in the early '70s, and later went on to marry Dimple Kapadia, 15 years younger to him, in 1973. The couple split in 1984. Though they lived separately, the couple never completed divorce formalities. Khanna was also romantically...
14:33
Pay your tribute to Rajesh Khanna here.
14:31
kunal kohli @kunalkohliThe word SuperStar was used first for Rajesh Khanna.His style.His Ada.His charm.His smile.His songs.His films. He.Will always live onpankaj mani @impankajmaniRajesh Khanna-Mumtaz holds the record for being the only romantic on screen pair in Cinema to have had...
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Born as Jatin Khanna on December 29, 1942, he was adopted and raised by foster parents. He began taking interest in acting while in school and performed in a number of plays. It was his uncle who changed Khanna's first name to Rajesh when he decided to join films. In 1965, he won an all...
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Scores of worried fans had gathered outside his Aashirwad home on Carter Road in Bandra today following the news that he was critical. Khanna was hailed as India's first superstar after 15 consecutive solo superhits between 1969 and 1972 including Aradhana, Haathi Mere Saathi, Anand and Amar...
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Also read: At his peak, Rajesh Khanna was a phenomenon unlike anything Indian cinema had seen.
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Read: The Loneliest Superstar Ever From the dizzying heights of stardom to the depths of despair, the Rajesh Khanna story is unsurpassable.Rajesh Khanna's last rites will be held tomorrow.
13:57
Prashanth @itisprashanthRIP rajesh khanna. sorry for not even watching one of your films as i cannot understand hindi. thanks to karunanidhi!
13:52
His daughter Twinkle Khanna, who is pregnant, son-in-law Akshay Kumar and estranged wife Dimple were with him during his last hours. He passed away at his bungalow, Aashirwad at Carter Road, Mumbai.
13:48
Rajesh Khanna passes away. The yesteryear actor was discharged from hospital on Tuesday afternoon, his third hospitalisation since he was diagnosed with a kidney problem. Sources said that the actor was not responding to medicines, and had been put on IV and had been grasping for breath since...
13:39
In other news, states have informed the Centre that they don't have the problem of manual scavenging, but the latest Census suggests otherwise and the Government is trying to find out their numbers, Social Justice Minister Mukul Wasnik said today. Addressing an ASSOCHAM conference on Social...
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Khanna has been admitted to Mumbai'Lilavati hospital on Saturday evening due to weakness, a week after being released from there. Khanna's estranged wife Dimple Kapadia and daughter Rinkie were with him. Earlier, on June 20, it was reported that Khanna had stopped taking food. But the next...
13:10
Yesteryear superstar Rajesh Khanna's health worsens. The actor is at his residence in Mumbai and has not been admitted to hospital, but his condition is critical.
13:06
The Pakistan government will write to its Indian counterpart to allow the cross-examination of key witnesses in the Mumbai attacks case following a court's rejection of the findings of a judicial commission that visited India to gather evidence, a prosecutor has said. Mohammad Azhar Chaudhry, a...
13:00
In the backdrop of the HSBC story (see our 12:51 pm post) -- How London became the money-laundering capital of the world. Read
12:57
Mamata Banerjee and Dr Hamid Ansari have at least one thing in common -- both used their own cars during important political events. Mamata shunned the government car when she drove to Writers' Building to assume charge as West Bengal CM, while Ansari's daughter, Dr Nurya Ansari got...
12:51
HSBC provided a conduit for drug kingpins and rogue nations, according to a US Senate committee investigating money laundering claims at the bank.Its report said suspicious funds from countries including Mexico, Iran and Syria had passed through the bank.The president and chief executive of...
12:43
After a U.S. navy ship fired shots at a small boat, killing one Indian fisherman and injuring three others, the US expressed its condolences. But the US, in a note from the embassy in New Delhi, also defended the decision to fire, saying the vessel disregarded non lethal warnings and rapidly...
12:41
India's male archers plan to do an action replay of Sourav Ganguly's torso-baring celebrations if they manage to notch up an Olympic medal at cricket's Mecca -- the hallowed turf of Lord's. Veteran archer Tarundeep Rai is all excited about taking aim at the historic cricket venue which will...
