Man gets 30 months in prison for shining laser at plane
Shining lasers at planes is said to be very dangerousA 19-year-old California man has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison for shining a laser pointer at two aircraft.In March 2012 Adam...
View ArticleIPL cricket: India's Tamil Nadu bars Sri Lanka players
The IPL is considered to be the world's showcase for Twenty20 cricket.Indian Premier League (IPL) matches involving Sri Lankan cricketers will not be played in Tamil Nadu, the state government has...
View ArticleUS jails Chinese engineer for exporting trade secrets
Information on unmanned drones was said to be among the stolen trade secretsA US court has sentenced a Chinese national to more than five years in prison for illegally exporting military trade secrets...
View ArticleDAWN TO DUSK Million dollar lady By Sharmista Chaudhury
Sitting pretty: Zia enjoys unwinding at her south Mumbai home after a day's work. Photo by Amey MansabdarZia Mody may not be a prophet, but her words are hallowed for her clients, ranging from the...
View ArticleBSP Leader Shot Dead at South Delhi Farmhouse
BSP leader Deepak Bharadwaj, the richest candidate in the 2009 Lok Sabha polls with declared assets of over Rs 600 crore, was shot dead this morning in his south Delhi farmhouse by three men who fled...
View ArticleCounterpoint L'Affaire Sanjay Dutt My argument for a lenient view on Sanjay...
File Photo: Sanjay after his arrest in 1993I have been in receipt of many tweets and e-mails criticizing me for advocating that the case of Sanjay Dutt, who has been convicted under the Arms Act for...
View ArticleCounterpoint Congress Bureau Of Investigations? There is so far no evidence...
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the government of Dr Manmohan Singh have come under criticism for the perceived ham-handedness of the CBI in the investigation of a complaint regarding...
View ArticleAct II Mukesh Ambani is readying for a grand come back in the telecom space....
Reliance The lights are rarely turned off at the Reliance Corporate Park in Navi Mumbai these days. Expats and Indian executives can be seen working late into the night on Reliance Industries’ newest...
View ArticleThe Mix Nixed What will happen to gutkha manufacturers as state after state...
RA ChandrooGaurakh Nath turns back to speak to us, unconcerned that he’s negotiating an autorickshaw through one of Delhi’s overcrowded roads. His jaws are working away at chewing and talking, and...
View Article“My Style Has Been To Gain Confidence By Delivering Good Quality” The...
Vishal KoulJaiprakash Gaur, founder, Jaypee Group I am perhaps the only person who has been actively associated with the construction industry from the time of the first Five Year Plan to the 11th...
View ArticleBare Bones Luxury CGH Earth’s USP is its innovative properties. Can its...
Feature In 19th-century south India, George Brunton’s business was a well recognised landmark in Fort Cochin. The Dutch shipbuilder ran his business from a sprawling colonial-style building with its...
View ArticleOnly A Homeland For A Toothless Paper Tiger Half-hearted gestures by...
APFast or farce M. Karunanidhi on a short-lived abstinence Also In This Story dmk Point-Blank Politics Assailed from without and within the family, Karunanidhi hobbles out of UPA with a cause as a...
View ArticleBilawal Leaves Pakistan After Alleged Tiff With Zardari Islamabad | Lahore
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has left for Dubai after a tiff with his father, President Asif Ali Zardari, over the affairs of the PPP, leaving the party without its star campaigner for Pakistan's general...
View ArticleTamils should resist being taken into current western agenda: N Malathy
[TamilNet, Tuesday, 26 March 2013, 12:36 GMT]Tamils should be wary of the intentions of the Western Establishments that are pricking Sri Lanka with this or that war crimes evidence released year after...
View ArticleAmbassador Blake cannot reverse Tamil genocide: Prof. Boyle
[TamilNet, Wednesday, 27 March 2013, 00:43 GMT]Responding to the statements made during the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia, Robert Blake's, interview with the BBC, where Blake appears...
View ArticleColombo accelerates Sinhala colonisation in Trincomalee district
[TamilNet, Monday, 25 March 2013, 13:23 GMT]The SL government is actively engaged in settling Sinhalese families from the Southern districts of the country in Sri Mangalapura, a Sinhala village in the...
View ArticleTamil National People’s Front rejects Geneva resolution
[TamilNet, Saturday, 23 March 2013, 00:07 GMT]“The resolution asks that local mechanisms to be put in place in order to carry out the investigations. We find it unacceptable and we reject it...
View ArticleChennai IPL: Jayalalithaa bowls out SL cricketers
March 26, 2013, 9:01 pmBY S. VENKAT NARAYAN Our Special CorrespondentNEW DELHI, March 26: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayaram Jayalalithaa said on Tuesday that Indian Premier League (IPL) matches will be...
View ArticleMR alleges Opposition playing politics with accountability issues
March 26, 2013, 12:00 pm By Shamindra FerdinandoPresident Mahinda Rajapaksa has rejected criticism that the country is being targeted by a section of the international community over accountability...
View ArticleFollow China, transform railways Subir Roy BS
China's decision to abolish its railway ministry - transfer operations and staff to a company, China Railway Corporation, and regulatory functions to the ministry of transport - inevitably raises...
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