Sukhi Chahal was arrested for being declared a proclaimed offender in a case registered against him in Ludhiana for demanding a ransom from Congress leader Malkit Singh Birmi, posing as an extremist from Babbar Khalsa in 1992, during assembly elections.
Chahal was recently sent to jail after he was given judicial remand by the duty magistrate. However he will have to cool his heels in jail and wait to get bail as his application could not be filed because his case file is an old one and has gone …
During the recent Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas in Jaipur, a number of NRI doctors expressed a willingness to serve in their places of origin. Consequently the Health Ministry is setting up a website where such doctors can register and an NRI cell has been set up to coordinate with them.
After Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad urged people of Indian origin living abroad to make concrete contributions in developing healthcare in the country, many people expressed their desire to contribute and the idea emerged to allow the health department to …
In his late night talk show TV host Jay Leno remarked that the Golden Temple, the Sikhs’ holiest shrine, was a summer home for wealthy Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
Leno used a photograph of the Golden Temple in a segment on vacation homes of Republican presidential candidates during his The Tonight Show.
The Indian external affairs ministry is to take up the matter with the US Indian ambassador who will be asked to take it up with US authorities. Sikhs in the US are also annoyed by Leno’s …
Jagrani 36. of Bundlekhand in MP, the wife of a marginal farmer, has given birth to her 16th child. The attending doctor said the mother is anaemic and the infant is underweight.
Jagrani’s oldest daughter is 18 years of age. She and two other daughters and six sons have survived. 2 sons and four daughters died after birth.
A right to food activist said this should prompt the government to consider why its Family Planning scheme and Malnutrition scheme are not reaching remote areas of the state.
The mother and father …
General VK Singh has taken the government of India to court in a dispute over his age.
Gen Singh says his birth records show he was born in 1951 and is not due to retire until May 2013. However records at India’s ministry of defence say he was born in 1950 which means he is due to retire in 2012.
Gen Singh is a highly decorated soldier who became army chief in 2010. He argues that the issue is one of integrity and honour.
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Data released by an election watchdog shows that in the poll-bound states of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur, a third of the 100 ministers have criminal charges pending against them.
Uttar Pradesh has 46 percent, of which 30 percent have criminal cases like murder and attempted murder pending against them.
Punjab has 39 percent, followed by Uttarakhand and Goa. By contrast, in Manipur no criminal cases are pending against any minister.
India’s long struggle to make it to the Oscars has been unsuccessful again.
India’s national award winning Malayalam film Adaminte Makan Abu did not make it to the first short list of Oscar’s foreign language category.
The unsuccessful Oscar contender movie deals with the struggle of a poor perfume seller to make enough money to make the Haj pilgrimage.
Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Bipasha Basu, Bobby Deol, Omi Vaidya, Sonam Kapoor, Vinod Khanna, Sikander Kher, Johnny Lever
In 1915 Romania sent its pure gold collection worth a zillion crores to Russia for safe deposit. Russia of course chose to never give it back. But now good bilateral terms between the two countries means Russia is sending all that gold back to Romania. How? Just the way it came — by train. That simple? Not really especially when there are some well trained players out there whose mission is …
Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Kay Kay Menon, Atul Kulkarni, Ravi Kissen, Zakir Hussain, Shweta Bhardwaj
Four friends — Pankaj (Naseeruddin Shah), Bobby (Atul Kulkarni), Shakti Chinappa (Ravi Kissen), Albert Pinto (Kay Kay Menon) — want to rob a lonely house in a lonely stretch of it’s Rs 20 crore fake Indian currency… and the very fake note vending machine that lies in there. Just one problem: They have no plan….
A film low on publicity and marketing can also be a boomer proving all the laws of Bollywood wrong. Specially when it …
A team of researchers led by Kasturi Haldar and Souvik Bhattacharjee of the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases, has made a fundamental discovery in understanding how malaria parasites target proteins to the surface of the red blood cell that enables sticking to and blocking blood vessels thus causing the deadly disease.
Malaria kills nearly a million people each year and is caused by a parasite that infects red cells in the blood.
Haldar and Bhattacharjee and their collaborators discovered that for host-targeted malaria proteins the first step …