New Delhi: Two policemen have been sentenced to three years in jail by a Delhi court for extorting money from a scrap dealer by threatening to implicate him in a theft case. Holding head constables Sukhbir and Anoop Singh guilty under the Prevention of Corruption Act for forcing the scrap dealer to give them the bribe, Special CBI Judge Pradeep Chaddah also imposed a fine of Rs 40,000 on each...
09:30 AM, May 06, 2012
Mumbai: A fire broke out in the Mankhurd slum area in Mumbai early on Friday morning. The incident took place at a scrap godown near the slum area. Nearly eight fire tenders were rushed to the spot. The situation was brought under control. There were no reports of casualties. ...
07:05 AM, Mar 30, 2012
Locals called in the police to report an air crash after the trolley on which the scrap of an Air India aircraft was being transported, overturned. ...
03:15 PM, Mar 24, 2012
New York: Oh, you pretty things. Just look at the mama giraffe nuzzling a baby giraffe, that lovely idea for an indoor planter made of mason jars and those perfectly cooked bacon strips cooling on a plate. This is what people are circulating on Pinterest, the latest website-of-the-moment for sharing things you love. Clean and simple to use, Pinterest attracts people who need to organise the chaos of Internet-age information...
12:18 PM, Mar 13, 2012
Chennai: Defending its decision to do away with Common Entrance Test (CET) for admission into professional courses, Tamil Nadu government today said the enrolment of rural students into engineering courses has gone up by more that ten per cent since it was scrapped. "The percentage of rural students admitted into engineering courses during 2005 and 2006 when the Common Entrance Test was conducted, has been 56.72 per cent and 58.26...
12:23 AM, Feb 23, 2012
New Delhi: Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor on Friday came out strongly against the Supreme Court ruling ordering all 2G licenses to be scrapped saying that the order was a "very serious attack" on the firm's investments. "The Supreme Court ruling is a very serious attack on the firm's investments. Quitting the Indian market now is an option being considered," a statement by the company read. It added, "(The firm) may...
08:42 AM, Feb 03, 2012
Hanover, New Hampshire: You know Dasher and Dancer and the rest of the gang. But do you recall, the most "Perfect Christmas Crowd-Bringer" of all? That's how executives at US mail order and department store retailer Montgomery Ward originally described Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, who first appeared in a 1939 book written by one of the company's advertising copywriter and given free to children as a way to drive traffic...
08:26 PM, Dec 26, 2011
Dubai: An Asian man on Tuesday reportedly committed suicide by jumping off the 147th floor of the Burj Khalifa, world's tallest skyscraper, a media report said. Police received a report that the man, an Asian in his thirties, jumped off the building from the 147th floor and landed on the 108th floor on the side of the Burj, Gulf News reported. Investigation revealed that he reportedly committed suicide after a...
09:19 PM, May 10, 2011
New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) on Thursday decided to terminate the controversial deal between ISRO's commercial wing Antrix and Devas citing national security. The decision to annul the deal was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the basis of a recommendation from the Space Commission. "The deal between the Devas and Antrix shall be annulled....
12:43 PM, Feb 17, 2011
Delhi University says the equipment was bought 42 years ago. ...
09:01 PM, Apr 29, 2010
The radioactive leak has claimed a life in Delhi's Mayapuri scrap market area. ...
01:21 AM, Apr 29, 2010
The threat from the recent radiation scare in the capital has suddenly turned much more potent. ...
09:57 PM, Apr 27, 2010
The victim, 35-year-old Rajender Prasad, died at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. ...
11:26 PM, Apr 26, 2010
![Three dead in blast at Mathura scrap shop]( "Three dead in blast at Mathura scrap shop")
The scrap shop is located about 250 meters from Mathura's main temple - the Shri Krishna Janmasthan. ...
04:47 PM, Apr 14, 2010
Close on the heels of radiation exposure, experts have detected one more source of radiation in the same area. ...
09:32 AM, Apr 14, 2010
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