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Woody Allen is quite an idol to many people. They like what films he makes, what he says, and often nod at what they think are ‘deep’ statements on life itself. Recently, he has denied the allegations by his foster daughter that he had sexually molested her when she was 7. She describes the sickening details and bit-by-bit the pretension behind the awkward, bespectacled one comes apart. When such idols are exposed, the reaction of idol-worshippers are a good clue to how sections of society are happy to look away from the sins of one person, if they like some other aspect of the person. Whether these aspects are different from each other is a different matter.

The alacrity with which the Ministry of Finance has come out with a clarification on the recent findings of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that the former has disbursed Rs 37,365 crore in interest on excess tax refund without proper authorization from Parliament is astounding at the best and confounding at the worst.

When Congress leaders had forced unwilling Kejriwal to form his government in Delhi, he said the Congress will have to repent its decision to allow him to become CM. It is clear now what he meant by saying it. In an unprecedented move, he has ordered institution of a case against present and former Petroleum Ministers as also Mukesh Ambani to manipulate and hike the gas prices. Petroleum Minister Veerappa Moily has reacted nervously by talking of the role of experts in deciding the prices and clearing himself from the charge. Industry has also reacted nervously on the decision.

New Delhi: With an eye on forthcoming polls, the Government did not resort to any hike in fare and freight rates in the four-month interim Budget for the Railways. With gross traffic receipts pegged at Rs 160,775 crore in 2014-15, the Railway Minister Mallikarjun Kharge announced some new schemes like 17 premium trains, 38 express trains, 10 passenger trains, 4 Mainline Electric Multiple Unit (MEMU) and 3 Diesel Electric Multiple Unit (DEMU) here on Wednesday.

New Delhi: India has hailed the decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to revoke the 14-month old ban on the Indian Olympics body

New Delhi: The President of Indian Pranab Mukherjee regretted that since 50 years after the establishment of Central Vigilence Commission (CVC) corruption in public life continue like 'a cancer that erodes our democracy and weakens the foundations of our state.'

Ever since Ahmedabad magistrate BJ Ganatra rejected Zakia Jafri’s petition in late December and held that Chief Minister Narendra Modi was not part of the “larger conspiracy” behind the butchery of nearly 2,000 Muslims in Gujarat in 2002, the Sangh Parivar has run a raucous campaign of triumphalist celebration, and tried to turn the tables on the Congress by blaming it for the 1984 killings of Sikhs in Delhi after Indira Gandhi’s assassination.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Leader of the Opposition, V. S. Achuthanandan is at at again. For the umpteenth time, the CPI(M) stalwart has thumbed his nose at the state CPI(M) leadership, igniting in the process a fresh controversy.

As the Aam Admi Party (AAP) continues to apply street-level tactics of activism to governance in both word and deed – calling Delhi’s Lt.Gov a Congress agent and threatening to go to “any extent” to enact its version of the Lokpal law – the Congress must be watching with bated breath to see how long the fledgling party’s roller-coaster ride will last.

New Delhi: While the BCCI chief Narayanaswami Srinvasan is facing the burnt of the allegation of his son-in-law involved in betting on games, his brother and the newly elected President of Indian Olympic Association (IOA) N.Ramachandran has assured that he would take up the case on priority basis about India's return to the Olympic fold after a 14-month suspension.