12:35
India will have a new president next week, after a complicated procedure of indirect elections that begins Thursday,' Hartosh Singh Bal wrote in the Latitude blog of The New York Times.Though the post is largely ceremonial,' he writes, it matters sometimes, and these days it does:...
12:30
In other news... The Coca-Cola Co. says its global sales volume rose 4 percent in the second quarter. Here's a look at how that played out by region: Asia Pacific -- 8 percent; Europe -- down 4 percent; India -- up 20 percent; Latin America -- up...
12:26
According to Derek O'Brien, Rajya Sabha MP and party spokesperson, the party has always been a responsible ally of the UPA.We are voting for two reasons for Pranab Mukherjee, one is that we are a responsible, principled and dependable ally of the UPA,' said Derek O'Brien. Mamata-di has this happy...
12:18
The monsoon session of Parliament will begin on August 8 and end on September 7. Parliamentary Affairs Minister P K Bansal says the government will recommend the same to the President.
12:12
In Mumbai, a 74-year-old man died and two constables were seriously injured after being hit by a speeding car in Mumbai early this morning. The police are trying to ascertain if the young driver of the car was drunk and if he is underage. The accident happened around 7.30 am in the Marine...
12:05
Yuvraj Singh (30) was treated for a rare form of cancer, called mediastinal seminoma in the US last year. His health deteriorated during the World Cup last year.That's the picture Yuvraj tweeted in January after he was discharged from hospital, celebrating with his mates.
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Others in the probables list include...India: Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Suresh Raina, R. Ashwin, Pragyan Ojha, Umesh Yadav, Ashok Dinda, Ajinkya Rahane , Manoj Tiwary, Rahul Sharma, Vinay Kumar, Zaheer Khan, Yuvraj Singh, Robin Uthappa,...
11:50
Just in: Yuvraj Singh in India's preliminary squad of 30 for the ICC World Twenty20 Championships. Off-spinner Harbhajan Singh and batsman Ambati Rayudu also included in the preliminary squad for the World Twenty20Championships.
11:47
After being called everything from Underachiever to Poodle, maybe it's time to give Manmohan Singh the one appellation that truly belongs to him: Super Bureaucrat.Read the story on Firstpost.com
11:44
When Rediff.com's Indrani Roy asked Professor Amartya Sen in Kolkata on Tuesday evening what he thought of a Bengali adorning the Presidency, this is what the Nobel Laureate said: Bengalis are now adorning so many illustrious posts across the globe and,...
11:42
Though Presidential polls are yet to held, Gondwana University has already described UPA candidate Pranab Mukherjee as the 14th President of the country in a just-published textbook.The book, 'Democracy in India', has been prescribed for first year students of BA (Political Science) for the...
11:35
Here's the inside story on the vice-presidential elections of how Mamata Banerjee is lending Hamid Ansari a helping hand. This, apparently, is how the saga unfolded. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is otherwise not known to assert himself, reportedly lobbied hard for Ansari's candidature....
11:29
The TMC was absent at the show of strength for Hamid Ansari, but West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee is sending her representative to a lunch being hosted by Congress president Sonia Gandhi for the MPs of UPA and supporting parties today. Mamata appears to be making a point by sending a relatively...
11:22
The UPA leaving Parliament House as Hamid Ansari finishes filing his papers. DMK's TR Baalu talking to Ghulam Nabi Azad. Hamid Ansari says he is very grateful to all those who extended support to him. The PM says, We are delighted that there is such a massive support for the renomination of Hamid...
11:16
Rahul Gandhi whispering to Sonia who sits next to Hamid Ansari. It's a show of strength for the UPA with most of the biggies present as Ansari files his papers for re-election. P Chidambaram, NCP chief Sharad Pawar, Ram Vilas Paswan, Farukh Abdullah, AK Antony. Point to be noted is that Mulayam...
11:10
Vice president Hamid Ansari files his papers for renomination fore re-election. He is the UPA's candidate for the vice-presidential polls. With him are the PM, Sonia Gandhi, Samajwadi Party boss Mulayam Singh Yadav, Rahul Gandhi and others.
