A high alert was sounded across Kerala and security beefed up after an explosion at the Kochi collectorate building on Friday evening was identified as a pipe bomb blast.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/blast-in-kochi-collectorate-kerala-on-high-alert/96854-3.html
The Jammu and Kashmir government on Friday admitted the police had a hand in the rape and murder of two women in Shopian town in May. The police and the state government had first said the women who were found dead in stream drowned. State Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather changed his government's stand and told a press conference in Srinagar that a judicial probe had implicated the state police in the murders.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/police-hand-in-shopian-womens-deaths-jk-govt/96850-3.html
Middle-aged mice, fed with the anti-biotic rapamycin, lived between nine and 14 percent longer than other mice, according to a new study. The drug has the potential to become an anti-aging pill.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/scared-of-growing-old-an-antiaging-pill-is-in-offing/96848-17.html
National carrier Air India on Friday grounded a pilot, co-pilot and seven ground employees after they were found guilty of having violated safety norms by allowing three extra passengers on board a fully-loaded Mumbai-Mangalore flight.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/ai-grounds-pilot-for-flouting-norms/96845-3.html
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/i-didnt-want-shineys-fame-to-come-home-wife/96844-8.html
It can be termed as the new 'G' order of the world where the presence of various nations spells out their international political and economic status. The latest to join the 'G' ranks is G14, a term used for the first time at the G8-G5 summit being held in this quake-hit Italian town, about 100 km northeast of Rome.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/g5-g8-g14-g20-know-your-group-pick-your-side/96840-2.html
Britain's broadcasting regulator is to investigate complaints that an Indian student appearing on reality television show Big Brother was racially bullied. The programme, shown on Channel 4 network, brings together complete strangers in front of live television cameras 24 hours of the day while viewers get to 'evict' inmates one by one before choosing an eventual winner.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/british-tv-show-big-brother-in-racism-row-again/96836-8.html
The meltdown has finally caught up with IT bellwether Infosys Technologies, forcing it to marginally lower its quarterly and annual revenue guidance for the first time even as it managed to stay afloat in the first quarter this fiscal.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/infosys-lowers-revenue-projections-for-this-fiscal/96825-7.html
Former Australia coach John Buchanan has come under fire in India over comments about the country's players, while he maintains that excerpts from his new book that led to the criticism have been taken out of context. Spinner Harbhajan Singh and former Australian all-rounder Tom Moody were first to speak out after the media printed excerpts from The Future of Cricket: The Rise of Twenty20 with many pages devoted to the Indian Premier League (IPL).
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/buchanans-book-has-indian-players-hopping-mad/96823-5.html
The trial of Myanmar Opposition Leader Aung San Suu Kyi resumed on Friday amid tight security with a defence witness scheduled to testify. Lawyer and member of Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party, Khin Moe Moe, entered the court at Insein Prison on Friday morning to testify on Suu Kyi's behalf. Police security was tight around the prison, witnesses said.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/aung-san-suu-kyis-trial-resumes-amid-tight-security/96822-2.html
Undeterred by the impact of the global meltdown on its revenue and profits, IT bellwether Infosys Technologies and its subsidiaries hired 3,538 people in the first quarter of this fiscal.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/infosys-hires-3538-people-in-first-quarter/96820-7.html
Delhi High Court suspended a lower court's conviction of former bureaucrat Runu Ghosh on corruption charges on Thursday and granted her bail.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/hc-suspends-exbureaucrat-runu-ghoshs-conviction/96819-3.html
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