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The Olive Bar & Kitchen, at Khar, invited its new head chef Justin Dingle with an elaborate spread of lip-smackers.

Former Cricketer and local BJP MP Navjot Singh Sidhu today moved a privilege motion against Deputy Commissioner Kahan Singh Pannu in the Lok Sabha under Rule 222 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business of the House.

Doordarshan hits like Bharat Ek Khoj and Byomkesh Bakshi get a new lease of life as DVDs available at your nearest music store Long ago, a generation discovered India when Shyam Benegal's Bharat Ek Khoj aired on Doordarshan.

Beware of property dealers who promise you deals at rates lower than the existing market rates. K N Aggarwal, a retired export businessman residing in Noida Sector 40, was duped of Rs 15 lakh by a property dealer who opened an account using a fake identity, encashed the cheque and vanished.

The Prosecution in the Asaram Ashram boys' death case has filed an affidavit in the City Sessions Court —urging the court not to give anticipatory bail to the seven accused — as they might tamper with the evidence.

Schools say minister 'assured' them of withdrawing audit order, minister denies An initiative by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), jointly with the Directorate of Education, to audit records of Delhi's "private, unaided and recognised" schools to check money collected in fees and contributions seems to have hit a roadblock.

The Shiv Sena's plan to defy police orders and splash posters, hoardings and cutouts in the city showing Maratha ruler Chhatrapati Shivaji killing Afzal Khan to mark the 350th year of the incident as 'anti-terrorism day' has fizzled out.

Impersonator heldA resident of Shivala Road was arrested on Monday for impersonating as an income tax officer and cheating a shopkeeper.

As the country debates the Liberhan report, the man, who had launched a campaign against Babri Masjid demolition in West Bengal, has been forced by old age and ailments to remain silent.

The Calcutta High Court today directed the state government to shift the Central-state forces from all the schools of West Midnapore before December 30 . Rejecting the state government's request for a three-month time to shift the forces, a Division Bench of acting Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice Prasenjit Mondal said schools could not be used for other purposes.

Citing "Constitutional restraints" on the PV Narasimha Rao regime, the Liberhan Commission gave it a clean chit for its perceived inaction in preventing the demolition of the Babri Masjid.

Days before the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit, India on Tuesday reiterated that it would not accept a legally binding emission cut as part of any international agreement.

What happened on Dec 6, 1992, was not the culmination of a "movement", but rather the result of a "mobilisation" fanned, financed and facilitated by the Sangh Parivar, with Kalyan Singh reducing the UP administration to unquestioning compliancy, concludes the Liberhan Commission of Inquiry.

Calling former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee one of the party's "pseudo-moderates" — along with L K Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi — the Liberhan Commission makes several references to Vajpayee bracketing him with his hardline colleagues when it came to the demolition of the Babri Masjid.

A station officer (SO) in the Azamgarh district police was suspended today for slapping Goonda Act on a nine-year-old boy whose age he showed as 20 years in police documents.

"The preparation was accomplished with phenomenal secrecy, was technically flawless with consistency and assured results...The theme was power.

Former RSS chief K S Sudarshan on Tuesday said there was nothing to regret about the demolition of the Babri mosque, and that it was 'unfortunate' because it (demolition) did not happen according to the plan.

Despite efforts in the last few weeks to conclude an agreement on arrangements and procedures for reprocessing US-origin nuclear fuel, India and the US fell short of their objective with differences still persisting on the kind of reporting requirements to be included in the agreement.

Many injured as students slug it out at Panihati College Violence erupted at Panihati College in North 24-Parganas over distribution of nomination papers on Tuesday.

Stating that talks with the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) were leading nowhere because the banned outfit's leadership was outside the country, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday said the pressure on ULFA will be maintained despite the government's willingness to hold talks.