Goods worth over Rs 1.15 crore were traded across the Line of Control (LoC) on Thursday between Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) and Jammu and Kashmir at Chakan-Da-Bagh crossing point in Poonch, officials said. ...
07:01 PM, Feb 07, 2013
Seeking to internationalise tensions along the Line of Control, Pakistan has called for an investigation into the recent incidents there by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. "We would also welcome an OIC fact-finding mission to investigate the recent incidents of ceasefire violations along the LoC," Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said while addressing a meeting of the OIC contact group on Kashmir in Cairo on February 6. ...
04:43 PM, Feb 06, 2013
Air India flew some of its Boeing Co 787 Dreamliner aircraft even after US regulators grounded the global fleet in December due to undiagnosed battery problems. Dreamliners operated by the national carrier were flown to Mumbai for maintenance reasons, Arun Mishra, the DGCA head said on Monday. ...
04:00 PM, Feb 04, 2013
Actress Rooney Mara says she is eagerly waiting to start working on the sequel to her hit film 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' but does not know what is happening with the project. ...
11:43 AM, Feb 04, 2013
The owner of a nightclub in southern Brazil where more than 230 people died in a fire last weekend deflected blame to "the whole country," as well as to architects and inspectors charged with making sure the building was safe, his lawyer said on Wednesday. ...
02:39 AM, Jan 31, 2013
A lawyer representing the owner of the nightclub in southern Brazil where 235 people died in a fire last weekend says his client "regrets it very much" but insisted he was only partly to blame. Attorney Jader Marques says club co-owner Elissandro Spohr called the tragedy "a succession of errors made by the whole country." ...
11:15 PM, Jan 30, 2013
Have a first look of Kiss nightclub in Brazil after the massive fire that killed 234 people on Sunday. The fire is believed to have started during a pyrotech show inside the club. ...
07:58 PM, Jan 30, 2013
Four people, including a woman and a child, were burnt alive on Tuesday when an ambulance caught fire after hitting an electric pole in Uttar Pradesh's Sonebhadra district, police said. ...
01:57 AM, Jan 30, 2013
An oil pipeline at Makum in upper Assam's Tinsukia district was on Tuesday damaged in an explosion for which United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) claimed responsibility. The explosion in the pipeline of the Indian Oil Corporation-Assam Oil Division (AOD) created a 4-ft crater in Pachim Mamarani area, AOD sources said, adding there was no report of any casualty. ...
05:15 PM, Jan 29, 2013
In this special discussion, a panel of writers from India and Pakistan talk about the growing intolerance in various section of Indian society and India-Pakistan relations. ...
11:52 AM, Jan 29, 2013
A 27-year-old armyman set himself and his wife on fire in Delhi by pouring petrol and lighting a match following a heated argument, police said Monday. The couple have been admitted to a hospital where their condition was critical. ...
11:50 PM, Jan 28, 2013
Three people have been arrested in connection with the fire at a nightclub that killed around 250 people in the city of Santa Maria on Sunday. The fire started after a fireworks display set the club's acoustic insulation ablaze. Most victims died from asphyxiation. ...
08:15 PM, Jan 28, 2013
Three of the rule changes dealt with abbreviated testing and approval of pilots who had been cleared to fly the Boeing 777 and were preparing to switch to the 787. ...
01:59 PM, Jan 28, 2013
Authorities on Sunday launched a probe into the fire and subsequent stampede at an illegal garment factory that killed seven women workers in the Bangladeshi capital, two months after the country's deadliest industrial fire in a textile unit claimed 112 lives. ...
01:37 PM, Jan 28, 2013
A fire in a nightclub killed at least 232 people in southern Brazil on Sunday when a band's pyrotechnics show set the building ablaze and fleeing partygoers stampeded toward blocked and overcrowded exits in the ensuing panic, officials said. ...
07:36 AM, Jan 28, 2013
The gates at Chakan Da Bagh in Poonch district are likely to be opened for routine trade and travel between the two sides. ...
07:14 AM, Jan 28, 2013
While referring to the recent border row between India and Pakistan, a panel at the Jaipur Literature Festival blamed the media for feeding people with "petty prejudices" instead of playing a positive role. The panelists, while holding discussion in the session 'Neighbours: Walls and Bridges', appealed to work on the "commonalities" present in the two countries. ...
10:25 PM, Jan 27, 2013
At least 245 people were killed in a nightclub fire in southern Brazil on Sunday after a band's pyrotechnics show set the building ablaze, and fleeing patrons were unable to find the emergency exits. ...
07:18 PM, Jan 27, 2013
Moving a step closer to completing its nuclear triad, India on Saturday successfully test fired a ballistic missile, with a strike range of around 1500 kilometres. The missile was tested from an underwater platform in Bay of Bengal. ...
07:07 PM, Jan 27, 2013
At least 90 people were killed in a nightclub in southern Brazil on Sunday after a band's pyrotechnics show caused the establishment to catch fire, local officials said. ...
05:08 PM, Jan 27, 2013
