BMC proposal for LBT on builders raises hackles
Source: Indian Express
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-15 04:02:41 -0700 | sports-news
BMC considering a proposal to bring construction activity under the purview of local body tax (LBT). BMC proposes to charge LBT from builders on per square metre basis. As per the proposal, for every floor up to four storeys, LBT...
Congress workers protest BJP attack on PM Manmohan Singh
Source: Indian Express
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-15 16:18:05 -0700 | sports-news
Hundreds of Youth Congress workers on Wednesday gathered outside the BJP headquarters at Ashoka Road to protest against the saffron party's continuous demand for the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The Congress activists questioned the right of the BJP...
BJP calls case against Kataria a conspiracy, says GoM on CBI an eyewash
Source: Indian Express
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-15 04:02:35 -0700 | sports-news
A day after its leader Gulab Chand Kataria was chargesheeted in Sohrabuddin encounter case, BJP today accused CBI of working at Congress' behest to implicate its members under a 'well-planned conspiracy' and dubbed as an eyewash the setting up of...
Poor don''t get attention as best brains busy solving problems of rich: Pitroda
Source: Indian Express
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-14 23:53:37 -0700 | sports-news
The best brains in the world are busy in solving problems of the rich due to which issues of the poor do not get due attention, Sam Pitroda, advisor to the Prime Minister, has said. "We have built a society...
Saqib Saleem to play skating coach in Amole Gupte's next
Source: Indian Express
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-14 23:53:31 -0700 | sports-news
Saqib who is garnering rave reviews for his role as the gay journalist in Bombay Talkies is all set to play a pivotal role in actor-director-activist Amole Gupte's next directorial venture which would centre on the sport of roller-skating. While...
Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant commissioning postponed
Source: Indian Express
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-15 00:48:58 -0700 | sports-news
Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd has postponed the expected date of commissioning of the first unit of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant to next month...Russian collaboration at Kudankulam in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu. The Supreme Court had on May...
KKR vs Pune Warriors: Race between the stragglers
Source: Indian Express
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-14 22:10:58 -0700 | sports-news
Like the inaugural IPL game last week, Ranchi will once again enthusiastically queue up for the Kolkata Knight Riders vs Pune Warriors game on Wednesday. The excitement of being part of the glitzy T20 league, a novelty in these parts,...
Thriller Tuesday for home crowd at Chepauk
Source: The Hindu
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-14 21:43:11 -0700 | sports-news
The sixth edition of IPL proved to be a fulfilling and worthwhile experience for fans of the game in Chennai -- Photo: V...Questions about the three contentious stands and related issues had been put to rest if only temporarily. Nothing...
Arjun Rampal: I am neither macho nor metrosexual
Source: Indian Express
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-14 20:45:49 -0700 | sports-news
Model-cum-actor Arjun Rampal prefers to bill himself as a normal guy and neither a macho man nor metrosexual. "Neither am I metrosexual nor a macho...I don't wear nail paint etc," Arjun, who is one of the big names of model...
Depressed over JEE result, Army colonel''s son shoots self with service revolver
Source: Indian Express
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-14 20:45:38 -0700 | sports-news
Depressed over his performance in a competitive exam, an 18-year-old student, the son of a serving Indian Army colonel, allegedly shot himself using his father's service revolver on May 7 in Delhi Cantonment area. He succumbed to injuries at the...
Mumbai diamond broker's son abducted, killed by cousin
Source: Indian Express
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-14 20:45:28 -0700 | sports-news
A south Mumbai diamond broker's teenage son was kidnapped for ransom and murdered with the complicity of the boy's cousin who was a habitual gambler and heavily in debt, police said Tuesday. Thirteen-year-old Aditya Ranka's body was found at Pali...
Sense of poverty
Source: Indian Express
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-14 15:43:19 -0700 | sports-news
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen may have given the UPA a shot in the arm by slamming the opposition for disrupting Parliament and blocking passage of the food security bill, but the Left too has lapped up his remarks to hit...
Freeing the caged parrot
Source: Indian Express
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-14 15:43:18 -0700 | sports-news
On CBI reform, the court stepped in where the government failed. But that cannot be the end of the story Where does the Supreme Court get the power to oversee the Central Bureau of Investigation? Which other government will countenance...
LBT: Traders to start jail bharo andolan
Source: Indian Express
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-14 15:43:09 -0700 | sports-news
The Federation of Associations of Maharashtra (FAM) has decided to start a jail bharo andolan against Local Body Tax (LBT) from Thursday, said Ashok Garg, chairman of Iron and Steel Merchants Association. The decision comes after the government Monday asked...
UP ATS zeroes in on city shops involved in illegal arms racket
Source: Indian Express
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-14 15:43:09 -0700 | sports-news
THE Uttar Pradesh (UP) anti-terrorism squad (ATS) has identified at least seven arms and ammunition shops in Mumbai, Kanpur and other parts of UP that are believed to have been part of an illegal arms racket in which Mumbai resident...
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