One of the strongest contenders and top two finalists on dance reality show Jhalak Dikhla Jaa, Lauren Gottlieb wasn’t very surprised when she didn’t clinch the trophy and television actress D

A big fan of Eric Clapton, Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, Lesle Lewis popularly called Lezz, defines himself as a “young” rockstar.

The Indian book market was always a favourable ground for international romantic novels.

With Assembly election fast approaching, senior leaders of the Congress and BJP are holding meetings on ticket distribution. Sources say both parties are worried about those MLAs who won last elections with thin margins.

Buoyed by three senior leaders — one each from JD(U), RJD and BSP — joining the BJP in Bihar on Monday, the saffron party renewed its attacks on chief minister Nitish Kumar on his flagship poll issue of special status for the state, saying it may reduce Bihar’s share in central grants.

The speculation can finally be put at rest with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh slated to meet his Pak counterpart, Nawaz Sharif, on September 29 in New York where both will be to attend the 68th UN General Assembly session.
The meeting will signal a thaw in bilateral relations after the thaw that had set in after the killing of five Indian soldiers by Pakistan Army troops in early August. The meeting has been much awaited after New Delhi rebuffed Islamabad’s efforts to resume the peace dialogue in the wake of the soldiers’ killing.

Amidst the coalgate controversy and the ongoing CBI investigation into it, the government is likely to consider a new coal block auction policy for private steel, cement and power firms on Tuesday.

The Centre on Monday filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court stating various developments taking place since 1992 on coal block identification and allocation to private companies.

Seeking to defend the controversial Kashmir concert organised by the German embassy in Srinagar earlier this month against charges that it was not open to all, German ambassador to India Michael Steiner said on Monday that the event was not a “peace concert” and that “no Woodstock was possible.”

Orissa home secretary Bipin Saxena, state women commission chairperson Lopamudra Buxipatra, BJP Rajya Sabha member Dharmendra Pradhan, BJD MP Renubala Pradhan and former Union railway minister K.C. Lenka were among several eminent persons who on Monday met brutally attacked Oriya software engineer and social activist Linkan Subudhi at Kailash Hospital. Noida, and wished her early recovery.