Dubai: For parents worried about their children's overspeeding or the wayward behaviour of a driver, a low-cost Internet-based GPS vehicle tracking system is expected to be just the solution. Developed by a Qatari IT service provider, the T-Qat vehicle tracking system is being touted as the only monitoring system which has a web server developed in Qatar and has an Internet-based Global Positioning System (GPS) tracker customised for local users....
02:29 PM, Jan 31, 2011
The Municipal Corporation of Kolkata will be the first civic body to give free mediclaim policies to sex workers. ...
08:48 AM, Jan 31, 2011
Salmon, Idaho: They work as doctors and lawyers by day but lurk as vampires by night. While they may not wish to suck your blood, there are plenty of willing victims on tap, according to a top US scholar on a subculture that emulates the undead. Idaho State University sociologist DJ Williams, newly hired as a consultant for a proposed television documentary about "self-identified vampires," said true modern acolytes of...
03:06 PM, Jan 25, 2011
New Delhi: At least 100 pilgrims are feared dead after a bus carrying pilgrims overturned and fell into a ditch near Sabarimala temple on Friday night. The accident happened 100 km away from sabarimala at around 8.45 PM on Friday night when a bus carrying pilgrims returning from the temple fell into a gorge. The pilgrims pilgrims were returning from the Sabarimala temple after a Makar Sankranti ritual when the...
11:05 PM, Jan 14, 2011
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Wednesday asked her party-run Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) board to bring sex workers and their children under a mediclaim policy. "Sex workers have taken up their profession out of necessity to make a living. There are many who hate them. But this is not fair. Often these women do not get access to medical treatment. So they need medical insurance," Banerjee said at a...
09:02 AM, Jan 13, 2011
Former Chairman of ISRO, Dr K Kasturirangan talks about the possible reasons for launch vehicle failures in India. ...
12:06 AM, Dec 26, 2010
Four movies to catch up this week and Freida Pinto talks about her Hollywood spree with Masand. ...
02:51 PM, Dec 04, 2010
Four movies to catch up this week and Freida Pinto talks about her Hollywood spree with Masand. ...
02:51 PM, Dec 04, 2010
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12:39 AM, Dec 04, 2010
The Abhishek Bachchan and Deepika Padukone starrer period film Khelein Him Jee Jaan Sey releases tomorrow. The trade analysts give mixed opinions about the fate of the movie at the box office. Trade analyst, Amod Mehra says, “Majority of movie-goers today are youngsters and I am not sure whether or not they are interested in watching a patriotic film or rather a film about a historical movement. I think they...
03:32 PM, Dec 02, 2010
No other Indian Idol winner has perhaps been so lucky than Sreeram Chandra, winner of Indian Idol 5. His title song from his music album Rehnuma will be featured in next Hollywood Narnia movie, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Sreeram confirms, “The producers of the film had seen me perform in Indian Idol and they liked my voice as well as singing. They also liked...
06:09 PM, Nov 25, 2010
Shanghai: Across Eastern Europe, Russia, Kazakhstan and the Gobi Desert - it certainly was a long way to go without getting lost. Four driverless electric vans successfully ended an 8,000-mile (13,000-kilometer) test drive from Italy to China - a modern-day version of Marco Polo's journey around the world - with their arrival at the Shanghai Expo on Thursday. The vehicles, equipped with four solar-powered laser scanners and seven video cameras...
12:44 PM, Oct 29, 2010
Dehra Dun: A leopard was killed after being hit by an over speeding vehicle in Mussoorie area near here, a forest official said on Monday. The incident occurred on Kuthalkhet-Sahastradhara road last night when the two-year-old leopard was crossing the road. The animal came under the wheels of the over speeding vehicle, Ramgopal, Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) of Mussoorie, said. By the time the forest team reached the spot, the...
02:33 PM, Oct 18, 2010
New Delhi: The stand-off between insurance companies and private hospitals that came to a head in July, may be nearly over. It looks like people are going to have to pay more for health insurance, to cover treatment at super-specialty hospitals. "If you want to go to a Max, or Apollo or Fortis, you have to pay a different price premium, which is not the case as of now," says...
10:33 PM, Aug 19, 2010
The Supreme Court has slammed the Government for clubbing housewives with prostitutes, beggars and prisoners in the Census and describing them as economically non-productive workers. The apex court has described as "totally insensitive" and "callous" the approach of the statutory authorities in equating women, who are homemakers, with such segments. Is the Government practising gender bias against women?
02:53 PM, Jul 24, 2010
The apex court said whenever a housewife dies, suitable compensation is awarded to the family members. ...
08:34 AM, Jul 24, 2010
GM will pay each customer $ 100 when the heated fluid module is removed at dealerships, said director for safety. ...
11:40 PM, Jun 08, 2010
Chandigarh resident Narinder Singh Shergill is the first one in the region to break the record. ...
01:02 PM, May 24, 2010
