The Mumbai police on Tuesday arrested three more people in connection with the alleged spot-fixing scam in the Indian Premier League. The three arrested people are Alpesh Patel, Vindoo Dara Singh and Prem Taneja. Addressing at a Press conference here,Himanshu Roy, Joint Police Commissioner (Crime) said that they have recovered cash worth Rs one crore and twenty eight lakh from the residence of Alpesh Patel who is a hawala operator...........more

  When, in the 1980s, a local Bengal daily published an article describing Rama Prasad Goenka as “one of the greatest Bengalis”, the piece only reflected the deep sentiment the business tycoon had for Bengal, its people and culture. “If I’m not a Bengali, who is”? he would often say. “I’m the sixth generation of my family here, with deep roots going back nearly 200 years.” Ever...........more

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  Heavy Rains on Saturday lashed Delhi bringing down the day temperature by eight notches with winds further increasing the chill factor. The national capital witnessed a total of 18.6 mm of rains between 8.30 am on Friday and 5.30 pm on Saturday, MeT department said. Rain gauge recorded 15.4 mm of rains in past 24 hours ending 8.30 am on Saturday, while 3.2 mm was recorded between 8.30 am and 5.30 pm. Rains led to sudden drop in...........more

  One of the best actresses in tinsel town, Madhuri Dixit is very strict when it comes to health issues and adds she is quite good at multi-tasking too. "I am a multi-tasker. I can do two things together. I am very strict with myself and my kids too. I handle my diet and I am responsible for my health," she told in an interview. During her long and successful innings in the filmdom, she churned out hits like Tezaab,...........more

The 23-year-old gang-rape victim, who is battling for life for the past 10 days at Safdarjung hospital, was on Wednesday night flown to a hospital in Singapore.  Safdarjung hospital sources said the physiotherapy student was being shifted to Singapore. The name of the hospital was not known immediately.      Sources said the girl, who is on ventilator support since she was admitted...........more

  On Christmas Day, 25 December 2012 an event for the children aged 6 to 15 years, Brain Power Championship 2012, was organized under the aegis of Habile Academia Pvt. Ltd., My English Guru, I.P. Arts Society and mycity4kids.com, at Agrawal Dharmshala, Shakarpur, Near Vikas Marg, Delhi-110092. More than 150 students from various reputed schools of East Delhi participated in this event and they appeared in a test conducted for Brain...........more

  News Broadcasters Association (NBA) expresses deep shock and concern that several journalists, camera persons and media crew from various news channels have been injured in the police action yesterday at India Gate and expensive broadcast equipments have been damaged.  The fact that water canons were used at specific media locations and journalists even with mikes in their hands were injured suggests...........more

  Denying allegations that it attempted to blackmail Jindal Steel and Power Ltd (JSPL) to the tune of Rs. 100 crore, Zee News has demanded the immediate release of two of its senior journalists, terming the police action “illegal” and an attack on media freedom. Accusing the Central government of trying to “intimidate” the media because of its own mistakes, Zee News chief executive Alok Agrawal also...........more

Senior Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader and former Union minister K Yerrannaidu died in a road accident in Srikakulam district in the early hours of Friday, when the car he was travelling in collided with an oil tankerA member of the TDP politburo, Yerrannaidu (55) was returning to Srikakulam from Visakhapatnam after attending a wedding. He was shifted to the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences in Srikakulam town, where he was...........more

Coastal Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh are bracing up to face cyclone Nilam. A deep depression lying 500 km southeast of Chennai has intensified into a cyclone storm and is likely to cross the coasts between Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu and Nellore in Andhra Pradesh by Wednesday afternoon, bringing with it isolated heavy rainfall. On Tuesday, heavy rain disrupted day-to-day life in Chennai city. Schools and colleges remained closed for the...........more

  Circa 1998. The Indian film industry was battered, bleeding and blundering into the future. That is when I first met Yash Chopra, or Yashji as everyone called him. This was for a story on the NRI or non-resident Indian consumer, who was emerging as the harbinger of hope for Indian cinema. Sooraj Barjatya’s Hum Aapke Hain Kaun (1994) was a hit in the overseas market. Then Aditya Chopra’s ...........more

In an interactive session titled ‘Media Partnerships for Adolescent voices’, UNICEF and editors of major news publications held discussions today, on how media platforms can boost adolescent voices. The interactive session comes on the back of a yearlong tie-up with Hindi daily, Amar Ujala, designed to highlight crucial interventions made by UNICEF and partner organisations for the empowerment of adolescents across the country...........more