11:03
In an unbelievable incident, a man has been arrested in Indore for reportedly keeping his wife's genitals locked for four years. The incident only came to light when the victim tried to commit suicide yesterday and was rushed to hospital.Read the report on the Indian Express
10:58
The big news yesterday, of course, was Mamata Banerjee's 360 degree turn over supporting Pranab Mukherjee's candidature. Apparently, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh donned the troubleshooter's hat to secure Trinamool's backing for Pranab Mukherjee, a success that has suddenly made UPA look strong...
10:40
Sylvester Stallone's former wife Sasha Czack has said that her son Sage suffered from excruciating pain after having dental surgery weeks before his death -- and was likely taking powerful painkillers. The 36-year-old Sage had five teeth pulled two weeks before he was found dead in...
10:39
Hollywood star Tom Cruise has been reunited with his daughter Suri for the first time since his divorce from Katie Holmes. The Mission Impossible star was pictured with the 6-year-old girl in New -- the first time they had been seen together since June 16, the Telegraph...
10:36
Veteran actor and BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha underwent a bypass surgery at a Mumbai hospital on Monday and will continue to stay there for a few days. The 66-year-old actor-turned-politician had been admitted to Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani hospital in suburban Andheri on July 2 after he...
10:32
North Korea has officially declared Kim Jong-Un its new supreme leader, reports the official Korean Central News Agency. The announcement came after Kim Jong-Un reshuffled his top military leadership over the past few days, ousting a senior general. Kim Jong-Un was also named the marshal of...
10:25
Talking of Jayalalithaa, the concern among senior leaders of the BJP, BJD and the JD-U is that she is not approachable at all. She does not return our phone calls, in which case shouldn't she stay away from national politics,' said one leader. Even Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's...
10:21
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa is in Chennai today to interact with the AIADMK MPs and MLAs at 4 pm at the party headquarters about the presidential polls. Which way will her party swing?Along with her decision on who to vote for, Jaya is also expected to announce her party's...
10:19
DMK MPs have descended on Delhi to attend Congress president Sonia Gandhi's lunch on Wednesday at Hotel Ashok, ahead of Thursday's presidential election. What is amazing is that while some are meeting at TR Baalu's bungalow, three or four are to gather at MK Alagiri's bungalow. The...
09:00
Union minister M K Alagiri will meet Vice President Hamid Ansari on Wednesday evening to convey the greetings over his candidature from DMK supremo Karunanidhi. He will be accompanied by DMK leader D Napolean.
08:57
US President Barack Obama has nominated two veteran diplomats to be the US ambassadors to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Almost two months after the incumbents resigned, Obama nominated James B Cunningham as the new US Ambassador to Afghanistan and Richard G Olson as the new envoy to...
03:52
Russia's foreign minister has said Moscow is ready to seek consensus in the UN Security Council on a new resolution aimed at ending Syria's civil war, but gave no indication how it would resolve a disagreement over a Britain-sponsored resolution. Moscow's draft resolution calls for the...
03:02
A key American Senator today threatened to force a vote on ending US aid to Pakistan unless a Pakistani doctor, who helped CIA trace Osama bin Laden, is released from prison. Senator Rand Paul took to the Senate floor this morning announcing his intention to force a Senate vote that, if...
01:04
The United States has disbursed USD 2.8 billion in civilian assistance to Pakistan since the passage of the Kerry-Lugar Berman Bill in 2009, the State Department said today. While figures for this fiscal are not yet available, since the passage of the Kerry-Lugar-Berman legislation in...
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today expressed grief over the passing away of veteran socialist leader Mrinal Gore, who was also a former member of the Lok Sabha, describing her as an inspiration for many generations of social activists. I am deeply saddened to learn of the passing away of...
00:11
US regrets Indian fisherman's killing, assures full probeEditor-in-chief of channel that recorded molestation quitsWill vote for Pranab for President, but with pain: MamataBJP takes a dig at Mamata for backing Pranab for PresidentSonia meets party MPs ahead of Prez pollYesterday's Live commentary
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The six Indian women athletes, who were caught for steroid doping last year, lost their case in the Court of Arbitration for Sports in Lausanne, Switzerland as it upheld the IAAF's appeal to impose two-year ban on them. A NADA panel had handed a lenient one-year ban on the six quartermilers,...
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