New Delhi: Furious at the continuous disruptions over the women’s reservation bill, Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari Tuesday suspended seven opposition MPs for the remaining part of the session and adjourned the house till 2 p.m. Those suspended are Samajwadi Party’s Kamal Akhtar, Veerpal Singh Yadav, Amir Alam Khan and Nand Kishore Yadav, Janata Dal-United’s (JD-U) Ejaz Ali, Lok Janshakti Party’s (LJP) Sabir Ali and Rashtriya Janata Dal’s (RJD) Subhash Prasad Yadav. The seven continued to squat near the chairman’s podium even after the house was adjourned. Marshals would have to be called in...

Having the Union President a Woman, Loksabha Speaker a Woman, Ruling front leader a Woman, Oposition leader a Woman, Foreign Secretary a Woman, and so on.... what will prevent the law makers of the country to permit 33% reservation quota to woman? It should be a cake walk this time. Happy women's day....

Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala government’s budget for 2010-11 today proposed to extend the ambit of welfare schemes like employment guarantee and food subsidy, reduce taxes on tourism, beer and wine and impose fresh ones on direct to home services and jewellery shop owners. The budget proposed a 10 per cent hike in tax on liquor other than beer and wine . ________________ The onlyState ever to reduce price on alcoholic drinks ...

Washington: An India-born rocket scientist has lifted the veil off Bloom Box fuel-cell, a revolutionary new technology that holds the promise to supply the world with abundant clean, cheap energy. "The core of our technology is simply sand," said K.R. Sridhar, 49, founder of the Silicon Valley clean tech start-up Bloom Energy at unveiling of his invention in San Jose, California on the campus of eBay, one of Bloom’s first customers. The sand is the raw material used to make wafers that can make electricity. Sridhar has persuaded some big names that by making them out of sand he can make fuel ...

New Delhi: The government should give an assurance of security to M.F. Husain and bring him home, the CPI-M said Thursday following reports that the artist had been given Qatari nationality while the BJP maintained that his art had hurt people’s feelings. The Congress maintained a middle of the road stance and said it was his personal decision. The reactions came following a report that 95-year-old Husain, under attack from the Hindu right for his paintings on Hindu goddesses and hopping between Dubai and London because he is unable to come home, had been given Qatari nationality. "I, the I...

Why India needs a separate budget session for Railways.   Railway does not require a separate budget session. Railway does not have any great scope for reforming or expansion. What are announced in the budget are only improvements and maintenance programs. All these can well cover in the regular budget announced by the Finance Ministry. This is waste. ...

From Net; “On 21 March 1948, Mohammed Ali Jinnah , the Governor general of Pakistan, declared that Urdu would be the only official language for both West and East Pakistan . The people of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), whose main language is Bengali , started to protest against this. On 21 February 1952, (8 Falgun 1359 in the Bengali calendar ), students in the present day capital city of Dhaka called for a provincial strike. The government invoked a limited curfew to prevent this and the protests were tamed down so as to not break the curfew. The Pakistani police fired on the stu...

Washington: Tiger Woods Friday apologised for "irresponsible" behaviour in his first public statement since a November car crash unleashed a storm of revelations about extramarital affairs and stopped his illustrious golfing career in its tracks. Woods admitted he had "cheated" on his wife, Elin, a number of times and would re-enter a sex rehabilitation clinic to help save his marriage of more than five years. "I am deeply sorry for the irresponsible and selfish behaviour I engaged in." Woods gave his mother, Kultida, a long hug after speaking for more than 10 minutes, and took no questions fr...

Just happen to dig out this one from net!...

A man intentionally crashed a small aircraft into a building next to an FBI office in the Texas state capital of Austin, triggering a large explosion, according to local officials.     The plane crashed into a seven-story building at about 5am NZT (11 am EST), said Helena Wright, a spokeswoman for the Austin Police Department. Two people were hospitalised in the incident and one person is unaccounted for, but there are no deaths reported.     The Texas man stole the plane and crashed it intentionally, after setting his house on fire beforehand, a federal official told CNN. "This was apparent...

It was not necessary for Khan to make that statement on the Pakistan player's issue in IPL. Other two ceni artists Preethy and Silpa handled with maturity. Khan, being one of the biggest influential person in Indian general public with his huge celibrity status should have been more responsible in making public comments.  ...

-/Indian Congress party General Secretary Rahul Gandhi (C) walks on a railway platform in Mumbai yesterday. During his four-hour stay, Rahul boarded a local train from Andheri to Dadar, interacted with people on the streets and in the train and signed autographs, despite a war of words with the Shiv Sena and other right-wing outfits, which had raised security concerns over his visit to India's financial capital/- Critics may argue that, Rahul's such gestures to venture out into public is at a very high cost. My understanding is that, Rahul, India's PM in waiting has to be groomed up appropriat...

Mumbai: Two people, including a sub-inspector, were killed and four policemen were injured when a 27-year-old drunk woman driver rammed into their vehicles early Saturday, police said. The accident occurred just before 1 a.m. when Nooriya Yusuf Ahluwalia was speeding along the Marine Lines, an officer of the L.T. Marg police station said. There, she apparently lost control of her Honda CRV and rammed into a stationary traffic police Qualis and two other vehicles - a moving motorcycle and a taxi. Motorcyclist Afzal Mukhmojiya, 35, was rushed to the nearby Saifee Hospital but was pronounced dead...

Islamabad, Jan 28: Pakistan's beleaguered President Asif Ali Zardari, who is facing fresh challenges since the Supreme Court scrapped a graft amnesty that benefited him, has sacrificed hundreds of black goats to ward off the "evil eye" since he moved into the presidency in 2008. A black goat is slaughtered almost daily to ward off the "evil eye" and protect Zardari from "black magic", the Dawn newspaper reported. ...................... Any takers on this side of the fence?    ...

New Dehi, January 28: Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza has called off her engagement with childhood friend Mohammed Sohrab Mirza, citing ‘incompatibility’. The 23-year-old Hyderabadi had got engaged to 24-year-old Sohrab, who is from an influential business family, in July, 2009. "We were friends for years but found ourselves incompatible as fiances. I wish Sohrab the very best in life," Sania said in a brief statement without elaborating the exact reasons for the break up. --------------------- Oh boy, She is an international celebrity,   Good luck!        ...