Poll picks ‘Seven Wonders of India’

August 10th, 2009 ANGALORE - A candidate of the Congress Party has become the country's richest poll candidate with declared assets of worth 7.70 billion rupees. Priya Krishna, the 25-year-old candidate contesting the by-polls from Govindraj Nagar constituency in Bangalore, is the son of a legislator Krishnappa and runs a real estate business.

July 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Murad Ali Baig's "80 Questions to Understand India: History, Mythology and Religion" reaches the No.1 position in the non-fiction list this week while Daniyal Mueenuddin's "In Other Rooms, Other Wonders" tops the fiction category. The top 10 in each section are as follows: Non-Fiction 1.

July 21st, 2009 26 finalists named in '7 Wonders of Nature' pollGENEVA — The Grand Canyon and the Great Barrier Reef are competing with 26 other spectacular natural landmarks in the final phase of the global poll to choose the "New 7 Wonders of Nature," organizers said Tuesday. The Amazon rain forest, the Dead Sea, Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa and Ecuador's Galapagos islands are also among the finalists, according to the organization New 7 Wonders led by Swiss adventurer Bernard Weber.

May 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD - As many as 42 percent Pakistanis -- nearly every other citizen of the country -- hold India responsible for the Nov 26 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, according to a new opinion poll. 'When asked if they believed it to be true that the attacks were carried out by Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), only seven percent replied yes, another seven percent replied maybe, and 78 percent said no.

May 3rd, 2009 Indians vote the top seven natural and man-made wonders on March 30, 2009 New Delhi, March 27, 2009: Taking its initiative forward, NDTV, in association with the Ministry of Tourism's Incredible India campaign, will announce the final seven wonders of India on 30th March, 2009 at New Delhi. A first-of-its-kind initiative that commenced in September 2008, the campaign celebrates India’s incredibly rich heritage by acknowledging the natural and man-made marvels of the country.

April 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Aatish Taseer's book 'Stranger to History' continued to maintain its position at the top of the charts in the non-fiction category this week, while 'In Other Rooms, Other Wonders' by Daniyal Mueenuddin grabbed the highest position in the fiction section. The top 10 in each group are: Non-fiction 1.

April 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and Congress led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) are running neck and neck this Lok Sabha elections and are likely to get 189 seats and 187 seats, respectively, showed a pre-poll survey by a private news channel. According to the survey conducted by India TV: 'Both BJP and Congress are expected to win 143 seats on their own.

April 13th, 2009 CHENNAI - AIADMK boss J. Jayalalitha Monday ruled out the possibility of a post-poll alliance with the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).

March 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Big B and his family - wife Jaya, son Abhishek, daughter Shweta and her husband Nikhil - were in the capital Monday to watch daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai perform at NDTV's unveiling of 'The Seven Wonders of India'. Abhishek, clad in a black formal suit, sported a new clean-shaven look.

March 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - A majority of people in Tamil Nadu want the government to support the outlawed Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Sri Lanka, according to an opinion poll. Asked if the government should support the LTTE in Sri Lanka, 66 percent respondents said yes, the NDTV said in a release Tuesday, revealing the findings of the opinion survey.

March 17th, 2009 WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's approval rating is down into the 50's for the first time since he took office, according to a new poll by the Pew Research Center for People and the Press. Obama has a 59 percent approval rating and a 26 percent disapproval rating in the poll, which quizzed 1,308 adults by phone (including 326 who were called on their cell phone) from March 9 to 12.

February 27th, 2009 Actress Sonal Chauhan, who starred alongside Emraan Hashmi in 'Jannat', is on a roll. She will shoot at the Seven Wonders of the World for a song worth Rs.6 million.

February 26th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The world famous 13th century sun temple in Konark has topped a survey of what people consider to be the seven wonders of Orissa. The seven wonders were announced here Wednesday night in the presence eminent people from the fields of media, art, culture, music and films.

January 26th, 2009 GUWAHATI - Three Indian nominees, including the famed Kaziranga National Park, could face elimination on technical grounds from the list of more than 260 destinations around the world vying for the distinction of becoming one of the New 7 Wonders of Nature. Among the 261 nominees from across the world competing for one of the coveted New 7 Wonders of Nature are the Kaziranga National Park in Assam, the Ganga river, and the Sundarbans delta, the largest mangrove forest in the world.

December 25th, 2008 NEW DELHI - It's a clash of the item girls now. 'Bhojpuri Helen' Sambhavna Seth has hit out at controversial Bollywood item queen Rakhi Sawant, stating that even if the latter joins her on reality show 'Dancing Queen', she would not be doing any wonders.