Palakkad (Kerala): A special CBI court has handed life imprisonment to a man in a case of unnatural sex-cum-murder involving a minor. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 70,000 on the convict, Anilmon Thomas, who was working as a forest guard when the incident took place in 2006. CBI investigation revealed that Ajin, aged 14 years, resident of Mankurissi, Palakkad District had left his house on May 11,...
05:11 PM, May 03, 2012
Rome: India's economic growth and political stability are at stake in coming years if it does not change its approach to water management, a member of its natural resources planning commission told Reuters on Monday. Mihir Shah, who has been asked by India's government to come up with a new water resource strategy, said the sector needed to become more sustainable, efficient and focused on how water is used and...
04:27 AM, May 01, 2012
New Delhi: Notwithstanding fears of a tsunami following a powerful earthquake off Indonesia on Wednesday, the navies of India and the US carried out their joint exercises off the coast of Chennai. The 10-day long annual exercise codenamed 'Malabar', in the Bay of Bengal which started on April 7, will continue without restriction, Indian Navy officials said in New Delhi. Tackling natural disasters such as Tsunami is part of the...
09:04 PM, Apr 11, 2012
Kozhikode: Expressing opposition to the mineral mining policies of the Centre which had led to the "loot and plunder" of country's natural resources, CPI-M on Friday asked government to ensure that mining was undertaken only by public sector or state-owned enterprises after securing prior consent from Gram Sabhas of communities who used the lands. A resolution adopted at the ongoing 20th Congress of the party also asked the government to...
02:58 AM, Apr 07, 2012
Kathmandu: Army Chief Gen VK Singh on Thursday met Nepal President Ram Baran Yadav and wished peace and prosperity for his country. Singh, who is in Nepal to attend the three-day Regional Seminar on Natural Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance, called on President Yadav at the Rastrapati Bhawan in the capital. Indian Ambassador to Nepal Jayant Prasad was also present at the meeting. Singh during the brief meeting wished "for...
09:51 AM, Apr 05, 2012
New Delhi: As the Government weighs options to deal with Supreme Court ruling on auctioning natural resources, the BJP on Monday demanded a thorough debate in Parliament on the issue to ensure a transparent policy in the backdrop of controversies that have hit 2G spectrum and coal block allotments. Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley referred to the Supreme Court's February 2 order while initiating a debate...
07:30 PM, Mar 26, 2012
Jammu: The windstorm that ravaged parts of Jammu and Kashmir this week left three persons dead, 39 injured and affected over 16,000 structures, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday said. "The windstorm claimed 3 lives while 39 persons received injuries. The tornado damaged residential houses, non-residential structures, public service infrastructure including power distribution system, school buildings (numbering 16,790) in Jammu and Kashmir," Omar told Legislative Assembly. "The...
03:43 AM, Mar 23, 2012
New Delhi: Ahead of the meeting of panel of ministers on natural gas, a body of oil and gas producers like Reliance Industries has opposed pre-allocation of the scarce fuel saying it distorts demand-supply equation and eliminates possibility of discovering free market price of gas. An Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is likely to meet on Friday to consider changes in the natural gas...
09:06 AM, Feb 24, 2012
Los Angeles: Katy Perry is in the popular clique now. The singer-actress won the most People's Choice Awards at Wednesday's 38th annual fan-favorite extravaganza, but viewers wouldn't have known it from watching the ceremony. An absentee Perry was honored in five categories, including favorite female artist, tour headliner, song of the year for 'E.T.' with Kanye West, music video for 'Last Friday Night' and TV guest star for 'How I...
12:44 PM, Jan 12, 2012
New Delhi: Price of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) may be hiked by up to Rs 2 per kg in the next few days as rupee devaluation has pushed up input cost. City gas retailers including Indraprastha Gas Ltd, which supplies CNG to automobiles and piped cooking gas to households in the national capital, are likely to announce fuel price revision over the weekend, sources privy to the development said. IGL...
05:51 PM, Dec 26, 2011
New Delhi: Reliance Industries and UK's BP Plc on Friday announced incorporation of India Gas Solutions Pvt Ltd, a 50:50 joint venture company for sourcing and marketing of natural gas in India. The joint venture is part of the agreement reached in February where BP picked up 30 per cent stake in 23 oil and gas blocks of Reliance Industries, including the showpiece KG-D6 gas fields. "The joint venture company...
05:47 PM, Nov 18, 2011
New Delhi: Cairn India has discovered natural gas reserves in the very first well it has drilled in the offshore Mannar Basin of Sri Lanka. Cairn had spud the well in early August and natural gas was struck last week, the company said. The Mannar basin in Sri Lanka is a frontier petroleum province that is yet to be explored. The Block, SL 2007-01-001, was awarded to Cairn in the...
03:14 PM, Oct 02, 2011
London: A growing desire for the glossy, long locks of celebrities is fuelling a multi-million pound (dollar) global trade in human hair, with demand for hair extensions surging in the past year, according to e-commerce website Alibaba.com. Searches for human hair extensions in Britain jumped 160 percent in the 12 months to the end of June, with salons noting an increase in women seeking to emulate the hair of stars...
01:12 PM, Aug 04, 2011
London: Are humans programmed to believe in gods and in an afterlife? Forty separate studies (both analytical and empirical) conducted in 20 countries conclude that humans are predisposed to believe in gods and in afterlife. Both theology and atheism are reasoned responses to what is a basic impulse of the human mind, the studies suggest. Fiftyseven researchers, led by Oxford University experts, carried out the studies for three years, representing...
12:06 PM, Jul 16, 2011
New Delhi: Natural gas containing almost 95 per cent Methane has been leaking from an ONGC well at Konaban village in western Tripura for the last six days. The leakage started on the evening of June 14, when ONGC personnel and engineers were engaged in routine maintenance work at the pipelines and gas well. The outflow of the gas has not been sealed till now due to high pressure of...
12:23 PM, Jun 20, 2011
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