Mumbai: The many joys of boyhood are directly linked to hoodwinking parents. And these are good times for boys chafing at the oppressiveness of parental ‘guidance’. The latest version of a popular computer game called The Grand Theft Auto (GTA) looks like any other action-packed 3D animation fare in which the player goes on a […]
That’s The Price Of Losing 21 Male Family Members, But Female Relatives Want A Share By Ketan Tanna /TNN Mumbai: The recent monsoon onslaught in Maharashtra has taken a village woman close to an unexpected fortune. Twentyeight-year-old Sneha Sanjay Sakpal from Kundivati, a small hamlet in Raigad district, is likely to get Rs 42 lakh […]
Mumbai: In response to a demand made by the Indian Union Muslim League, the government has allegedly blocked access to a website accused of peddling a pornographic video called ‘Sex Life Of The Prophet’. But given that the hydraheaded internet is almost impossible to police, the offending DVD is still easily available at other leading […]
Some rare manuscripts may be secure in a bank vault but the Asiatic Society says it is not in a position to pay the high premium for its treasures By Ketan Tanna /TNN Mumbai: Talk about the Asiatic Society, Mumbai, and the first thing that comes to your mind is a priceless collection of rare […]
An increasing number of suspicious fathers are openly or secretly performing tests on their children to ascertain who the dad is. Ketan Tanna unravels a new Indian experiment that Lord Ram had once done differently A moment that most men fear. Even married men. The unemotional announcement of the woman, “I think I am pregnant”. But there […]
Scores of eunuchs will meet in a school. And behind closed doors, they will sell their lovely wards to the best bidders. Ketan Tanna finds a keyhole PHOTOGRAPH BY Prashant Nakwe Scores of eunuchs will meet in a school. And behind closed doors, they will sell their lovely wards to the best bidders. Ketan Tanna finds a […]
HE IS one of the highest paid stars in the Hindi film industry. He charges more than Rs one crore plus per film. Yet, when it came to paying a small sum for police security to the Mumbai Police, he simply refused to pay up. He is Shahrukh Khan, Bollywood’s number one star. He owes […]
MUMBAI, June 12. “They are white collar chors (thieves). They have gobbled Rs 1,000 crore of public money totally. And they are moving around freely. It is time that economic offences committed by white collar chors were taken as seriously by India’s decision-making elite as criminal offences,” sighs police inspector S.G.Mahadik of the Mumbai Police’s […]
Is Mr. Dinesh Afzalpurkar, Chief Secretary of Maharashtra Government, lying when he said that it was “unanimous decision” of the Bombay Port Trust (BPT) trustees to rent prime office premises to Ms Kiran Choudary in south Bombay at throwaway price? More to the point, what exactly happened on the day when Mr. Afzalpurkar in pre-determined […]
THE GOVERNMENT is in a desperate dilemma on how to dispose of the 19 Westland-30 helicopters which have been gathering dust after they were declared unsafe by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation in 1991 following two crashes. Last week, Air Commodore C M Singla, Chairman and Managing Director, Pawan Hans Limited, received an unusual […]
FORMER PRESIDENT Giani Zail Singh remarked that despite pressure from Congressmen and the Opposition, he did not dismiss erstwhile Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. “I had no intension of dismissing him,” he said. In an exclusive interview to The Pioneer, the Giani remarked: “there were a lot of corruption charges against Rajiv Gandhi. I could have […]
The inside story of how the civil aviation ministry got Indian Airlines pilots back to work When Indian Airlines (IA) pilots got back to flying on 24 January, nearly five weeks after they struck work, one question remained unanswered: how did the two sharply polarised camps, the IA management and the pilots, finally come to […]
BOFORS SUNDAY EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH OTTAVIO QUATTROCHI AND HIS RELATIONS WITH THE GANDHI FAMILY It was billed as the smoking gun in the Bofors affair. For a fortnight before, New Delhi had reverberated with roumers to the effect that Chitra Subramaniam and the Indian Express were ready to publish a story, which would link […]
A year and a half ago, an eightyear-old speech and hearing impaired girl, Smita was raped in Mumbai. She was taken to Nair Hospital bruised and bleeding. The girl was raped a day earlier and treated at a small civic hospital. The doctors and the police later decided to transfer her case to Nair Hospital, […]
Techie case: State govt, policemen get MSHRC notice Ketan Tanna | TNN Mumbai: Taking suo motu cognisance of a report in the The Times of India on how Bangalore IT professional K Lakshmana was jailed for 50 days on false charges of defaming Shivaji, the Maharashtra State Human Rights Commission (MSHRC) has issued […]
Mumbai: The Pune cyber police have squarely blamed Bharti Airtel for the ordeal undergone by K Lakshmana Kailash, the Bangalore HCL employee who was arrested in September 2007 for allegedly defaming Shivaji on a website. Kailash, who spent 50 days in jail, was arrested on the basis of a wrong computer address provided by Bharti. […]
On August 31, Lakshmana Kailash K was picked up from his Bangalore residence by Pune policemen and put in Yerawada jail. According to the officials, Lakshmana had uploaded an insulting picture of Chhatrapati Shivaji on a networking site. On October 20, after spending 50 days with 200 undertrials at Yerawada jail, Lakshmana was released. Bharti […]
The two-para news item dryly said that a young IT professional, who had been mistakenly picked up, had been released after 50 days behind bars Ketan Tanna | TNN Mumbai: The case of Bangalore-based techie Lakshmana Kailash K, who spent 50 days in jail because of the twin bungling of Bharti Airtel and the […]
Techie recounts the trauma, social disgrace Mumbai: Lakshmana Kailash K, the techie who had to undergo the horror of Yerwada jail for no crime of his, says that Bharti Airtel’s CEO in Bangalore, Prem Pradeep, did meet him once after the case was in the news. Pradeep insisted that the police were to blame; however, […]
Cites His Ordeal After Being Wrongly Jailed For Net Crime Ketan Tanna | TNN The Bangalore-based software engineer Lakshmana Kailash K, who was wrongly jailed for 50 days last year by the cyber cell of the Pune police, has demanded Rs 20 crore in damages and slapped a legal notice on the various […]
Wrongly Accused Of Defaming Shivaji On Net Ketan Tanna | TNN Mumbai: In the early hours of the morning of August 31, Lakshmana Kailash K was asleep in his home in Bangalore. He was woken up by eight policemen from Pune who came knocking on his door and waved the Information Technology Act, 2000, in […]
An increasing number of suspicious fathers are openly or secretly performing tests on their children to ascertain who the dad is. Ketan Tanna unravels a new Indian experiment that Lord Ram had once done differently Amoment that most men fear. Even married men. The unemotional announcement of the woman, “I think I am pregnantâ€. But […]
There are people stuck in jail for years because they cannot even afford the paltry bail amounts. Ketan Tanna reports Every locked-up man knows that freedom has a price. It’s something called bail. Though these sums may be just a few hundred rupees for petty crimes, there is a growing number of men and women […]
FULL FLIGHT: New converts from Mizoram roam the streets of Colaba before leaving India Poor Indian villagers who think they belong to a lost Jewish tribe are being lured by Israel. Probably for menial jobs. Ketan Tanna reports The Red Shield House is one of the old, unremarkable hotels that lie just beyond the morning […]