Archive for: February 3, 2010

The Union Budget on February 26 will prove whether the UPA Government has the will to implement the second wave of economic reforms. Many regulations, dos and don’ts still shackle the economy. Entrepreneurs would like the shackles to go; the youth would like more jobs and more investment in education; the common man desperately wants inflation to come down. Can there be a budget to achieve these all? CNN-IBN finds out.

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Pakistani all-rounder Shahid Afridi says he tried to tamper with the ball during a match against Australia on Sunday because he was “frustrated” with his team’s performance.

“I am embarrassed — I have made a mistake,” Afridi told Pakistan’s Geo TV after the International Cricket Council (ICC) banned him for two Twenty20 internationals for tampering with the ball during the fifth and final ODI against Australia in Perth.

“I was frustrated because the Pakistan team hasn’t won any match for quite some time,” said Afridi.

“I am not a …

The Indian man, who said he was attacked and set ablaze by assailants here, had falsely reported the incident for claiming insurance, Australian police alleged.

Jaspreet Singh, Grice Crescent, Essendon, in the city’s north, faced an out-of-sessions hearing on Wednesday before a bail justice at St Kilda Road police complex charged with making a false report to police and criminal damage with a view to gaining a financial advantage, the Sky News TV said.

Singh, who is in Australia on his wife’s student visa, told police that he was doused …

Mumbai belongs to Maharashtra and Marathi people, Thackeray maintained and added that “If anyone is going to murder this truth, he will have to face weapons of Maharashtra”.

“Mumbai may belong to all Indians but how can it belong to an Italian mummy,” Thackeray said in an editorial in Sena mouthpiece ’Saamna’.

“The ’Prince of Congress’ is totally frustrated and it is in this frustration he has insulted Marathi people and Maharashtra,” he said.

The Sena leader said Mumbai was not a “dharamshala” (guesthouse) of the country that “anyone …