Kochi | 12 hours ago
Kerala comedian Jagathy not to endorse lottery
Kochi, Aug 28 - Malayalam comedian Jagathy Sreekumar Saturday vowed not to endorse lottery tickets, a day after Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan urged celebrities to look into the merit of products promoted by them.Speaking to reporters here, Jagathy, a veteran comedian who has acted in more than a thousand Malayalam films, said that he has decided to follow the advice of chief minister. ' ... read more

New Delhi | 3 days ago
Himalayan treatment listed in traditional medicine system
New Delhi, Aug 25 - A traditional medicinal system popular in the Himalayan region was Wednesday included in the government's list of medical treatments.With an amendment made in the Indian Medical Central Council Bill, Sowa-Rigpa, one of the oldest methods practiced by health professionals in the country, will be part of health ministry's AYUSH department. AYUSH has already recognised Ayurveda, ... read more

Agartala | 5 days ago
'Holiday court' to help clear backlog of cases in Tripura
Agartala, Aug 23 - The Guwahati High Court has decided to set up a 'holiday court' in Tripura to deal with the huge backlog of pending cases, a judge said here Monday.'The 'holiday court' would be held on the last Sunday of each month. The first such court would be held Aug 29,' West Tripura district and sessions judge Gautam Debnath told IANS. 'Every second Saturday has been fixed for a 'lok adal ... read more

New Delhi | 6 days ago
India has no quality law journal
New Delhi, Aug 22 - How come there is no quality Indian law journal like the Harvard Law Review? The reason lies in lawyers being too self-centric and contributing little towards the development of law, or so believes Chief Justice of India - S.H. Kapadia.He first aired his displeasure with the ways of senior counsel while he was chief justice-designate. He took exception to senior lawyers skippi ... read more

6 days ago
'And Once Again' - Disappointing fare by Amol Palekar
Film: 'And Once Again'; Starring: Rituparna Sengupta, Rajat Kapoor, Antara Mali;Director: Amol Palekar; Rating: **1/2 Loss, an obviousness in life, is extremely difficult to depict on screen. Yet to see a veteran director like Amol Palekar fail at it is a tad disappointing. But it is not just Palekar's fault. The main problem lies with a flat, one-dimensional script and lack of imagination that ma ... read more

9 days ago
Sikkim cut off after landslide damages highway
Siliguri -, Aug 19 - Sikkim was cut off from the rest of India Thursday after a landslide washed away 40 feet of the National Highway 31A, considered the lifeline of the Himalayan state, in West Bengal's Darjeeling district.The landslide occurred Thursday afternoon near the 42nd km marker under Kalimpong police station following intermittent rainfall in the hills for the last couple of days, a dis ... read more

New Delhi | 9 days ago
Lawmakers' duties not defined, reveals transparency law query
New Delhi, Aug 19 - There are no defined duties and responsibilities for MPs and no accountability can be fixed on non-performing lawmakers, the Lok Sabha secretariat has told a right to information - activist.Dev Ashish Bhattacharya in an RTI application to the Lok Sabha in February asked whether there was a provision or rule through which MPs' duties and responsibilities could be defined. Bhat ... read more

New Delhi | 16 days ago
Foreign tourist arrivals dip in India
New Delhi, Aug 12 - Foreign tourist arrivals dipped in India in 2009 but domestic tourism saw a surge with some 650 million people preferring to explore the country's tourist spots, parliament was informed Thursday.In a written reply, Minister of State for Tourism Sultan Ahmed said that the number of domestic tourists in 2008 and 2009 was 562.98 million and 650.04 million respectively. He said the ... read more

Shillong | 18 days ago
Northeast power ministers to meet to overcome huge deficit
Shillong, Aug 10 - Power ministers from the eight northeastern states will assemble in this Meghalaya capital Wednesday to find ways to overcome the huge power deficit in the region.'There are various agendas but the focus would be to develop transmission lines and develop new power projects to meet the power requirements,' Meghalaya Power Minister A.T. Mondal told IANS Tuesday. Mondal, who is al ... read more

Bangalore | 20 days ago
J.S.Khehar new Karnataka chief justice
Bangalore, Aug 8 - J.S. Khehar was Sunday sworn in as the chief justice of the Karnataka High Court succeeding P.D. Dinakaran, who has been transferred to Sikkim in the wake of land grab charges against him.Khehar, who was chief justice of the Uttarakhand High Court, was administered the oath of office by Governor H. R. Bhardwaj at a simple ceremony at Raj Bhavan. Chief Minister B. S. Yeddyurappa, ... read more