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Noted social activist Medha Patkar on Monday termed Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's model of development as a "corporate model" where poor people have lost their land to big corporate houses.

Sushmita, who is associated with charitabale projects and NGOs, received the award for her efforts towards achieving social justice.

Reported revenues for the television (including IndiaCast) and motion pictures business stood at Rs 483.2 crores for the quarter.

The trend indicates that the next 2014 Lok Sabha elections would not be a clash of ideas or ideologies.

Pellegrini walked straight down the players' tunnel without shaking hands with Mourinho after Chelsea snatched a 90th-minute winner on Sunday.

A leading political group for the Shia community in Pakistan, on Sunday, said that there should not be any negotiations with the Taliban as it would only result in more terror attacks.

Downplaying the Congress leader's comments, Swaraj had said that Singh had an old habit of creating disputes and was doing just that in the circumstances.

Model Candy Brar says she's clueless how Kushal will react on seeing her in the house.

'Vishwaroopam 2', a Tamil-Hindi bilingual thriller, is written and directed by Kamal Haasan.

Eight persons, including two children and a woman, were killed and two others injured after a cement-laden lorry overturned and fell into an irrigation tank in Peddaviradu mandal of Prakasam district, police said on Sunday.

Tanovic feels a movie, which was lauded at the film galas in the US and Toronto, stood a better chance.

Guns fell silent, on Saturday, after 12-day border skirmishes as BSF troops gave befitting reply to Pakistan by using equal calibre weapons in lethal retaliatory action along the International Border (IB) in Jammu frontier.

A local court on Saturday extended the judicial custody of self-styled godman Asaram and four co-accused for 12 days in the case of sexually assaulting a minor after the police sought time till November 6 to file the charge sheet.

Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina set up a potential Swiss Indoors title rematch against Roger Federer by beating Edouard Roger-Vasselin 6-4, 4-6, 6-2.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, on Saturday, telephoned her arch-rival Khaleda Zia to invite her for talks to resolve a standoff on holding the next general election but failed to reach her, even as Bangladesh braced for a shutdown called by the main opposi...

Arrested on rape charges, former Rajasthan minister Babulal Nagar wants to undergo lie-detector test and has claimed to have had consensual relations with the alleged victim for over three years before a court which on Saturday remanded him in CBI custody...