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US appoints first woman ambassador to India
19 Dec 2011
A South Asia expert, 64-year-old Nancy J Powell, the new American ambassador to India, has served as the US ambassador to Pakistan and Nepal, and in earlier Indian postings served as political counselor in Delhi and consul-general in Kolkata
Technocrat-politician Ajit Singh takes charge of aviation
By By Nithin Rao | 19 Dec 2011
The civil aviation sector in India, which has hit turbulence in recent months and faces a massive loss of between $2.5 billion and $3 billion in the current fiscal, has a new minister at the helm —— Ajit Singh, a technocrat-politician from the farm belt of western Uttar Pradesh
PM honest, good, but remote-controlled: Anna Hazare
19 Dec 2011
Failure to pass an effective anti-corruption bill would result in his launching his fast at Ramlila maidan in Delhi and the start of the ‘jail bharo’ agitation
Former French president Chirac sentenced for graft
15 Dec 2011
Former French President Jacques Chirac has been given a two-year suspended sentence for diverting public funds and abusing public trust
Team Anna’s anti-graft stir among top 10 ‘Time’ stories
08 Dec 2011
Hazare's "fasts, even the threat of them, triggered mass demonstrations of support across India's major cities and heaped pressure on the government", Time wrote
Team Anna’s anti-graft stir among top 10 ‘Time’ stories
08 Dec 2011
Hazare's "fasts, even the threat of them, triggered mass demonstrations of support across India's major cities and heaped pressure on the government", Time wrote
And now, external affairs minister Krishna in mining scam
08 Dec 2011
The complaint filed by businessman and social activist T J Abraham before the Karnataka Lokayukta Court names two other former chief ministers, N Dharam Singh and H D Kumaraswamy as well
Harvard gives Subramanium Swamy the boot
08 Dec 2011
Human Rights Commission pulls up MP government
06 Dec 2011
Assange wins right to appeal in Supreme Court
06 Dec 2011
India registers another thumping win at the UN
02 Dec 2011
Twitter hires Google’s Bruce Daisley as UK sales director
02 Dec 2011
Twitter has hired Google’s Bruce Daisley, director of YouTube display advertising, as its first UK sales director
Twitter hires Google’s Bruce Daisley as UK sales director
02 Dec 2011
Twitter has hired Google’s Bruce Daisley, director of YouTube display advertising, as its first UK sales director
Bail for Kanimozhi and 4 others; no luck for Behura
28 Nov 2011
The Delhi High Court today granted bail to DMK MP M K Kanimozhi and four other accused in the 2G spectrum scam case, while it reserved an order on the bail plea of former telecom secretary Siddharth Behura